Homes & Interiors Scotland May 2013

I'm launching a new kitchen range at Pulse in May and Home and Interiors Scotland had a sneak peak with one of the prints in their mag this month. You can see all the rest of the prints below and click the links to Folksy to purchase them.

Aprons and tea-towels to follow next week.

 Pass the fork n spoon

  Ready Steady Cook

 Every little helps

  How to boil and egg

  Its alive

  Bish bash bosh

Lovely Jubbly

 Coming Soon

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iAm poster design for theatre Spid

Appearing in West London in April.

Pulse Creative

My Little Ship's Crew recently set off on an adventure to London where they ended up meeting the team behind Pulse and were featured in a little photo shoot. They are now appearing through the Pulse trade fair marketing information. We are having to try and keep their feet on the ground as they are ever so pleased with themselves at the moment.

If you are a stockist interested in seeing the dolls in person or some of my other work then please pop along and see me at Pulse stand LP87 from 12-14 May. Or drop me an email for more information.

Wittertainment Membership

I'm a big fan of the BBC Radio 5 Wittertainment Film Review show with Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode so when they put out a call for people to design a Wittertainment badge that fans of the show could wear to signify their allegiance, I was keen to get involved.

Above and below are a little pack of four badges that I think cinema goers could wear to show their membership of the Wittertainment club and their strict adherence to Code of Conduct. (These are in the same style as the Bond posters I made to celebrate 50 years of Bond at the end of last year.)

ps - and hello to Jason Isaacs

You arrrrr so wonderful

I've designed a new series of loved up cards for Valentines Day. The first cards are from a new range that feature a pirate called 'Bluebeard'. (Which as a name for a series of Valentines cards gives me a dark chuckle.)

I'll upload some of the other designs on here next week but you can see them all on my Etsy(US+World) and Folksy(UK+Europe) sites.

The cards have also been selected by the lovely folks at Poppytalk Handmade for their Love and Weddings themed market which you can see on their site - market.poppytalkhandmade.com. Lots of very cool things by other artists/ designers.

My three favourites from the Poppy Talk Market are:

The brilliant Matte Stephens

The simple and elegant Ella Leach

and the wonderfully named You Sentimental Idiot

Goodnight Desperate Dan

Was sad that the Dandy printed its last copy this month 75 years after it started. I was always more of a Beano child but its a sad end of an era.

You can read more about the end of the Dandy here.

Laybabylay

The lovely people at Laybabylay have included one of my prints in their selection of gifts for a wee bairns room. http://laybabylay.com/wee-little-bairn-revisited

Fruitmarket Christmas Bookmarket

I shall be there on Thursday 6 December.

Moomin v Mormon

Sadly, while the Mormons were cool with our print, the Moomins were not so cheerful and they have asked us to stop making them. Not the way round I would have expected that to go.

My interview with Axis where I talked about the Moomin v Mormon situation has amazingly been picked as one of their 21 highlights for their Twenty First birthday. Congratulations and thank you to all at team Axis.

http://www.axisweb21.org/

Ninja's love a puzzle

Home & Interiors Scotland December 2012

The three kings russian dolls I designed as exclusive products for Folksy are the editors pick of the month in the Winter issue of Home & Interiors Scotland magazine. Can you see them?

I also just got a few more of these wee guys in.

Spacejump

Felix Baumgartner's spacejump as it happened.

Debate

Strange day in the Westend of Glasgow today which ended with a long discussion about religion and evolution spurned on by someone taking offence at the book from our Himptology exhibition. Turned out the guy doesn't believe in Evolution and wanted to discuss. I was quite brain fried after having manned a stall at the art market for 6 hours and despite knowing better launched into it. Eventually I realised that it was probably rather futile on both our behalves but he has taken my card to get in touch so a long debate may now be begun!! Anyone wishing to join in is welcome.

Holy book of HIMP

EDIT: Just tweeted the above to Science and Comedy man Robin Ince who provided some useful links and suggestions for passing to my debater if he does get in touch. Robin's best piece of advise though was probably the most true "these arguments are a waste of time" which I know from making our Godwin's Law projection piece and yet I fear both sides always get drawn in.

In saying that I'm still going to get myself a copy of Peter Atkin's "Creation Revisited" and also Steve Jones "Almost like a Whale". Isn't Twitter great, knowledgeable people to point you in the right directions for further reading.

Zoo stamps

Spotted that Edinburgh Zoo are running a competition to design special stamps to commemorate their 150th birthday but I'm double the allowed age limit.

Winter is coming

Looking out the window and the swirling wind and rain its very clear that the Autumn is clipping by very quickly.

You're a star

Bit of a red, blue and turquoise theme going on around here at the moment! New wee Christmas decorations now in the UK and North America shops.

Happy Halloween

Ann and I always try and decorate the stairwell of our building for Halloween and this year we decided to have a go at some origami bats, pumpkins and skulls. I think our neighbours got a bit of a shock when they got up the next morning to discover an army of paper monsters hanging from invisible thread all the way down the stairs. See the below photos.

I thought people might like to attempt making their own so have tried to draw up the instructions below. If anything is confusing then let me know in the comments below and I'll try to explain.

As well as the origami monsters we also filled a bright orange pumpkin lantern bucket with sweets and left at the bottom step along with a little note inviting our neighbours to help themselves. I also created a set of other  colourful card with vampires, witches, mummy's and other creatures for hanging on the doors.