I’m now back at work and making absolutely no friends at my new office. Mainly because I spend my lunch break doing things like this. It’s a compulsion and I can’t make it stop. Popping into Liberty’s to buy chocolates: Working from home on our MacBook Pros: The news that a job vacancy has come […]
Monthly Archives: February 2013
As part of the continued celebrations of the London Underground’s history, the London Transport Museum is currently exhibiting Poster Art 150 – London Underground’s Greatest Design – a collection of 150 commissioned posters for the Underground. It’s a great exhibition, albeit very narrow and – on a Sunday afternoon – very crowded, although only with […]
Today’s @DesignMuseum #SketchBreak was a real challenge. The task? Draw a phone box – from memory. This is extra hard for us half-breed British people. Here’s what they actually look like: Here’s what I came up with- First I put down a layer of red watercolour- some were a bit more uniform than others: Then, […]
I’m not a big shark fan, but they cropped up a few times this week. I can only suppose that being back at work and being away from my pet goldfish has made me more attracted to other fish this week. Particularly sharks. Firstly, I found this gem on Twitter – @TheAverageShark It’s a shark’s […]
I’ve had a lot of free time on my hands the past 4 months. Unfortunately for Paul (who co-parents the goldfish in the flat) it means I’ve had a lot of free time to Photoshop pictures of our goldfish in improbable situations, and e-mail them to him while he’s trying to work. He might think […]
This post consists of the photos and directions from a walk around some of West London’s abandoned stations. As with the previous from Park to Palace walk, the directions in this walk that are blue are paraphrased from the outstanding book ‘Do Not Alight Here’ by Ben Pedroche. I’ve watered down his directions drastically, as […]
I love the NHS. Really, I do. What’s not to like about free healthcare? Well there is one thing- a hospital in South East London who are just living in another world entirely. Here are some excerpts and sketches from my interactions with them. For legality’s sake, I’ll give them a code name. Let’s call […]
During two weekends in January, TFL and the London Transport museum ran a Steam Train over some of the original sections of the Metropolitan line (and some of what is now the District & Circle lines) to celebrate the 150 year anniversary of what has today become the London Underground. The majority of runs of […]
The Design Museum do a neat thing on Mondays- a lunchtime sketch break! Around noon they (or their guest ‘host’ for the day) post a sketch challenge that you can do in your lunch break, and then post the results using the hash tag #SketchBreak Today’s challenge was as follows: Here’s what I submitted- a […]
Here’s the final bits of the juicy paper fruits. Couldn’t actually decide which way I liked it best, so options are below: A little outline: A little more outline: Fully outlined: Cropped outside:
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