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I’ve just completed a logo design for a new baking and catering business, Bodin’s. The simple bowl design reflects the hand-baked preparation of the food, and the logo will be used on printed...
Arriving soon to the extended By One Sugar Please shop and to order, new colourful 325gsm postcards with envelopes. One for thanking people and another for telling people they’re brilliant, because...
I love the arrival as Spring as I also love TOAST’s new collection. Here are a few of my favourites in feel-good Spring colours and styles. I didn’t realise until after making my selection that I...
I was recently commissioned to design typographic invitations for a baptism. The invitations were printed onto double sided recycled uncoated postcards. Tagged: invitation design
I’ve been on the look out for a new clock to sit on our mantlepiece in the lounge. The one we have currently was a quick and cheap purchase from Matalan and I’ve simply gotten a little bored of it....
Firstly, apologies for the lack of a February review. Having started out with good intentions in January, I just never got around to writing February’s and can’t remember what the coffee was now....
An organisation ‘committed to offering practical, tailored support to help transform the world’, Stewardship contacted me recently asking for a logo and email banner design for their new email...
A pattern design I created based on the transformation of a circle, featured in upcoming issue 5 of Prototype Magazine. Order your copy here. Tagged: magazine, pattern, Prototype Magazine,...
I’m pretty excited to share this book review post with you. When I read the title and saw the bright typographic cover, I was immediately keen to read it – ‘Material World, The Modern Craft Bible’...
My weekend was filled with nice things – a home cooked meal with friends, snoozing with Bailey dog and visiting the recently opened Yorks Bakery Cafe in Birmingham. With it’s vintage industrial...
A5 flyer design for youth-led organisation Otesha UK to promote their ‘Branch Out’ horticultural programme. Tagged: flyer design, otesha, typography
UK beat-boxer Shlomo asked me to create the artwork for his latest EP collaboration with his 7-piece vocal band The Lip Factory. Stream it before the official release at the 2 launch concerts at...
Recently I re-branded and created a new logo for a worship event at Aldridge Parish Church to be used across all printed publicity materials and for web and screen. Tagged: logo design, print,...
For Christmas, I bought my husband Matt a year’s coffee subscription from Stafford based coffee roasters Has Bean who sends him a different pack of freshly roasted coffee beans each month. He loved...
Last week I hopped on a train to Manchester to catch The First Cut exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery before it closed there at the weekend. It was truly beautiful and so inspirational for...
Habitat has for many years, designed high quality, functional and beautiful products for the home. The newest products for Spring/Summer 2013 don’t disappoint. In fact, they may be my favourites...
I’ve recently designed a logo for a new initiative by a local youth group, to give up their time once month to help their community in whatever way they can. The iconic four triangles/arrows design...
Today arrived some post I had be excitedly anticipating from knitter Siobhan Watts, aka Bless The Weather. A few weeks ago I won one of her beautiful cosy hand-knitted cowls in my colour of the...
Just before Christmas was such a busy time, I completely forgot to blog about a pop-up shop open evening I went to. Run by a selection of lovely local makers/designers, the group had taken over and...
I have been spending a lot of time next to the warm glow of my oven over the past week, and not only because the chill of winter has arrived. The season to eat, drink and be merry is nearly upon us...
I have recently been sent a wonderful book on 1930s fashion published by Goodman Fiell – 1930s Fashion: The Definitive Sourcebook contains 600 completely original, never-seen-before photographs and...
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to the trial week at new Birmingham dining and drinking venue The Lost & Found, and today, a friend and I went there for lunch 3 days before it’s grand opening....
Tagged: craft fair, recycled paper, screen print, vintage button, walsall new art gallery
I’ve just completed a logo design for bathroom furniture company, Edens Bathrooms. The brief was for a clean, iconic design in a simplistic and timeless style. The new logo will be used across all...
Found the new limited edition Terence Conran designed labels for Gordon’s Gin bottles this morning. The material labels have all been applied by hand and each tell a story about the rich heritage...
Last weekend, my husband Matt and I took ourselves off to Flintshire and Cheshire for a mini-break. We had chosen to go here for two reasons only – to eat at The Glynne Arms and visit the Hawarden...
While in the town of Lichfield on Saturday afternoon, I came across a small exhibition at the Emporium Gallery, showing the works of textile artist Jo Beattie. The work ‘visualises a fragment of a...
The other day I baked some comforting muffins for a mini afternoon tea with my friend. A couple of people online plus my friend’s Mum who sampled one, have asked for the recipe and as I’ve not done...
I prefer books that are informative rather than getting lost in a novel or fiction. A book that inspires me to learn or make something new are usually the ones that sit most prominently on my book...
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