current observations

Category: design

  • Working on :: the evolution of a pod

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    There has still been nothing resembling a sunny day today, my one opportunity to photograph and show you my finished printed fabric *sigh*. But I can show you my original drawing and a method that I’ve been playing around with since the snowflake obsession of last year. I’ve been quite obsessed with tree pods lately…

  • An eye for :: triangles

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    Out shopping last week this window display from Kikki-K and all those triangles really caught my eye. As it is the way for me I’ve been seeing triangles ever since. Is there a name for that? I mention it so often, this idea of when you become aware of something; a word or image you…

  • Akai Premium Theme from Crimson Pear

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    I’m so excited to share with you what I’ve been toiling away at for the last couple of weeks. This is my Akai (means red in Japanese) self-hosted WordPress blog theme that you can purchase over on my Crimson Pear site. This was such fun to create. I had the Indian inspired block prints and…

  • Free WordPress Theme from Crimson Pear

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    I have been working on this for a while and I’m so happy to show you my first free WordPress theme, called Kiiroi, which means yellow in Japanese. This has been an ambition of mine for a while now to combine my love of blogging and my love of web design. Last year, after getting…

  • It’s beginning to feel like Christmas fonts

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    I’m relatively new to the world of picture fonts, but what a world it is. I know I’ve mentioned a couple of them before but I’ve really just started using them in earnest and I’m about to publish my first free theme that makes use of elements from my current favourite picture font… but more…

  • What would you pay for these?

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    I subscribe to Chris Spooner’s Blog Spoon Graphics newsletter. His site is a goldmine for people like me and he really piqued my interest with a post titled Top 20 High Quality Free Fonts Every Designer Should Own. Just the words free and font were enough for me to go and find out what I’ve…

  • Loving :: wallflowers by Laura Worthington

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    I think I mentioned yesterday that I’ve turned into quite the font nerd or should I say fan or maybe fanatic! I’m quite enamoured with fonts and their designers and I am convinced that My Fonts has the potential to keep me very poor. One of my favourite font designers is Laura Worthington and I…

  • Dan Funderburgh for Brooks Saddles

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    I really love collaborations of the quirky variety. Dan Funderburgh is a Brooklyn based illustrator, artist and wallpaper designer. His work is for purchase and he also works on commissions. A recent collaboration saw his beautiful work in leather through the creation of the Team Pro Alpe D’Huez Brooks saddle. These saddles are hand crafted…

  • Scribbling :: autumn leaves

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    I’ve been scribbling again with Adobe Ideas for iPad. It’s quite addictive once you get started. I created a palette of 5 colours from the bench in autumn photo – can you believe it? These are exactly the colours it picked. So I started with the top one and they were very strange looking leaves…

  • A wood scribble

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    Here’s my latest Adobe Ideas scribble. I had the idea in my head that it would look perfect with a single colour (top) but once I got going it didn’t exactly turn out as I imagined – well does it ever? It’s also quite hard to draw with your finger no matter how thin the…