Esther Coombs

Just discovered Esther Coombs via Print&Pattern and she has also made cake stands with old crockery :) only hers are actually stuck together and printed :) Her drawing is loveliness. I really want to do more drawing.

Epigenetics

A couple weeks ago we did a week group project combining science and design following an intense day of talks about epigenetics and model organisms - Fabrics of life, marrying design to discovery. It was so interesting! My group were focusing on my favourite talk as well which was by Jim Smith ( Molecular basis of mesoderm formation, Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) about frogs and how cells cleave and organise themselves into what they need to be. We made a concept animation thing about self repairing plates much like how newts can regrow lost limbs :)

My favourite part was thinking about mutations and playing with all the crockery. I made a cake stand out of plates and a wineglass. And of course I needed to bake cupcakes to go on it...any excuse to bake cake :D I've always wanted a cake stand and now I can create a makeshift one whenever I may need then take it apart again for easy storage. Eggggs.

You can see our work here and what all the other groups did over here.

Moo and Print&Pattern

I read the Print&Pattern blog and a couple months ish back it mentioned that Moo were having a sticker competition. I entered and was one of the winners :) yaay. So you can buy a sticker book and one of the stickers will be my crocobird. Moo said the winners would get info and a link on their website though and then changed their minds, which is annoying. But yay sticker :) And yay to my sticker being one shown on Print&Pattern.

Muto - wall animation

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

I'm on the innocent smoothies mailing list cuz their smoothies are best and they send out good links...the latest had this link....it's amazing! So much time and effort!

Giles Miller

Previously I posted about Greypants cardboard lampshades...then Stephanie showed me Giles Miller's cardboard work which takes it alittle furthur - working in floral designs. It's lovely but so expensive! I guess it must be alot of work. I'd like to have a go though :) Work in some sillhouettes! Giles Miller is part of Farm...so that's where you can see all his stuff and other lovely stuff.

Richard Burel

I was in Castle Combe's gallery on the bridge when I saw Richard Burels work :) Mmm texture and simplicity...also he lives in Bath I think. And I think these paintings are of Bath. And I love Bath.

From Atoms to Patterns @ Wellcome Collection

I heart the Wellcome collection! It's free AND open till 10pm on a thursday. This is genius! More stuff should be open later in the evening...some people work in the week and don't want to cram in on a saturday!

From Atoms to Patterns is really interesting and beautiful. I love the connection between science and design, and that these designs are representing something real yet just look like beautiful geometric patterns.