The Berlin Wall : 20 years later

Today Germany is celebrating the 20 years anniversary of the fall of the wall. For this occasion I took part in a competition organised by easyjet where I was ask to illustrate the event. It represents the map of Berlin in the background, the black ribbon embodies the wall being open by two white doves. Above it all I've drawn a flight of birds with through them, the colour of the german flag. Let me know if you like it!

Anorak Competition

I took part in a competition organised by my favourite magazine, Anorak. The brief was to design the magazine cover for the winter issue and it was open to students or recents graduates from all around the world. My design represents a circular grid in the background to illustrate game with snowflakes in some of the boxes (a winter board game!) and on the foreground an army of happy kids all laughing away and saying 'the happy mag for kids'. Even though it's a winter issue, the colours are bright and playful for a celebration of this holiday and festive period of the year. Let me know if you like it!

Second City with Marco Bernardi

Next Saturday Second City is coming back! I've been asked to design the poster again, check out! I've drawn the front of a record shop in Paris called Stereorama, spray painted the pattern from the shutter and stamp the name of our DJ on it. Now we have our own Second City shop! Anyway, last month we had a great time, I am so looking forward to next week!

Birds Embroidered

I have realised some new embroidered samples. Here are a few details of all the types of birds I have been stitching the past few weeks.

Exclusive handprinted fabric

I spent the start of the week printing a new range of fabric with 3 other designers, Iain, Vala and Clemence. The reknown boutique K1 Yarns based in Glasgow and Edimburgh has launched with us an exclusive range of fabric under the name of K1 Cloth. A couple of months ago, we printed for the summer the first collection based around the combination of three colours and three designs. For this autumn collection we hand dyed our fabric with mushroom, grey, and nude tones and screen printed three designs in teals, aubergine and blues.

The fabric will be on sale soon.

Second City

Second City is a club night organised by my friend Lee who asked me to design the flyer for it. Sounds like it's going to be all house and electro games, come and dance with us!

Stereo, sat 5th of september, check it out on myspace or facebook!

New Designers - London

Last month I went to New Designers with my class. It was an amazing week, I met loads of interesting people from companies, universities and schools. They gave me plenty of feedback, advice about my work and I got interest for work and sold a sample. The following week I went to a few interviews resulting with the show and I am now working freelance for an agent/textile studio in London.

I am also getting ready to start in september the Masters at Glasgow School of Art Textiles as Fashion for a year.

Ciara in a dreamland

Photographies illustrated of my final 4th year collection.

femme noire brodee

As you know I haven't posted in sooo long! This is only because I am graduating in a few weeks ( 3 to go now). The work load had been increasing like crazy but it's going well, can't wait to hand in! Also, I kind of want to keep my work as a surprise for the show which is why I am not posting new stuff. However to give you an idea here is one of my sample still to be made into a final piece (print and embroidery with black silk ribbon on calico).

front shop

Maisons et fenetres

This is a drawing of a builing that I did yesterday. It is reversible, you can walk into this maison from top or bottom, look for it in Paris!
Then I transformed it that way,
and maybe it could be come an embroidery that could be like a trim, an edge, une bordure. I am going to embroider it today.

Couple inconnu

Yesterday I embroidered this couple (drawing at the top, embroidery at the bottom) who is the starting point of a story, a narrative for my project. I think the duality that they represent is a current theme in my work that I am going to follow. I still need to cut the circle and stitch it onyo a heavy ticking cotton. voila!

l'homme aux graines

This is the inside of a shop Place D'Aligre in PAris, near Bastille. This little epicerie is amazing, from muesli, pasta, sweets, plants to birds and baskets... You'll find everything. On week ends you can find a huge market, for fruits, food to old stuff, this shop is then even busier. The guys are really friendly, pop by and say hello!

Chaise Longue

The Chaise Longue (not a deck chair, a chaise longue in Francais!) in Paris are scattered around the Canal St Martin during the summer months. Keep going after the cinemas and you'll find a very enjoyable bank. You can grab a drink at one of the cafes, take it with you on the side of the water and enjoy it on your chaise longue. Watch out for the men playing the boules, you don't want to interfere with their game, they would throw you their cochonet! (which is not their baby piglet but the tiny ball in the game!)

Paris Project sketchbook

Those images are from my sketchbooks and my samples that I started to do since january. They are the first drafts for my Paris project that I am currently working on. My themes are people, bikes, patterns, buildings, flee markets amongst other things...