back to school...

first day back in the design department after the holidays and back to reality with a new brief!

text in form...

examples of text in design

jewellery

i picked up three books from the oxfam bookshop today...

i deliberately chose subjects i had no interest in so that it wouldn't be so difficult to deface them! i also wanted them to be fairly old...

'the political works of longfellow' 1912

'studies in literature' 1934

'howards end' 1960

(i feel i should read this, maybe i'll just fold it a bit)

toot, toot...

finally back in a surprisingly dry glasgow after a very long 51/2 hour bus journey from the parental home...

my gigantic bag... so big, i could fit in it 

best fiver ever spent

glenshiel had a dusting of snow on the tops

a very wet and flooded loch lomond

click, click, click...

ridiculously excited after discovering the old family DYMO M-6 its such a beast!

vintage dymontage

bookworm...

back down to glasgow tomorrow and back to school on monday!
i've been bookbinding most of the day so that i will have enough sketchbooks to get me through term two...

i find myself thinking of projects past and the story so far...

signs, symbols 

the ethical imagination

forty nine

a wintry walk...

three o' clock in the afternoon and almost dusk

i love skinny birches, 

they're like the super models of our native woodlands!

summer dreams...

i've just discovered this fabulous cooking show on bbc2 one man and his campervan by writer and surfer martin dorey

now, i'm not a happy camper by any means but how lovely to be reminded of blue, summery skies and eating al fresco by the seaside on such a chilly day in january!

i love the idea of cooking potatoes in salt water straight from the sea (why have i never thought of that?!) but on a stormy day like today i don't fancy dipping a bucket into the loch... might wait til june!

bliadhna mhath ur!

happy new year!