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Ever since I started working freelance about a year and a half ago, I’ve been having an extended “you know, I think I used to be quite creative and artistic” moment. So I’ve gone on a long-term journey to rediscover my long hidden drawing and creating abilities.
My first step on this relearning process was a [...]

I really like the hand-drawn repeat patterns by Julia Rothman. She’s drawn everyday things like cars and chairs and made them into really lovely patterns

Julia also has a really interesting blog on book illustration – Book By Its Cover – I’ve only just discovered it but it looks like it will become [...]

I realised the other day that for the most part all the wrapping paper and cards I’ve been buying over the past year have come from the same company, eventhough I’ve bought them all over the place. So I guess I must like them alot. The company is called NineteenSeventyThree and their products “are environmentally [...]

I was really happy to hear that my nephew Jonah is now into Snoopy and the Peanuts gang. My absolutely favourite thing for most of my childhood was Snoopy and he’s still pretty high on my list of favourite things. I still have two rather weathered Snoopy dolls that would have been carted around pretty [...]

I was looking through my ever increasing collection of scavenged things when I found some really lovely business cards by illustration students and graduates. They’re great not only because they show off their artistic talent, but also because they have yet to be properly chewed up and spat out by the mass-produced, bash-it-out, we all [...]