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  • Bananas of the World Unite

    The Banana sticker give away has now been declared officially over. Participation was fruitful, and prizes have been shipped smoothie. Congrapeulations to the prize winners! Sophie, queen of vegetable puns, was quick off the mark with her enthusiasm: Natalie points out the truth of the matter. But my all time favorite has to go to…

  • Banana Sticker Give Away!

    I’ve been clearing out my hoards of decorative paper today and stumbled across these BANANA STICKERS! I made them a while ago, and not only are they bananas, but they also fit perfectly on your laptop to light up the magical bananas when you are at working hard at very serious things. One of these…

  • San Francisco Center for the Book

    We held our second e-luminated book workshop at the SFCB this weekend. It was a really lovely and creative group -they experimented with light and switches and made some really beautiful tunnel books in a very short time. We’ll be teaching the same class again in the new year, and will also be teaching a…

  • What’s in the box?

    Oh, you know, folk climbing mountains and holding up a rainbows in a storm of electrostatic discharge. Same old.* *hand made clamshell box with paper cuts, LED lighting, and animated circuitry.

  • Nexmap book hack

    I recently had the absolute pleasure of taking part in a daylong book-hack (a boohackathon?). It was hosted by Nexmap, a San Francisco based arts-tech company who are currently developing a series of hackable journals for schools. I spent the day discussing and making books with an group of creatives, including friend and collaborator Natalie…

  • Journaling

    I’m writing a presentation about “journaling” for a class of high-school students. Here are a list of reasons why I keep journals: to remember things to sketch an idea to make thoughts real to come back to later (sometimes years later!) to explain things to the side of my brain that needs to see and…

  • Animated prints

    They Lay Beneath. The an animated print I am making at Mission Arts Cultural Center. Each animation is made from 18 separated prints of the same block.

  • A skip hop and a jump…

    …across the wee Atlantic pond and I arrived in SAN FRANCISCO! Yes, it is official, today we signed a lease for an apartment: we have moved to the hilly city. So far so brilliantly amazingly vibrant and awesome! Last night we tapped our toes to the gypsy-jazzy-swinging music of Gaucho. They have been playing every…

  • Paper Potentiometer

    What? I know. It is a mouthful, and also known as a pot (as this website points out in jest). Anyway, I made one today (yes *made*). This makes me very happy, because through the process of making a potentiometer, I now know how they actually work (rather than the vague understanding I had before).…

  • Paper Cinema: West

    (photo: Paul Blakemore / Mayfest) A couple of months ago I received one of those emails you always hope for: a message from a producer asking if I’d be interested in working on a project with one of my FAVOURITE theatre companies, Paper Cinema. Of course I promptly agreed, and responded with plenty of superlatives…

  • Sign Poetry

    Whilst we are on the subject of drawing; I met a fascinating artist the other week at the RWA Drawn exhibition. Her name is Kyra Pollitt. Kyra is an artist and sign language interpreter, and she is currently researching at the University of Bristol into ways of representing sign poetry through mark-making. She was hosting a sign…

  • Some sketches with my sister

    A very nice time was had in Madrid with my sister. We ate in many bars and sat in a nice park and sewed blossom on a tree on a sunny spring day.

  • Dibujo Madrid

    Every Tuesday for the past 3 years a group of artists have been curating Dibujo Madrid, an awesome performance-illustration platform in Lavapies, Madrid. The event is simple, take a life drawing class, and instead of drawing still models in the nod, draw performance artists making a weird and wonderful show for 2 hours. It’s based…

  • Folk in Krakow

    I recently attended the International Illustration Research Symposium in Krakow. The symposium is in it’s third year and the focus this time was The Function of Folk (the first year was all about shadow plays, how did I miss that?!). Above is Lotte (who we met at the conference, she was talking about her work),…

  • Paper Connections

    I was in London last week at the V & A at an event for the London Design Week and I met Bare Conductive. Bare Conductive sell conductive ink and maker-kits. It just so happenedned that I was looking for conductive ink the week before, and had already been on their website, so meeting them…

  • The Sketchbook Project

    I have decided to take part in The Sketchbook Project this year. I think it’ll be fun, and really interesting to see what kind of drawings emerge. This weekend I re-bound the lovely little sketchbook with black, blue and orange card. Now I’m ready to go. vroom vroom! (thanks mum for modeling the book for…