Fruity

Lovely shapes and colours from Thomas Slater.

It's a jet powered giant bullfrog....gorilla of a rate!

My latest work for Ipswich Building Society involved drawing the typefaces for their ad campaign which is now up on a billboard in Ipswich! It was loads of fun to work on.

A time to sew

Here is the final version of my illustration of sewing items - I loved working on this design!

Beautiful

These beautiful illustrations are by Charlotte Trounce. She has lots of lovely work on her site. I like the bright colours of the jam labels and the characters in the Christmas card. I also like the 2012 olympic themed calendar - working with just two colours.

Orange wrappers

Today I came across a very nice collection of orange (and tomato) wrappers by Rose Reeves, which are particularly inspring for the next project I am going to be working on. See more of them here.

Wedding invitations

This week I've been finishing off designs of a wedding invitation for my best friend from uni. I'll post some pictures of the finished thing once they are back from the printers! This website has lots of lovely wedding invites on it and is always very inspiring.....

2 nice things

1. Wrap magazine. An illustration and design magazine that doubles up as wrapping paper.

2. Beautiful ceramic badges by Min Lee.

Houses

I've just completed an illustration for a mortgage poster for Ipswich Building Society - I really enjoyed drawing lots of different types of houses. Above are three of them!

Ipswich Building Society

Here is some of my recent artwork for Ipswich Building Society....

The Grandma and Grandad are definitely my favourite!

Some nice things

Crispin Finn are a design duo who only produce work in red, white and blue! I always find it a good challenge to work with a limited colour palette. I like the emphasis of using the joke printed on the wooden stick on the ice lolly print - it's a nice reminder of childhood!

I really like these themed posters by Claudia Pearson showing the variety of a certain vegetable. I like the combination of image and text too.

Christmas card

Working on this year's Christmas card. I think it might be something to be with bare trees and birds. I like the shapes the branches make.

Plus I really like this lovely and fun matchbox label, using just 3 colours.

Paris

I would quite like to make a little image inspired by my trip to Paris.

Wedding stationery

Here are the designs I came up with for the printed bits and pieces for our wedding (invites, table numbers, table plan and thank you cards). I am very happy with the final results - we wanted something simple and charming....

Joanna Millington

It's been a while since I blogged but that's because a lot has been happening. I've got married, been to Paris for honeymoon, moved house and studio all at once!

We felt very lucky to have Joanna Millington as our wedding photographer - here are just a few of some of our favourite photos from the day. Joanna did a brilliant job of recording the day, the details and capturing the people and the moments, all in such a beautiful and expressive way. Check out her blog!

Shop windows

I like this drawing by Emma Dibben. I like shop windows, they have a lot of interesting details to look at.

From Fi to you

A month or so ago, a friend asked me to design a label for her to sew on to her handmade Scandinavian inspired gifts. Her site is up and running now, so take a look at the beautiful products she has for sale!

Trees

I also found these illustrations of trees, in an old book. I like the simple shapes and the patterns.