Summer Nights

We recently created a hand drawn logo for QUAD's Summer Nights Film Festival, which shows classic and contemporary films at fabulous locations throughout Derbyshire on a giant screen. The poster and brochure we created used a beautiful photograph of Calke Abbey by Graham Lucas Commons combined with a long landscape illustration detailing the venues through simple graphics inside the brochure. The brochure rolled out to create a panoramic view and uses warm colours to create the feeling of a balmy summer evening. Tickets for the films are available here, now which film to see...!

Mr Digwell's Gardening Year

We have just received the advance copies of a book we recently provided additional illustrations for. Mr. Digwell was a cartoon featured in the Daily Mirror, offering gardening advice. This book is a mix of the old cartoons (all copyright the Daily Mirror) and our new ones. It was fun to work in a retro cartoon style and the brush pens are all a bit worn out now!

Welcome and Hello!

This morning we installed the latest enhancements at the Children's Emergency department at the Royal Derby. They consisted of a Welcome wall made from various sea themed letters printed in vinyl (my favourite's the jellyfish!), a large hand painted wall divider (see below!), some wayfinding enhancements and a 3D ceiling hanging made up of wooden fish, spades, ice creams and starfish. Once again a lovely project to work on with all the calming sea colours. Great fun to create something 3D too!

Make and Mend out today!

Hurrah! Our book is out today! Packed full of techniques, patterns and projects to help you turn your old clothes and fabrics in to beautiful gifts and items! You can buy your copy here and visit the Make and Mend blog here!

New Enhancements

Yesterday we were back in the Children's Emergency Department in the Royal Derby Hospital painting. We created some enhancements around the new reception area, some of which made us a little peckish...

Make and Mend Progress

We've been rather busy the past few months working on a lot of things we can't reveal quite yet. We can however show you some process work from our book Make and Mend, a guide to recycling clothes and fabric, which is out in the New Year!







Pre-order your copy here!

Christmas is coming!

The December wallpaper is free to download here!