Macro photos of spray-painted tags taken in Leake Street last year. I don't like tagging — it's nothing more than territorial pissing, and usually unreadable — but once you get up really really close you can find a fantastic collision of haphazard colours and unplanned shapes to delight the eyes….
Posts under ‘design’
colour makes people happy with hamster joy
Last night my friend Viv Schwarz had a launch party with Alexis Deacon to celebrate their new children's book A Place To Call Home. They had the party….
fun and… more pics from the funfair
hard core blue skies waiting and watching There wasn't much fun being had in the Fun House and the ghost train monsters were so hungry they started to eat the train cars Some nice found type and some stars and stripes and something else
colour fun at the funfair
I always find fairgrounds to be full of joy and yet somehow a bit depressing. I think that strange dichotomy is probably why I like them. Well, that and the wealth of visual delights in the form of hand-painted lettering, bad portraiture, oddly dated pop culture references, and people-watching. Yesterday was a bank holiday, and [...]
for the birds
photos of bird designs
Anthony McCall's Vertical Light
Fans of light trickery and abstract imagery should visit this exhibition before it ends on March 27th (and hope when they get there that it's not too crowded)…..
critter crafting
I just realised there's a whole load of craft stuff I did last year and forgot to blog about because I was saving some of them for Christmas and didn't want to spoil the surprise…. Here's a hedgehog brooch I made for my friend Anwen's birthday Here's a really terrible photo of the beaded moth [...]
a new year's crafting
I didn't go out on New Year's Eve, but stayed home sewing instead. My mum gave me a lovely sewing box for Christmas, full of lovely coloured threads and vintage buttons, as well as new needles and scissors and all sorts of other goodies. (the colours are a bit weird on my photos because my [...]
@feltmistress at Selfridges
Superstar dollmaker Louise Evans aka the Felt Mistress was recently given the opportunity to run wild and fill Selfridges with monsters, designed with her boyfriend Jonathan Edwards. I went and took some photos before they all disappear again on Christmas Eve. Fradley Benford Austin Flisk and Skeechy Dwippford Mr & Mrs Treep, with the twins [...]
an abominable post
Sorry. The post that was going to go here hasn't been written yet, and neither has the other one that could go here. So instead, you get more things I have sewn.
