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.

moodboard | dreamy hazy

well i'm back from lovely slovenia, it was such a nice break, and i feel pretty refreshed! i booked the rest of this week off work though to get in some serious design homework time, so i'm stuck back in already. it's nice to start again on something fresh though... i'm about to start working on a magazine design for the ipad, and now that i've got my moodboards sorted, i'm pretty excited about it! this is one of the moodboards, it's pretty dreamy and hazy and i kinda love it, possibly my favourite so far! hopefully it won't be long before i'm back to share some pics of slovenia, in the meantime though there are a few over on my instagram.

all images can be found on my pinterest.

moodboard | modern retro

i feel like i'm a bit of a moodboard making machine at the moment. i end up making so many for each design brief i'm given, but i really enjoy the process so i just keep on rolling them out! i'm calling this one modern retro, which sounds a bit silly to me, maybe because i've just said it so many times in my head?! anyway, i'm sticking with it. it's for a branding brief i'm working on at the moment, one of many, they're keeping me busy! i can't get enough of that milkbar typography. there are lots more of my moodboards building up over on my tumblr!

wishlist | christmas

oh hello lovelies - thanks for all your lovely comments on my brighton pics! things have been so so busy since then. i knew this course was going to be a lot of work, but sheeeesh! anyway, i have an evening at home tonight, a little luxury in the run up to christmas, yipeeee. so thought i'd share a few things that went on my christmas list this year...

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*pssst* imogen heath is offering 20% off her cushions at the moment!

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.

wishlist | monki

my favourite shop at the moment = monki. i want all the jumpers.

it's lovely and laid back and cosy and fabulous and really flipping affordable. yes please.

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moodboard | monochrome

there's something about a bit of black and white that i just love at the moment. it's all that gorgeous scandinavian design i keep seeing on pinterest getting to me. nick and i went to ikea last weekend and everything we bought was black, or white, or black and white. completely by accident. oops. i'd much rather add a bit of colour in my own home, but for some things black and white on it's own, well, it's just so hot right now. no? yeah! and it gave me an excuse to practice indesign making this little mood board, it was pretty simple really! the course is going good so far, and i can just tell i'm going to flippin' love it all, yeay! here's to the weekend, food, wine and homework time... hope you have a good one! x

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