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Making Friday: Colour monster

11 Feb 2019

I’ve been using Colour Pop offcuts to make crazy beasts like this one, just for fun.

Visit our DIY section online, or pop into the shop to get a fab selection of offcuts for your next crafty project.

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1 Apr 2011

Inspired by Ping

Via Friday’s post on Design*Sponge I discovered the work of illustrator Ping Zhu, and I swear, I pored over every drawing in her portfolio. I luff, luff, luff it all. Inspired by some drawings on her blog that used photos from The Sartorialist blog, I pushed the keyboard aside and spent the rest of my …
11 Mar 2014

Sketches in the Sunday Times

While attending the Design Indaba Conference at the end of February, I took notes and sketched each presenter, to remind me of who was who. It’s three days of awesome speakers (amongst themThomas Heatherwick! Stefan Sagmeister! Naoto Fukasawa!) but no matter how brilliant, it can be easy to forget who said what. During the conference, …
3 Aug 2018

Making Friday: Paint swatch collages

I really like to make paint sample card collages and my studio walls are covered with them. I think it’s because the cutting and assembling shapes and proportions causes me to see new ways colours work together and relate to one another. Also, cutting and glueing is super-relaxing work.
24 Jan 2012

There’s pattern everywhere

In this instance, it’s the shadows on the chest of drawers I inherited from my Grandma.

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