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these four: clockwise from top left: Beautiful Skin; Laura Kate Draws; Xenia Taler; Wonderful Rubbish

Clockwise L to R: Sally Boyle at From the Wilde; Giniber; Urban Outfitters at Society 6; Sanna Annukka at Radiance

Clockwise L to R: Gothic Crow; Frerk Muller at Shelf; Sally Boyle at From the Wilde; Happy Doodle Land

Magda Piwowar at Beetroot; Toika at Iittala; Donna Wilson at Soma Gallery

Clockwise L to R: Isak; Felt Me Up Designs; Faye Power at From the Wilde; Skinny Laminx

As I’ve been uploading this epic post (of some of my favourite bird designs online) I’ve been listening to the near constant football rattle of a couple of magpies outside. Touch ironic: they’re the only bird i DON’T like. they can’t sing, they can barely fly and they seem to spend most of their time harassing smaller birds and eating their young. talentless bully-boys…

Am very out of flowers, and very into buildings. Here’s a capital collection. So many I don’t quite have the street spirit to list them all here, but you can click on them and they’ll take you to their homes.

Hannah Nunn has kindly tweeted notice of Emerald Faerie’s new website. Awesome work. Just need that castle now…

look what I got! one beautiful graphic print by Graphic Nothing. Simple yet clever, and I love the colourways. Nice guy too. Currently 3 for 2 on his etsy page – you could have a triptych!

Beautiful logos by Bulgarian ‘National Artist’ Stefan Kanchev… I love the Eastern European folk style sensibility you can trace in his style. Thanks Grainedit and Delicious Industries for posting about him!

Handing him a couple of scrappy printouts of my soon-to-be birdhouse decals I asked my friend Jake to come up with some layout ideas for inclusion with the ‘product’. Three days later I am proudly presented with Jake’s ever-individual take on art (and life) lovingly PritStik-ed to two sheets of yellowing scrapbook. From what I could make out, this is a kind of ‘Rocket Man’ shooting out into orbit. Neither of us knew what the bird was ‘about’, although we did have a short but truly pretentious brainstorming sesh about what it could mean, as if it could ever mean anything. Of course, I had first to get over the fact he’d cut up my beautiful bird in order to make this profound art statement, but then art IS a painful and challenging process…Rather a vinyl bird tail than an ear, so let us be thankful  Thank you Jake. I owe you one x

Devil emoticon = Tony Blair

Emoticons: naff, aren’t they? And its so easy for a designer to get sniffy about the primitive graphics (50 seconds in adobe illustrator?). Why is it then that i spent my friday night matching them to celebrities on a skype call to my mum? 

Rob’s my brother. He claims to eat nothing but pizza and curry… in case you were wondering. it makes him feel like a man