Smoke and Mirrors

This design for Smoke and Mirrors, Noir's Christmas club, looked like it was going to be a bit of a problem child. My lovely clients and I had a bit of a communications breakdown and a couple of redesigns were required. Lessons were learned though, and the end result was pretty cool. Although to be honest I can't bear to look at it any more. I'm glad that in this instance though, my clients at Noir were convinced to go for a full colour 60x40, instead of their usual 2 colour. The number of positive comments they have received, and the number of requests I've had for copies will hopefully convince them to continue spending a wee bit money on their posters from now on (fingers crossed!).

Smoke and Mirrors is on the 1st December - I think its going to be a popular one, so buy your tickets in advance or risk disappointment!

Incidentally, this was also the first job designed on my BRAND NEW MACBOOK PRO. And very happy we are together too, thankyouverymuch.

Scandinavian Ceramics

Now, as those of you familiar with the inside of my kitchen cabinets will know, I am a proud (read: sad) collector of patterned ceramics from the post-war period (up to the 70s). Sourced from flea markets, car boot sales, the Barras and good ol' ebay, my collection mostly consists of American, Eastern European and British pieces and ranges from complete coffee sets to one-off tea pots and pin dishes.

However, in recent months I've become a bit more picky about the bits that I buy, and even ebay no longer seems to be able to provide the interesting or unusual stuff. So I suppose I have this rather excellent blog to thank for giving me a few new names/potteries to look out for. Check out the link 'vintage ceramics' and have a look at all the absolutely gorgeous patterned ceramics from Sweden, Denmark and Finland. For some reason these ceramics are hugely popular in Japan, and this website seems to have snapped up all the good stuff already - which may make it harder to find cheaper bits on the likes of ebay. But I do like a challenge.

Hello Mr Easyjet? One flight to Helsinki please.