Letters of note

Avatar, Broadband, Computer, Digital, Email, Fast-Forward, Google, Half-Duplex, Inbox, Jitter, Keypad, Landline, Mobile, Network, Online, Protocol, Query, Remote Access, Speed-Dial, Texting, Universal, Voicemail, Web, Xon/Xoff , Yahoo, WiFi, Zero-Range.

Global communication at your fingertips.

The world is getting smaller and smaller, life is moving faster and faster, dialogue is getting shorter and shorter.

H-BDAY
THNQ
LYSM

Cable, DSL, fiber-optics, powerlines, satellite, wireless.

How pleased I was to discover this while zooming along the information superhighway the other day




Recent graduate Leanne McAllister has been working on a ceramic project to celebrate the art of the hand written letter. Her "A little note to you" installation is just so beautiful.






What a wonderful idea! I love these timeless pieces.
Personalised ceramic letters can be commissioned from Leanne. She is looking for a new studio at present but can be contacted via Thinking Ink.

LOL Leanne, wish U lots of success!



Original link found via Tea for Joy

Alice Tait

Here's some more cheerful London-inspired artwork by Alice Tait. Alice loves drawing and works from one of London's most creative spaces, the Great Western Studios. She boasts an impressive illustration portfolio and client base with names such as the FT, The Guardian, Jamie Oliver, Vogue and Waitrose on her CV. I wouldn't mind a set of these dashing fellows, would you?



A big thanks to Alex at Papergrain for this find!

Old School

Just look at this fab etsy find - a 40-page vintage French workbook made for the French Lycee in New York in the 50/60s. What a fantastic cover! Divine.

Matt Birch

Beautiful images by Sussex-based photographer Matt Birch at Wildwood-Photos.

Simply beautiful

I found two lovely sets of children's books recently. Both are unusual and delightfully illustrated.

The first little collection comes from a small Polish company called Pan Tu Nie Stal (You were not standing here), created by sociologist Justyna Burzyńska and graphic designer Maciej Lebiedowicz. I found their interesting blog and shop via Grainedit a while ago.

Pan Tu Nie Stal have started selling a series of folk books illustrated by Kasia Bogucka. Two books are available at present:

"Grandpa and Grandma lived in harmony" and a poem called "An old lady was sowing poppy seeds".




Both are in Polish, but who cares if you can't read them when they're this beautiful?
The books cost 2 EUR each but the shipping given on their website is expensive (negotiable?). Pan Tu Nie Stal also sell cards, prints, clothes, accessories (great badges) and home ware.

The second small collection of children's books is written and illustrated by Ed Boxall. The four Storm Tree Stories are visual story books 'for anyone, of any age who daydreams'. In each story a seemingly ordinary hobby leads the heroes to extraordinary experiences in the heart of enchanted rural Britain.

The Shell Collector climbs into a shell and climbs to a ’sky full of places to go’.

The Gardener transforms a derelict churchyard into a place of spiritual renewal.


The Birdwatchers fall in love and glide away on the back of a swan.
The Railway Enthusiast travels back to a time ‘when many gods had still not awoken’

Books cost £5 each + PP and are available here.

I love Ed Boxall's illustrations, please take a peek at his website to see more of his wonderful work.

Looking for paint

I went into Montpellier today on the tram to buy a sample pot of paint.

It's really, really hot here at the moment. Montpellier's central Place de la Comédie was almost empty, everybody must have been at the beach.

The shop I was looking for is just past the opera house,


tucked away in the old part of the city.

I love these narrow, winding streets and the shade.
I love these paved pedestrian areas, chic boutiques and cafés.

Of course, the shop was closed for a summer break. No paint and no finished chest of drawers, dommage...

Naive

Wow! Have you seen this book? Have any of you bought a copy?