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Once upon a Beast - 4 - Gender

2012-02-08T22:18:00.004Z

Click the image (illustration by Gemmie Payton) to visit my e-magazine - telling stories on a theme - issue 4 is Gender.

Quarters Cafe near Highgate Station

2012-02-08T22:11:00.003Z

So nice! I loved the cosy homey mismatched antique-y decor and on top of that the food is delicious. Stu had the mos amazing dumplings and we shared a super rich moist brownie. Mm. Plus the delicious hot spiced apple drink. Must return soon.

250 Euston Road glowing up ahead

2012-02-08T22:08:00.001Z

Buildings covered in mirror look stunning at sunset.

Nicola Roberts

2011-11-29T19:31:00.002Z

This month I have been listening to Nicola Roberts on repeat. I love her album Cinderella's Eyes, so fun and pretty :) My highlights are the title track and Porcelain Heart. And she is so pretty.

Bake Off

2011-11-01T09:54:00.004Z

One of my new years resolutions was to regularly update this blog, at which I have failed miserably. I did have some updates while we were travelling South East Asia but they were so wordy I felt weird about it and have taken them down. Much prefer pictures. Since returning to London I have become obsessed with baking! I got very inspired by the Great British Bake Off and have put on a little

365:25 is done

2011-03-06T12:29:00.017Z

Taking a picture a day to document being 25 is finished...I missed a couple days a month....but here we go.

Planning a journey...

2011-02-05T17:37:00.005Z

So we are finally planning our 2 month travels......and so very very excited! Stu has never been to Asia at all and I've never been without my family, never independently planned a trip.One month will be spent travelling Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. One month will be spent in Japan. In Japan we will spend 2 weeks with my family (who don't speak English) and 2 weeks sightseeing.My main goal is to

I can't believe I stopped for so long!

2011-02-05T17:24:00.002Z

I got so caught up with wedding planning and life that I just stopped blogging. I still can't believe I'm married now...people keep asking how it feels, it feels the same, but with rings and and extra underglow of happiness :D Yay.

Foyles

2010-07-17T12:44:00.004+01:00

The window displays have always been pretty. I particularly like this butterfly poster for summer reading promotion. Look at the common reader!! Foyles seems to be doing ok in this time of failing bookshops. Poor bookshops :( I hope they survive. Not that I help...I get my books from the library or charity shops or amazon. Boo.

1000 origami cranes

2010-07-11T13:44:00.002+01:00

So, this is what I've been doing lately, with the help of my paper team. We decided to make 1000 cranes to decorate the wedding venue! All white, using scrap paper. These are folded from old uni work! If you fold 1000 you are supposed to be granted a wish...so we thought it would be lovely to do for our marriage, and look very pretty.Over a thousand are folded now...it was fun. I'm not looking

Kate Jenkins

2010-07-11T13:33:00.003+01:00

Oh dear.....a 3 month blogging blank. I suck...I guess I have been quite preoccupied with wedding planning! But I haven't failed to fall in love with Kate Jenkin's oh so cute food crochet-ing of joy! Pork Pie! And 4 and 20 blackbirds! And marmite! Catch the exhibition quickly, at Rebecca Hossack Gallery on Charlotte Street till the 24th.

25 : 365

2010-03-09T07:39:00.003Z

I have decided to do this 365 thing that I've seen being done at Afeitar (a pretty blog I like to read). You take a picture every day for a year and then you have a year captured in photographs. I think its a flickr thing, I'll look into that later, for now I'm doing it here for myself, starting from yesterday, my 25th birthday, rather than the start of the year. I'm going to capture my 25th year.

Book Club Boutique - Sophia Blackwell

2010-03-07T17:00:00.004Z

Yesterday a friend and I went to the Bookclub Boutique at Blacks in Soho. It was very lovely, charming and intimate with open fires, sofas and writers reading stories, poetry and singing. It was Alice in Wonderland/fairy tale themed - how perfect for me! We did feel a little awkward, being somewhat shy and everyone appeared to know each other, although they seemed nice. Highlights for me were

Lovely Soreen

2010-02-28T14:49:00.002Z

About a month ago, a colleague offered me a slice of Soreen. I accepted, curious to try this 'Soreen'. That night I bought 2 loaves and scoffed them within 2 days. It tastes like dense, sticky heaven...and it's full of raisin therefore I consider it healthy. Despite loading each slice with butter. Mmmmmmm.Next I must try it with cheese!

Stuff I hope to get for my birthday....

2010-02-21T11:43:00.005Z

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (with the wolf on the cover), Beautiful Polka dot dress from Dorothy Perkins, and Cream Puffs from Beard Papa :D These would be the perfect gifts! Maybe I will buy them for myself. . .

Brat and Suzie

2010-01-22T22:30:00.002Z

I want this shirt alot. It's red, it has a squirrel on a bike...Brat and Suzie do lovely illustrated shirts, I spotted them at the Bust Craftacular event in December..so hard to resist spending money. I fell in love with the squirrel, hope I manage to buy it soon!http://www.bratandsuzie.com/

Monika Filasiewicz

2010-01-17T13:16:00.003Z

My lovely friend Monika takes stunning photos and I'm very lucky that she has agreed to photograph my wedding :) She has a knack for composition and colour and capturing people looking natural and beautiful. Her photos are only up on facebook I believe...but hopefully she will have a public gallery soon...

empig & stupig are to wedpig <3

2009-11-21T15:54:00.003Z

I've not posted much lately, partially due to extreme engagement excitement. All I'm really thinking is wedding right now....so my posts will be a bit wedding themed for a bit.It's going to be in autumn amidst fallen leaves! :D Reception is in a pub with a hog roast, and as you see from my little mood board, primary colours and jamjars galore!I'm very much looking forward to decorating the pub

Macoto Murayama

2009-10-29T15:51:00.003Z

http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/macoto-murayamas-flower-illustrations.htmlBeautiful computer images of flowers.....I don't understand how it's done in the slightest but it's amazing. There's no getting bored with nature is there, there's always something fascinating and wonderful.

Surface Stories Pop up Shop

2009-10-04T10:19:00.001+01:00

Camden Council is opening a new pop-up shop at 54 Tavistock Place, WC1H 9RG , and we are holding a launch event to mark the opening of this very exciting initiative which uses vacant high street shops as galleries until they are brought back into commercial use.The current installation titled ‘surface stories’ by a group of young designers will be showing from 28 September until 15 October. You

ShadowBookBlind @ Nissan: East meets West - London Design Festival

2009-09-18T14:20:00.003+01:00

Emmie Joseph is exhibiting with Nissan during London Design Festival and would like to invite you along for another chance to see her decorate & illustrate using shadow as a transient form of print. Also, the work of 20 other designers across many disciplines under the theme of East meets West. Other designers include Alana Florence, Alessia Giardino, and Solenne Morigeaud. 23rd, 24th

Yinka Shonibare - Odette Odile

2009-09-12T19:12:00.004+01:00

I went to the Deloitte Ignite event at ROH last weekend, although I really went to see this, and left for Pestival after I saw it and didn't really take in anything else. Nothing else caught my attention. I liked this alot though. It's a play on Odette/Odile in Swan Lake - 2 ballerinas, one black one white, wearing african textile tutus dance and mirror each other on each side of a fancy mirror

Radical Nature @ Barbican

2009-09-07T10:24:00.004+01:00

I am so sorry. Goodbye - Heather and Ivan Morison 2008This is good. I love this bird-like house, and it is outside the Barbican by the lake for the Radical Nature exhibition. you can sit inside and feel relaxed while looking out of triangular windows!Green Room by A12 is like a little tardis but when you step inside, it's mirrored and you feel as though you are in a large kaleidascopic garden.

Agnes Denes

2009-09-07T10:19:00.004+01:00

Agnes Denes is an environmental artist who planted a wheatfield in the middle of new york, and planted a forest in a beautiful mathematical pattern. Planting things and nurturing life in the name of art seems very lovely to me. The forest is someting that will continue to grown in beauty over time and eat some carbon dioxide. Seeing a wheatfield in the city is an amazing contrast and thought

Blur Building

2009-09-07T10:07:00.004+01:00

Why had I never seen this before? It's beautiful and amazing, a building shrouded in mist! So poetic and suggestive of a fairytale or futuristic narrative.(Dillier Scofodio & Renfro 2002)http://www.nextnature.net/?p=39

Oh! Oh! Oh!

2009-09-01T17:20:00.002+01:00

Raspberries cost way too much. Especially when you grew up picking them from the garden. But I had to bake these because they looked like heaven. A layer of brownie, a layer of cheesecake and a layer of raspberry cream. They taste SO GOOD. And they're pretty :) They almost look like they do in the book!Thank you Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook for giving me this pleasure.I heart cake.

Exquisite Bodies @ Wellcome Collection

2009-08-26T09:15:00.003+01:00

Wellcome Collection always put on fascinating exhibitions and this is no exception. It goes from fairground grotesque to anatomical learning. The detail in the models are amazing...you could think they were real. It's amazing to think of them being made. It's all so complicated that it seems unfathomable to think how scientists and doctors worked out what everything did!http://

Fish.

2009-08-21T10:13:00.003+01:00

I just watched this over at treehugger.com... I wish I had the moral strength to be vegetarian. But I enjoy my food so much. I try to convince myself it is ok to eat meat as I eat it rarely and I only eat free range chicken. But while I'm aware the fish is running out I've not thought about it.Arr it's so difficult and expensive to try and live right. To be completely good is impossible. But it's

tales from outer suburbia - shaun tan

2009-08-18T13:47:00.006+01:00

I think this is more a book for adults than children, but we sell it from the children's section at work. It's a beautiful illustrated book with odd disjointed little stories mixing imagination with suburban life.http://www.shauntan.net/

New home - decorated by shadow and books!

2009-08-01T13:22:00.006+01:00

I made these shadow lamps about 3 years ago, and they have never given so good an effect as they do in out new little flat. Mr Emmie and I have just moved, cramming ourselves into a little studio...so far it seems fine, nice and cosy :) and I'm thrilled with the beautiful shadows. I almost don't wnt to hang my Babar picture...

poor.old.tired.horse @ ICA

2009-07-22T15:24:00.003+01:00

visual poetry. playing with text. prints. there were prints created by typing with different colours from a typewriter. some looked like cross stitch samplers which i thought was quite charming. liliane lijn had rotating cones of poetry! the picture above is one of janice kerbell's circus poster style graphic/poetry pieces.

Telling Tales @ V&A

2009-07-22T15:11:00.007+01:00

Lasting Void - Julia LohmannCan you hear what I hear - Kelly McCallumPerished Bench - Studio JobMoulded Mole Slippers - Niels Van EijkI loved this one! How storytelling influences design...it's like they set it up for my personal enjoyment! And I'll probably go multiple times as it is free. It had 3 gorgeous sections, Forest, Castle, Heaven/Hell all beautifully set up and you can see some of my

Once upon a time...Artists and Storytelling @ Somerset House

2009-07-22T14:41:00.004+01:00

Interesting little exhibition with two parts. First is old childhood story illustrations, second is artists storytelling, illustrations and films. I liked Oskar Kokoschka's artist illustrations best. He makes a story from where he was in his life, like a storybook diary. I guess this is what I do so is probably why I'm drawn to it. But I also like the drawing and colours. Picture above is from

15 books

2009-07-18T12:33:00.017+01:00

Note 15 books that have made their mark on you and will always stick with you, for whatever reason.These are mostly childhood books...Anyone read any of these and love them like I do? What are your important books?

London Wetland Centre - Widgeons!

2009-06-30T14:12:00.003+01:00

I ent to London Wetland Cetre for the first time yesterday and it is lovely lovely! At first I was a little disappointed, because it seemed like a bird zoo catered to children, but then it got quiet and there are wild areas, gorgeous and marshy with exciting ducks and lilies and reeds and tumbling plants :D -happy sigh- and the weather was so good (and i made an amazing picnic).bird glee:- fat

MA Design for Textile Futures Final Show

2009-06-24T11:09:00.002+01:00

I realise I've left posting this extremely late as the show is almost over...but if you want to see my final work and the work of 20 other textile futures designers, head to Central Saint Martins Southampton Row (nearest tube Holborn) today or tommorow between 12-8pm! Once inside follow signs heading to MA Design for Textile Futures.Click here to see what you can expect :)Hope you can make it!

Dead Moth Dirty Plate

2009-06-24T11:07:00.001+01:00

I left my washing up to do in the morning...and when I came to do it there was a dead moth drowned in this greasy plate :( sad. disgusting. strangely beautiful.

Grassy Cat Car

2009-06-24T11:04:00.002+01:00

I spotted this while walking up Caledonian Road! I'd like to imagine it was real grass but it was probably pretend. Mmm ugly :) My favourite bit is wing mirrors as ears.

Wall.E

2009-06-21T17:26:00.003+01:00

Er..and I finally saw this...and got totally involved in the robot love story between Wall-E and Eve. I almost shed tears. Mild shame. But I think the film is lovely, I want to own it, the depiction of a destroyed, abandoned, empty earth was well done. Depressingly, I see this future. But without the hopeful ending. Boo.Let's end this post happily though.. yay for robots that turn into cubes when

2001 A Space Odyssey

2009-06-21T17:15:00.003+01:00

Watched this with my dad...barely paying attention at first...but by the end I really liked it...despite not really understanding. I like stories with human versus robot where the robot is going wrong because of the way it thinks. Like I, Robot (book not film).

Madness & Modernity & Wellcome Collection

2009-06-21T17:06:00.002+01:00

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/exhibitions/Madness-and-Modernity/index.htmThe Wellcome Collection never fails to fascinate me. I took my sister for her first visit weekend before last! Madness & Modernity...not something I'd had any interest in before. The exhibition is both disturbing and intriguing. I certainly learnt alot. The part I like best was the very las part

Kuniyoshi @ RA

2009-06-03T17:17:00.004+01:00

Caught this on Saturday :) Good. Times. Delicious detailed woodblock prints of epic battles. Many with oversized animals :DPart of the joy was definitely the descriptions that went with the prints, telling the storys. Example: "He disappeared beneath the sea and reappeared moments later with a crocodile under each arm. An unprecedented feat."The picture at the top shows a bird that thinks it has

Newgrange Passage Tomb

2009-05-28T18:43:00.005+01:00

Today, I learned there are many many more stone circles than just Stonehenge and Avebury. Including this one, in Ireland. I badly want to see it and go inside! Going inside something cave-like is much more exciting than just a circle....and there are carvings! I never thought about stuff like this existing before. Fascinating.

Beware, beware, be very wary Bear.

2009-05-28T12:55:00.001+01:00

I discovered this fun song. Good but not as good as its predecessor :DPink elephants on parade!!Mmm trippy.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

2009-05-21T23:58:00.003+01:00

Ok so if this isn't genius, what is? P&P spliced with zombie action! With illustrations!? Extreme joy! I need it.

Interiors @ Lyric Hammersmith

2009-05-20T16:17:00.005+01:00

A few weeks ago I went to Lyric Hammersmith and saw Interiors. It was eggs. It was set up like you were watching through the windows into a house, and you couldn't hear what the characters were saying, just hints and observations from the narrator, who was another secret watcher. And there were lights/projection over the outside the house to look look like wind and snow and stars :)Here's the

Robinsons Bird House

2009-05-19T18:44:00.003+01:00

I have slacked posting lately...been so hectic finishing my masters and working in the bookshop...but, i think i'll be posting again now :) Yay to this ad of a bird house. Obvious highlight being the man clock saying hello. Also, the guardian posters on the way, tweet magazine, worm sausages and bird claw boots :D Attention to detail! Oh yes.

Cheek to Cheek

2009-04-19T13:54:00.002+01:00

My friend Frances who dances has done this lovely lovely dance film :) I love the use of shadow and reflection and the blend of happiness with melancholy. It's about loneliness and memories but it feels uplifting to me :) Good times.

My favourite bit of Bug Bazaar @ Millenium Gallery

2009-03-08T21:29:00.003Z

Visited my gran in Sheffield for her birthday this weekend and saw the Bug Bazaar exhibition at the Millenium gallery...this video was my highlight - While Darwin Sleeps by Paul Bush. This is a section of his film showing 3000 species of insect at one frame each...it's stunning. I marvel at how beautiful insects are and how MANY there are! And amazing variation. Yet I find them so repulsive at

Bug Bazaar @ Millenium Gallery

2009-03-08T21:05:00.005Z

Claire Moyniham - Embroidered Bug BallJohn Dilnot - ScreenprintLots of gorgeous drawings and pieces set up like victorian insect collections...like this screen print by John Dilnot. Claire Moyniham's embroidered felty bugs on balls charmed me as did Nora Fok's insects made of found objects in nature....leaves and twigs :)Other interesting things...Jenny Tillotson's scent whisper...biomimcry...

Shadow Dance

2009-03-08T21:00:00.002Z

I went to my housemates uni dance show on fri...and this dance caught my eye. Lots of playing with light and shadow. This bit was my favourite, a bit of shadow trickery with the shadow of another dancer :)Choreography: Hollie McGill Dancers: Charley Ashton-Court, Leanne Welfare, Tomomi Kosano Music: Ederdunen by Kammerflimmer Kollektief 'how the eye functions' a classroom film by KK Bosse Chiusi

Wanderings in West London

2009-02-28T18:59:00.001Z

While researching organic linen I came across a couple of London shops that sell it. I knew they wouldn't be selling metres of it as I need but they looked like lovely shops I decided to visit anyway :) Summerill & Bishop and Daylesford Organic...pictures and thoughts below!

Summerill & Bishop

2009-02-28T18:54:00.002Z

Delicious assortment of vintage kitchenware and new simple, unusual designs. The shop feels so home-y even though its an expensive boutique-y place :) I like.http://www.summerillandbishop.com

Daylesford Organic

2009-02-28T18:52:00.006Z

Lovely simple seductive packaging. Too expensive for me but mmm. I love how thin the heart shaped box of chocolates is.http://www.daylesfordorganic.com

Cath Kidston

2009-02-28T18:49:00.003Z

Unplanned, I spotted a Cath Kidston shop and as I've never been in one I popped in for a look...too girly pink and floral for my taste but I quite like this elephant print :) and I did get myself a nice bright blue doorstop.http://www.cathkidston.co.uk

Flickr - Kaos2

2009-02-19T14:42:00.005Z

Have just had a little browse on Flickr and saw these beautiful close up photos of reflections, marbles and water. :D http://www.flickr.com/photos/barbeezgarten/

shadows to blinds...

2009-02-19T11:29:00.003Z

Now I'm making linen blinds with shadow casters attached behind. Trying to sort out the sustainability of linen...so far I think it's pretty good...apart from the bleaching...but I want it white! Thinking thinking.

miss pokeno

2009-02-10T13:05:00.002Z

mmm chairs with stuffed animals. indoors mixed with outdoors. comfort mixed with the discomfort of death. delicious contrast.http://misspokeno.com/

Peachy

2009-02-10T12:53:00.004Z

I saw this lamp a while ago but never mentioned it...it's simple but clever and sweetly stylish :) it's a plain blue lamp with stripes for sea levels in day and when it is switched on but when you switch it off phosphorecent sea creatures glow in the dark as a night light for children :)

Yu Jordy Fu

2009-02-10T12:46:00.005Z

Recycled paper lasercut lampshades. Sort of like something I might have done which makes me feel a little unoriginal! :) my stuff is more surreal and illustrative and less 3 dimensional but really similar...lets hope this inspires me to innovate :)http://www.jordyfu.com/

Amy Kligman

2009-02-04T11:03:00.006Z

Amy Kligman does these beautiful paintings. I love the simplicity and child like dreaminess :) And they kind of remind me of my Gran's drawings.

Candle Rotator

2009-01-24T13:27:00.003Z

Little film of my candle rotating shadow experiment...what a lot of fiddling and fire hazard...next stop: clockwork?

playing with my window

2009-01-21T22:45:00.003Z

Experimentation with shadows....cut paper and plastic attached to my window casting shadow on the curtain. It's not final design work but it's lovely because it keeps surprising me...I only get the sun late afternoon so I'll be working and suddenly Bam! I'll realise I'm surrounded by shadow of light!

i found my teapot

2009-01-20T18:46:00.002Z

I've been searching the charity shops for a teapot i'd love and this morning i found it! Joy :) Apparantly it's a Sadler teapot and apparantly this is good. I didn't know about Sadler teapots. The lady in the shop asked if I collected them and when I said no she said she expected the teapot back in a couple months when I get bored of it. This won't happen..I love my new teapot and shall use it to

domestic life

2009-01-20T18:27:00.004Z

Some of my drawings...really quite happy with them! :) I used to hate my drawing...it's as if something has clicked!

Book Colours....reorganising the bookshelf...

2009-01-18T17:58:00.004Z

I was overcome by a bizarre urge to organise my books by colour :D All I feel now, is why did I never do this before! Eggs.Also, not just for me, but for my project...hello colours!

Work in Progress Show - Re:Future

2009-01-18T17:45:00.006Z

My work - print on paper, only visible as shadow when light shines throughMin Nyoung Seo's work - Craft recycling cork, cardboard and carrier bagsClover Robin's work - layered ghostly photography for wallpaperI think the show went well :) I had some positive feedback, which is lovely and encouraging to hear. Also, a shove to get industry contacts...I know I should...but it's very daunting!

Alan Aldridge @ Design Museum

2009-01-09T18:19:00.003Z

Yay colours :) I liked his animal illustrations very much. Best room was set up with big cut out animal figures. I wish I could do such detailed colourful illustrations.

Teapod

2009-01-09T18:16:00.002Z

After the design museum we needed tea refreshment and teapod is very very good! I wish I lived nearer it...because mmmm yunnan tea and orange&almond cake.

Jean Nouvel again!

2009-01-09T18:09:00.005Z

I was recommended to research the Institut du Monde Arabe because of its use of shadow and light. I find it was designed by Jean Nouvel, whose shadow kitchen cupboards I like so much!http://emmiephant.blogspot.com/2008/05/jean-nouvel.html

Textile Futures

2008-12-29T23:00:00.001Z

Info on my current project is now updated on the Textile Futures website...

Crazy video facades

2008-12-29T22:58:00.000Z

Can this be real? Amazing!

Bix Facade

2008-12-29T22:24:00.002Z

Oh dear...I've slacked severely on posting.Well, here's a video from November when a short shadow film I made was played on the Bix facade in Austria. Thanks to Ruiari. This video shows mine, Alana's and some of Ruiari's other students I think.

Brave Space - Light Blocks

2008-12-01T16:32:00.005Z

Brave Space have done something very like what I'm doing but using wood and eco resin. I like the surprise of a shadow behind wood...you never think you'd see through wood. But I feel somehow it could be more exciting...

Brian Dettmer

2008-11-30T20:59:00.004Z

Mmmmm book art.

Adam Frank

2008-11-30T20:32:00.005Z

Adam Frank is a designer/artist who plays with light and interactivity. He's done oil lamp shadow projectors and projecters that create a sunlit window shadow effect. How very like what I'm trying to do...though I'm hoping to use actual windows. His can be used where there aren't windows though. Nifty.

Étienne-Jules Marey

2008-11-05T16:52:00.001Z

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Jules_Marey

Hiro Yamagata

2008-11-05T15:25:00.002Z

http://hiroyamagata.com/exhibition/Beautiful.

Tom Foulsham

2008-11-05T15:16:00.001Z

http://tomfoulsham.co.uk/candle.htmlLo-tech rotation using candles...fleeting sculpture.

Philips Daylight Window

2008-11-05T15:15:00.000Z

Anke Jakob

2008-10-26T19:34:00.001Z

Light projections onto fabric, playing with perception and ephemeral decoration.http://surfaceandmedia.blogspot.com/

Moholy-Nagy - Light Space Modulator

2008-10-25T16:08:00.001+01:00

I want to do something like this but more beautiful and illustrative....

Venice - Out There - Architecture Beyond Building

2008-10-25T15:13:00.002+01:00

On Tuesday I went to Venice for the day with some of the Textile Futures girls :D It was amaaazing! Venice is so beautiful! (my first visit) and we went to go to the architecture exhibition which was overwhelmingly huge and inspirational. See posts below for my personal highlights :)http://www.labiennale.org/en/

Out There - Nikola Basic

2008-10-25T14:55:00.001+01:00

Amazing beautiful concepts...He has built a Sea Organ - pipes that play music as the waves move so the sea is playing music..listen to it here...it's incredible! More related to my work, is Greeting to the Sun - "Symbolic urban installation which, by means of photovoltaic cells built-in sea walkway, changes solar energy into lighting spectacle" It's sustainable, interactive, dramatic. I'm not

Out There - Junya Ishigami

2008-10-25T14:42:00.004+01:00

Beautiful detailed charming drawings depicting scenarios where nature and architecture blend.

Out There - Aether Architecture

2008-10-25T14:33:00.003+01:00

Wall of wing mirrors all tilting different directions to show a slightly different view! Is fascinating...excerpt from website below... http://www.aether.hu/"The exhibition called “Sorry for Taking Your Mirrors” talks about new ways of creating spaces which are ‘high-tech’ and ‘low-tech’ at the same time: they are interactive, responsive, can physically change to accommodate various functions

Out There - Bell-Lloc Cellars

2008-10-25T14:28:00.001+01:00

bell-lloc cellars’ by rgr aranda pigem vilalta arquitectes (palamós, gerona)mmmshadow

Out There - 1907...After the Party

2008-10-25T14:21:00.003+01:00

Not certain what this was about - white rooms filled with confetti - but so much joy! Maybe about joy :) Much confetti was thrown in the air and sprinkled over us!

Out There - cuac

2008-10-25T12:26:00.010+01:00

Manantial Solar Pavilioncolour changing building facade Viriato 20translucency and light http://www.cuac.eu/I can't seem to find out much about these projects and I don't exactly understand them but I like them and they use light and shadow to great effect. Other project I couldn't find pictures of - Mirror Suit - buildings talking to each other with flashing mirrors,

Silver Rain

2008-10-18T15:31:00.002+01:00

http://www.silverrain.com/I am utterly seduced...the packaging is beautiful and it sounds like it smells amazing too...Top notes of crisp green apple, verbena flower, calabrain, bergamot, anise and crushed corianderHeart notes of dewfruit berry, plum, crystallized sugar accord, gardenia and tuberose blossomBase notes of red sandalwood, rare agarwood, tonka bean, vanilla

Little Dragon - After the Rain

2008-10-17T10:55:00.000+01:00

High - A Balloons Tale

2008-10-17T10:54:00.000+01:00

Thanks Solenne :)

David Noonan @ Chisenhale Gallery

2008-10-12T13:41:00.003+01:00

Creepy life size 2d silhouettes and giant collaged prints of mimes and dancers. It's odd standing alone in a room with all these figures. That's what I liked most. It's sort of melancholy.

Bottom Drawers @ PM House and Gallery

2008-10-12T13:08:00.003+01:00

PM gallery and house is where John Soane lived and Bottom Drawers is an exhibition about Home. Artists have added installations that make the house look lived in and make you think about home. Toys and objects...Draft excluder snake eating chair...The exhibition is lovely (and free)

Hiraki Sawa

2008-10-11T13:24:00.003+01:00

Domestic/Fantasy! That's what i'm trying to do! :Dhttp://www.jamescohan.com/artists/hiraki-sawa/video/hiraki-sawa-views-of-hako-2007/

Some of my shadow photographs...

2008-10-08T12:51:00.006+01:00

Sunlight shadows around home.

Sunlight Transportation Systems

2008-10-06T11:47:00.001+01:00

So interesting! I wish the bookshop had had this.

Su Blackwell

2008-10-04T22:26:00.004+01:00

Su Blackwell's work is so beautiful and so exactly what I love - storytelling and books come alive. I went to a talk last night with Su Blackwell and the editor of Crafts magazine at Borders. Her work is all based on stories and fragility. Stuff she said that I liked: "books going back to trees" and " half this world half book world".

From Now to Eternity

2008-10-04T22:08:00.004+01:00

Plastic Nostalgia by Raw Edges Plastic Fandangoes by CommitteeExhibition about plastic - pros and cons. Some designers celebrating plastics versatility and others highlighting it's drawbacks. It was interesting. For some stuff we really need plastic. But it is misused alot too. And it is hard to recycle. I've been talking to a guy at an acrylic company and while they recycle everything

Shadows film

2008-10-02T16:05:00.001+01:00

A film made from shadows I've been collecting this summer set to Ooberman <3