Monday 26 October 2009

Photography Class

I've enrolled in a photography class at my local AE College. I'm not sure if its for me, as I primarily wanted to learn step-by-step how to use my digital SLR, and this course has more of a creative, compositional leaning to the teaching. I'm trying to extract from it what I think will be useful though, and its good in that it gives me the discipline to take the camera off of its automatic setting and try and take better photos every week.

This is one of my favourite images I've made on manual settings on the course so far...

Friday 23 October 2009

Animal Print Pyjamas at Peacocks



One of most challenging things I get asked to design is original animal all-over repeat prints. Its extremely difficult to come up with something fresh and unique, which is why I'm really pleased with the way this nightwear mix and match set has turned out. I think the print looks really contemporary and on-trend while still commerical.

Friday 16 October 2009

New Strictly Come Dancing Girls' Clothing Range At Mothercae





I do all my licensed placement graphics via a third party, so I'm never sure where they could end up as the style guides containing my designs may be sold to anyone. Designs from the Strictly Come Dancing range I worked on last year have found their way to Mothercare which is a great retail platform for the collection.

Friday 2 October 2009

I've found the perfect kitchen wallpaper...

We're having our kitchen refitted in the spring and I'm already getting excited about fixtures and finishes. All of my kitchen accessories follow a red and duck-egg blue theme and I've been on the lookout for a quirky wallpaper to tie the scheme together. I was thrilled to find this "Brigton" paper from Harlequin and even more thrilled to find it at a knock-down price form S&A supplies where I got my bedroom wallpaper, also by harlequin in picture 3 below......