They Draw, They Cook.

What a lovely website, illustrators submit recipes - such a good idea!

                                                             Date nut bars by Julissa Mora

                                                   Seaworthy saltwater taffy by Katie Daugherty 

                                                                             Espresso Granitas by Nate Padavick 

                                                                                  Dark & Stormy by Nate Padavick

Print & Pattern

I forgot to mention that I was featured on the lovely Print & Pattern blog the other week. You can view the post HERE.

My competition entry to Zizzi's Deliciously Stylish competition is now live, how exciting!

CLICK HERE

Designer spotlight - Helen Dardik

Below are card designs for lagom that can be purchased here.

I absolutely love designer/illustrator Helen Dardik's work. The colours and drawings are beautiful, as well as all the little dotted & lined textures in them. I also love how layered each print is, the closer you look the more you see!

Helen's work can be found on her website here as well as through her lovely blog here.

cute as a button

I love these little handmade brooches by Sara Olmos which can be found here on the teconlene - le petit monde etsy shop. They are so cute and whimsical, might have to purchase myself one - but I love them all so how will I choose which one to buy?

colour picks

2012 calendar round up

from top to bottom: Anke Weckmann/teconlene/loopz

Lotta Nieminen

I absolutely love the work of Helsinki based designer/illustrator Lotta Nieminen. She uses such clean lines but the illustrations don't appear flat at all because of the beautiful textures in each of them. You can view more of her work here.

Whilst I was on my placement at lemon ribbon in the summer I created a few little designs, this was definitely when I realised I want to work for a studio either as an in house designer or a freelancer when I finish uni. It also helped me develop my handwriting as a children's designer, such a great place to do a placement at with such lovely people also!


These are a few of the designs I did...

  

I've also entered Zizzi's Deliciously Stylish II menu design competition and this was my entry, should hear in early 2012 how I've done :)

What I've been getting up to

Seeing as I've decided to create a new blog I thought I'd share some work from my most recent uni project based on a character called 'Phileas Fox'. Here are a few patterns I designed, they still need a little tweaking.