Posts Tagged ‘rob ryan’

Christmas Gift Ideas 2012: 12 Top Kitchenware Designs

Choose from ceramics, oven gloves, sustainable plastic ware, wooden trays and chopping boards made from felled trees of London.

I’ve brought you the best cushions, the best mugs and the best tea towels, and now here is the best of the rest of the homewares I found whilst scouring […]

Christmas Gift Ideas 2012: Top Ten Best Tea Towel Designs

Tea towels: useful objects for the kitchen and handy places on which to display great art. Here's my favourites for the season: including lots with fab lettering!

Like cushions, tea towels provide the perfect surface to showcase artwork: is it any wonder there are so many great designs to choose from? For some reason I seem to […]

Book Review: SuperMarket Sarah Wonder Walls by Sarah Bagner

Sarah Bagner of Supermarket Sarah fame has written an inspirational design book: published by Cico Books and available now.

Sarah Bagner has come up with a killer idea: walls as showcase, as vertical space where things are not just stacked inconsiderately but placed with love to admire. Since 2009 […]

Rob Ryan presents his newspaper SPQR: Senatus Populusque Ryantown

Rob Ryan shares his thought processes and creative ideas in this new quarterly journal, available for just £2.13 on Etsy.

Rob Ryan is masterful at working across disciplines: for example he’s as happy covering the surface of a plate as he is creating a huge hand cut paper artwork for […]

An interview with Illustrator Andy Rementer

Welcome to the zany world of US based illustrator Andy Rementer. A delight to converse with and a talent to be reckoned with, no wonder he's working for all sorts of interesting editorial and advertising clients!

I discovered the colourful and imaginative work of US based Andy Rementer at the Pick Me Up show last year. Since then he’s stayed in touch with me about new […]

University of Brighton Illustration Graduate Show 2011 Review: Fine Techniques

Brighton illustration graduates: the best of the rest! There was so much technical talent on display at this show, plus some interesting installation work on the upper floor. Here it all is. Watch out particularly for Katie Scott, Megan Pearce, Bradley Jay, Sam Ashton, Harry Bloom, Thomas Bird and Tom Duxbury.

You’ve already read about the Collagists and the 80s influenced illustrators right? There was also some exceptional drawing and printmaking at the Brighton Graphic Design and Illustration Graduate Show. Here […]

Kingston University: Illustration and Animation Ba Hons Graduate Show 2011 Review. Animation.

Love animation? Then you'll love this lot: with work from the likes of Sophie Powell, Zach Ellams, Moira Lam and Sean Weston. Feast your eyes on this.

Detail of artwork for The Deptford Mice by Zach Ellams. As for the animation from Kingston, decease I didn’t manage to take much of it in at the exhibition so […]

V&A Illustration Awards 2011 Review

This year's winners included ceramicist Laura Carlin, monochrome collagist Lorenzo Petrantoni and students Mike Redmond and Amelia's Magazine contributor Hannah Simpson. Well done!

Hannah Simpson with her award. Last week I attended the annual V&A Illustration Awards ceremony for the first time on Monday 6th June. Judged by luminaries such as Rob Ryan […]

The ACOFI Book Tour visits Soma Gallery in Bristol

Fiona Hamilton is the brains behind Soma Gallery, a wonderful shop with whom Amelia's Magazine has had a long relationship. I visited as part of my ACOFI Book Tour on Thursday 26th May 2011.

Soma Gallery has been a faithful stockist of Amelia’s Magazine since the early days of its print version, generic so I’ve had a long and lovely relationship with gallery owner […]

Valentines Day: Gifts and Ideas

Valentines Day strikes again! Here's my top tips for lovingly hand crafted gifts, special jewellery and ideas for romantic outings... accompanied with lots of lovely Valentines inspired illustrations.

Illustration by Matilde Sazio “This song is about fucking up against the wall, unhealthy ” Joan Wasser announces to introduce “Hard white wall”, a track from her second album To […]

Scruffy does it: Suzie Winsor presents ‘Beard and Wonderful’

A beard makes a man in the world of Suzie Winsor. We caught up with the illustrator at the opening of her first solo show, ‘Beard and Wonderful’.

Bright city lights of London and 123 Bethnal Green Road by Avril Kelly Vrooosh and we’re in. After a National Express journey from Bristol at 4.10pm we arrived immersed in […]

Paper Magic: Review of the Rob Ryan exhibition at Air Gallery

Beautiful, whimsical and profound – new works from papercut artist Rob Ryan capture the imagination. The Stars Shine All Day Too is on at London’s Air Gallery until 20th November 2010.

London Fashion Week S/S 2011 Party: Tatty Devine

Probably the only Wild West themed jewellery party I’ll ever get to go to, read my review of Tatty Devine’s great night with illustrations from Joana Faria...

Illustration by Joana Faria Nearing the end of fashion week, ed stuff everyone begins to look forward to a little light relief and a break from running from venue to […]

An interview with Laura Terp Hansen of Underwerket Projects, Copenhagen

On Thursday 2nd September 2010 I will be giving a talk about Amelia's Magazine, sustainability and design for activism as part of the Underwerket Projects in Copenhagen. I talk to the driving force behind this project in my Q&A below...

Laura Terp Hansen has kindly invited me over to Copenhagen to talk to her fellow Danish designers, healing so I thought I’d find out a bit more about why she’d […]

Tatty Devine and Supermarket Sarah Launch Party!

Supermarket Sarah joins forces with Tatty Devine at their Brick Lane store in East London, bringing her unique merchandising with her…

Feelin’ hot hot hot… we arrived at the field with a blanket and straw hat, viagra stuff and headed straight to the bar. Queuing for what felt like a life-time […]

Pick Me Up Contemporary Graphic Art Fair at Somerset House: Review

A review of the Pick Me Up exhibition at Somerset House, which featured many of the illustrators that have graced the pages of both Amelia's Magazine and Amelia's Anthology of Illustration.

Hobbs-Press Day 2010-Karen Boyd Now, advice I don’t normally write blogs about high street clothes shops. But I’m gonna break my rule this time. Earlier this week I went along […]

Tatty Devine and Rob Ryan collaborate again!

Florence Massey starts Easter early with Tatty Devine and Rob Ryan's collaborative custom jewellery pieces…

Easter is just around the corner, click and as well as a delightfully lo-oo-ong weekend, it also means plenty of chocolate egg eating and some egg hunting (despite being in […]

London Fashion Week A/W 2010 Catwalk Review: Charlie Le Mindu by Amelia

Read all about the first show of London Fashion Week: Charlie Le Mindu kicks off at Victoria House in Bloomsbury on Friday 19th February. Illustrations by Bex Glover and June Chanpoomidole.

Charlie Le Mindu by Bex Glover And so the circus starts all over again…. in a not particularly auspicious way for little ol’ me, pill as I was nearly run […]

London Art Fair 2010

The London Art Fair 2010 was held from the 13 to the 17th of January 2010 in Islington. Zanny Mellor enjoyed losing herself amongst this annual hustle and bustle of bountiful creativity!

Thomas Allen, view Unreachable, viagra 100mg 2009, adiposity Chromogenic Print, 20 x 24 inches, Courtesy of Foley Gallery I always get rather excited about large art fairs or exhibitions as […]