Wish list wonders...read more.
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Student Ink 9th May 2011
Hand drawn botanicals by Year 10 at The Academy at Shotton Hall...read more.
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FormFiftyFive 16th Nov 2009
FormFiftyFive was brought to you last week by the letter F ...read more.
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Get Crafty in Dundee 26th Mar 2009
The Scottish Arts Council (SAC) have teamed up with Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art here in Dundee to offer 3 Craft practitioners the opportunity to undertake a 3 month residency at DOJ....read more.
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Transatlantic Inkiness 24th Mar 2009
I'm coming to America! ... well kind of.......read more.
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Dundee Illustrators 3rd Mar 2009
I was back in the Illustration department at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art today to wrap-up the Ink Blot brief the 2nd years had been working on and was mighty impressed by all their inky goings-on. ...read more.
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Heartbreak Publishing 3rd Feb 2009
I’m delighted to announce that in 2009 I will be teaming up with Heartbreak Publishing, a brand new venture co-owned by fellow Scot, Jack Vettriano (yes, he of Singing Butler fame!). ...read more.
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38minutes 2nd Feb 2009
My latest fascination is 38minutes (it’s like Facebook for people who like drawing on computers and stuff)...read more.
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Design Supremo Sale! 16th Jan 2009
‘Ornithology’ Canvases for Design Supremo now HALF PRICE!...read more.
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Graeme Armour Collaboration 14th Jan 2009
Over the festivities, I teamed up with fellow Scottish Designer, Graeme Armour, to create a special print design for his upcoming collection. Using the theme of Trinkets and Curiosities as a starting point, I created a print which features a delicate, hand drawn motif in my signature style of inky intricacy....read more.
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Tom Gyr : Cut Design 16th Dec 2008
Furniture designer Tom Gyr, has been busy in the workshop since he graduated this summer and I was delighted when he sent through the first images of a new collaboration project we’ve been working on....read more.
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Lyle McCance 8th Dec 2008
He can do cool things with wood and now he has a website! After much anticipation, the wonderfully talented Mr McCance now has a showcase of his work on the interweb under the guise of his business name, Board Stupid. A friend of mine from our Art School days, Lyle and I teamed up last year to make a one-off collaboration piece in the form of a Chess Set. He makes truly beautiful pieces of furniture with a bespoke twist. Lyle says:...read more.
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Start-up Websites : Top 10 25th Nov 2008
I’ve done a few talks recently about my work and how I got my studio and business off the ground after graduation. You definitely need to be really thick skinned at the start, but there’s plenty of help if you look for it in the right places. To save you a few hours on Google, I’ve put together a shortlist of my top 10 websites and organizations. In no particular order...read more.
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Duncan Macdonald 17th Nov 2008
In one of those bizarre little round-about ways, I came across the fantastic work of illustrator / graphic designer Duncan Macdonald this week. His hand drawn linear work and edgy typography make for a super cool blend of visual nice-stuff. Check out his website here. Duncan also has a blog, Draw Forever, which he says is “a space where drawings, or images created by hand are collected, for no reason other than them being nice things to look at.” Lovely....read more.
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Starter for Six NESTA 5th Nov 2008
I had my picture snapped last week with some of my work as part of the new Nesta Campaign (I was in the Sunday Times!). The article was to launch this year's call for applications for their Starter for Six Programme. The scheme runs in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow and offers people with cool ideas some business training...and the opportunity to pitch their idea in front of the Nesta panel for funding up to £10,000. Yip, that's 10K! The business training isn't the usual bog standard cash flows and spider diagrams, they take more of a creative (maybe even quirky!) approach and tailor the advice towards the type of business which think a bit more outside of the box. Nesta are a fantastic organization to get involved with; enthusiastic staff, great contacts, sound business advice, big cash investments and a super-cool HQ in London that's straight out of Ugly Betty!...read more.
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WGSN: 10 Years of Creative Intelligence 22nd Oct 2008
WGSN (Worth Global Style Network) is an industry biggy, a super huge, subscription-ony trend forecasting website for the fashion and textiles industry. The WGSN team first spotted my work at New Designers in 2005 just after I graduated and have popped along to all my London shows since to say hello and check on recent developments. A couple of their journalists even have Johanna Basford prints on their living room wall! I was chuffed to bits when they listed me in their Top 10 spotted talents over the last decade, (along with Christopher Kane, Giles Miller and fellow Aberdeenshire lass, Donna Wilson). The title of the article, “Before They Were Famous” made me giggle a bit… but I’m glad to say fame hasn’t changed me… where the hell is Jeeves with my morning de-caff soya mocha choca latte frappiccino bellino? ...read more.
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Craft Scotland Calendar 21st Oct 2008
The first of the annual wave of vile “personalized” diaries have started to clatter their way through the studio letterbox…a sure sign that we are nearing Christmas. Year after year these nasty little pocket sized diaries, covered in attractive wipe-proof plastique covers and stamped with my business name and address (usually with at least one typo) land on my desk, followed by the obligatory sales call from someone named Geoff in Coventry who would like to know if I am interested in ordering more for my “valued clients”. Brilliant Geoff - I am sure my design savvy clients would love one. ...read more.
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Jannica Honey / Concrete Wardrobe 13th Oct 2008
I had a very early morning last week Friday (its so depressing to be getting up in the dark again!) and hopped on a train to Edinburgh and made my way along a very blustery Broughton Street to one of my favorite little shops which stocks my work, Concrete Wardrobe. Run by 2 fellow Scottish Designers, James Donald and Fiona McIntosh, Concrete Wardrobe is a treasure trove of hand crafted delights from fashion to homewares and art print<script type=...read more.
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Ornithology at Design Supremo 5th Aug 2008
Style junkies should get their daily design fix with ultra cool online shop Design Supremo, a “boutique of chic” and creative hub bringing together cutting edge design, illustration, photography and street art. Ben at Design Supremo works with designers and artists worldwide, tracking down the most exclusive artwork available in very limited edition print runs. I teamed up with DS earlier this year to create something rather special…...read more.
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Lyle McCance Collaboration 13th Jul 2008
We’re a talented lot at Duncan of Jordanstone, so teaming up with Lylc McCance, a furniture designer who graduated the same year as myself was a perfect chance to combine some nifty printmaking with top-notch craftsmanship. We got together last year and made this one off bespoke chess set. ...read more.
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Tom Gyr Collaboration 6th Jul 2008
New Designer, Tom Gyr contacted me a few months ago with an interesting proposal. As part of of his degree show collection he has created furniture pieces with an interesting little twist...read more.
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Thank you! 20th Jun 2008
A big thank you to Suzy at Love Surface Design (UK based design blog featuring print and surface pattern design) and Lyall at Creative Dundee (website featuring all the creative goings-on in the City of Discovery). Cheers guys :)...read more.
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Design*Sponge 18th Jun 2008
A big thank you to Design*Sponge for featuring my work on their action-packed blog today. Lots and lots of really cool stuff here....read more.
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