Romantic Poets: Wordsworth

By way of breaking a long six month silence without a blog entry, here's something I spotted tonight whilst looking at book covers (a recent big inspiration), this time by the publisher Faber and Fabers. And also its Wordsworth, my favourite (and most famous) Cumbrian. Hopefully more blog entries from now on, as some personal work on the way........

Exhib. Of The Year

Great book by Gestalten to coincide with an exhibition at West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Eire, "Cutters/Cork", curated by James Gallagher: "They are not only composing a wide variety of visual elements, but are also deliberately omitting, deleting, and destroying them." Wish I was across theIrish Sea right now.....

Untitled (Things Seen Whilst Walking)

12.12.10 Brooklyn, NY

Pipes

Saw this in a book in the Cooper-Hewitt shop in NYC, "Twentieth -Century Textiles" by Francesca Galloway. Print is courtesy of C.L.OT.H & Finlandia, anonymous designer. Wish I could own up to this ace print....

07.09.10

There stands the base and root of the living rock........

Contemporary Days: The Designs of Lucienne & Robin Day from Design Onscreen on Vimeo.

Not coming to an Odeon near you......
Desert Utopia (post-production)
A film by Jake Gorst
Executive Producers: Jill A. Wiltse & H. Kirk Brown III, Robert Imber
Producer: David Shearer

Czech Postage Stamps (1971)

Designer: Jaroslav Lukavsky. Found in a stamp book at home.......

03.08.10

29.07.10

28.07.10

Hot potatoes for tea

27.07.10

It all started off drawing some gooseberries......

Bleatarn

I can see this view ten minutes from my house.

10.07.10

06.07.10

06.07.10

Romek Marber Crime Covers

Collecting some ace Romek Marber book covers as starting points for some new work. These are for Penguin, done in the early 60's........

Lusty

Trying to find an anthology of Alvin Lustig, in book form. Considering all his graphic design work, his typefaces, and to me, his textiles, its pretty amazing there seems to be no collection of his work, in book form anyway. There's a good website in his name though, www.alvinlustig.com. Better than Lucienne Day.........

Eesti

Stumbled across this image on www.fedbybirds.com tonight, while browsing websites. Its from an Estonian childrens notebook. Drawing for the first time in at least three weeks tonight...tv off, brain engaged.

16.03.10

Have no time to work out designs on fabric, so still drawing and drawing.....mountains and maps. Patterns emerging- will be printing new stuff soon(er). in the meantime enjoying the day off.

Gliskr

Devoke Water 7.03.10

On Heavy Rotation

Just brilliant head music.......

Work

Victorian 'refreshment hut' in the mountains/Wasdale Head Inn, birthplace of rock climbing/1950's outdoor fashion

In

Half done drawing- evolving into printed textile pattern, start of new work looking at line, scale and colour. Hopefully look different once printed, to my MA work. That's the aim anyway.....