Surface Design Show and the results of my draw.
Hello guys! I'm so constantly busy doing stuff that I can never seem to get round to making a proper blog post. Actually, when I do get round to making blog posts its usually to ramble over design and craft stuff over on my inkdoodles blog. Stuff I am not sure if you guys are interested in or not...
The last week or so has been awfully cold and windy and just generally miserable. I mentioned how I went to Greenwich market on Wednesday and that was a wash because of the weather mainly. But I also went two days to the Surface Design Show to listen to some talks and geek out over materials. You know, fondle some ceramic tiles, feel up some wood paneling, stroke some carpeting. The usual for an architect.
[The talks I went to.]
One of the talks I went to had some presentations by some very interesting designers and artists. What really stuck was the presentation of the designer/inventor of sugru. Sugru is an awesome new material perfect for people who like customising and fixing things.
I wrote a gushing post about sugru on my other blog:
http://inkdoodles.com/inkdoodles/the-future-needs-fixing/
But seriously guys, just click on the photo above and go to the sugru site to see for yourselves. It's still rather expensive in my opinion and the packs are rather small, but it's an amazing invention and it will be great when it becomes cheaper and more readily available.
The other talk I went was even more for designers. It was about the new colour and design trends for 2014 as predicted by mix magazine and global colour. They didn't say anything ground-breaking, most of the trends have been around for a while and we have noticed them. But they summarised and put them in order nicely. And the talk was very inspiring, I thought of all sorts of new ideas I want to try out for my etsy shop as I was listening.
I also made a more detailed post about the trends on my inkdoodles blog:
http://inkdoodles.com/inkdoodles/a-little-peek-at-new-trends/
Also I haven't forgotten that I promised to give one lucky person an outtake from my first multi-colour linoprint. I had set the final date to leave a comment to take place in the draw as the 31st of January. I was rather disappointed by the fact that you obviously didn't really like my print, because only two people commented saying they were interesting in winning it. I feel a bit silly putting only two names in a hat so I will just send out two cards instead. enchanted_jae and hollys_tree thank you so much for taking part! Many many hugs to you! I will send out your cards soon! Can I safely assume you have the same addresses as at Christmas?
The last week or so has been awfully cold and windy and just generally miserable. I mentioned how I went to Greenwich market on Wednesday and that was a wash because of the weather mainly. But I also went two days to the Surface Design Show to listen to some talks and geek out over materials. You know, fondle some ceramic tiles, feel up some wood paneling, stroke some carpeting. The usual for an architect.
[The talks I went to.]
One of the talks I went to had some presentations by some very interesting designers and artists. What really stuck was the presentation of the designer/inventor of sugru. Sugru is an awesome new material perfect for people who like customising and fixing things.
I wrote a gushing post about sugru on my other blog:
http://inkdoodles.com/inkdoodles/the-future-needs-fixing/
But seriously guys, just click on the photo above and go to the sugru site to see for yourselves. It's still rather expensive in my opinion and the packs are rather small, but it's an amazing invention and it will be great when it becomes cheaper and more readily available.
The other talk I went was even more for designers. It was about the new colour and design trends for 2014 as predicted by mix magazine and global colour. They didn't say anything ground-breaking, most of the trends have been around for a while and we have noticed them. But they summarised and put them in order nicely. And the talk was very inspiring, I thought of all sorts of new ideas I want to try out for my etsy shop as I was listening.
I also made a more detailed post about the trends on my inkdoodles blog:
http://inkdoodles.com/inkdoodles/a-little-peek-at-new-trends/
Also I haven't forgotten that I promised to give one lucky person an outtake from my first multi-colour linoprint. I had set the final date to leave a comment to take place in the draw as the 31st of January. I was rather disappointed by the fact that you obviously didn't really like my print, because only two people commented saying they were interesting in winning it. I feel a bit silly putting only two names in a hat so I will just send out two cards instead. enchanted_jae and hollys_tree thank you so much for taking part! Many many hugs to you! I will send out your cards soon! Can I safely assume you have the same addresses as at Christmas?