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Friday again.

If your going to be in Edinburgh this weekend then go check out the Village Fete this coming Saturday at Old St Paul’s Church Hall in Edinburgh. Setup by Lizzy Stewart (a third year eca illustration student), has managed to secure work from a variety of artists – both Edinburgh based and other UK artists and crafters – including work from It’s Nice that. From the Village Fete MySpace…

Live music comes courtesy of Tracer Trails who have organised us a lovely line up which goes as follows.. Wounded Knee, Withered Hand, Randan Discotheque & Beard DJs The Village Fete will also be providing tea and cakes and other treats throughout the day.

Lizzy also has a blog and portfolio online with some really interesting work that’s worth having a sneaky peek at. I really like her fusion of Russian influences and the ever favorite source material of ‘bears’. A couple of images pictured below.

So here’s the announcement. The very nice people at OWL & LION gallery in Grassmarket, Edinburgh have decided to take on my knitted work (pictured above) for an exhibition. Although my work has been sold before in a variety of venues in Edinburgh, its the first time it’s being sold in a gallery context which I’m really pleased about. Hopefully they’ll get plenty of exposure and maybe even spawn some other collaborations.

The exhibition opens 9-16th March (dates as going to press).

The Spring Showcase shall see the return of our retail space. Featuring 10 Jewellery Artists with their new spring collection as well as a new and exciting range of bags handmade in our onsite studio space. The ever popular OWL & LION bag will be launched with new designs and fabrics. Besides handmade bags and jewellery, the gallery also specialises in traditional bookbinding. This spring you will see a very exciting and expanded range of bespoke note books, diaries and photo albums.

If your in Edinburgh go check them out or even purchase one – all comments welcome especially if you’ve seen them at the gallery. Hopefully be some photos of the gallery once the exhibition’s on.

On a side note, this is the 150th post – I never realized how many I’d already written.

I was browsing through my Flickr contacts the other day and stumbled across this find of a bathroom. It’s a photo my brother took recently whilst visiting a press event at Sony’s 3Rooms ‘brand space’. It’s great to see they’ve thought about the environment in a different way and really follows through with whole vibe of the flat. Would be nice to see it in person.

For more info check out my brother’s blog.

I was shown this a while back but came across it again recently. It’s such a simple yet hypnotic piece of sculpture. It so relaxing to watch and reckon it makes an amazing noise when each of the ‘flip-dots’ rotate and move.

More photos online at Trokia’s website.

GRRRR… I’ve been really busy lately, as usual, but have a big announcement coming in the next couple of days, so stick around.

A cool blog from Youworkforthem.com. Worth checking out on a semi-regular basis – doesn’t seem to updated as fast as some of the other popular design blogs out there but that doesn’t mean to say the work isn’t good.

You work for them Blog

On a more personal note, I just crossed back over the board from spending a great weekend back home for Mother’s Day which was fun. My Dad is a bit of a serious cook and I had the pleasure of fresh, home-made croissants and pain au raisin on Sunday for lunch (above) which were utterly amazing.

Oh and if anyone ever has or have had the pleasure on traveling on National Express trains, the WiFi is terrible and so slow its hardly worth the effort – enough of my rants

As I was popping by the OWL & Lion gallery in Edinburgh yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing them setting up there current show (above).

This month, the ceramics department of the Glasgow School of
Art will set up a showcase that reflects the feelings of melancholy and farewell to mark and lament the closure of this unique
arts department.

They’ve covered the entire floor in real turf and it looks and feels amazing. It’s only on till Sunday so if your in Edinburgh then go check it out today and see for your self. Hopefully there will be some more photos on the gallery website in case your unable to make it over the next week.

Regular updates at OWL & Lion Blog

UPDATE

In case you were unable to visit photos are now up online on their blog and flickr.

Very cool tea cup by the way.

I’m not a fan of Jack Johnson by any means but for some reason I really like the choice of typeface on this particular album cover. Hopefully I’m back on track for a regular post on a Friday as well – my bad for missing it last week.

Blik are an awesome company that are bringing vinyl graphics into the the home and office which I think is great. I really wanna get some of the space invaders re-usable ones. Reminds me a little of a project I just finished and another one I’m just starting.

Check Blik’s blog out as well. I love these library book graphics shown above.

Someone’s obviously got their thinking cap on at work and has taken my prefered implement of tea making (a pen or whatever is to hand) and took it another couple of steps further.

Good job. [via Fubiz]

I absolutely love the cover for Born Ruffians with the cowboy. By the looks of it is a tiny model paper cut out and was probably done by a graphic designer that’s in a popular called Tactile. If you see it have a read as there’s loads of inspiring work in it.

This is an awesome magazine called E&A with some absolutely amazing and beautiful typography and photography. There’s loads of spreads on their website from the magazine which I highly advise checking out.

Been pretty busy this week so thats the reason for the sparse posting.