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  • Paper Switches

    Series of paper switches I designed for the second part of the e-luminated paper circuits workshop at SFCB. I used the Silhouette to pre-cut paper samples that students could use in the workshop to learn about some of the possibilities.The sampler as constructed by one of the class participants Spin switch Tab switch Push Switch…

  • e-luminated books part 2

    This weekend we ran part 2 of the e-luminated books workshop at San Francisco Center for the book. This part was focused on interactivity -embedding sensors and switches into books, as wells as designing programs for the Attiny85. It was a lot of fun and will be happening again in June! If you haven’t taken…

  • Circus-y disco e-luminated book

    Quite a long title for a tiny weeny book. This one was rather wonderful to make, and was programmed using a simple Arduino blinky pattern and the teeny-weeny-ATtiny. (so teeeeeeny) Here is the process: All the layers putting the pages together The lighting The control -including wonderful paper battery holder curtsy of Natalie Freed and…

  • 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…

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    Calm before the storm at the Lighthouse

    As I mentioned earlier I am teaching on the Summer Maker Camp at Lighthouse Community Charter School, in Oakland CA. The first 2 weeks of my teaching job at Lighthouse are dedicated to planning, preparing and developing the curriculum for the 5 week program, and we’ve just finished! The most challenging part of the preparation…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Pop-up-delux-extravaganza-eat-your-heart-out.

    Shortly, these little beauts, along with about 20 more, will be stitched into a pop-up-reference book (categorised into 4 types of folds: counter, parallel, V, and shape). I’ll use them to make more wonderful pop-up-mini-theatre-in-your-hands books. If you have seen any of my usual messy-wonky-splodgy-could-have been-made-by-a-five-year-old style of work, you will understand that being so…

  • 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…

  • *Foundation folds in wolves and woods

    I’ve been making some pop-up prototypes. Pop-up engineering has the perfect clever-brain to maker-brain ratio (CB:MB), and it’s illustrating stories with paper, which adds a whole other dimension into the big-amazing-paper-pop-up-pot. Thus far I have LOVED the process. Here are some images from a book I made called “Pop-up Papper (oops!) Mechanics *Foundation folds in…

  • C R A F T P H O R I A

    I’m back from Indian adventures! and thought what could be a good way to catch-up with some wonderfully talented friends, whilst sharing some of the creative inspiration I gathered in India?  Why another craft night of course! This time it was with paper (you can see our previous craft night with gloves here). There were salads and…

  • Sketchbook Project 2012

    So I have sent my sketchbook out the Brooklyn Art Library. How exciting! Here is a little animated gif of the entire sketchbook (view post to see it). It is a whistle stop tour of all the amazing shadows this little beauty throws. NYC please turn of the lights and get ready to cast your torches this way. I…

  • 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…