A wee reminder that the cards and postcards available in the I like shop are perfect for Valentines. The full range is also available from Lark in Australia which has had a makeover and looks swell!
Folksy also has a great selection of handmade Valentine cards and gifts. There's something for everyone in there. And finally, Present and Correct's Cute As A Button card is a real sweetie.
The A4 Draw may be of interest to illustration fans. A £4 ticket buys the chance to win an original A4 piece of artwork by established artists and graphic design students from South Essex College. There are entries from Rob Ryan, Gemma Correll, Amy Blackwell and many more, all detailed on the The A4 Draw blog.
Funds raised will help the BA (Hons) Graphic Design group to fund their graduate exhibitions this summer at the South Essex College graduate show, New Designers and D&AD New Blood. Tickets are available from The A4 Draw Folksy shop. Winners will be drawn at random in early March.
I've been enjoying the Nostalgia & Retro section of All Tea Towels. Lots of vintage advertising and Ladybird book tea towels.
London 2010: Introduction from stml on Vimeo.
Fans of Patrick Keiller's 1994 film London may be interested in James Bridle's London 2010 project, where he is painstakingly refilming each scene in present day London.
London takes place over the course of a year, you never see the characters and it's shot in static frames. So if you were going to refilm a film it's more manageable than most (still quite an undertaking though). I could watch it over and over again and often wondered where some of the locations are and if they still exist. Now I'm happy. Every shot is collected in a London 2010 Flickr set. To complete the project can anyone help to identify any of these unidentified locations?
Just realised this is the first post of the new year - happy 2010 everyone.
I was thinking about writing some more end of year round-ups, or some new year resolution-type things but changed my mind. Instead here's something that tickled me - Deadly Pretty Things is Bristol skateboarder Jason Hills, who repaints those familiar insipid China figurines as Day of the Dead figures. A great improvement, I'd say.
As is traditional, here's the year in pictures. It was a big, big year. We did loads of travel, most of it in Scotland, and it was all amazing. There's a lot I didn't get a chance to write about, and some of it still unFlickrd (the horror!). But here are some highlights.
January - 2009 was the year of the museum. We went to lots of different ones, up and down the country. First visit of the year was to the Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, the museum that sounds most like a Fall song. This was part of Denny's shipyards where they used to test model boats in a tunnel the length of a football pitch.
February - A cracking visit to Morecambe for a stay in The Midland Hotel.
March - We kept up the classic cafe visits with a trip to Tomasso's in Crow Road, and a visit to Nardini's in Largs which reopened at last.
April - A big Easter holiday to Camber Sands and the south coast. It was amazing. I took about a milliion photos. Of a great holiday the highlight, unanimously chosen was Bekonscot, the world's oldest model village.
May - Went to Newcastle for Thinking Digital and spent a long time taking photos of the stalls in Grainger Market.
June - The annual trip to Drumlanrig Castle, a really beautiful country estate with a great playground and fantastic cafe.
July - A summer holiday driving from Glasgow to John O'Groats, then across to Skye and over to South Uist. This was an amazing trip. It was great to see so much of Scotland from the comfort of a motor home. This is the beach in South Uist which we had all to ourselves. This was as dark as it got in mid-summer, so we were out for hours in the half-light.
August - More trips up north. This time to Fraserburgh and the Moray Coast. One of the highlights was a visit to the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses. This is the lighthouse keeper's spare bedroom.
September - A trip to the Stone Skimming Championships in Easdale, which is an amazing place. A bit like being on another planet. This was one of my very favourite places from 2009.
October - On the way to Rothesay (to visit the Victorian lavvies) we passed through Wemyss Bay station. Designed by the same architect as Glasgow's Central Station it's a complete stunner. How's that for a ticket office?
November - Whitelee Windfarm which was like walking into the future that was promised in an architect's drawing. Happy walkers, at one with nature and huge pieces of industrial machinery.
December - Nothing much happened in December except a lot of snow. Very pretty though.
2010 is already looking like a big one. Here's to another interesting year.
My datadecs arrived in the post today - this year's fabulous Christmas surprise from the Really Interesting Group and Andy Huntington.
Based on the data collected at (L-R) Dopplr, Twitter, last.fm and Flickr, each decoration is tailored to the individual recipient. Anyone not on those particular sites, or on it with private data gets a spectacular sparkly 404 to hang on their tree.
Andy has notes on how the datadecs were made, and other lucky recipients have been Twittering and Flickring their various shapes and sizes.
Like Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet, last year's RIG production it's a post-digital triumph. The internet is great and all, but it's even better when you can hold it in your hand.
I'm hoping to catch up on I like during the holidays, but in case you're heading off - have a very merry Christmas.
[Illustration by the sublime Richard Scarry.]
The I like shop will be open through the holidays, but last orders for Christmas will close tonight at 11pm. Make haste if you want some. They also make great thank you cards.
Photo by davidthedesigner. Thanks David!
Young people working with Fairbridge in Glasgow have created a Classic Cafe Calendar. It features some of my favourites haunts like Boni's, Tomasso's, The Bungalow Cafe, The Queen's Cafe, The Val D'Oro plus others I can't identify (Jaconelli's?). It was all done as part of a photography project, the results of which can also be seen on Flickr.
It costs £9.99 and is available here.
More from I like's Amazon astore
See all
RSS