So thought i'd put some of my spare time to good use and learn to use my Adana: a small printing press with all the lead type trimmings- it's an awesome machine. Anyway, i thought i'd make some business cards and once i started i couldn't believe how long it took to typeset, print and crop them all. I was at it for nearly 2 days but now i know all my 20 fonts initmatley which is nice. The nice thing about hand printing every one is that you can vary the effect to create really layered typographic images.
Deptford Market-tastic
Found this pretty toothbrush on the market- i cant figure out why i like it- it feels like someones put some effort into it- from around the time when people were starting to be more bothered about design.
Nice logo
On the Bus
So had a fun time running some errands yesterday around London. Went all round and took loads of buses- and i thought i'd blog about my great love of sitting at the front of the bus on the top, especially when it's sunny. I normally hate travelling but when it's sunny and i'm on the front seat i could sit there for hours. The first leg of my journey was made even better when i went up to the top deck to get my front seat and it was totally empty- it was the first time that it ever happened to me- i liked it.
It's a beauty
Quote by the big Micky P: "In the first week of foundation you think you're a feminist, then irony gets the better of you and you're a misoginist."
keep 'em coming.
Making More Stuff
I was on a roll this holiday. Me and my beautiful girfriend had a day together, little money and no transport- we decided to make a stuffed toy thing for our friend Frankie who's birthday it was that day. Went to a charity shop and got this awesome knitted jumper for a couple of quid and hacked it together with some pink fabric eyes and mouth and some cushion filler and 'Billy' was created.
Making Stuff
So i guess this is a retrospective blog- just figured out how to use this thing- expect frequent posts i hope. Anyway i've had this one stored up for a couple of weeks now- it's some compost bins me and my dad made while i was back home- it was really good fun to just be doing something practical and real- uni makes it tricky sometimes to just get some wood and make.. i dunno a compost bin or whatever. It was good fun and satisfying. As was filling this massive raised bed that my dad thought would be a cool thing to have in the garden as a veggie patch. He called the guy who sells soil on the phone and gave him the dimensions and was surprised when 5 and a half tonnes of soil and gravel turned up. So we barralled 4 tonnes of soil into the vegtable patch and the gravel around it and then were dead the next day- good work out.
