Goodd

Goodd  is a great shop and gallery space in Glasgow that stock my cards. I'm pleased to spot the cards in the photo shoot for their new product directory.

Arts Council Christmas card

My illustration for a Christmas card designed by Intro, for Arts Council England.

Art Attic

A couple of pieces that I made for the Art Attic event held on the 11th December.

Ink on pink sticky-back plastic.

Emma Calder's Moody Days

Emma Calder has started a blog dedicated to her new Moody Days sticker book. Above you can see the front cover and some brilliant early fingerprint designs that were inspiration for the book and animated trailer.

Worth keeping an eye on the blog as she updates it with more work about the project.

Moody Days will be published on 8th March 2010 by Thames and Hudson.

Also check out Miss Louise goes to Paris.

My Shop is Open

I'm pleased to say that my online shop is now up and running. Amongst other things there are packs of my new hand printed Christmas cards. 

Please take a quick look.

Mike Mills / Fireworks

I bought this little publication of firework drawings by Mike Mills a month or so ago from Concrete Hermit and thought this was the right time to show it. Mike Mills says, "I read that fireworks were first used in China in the 12th Century to scare off negative spirits".

All images taken from Nieves, where you will find many fine books.

Stockholm and stripes

Just back from a short break in Stockholm.

Proud of my striped tape collection.

The Hambledon is ten

I was lucky enough to join in with the Hambledon's 10th Birthday celebrations. It was great to see the shop in the flesh as I'd previously only browsed at their wonderful wares via the Robert Ryan illustrated website.

Shots of the balloon clad shop and of my end papers in the book designed by Sandy Suffield to mark the occasion. It can be viewed in full here.

Also, some of my cards are now available online at Minor Mail.

And feeling nostalgic about Glasgow School of Art after watching this.

Numbers

I've always been into numbers and when a date comes along like it has today (09.09.09) I get a bit more excited about it than most other people. I'd been eagerly waiting since 1988 for my Birthday to arrive last year on 08.08.08.

Above is a piece I made for Lisa (Happy Birthday) and my Birthday invite last year.

Slowcoast

On 21 June my friend Nick Hand set off from Bristol on a sponsored bike ride around the coast of Great Britain. He's been making soundslide films along the way of artisans and uploading them on his Slowcoast website.

The images above are taken from Nick's Soundslide interview with Paul Smith. Other personal favourites are of Old Town Outfitters, Bill Bontoft the stick maker, Tilda Swinton's and Mark Cousins' Pilgrimage Film Festival, RS Bowie Bike shop and Aardman animation. But they are all so very inspiring. It's such a worthwhile project, 3707 miles in (and counting) he's raised money and shown us the rich variety of dedicated artisans that populate our coastline.