nice pins

Pinterest is my fave, it's always been my fave. But when I was studying I used it so much for design inspiration and research that it sort of just became a big collection of design homework and I had little time for pinning everything else. It's been nice since I graduated to just use it to pin, collect and share all things that I think are wonderful and beautiful. Here are some things which I've pinned recently that I thought I'd share with you all...

1 | Lovely hand painted type by The Weaver House.
2 | 'My Daughter Kanna' by Japanese photographer Toyokazu Nagano. I cannot get over how adorable and hilarious this girl is. I want one.
3 | Talking of Japan, Claire & Dave's photos of their holiday there have been making me want to go back so much, times a million.
4 | Love this photo by Monica Moraru.
5 | I may have seven zillion of them already, but this striped tee from Zara looks pretty perfect.
6 | Love this branding inspiration moodboard by Cassie of The Veda House.

Maybe I'll make this a regular feature? Obviously I'd have to start blogging a bit more often to make it regular, ha... but you never know! You can follow me on pinterest here.

hello it's you

just popping by to introduce a new collaboration with my lovely friend claire - a tumblr called hello it's you, filled with photographs by us. a new colour every fortnight... i hope you like it! as any of my friends will tell you, i looove taking photos, as does claire. so this is quite a fun little project, and a very easy way to stay creative day to day. claire and i met on our first day of uni and we lived together for several years in nottingham and then london. but now she lives in sydney, which sucks, so this is a nice little way to stay in touch a bit more too. yeay!

you can check out claire's blog here, where she posts beautiful photos, cute diys and wonderful stop motion videos.

designer | mathilde nivet

I've been doing some research into paper cut design for a project i'm working on in college, and have found some seriously talented designers along the way. Like, woah. And I've just discovered the work of parisian designer mathilde nivet, whose work particularly stood out to me. Ohmigosh, it's so amazing, and it's so so gorgeous, don't you think? I reeeally love her style! It's the end of a lovely birthday weekend, and think it's about time I get on with my work and maybe even get my craft knives out! 

designer | lisa hedge

i'm doing the usual sunday night homework thing, and just stumbled upon the lovely design work of lisa hedge. urm, she has theee most beautiful, varied and amazing portfolio. i pretty much love it all. soooo much awesome design, check out loads more here.

moodboard | sittin' in the morning sun...

...i'll be sittin' when the evening comes - otis redding. a mood board i made for a project i'm working on at college. it's got me dreaming of turquoise sea and high summer. le sigh.

all images here.

collection

Well, i've started my graphic design course. One week down and i'm loving it already. I can't wait to get properly stuck in. My dining table in my teeny flat is looking slightly more desk like now that it has an actual imac on it, eeeee! And I've washi taped some loveliness onto the wall next to it for a bit of colour and inspiration whilst I do my homework. It will probably take over the entire wall in a few months! I sort of accidentally made those little striped paintings last week when i was testing colours for actual paintings, but I kinda liked them so I cut them out and stuck them up.

Sorry about the crappo photo.