Belvoir Fruit Farms

Absolutely gorgeous hand-lettered packaging for the Belvoir Fruit Farms range of cordials and pressés. The typography, color palette, and slightly worn look of the labels gives this product line a handmade look and feel that's completely sophisticated.

Wall:e keep britain tidy campagin

While working to town the other day I saw a poster about keeping britiain tidy. These have run for several years and never seem to actually work. However when i passed this one I thought it was very clever as its main iamge was of Wall:e of the lastest Disney Pixar film. This means it is kept up to date and also attracts a main targert audience of children. One of the more simple posters are shown below:



When i went to the corrisponding website it had this wall:e idea continuing out the campagin. It had the wall:e logo at the top of the page and even cuddly toy wall:e's to winners of the competitions that were being run. I feel this is a great way to get kids invovled in a serious issue.

Mona Lisa Book covers

There have been a variety of book covers which uses the very famous image of the Mona Lisa in a new twist. Examples are shown below:

The famous cover of New Yorker Magazine depicting Monica Lewinsky as the Mona Lisa (above). This clever and attractive image plays on multiple characteristics of its subject: Monica was known among friends as "Mona," The images of her in the popular press emphasized her mouth and smile (with appropriate innuendo), and in both Monica and Mona there flies the uncertainty of the nature of her relationship with a great celebrity.

New facebook

There has recently been a change in the facebook layout style. I like it however most people really hate it. There are so many groups i keep getting invited to about bring back the new facebook, so why do i like the new one?

I think its is more asthetically pleasing, i find it much easier to find out whats going on, the layout is more simple and coherant to read, and also when ure visiting someone elses profile you dont have to scroll all the way for about 10 mins to there wall cause of the amount of crap applications they have decided to have!

What do you think? old or new?

Food adverts

I am doing my dissertation on food adverts aimed at children and weatehr it has influenced them and has helped cause the growing obesity rate this country is in at the momement. This short video shows a handful of adverts aimed at children and are some i will be studing. What do you think on the topic?

Banned Pepsi advert

I love this advert! I prefer Coca-Cola but I thought the advert was quite amusing.And in all honesty that boy would've made Coca-Cola money so everybody wins!

Stepfod Wives

I dont know if i should be wrtiting this on my blog as its not 'inspirational' and certainly doesnt make me 'tick' in any way, but i ahte to write about it to try and warn people NEVER to see this film! It is soooooooo boring and long its the only film i have walked out in a cinema on and has got to be one of the worst films of all time!!!!!

Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 musical film directed by Baz Luhrmann, based largely on the Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata. It tells the story of a young British poet/writer, Christian, who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge, cabaret actress and courtesan Satine, played by Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman, respectively. It uses the musical setting of the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France. The film was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture and won two: for art direction and costume design. It was shot at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia.

In 2006, Moulin Rouge! ranked twenty-fifth on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals. And i can certainly tell why! This film is heart-wrenching and the design is amazing! No wonder it won an oscar for costume design - fab!

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

While in glasgow i also visited kelvingrove Art Gallery and museum. Kelvingrove’s annual total of one million visits made it in absolute terms the most-visited museum in Scotland, and the sixth most-visited museum in Britain. And i could totally see why!

For generations of people from Glasgow and the surrounding neighbourhoods, it has a deep, personal significance linked with every stage of their lives. Visits to ‘the art galleries’ are highlights of childhood memories; many people did their courting there; parenthood and grandparenthood see the cycle begin again. It is also a stunnning building to look at.

Lucy Skaer

Another artist that grabbed my attention at the gallery in Glasgow was Lucy Skaer.

Skaer's drawings utilise found imagery sourced from photojournalistic reportage. Working on paper - large stretches that in scale resemble unfurled banners, flags or giant scrolls, typically, the main substance of her drawings is graphite to which she adds enamel paint, ink and gold leaf. The paper she works on is often so big she has them laid out on the floor.

By merging photo-orientated images with different forms of patterning, Skaer creates shifting collages that, once distanced from their original source, become open to alternative interpretations. This is what caught my attention, as I was trying to work out what the drawings where. Below are two photos I took of one of her drawings. One is a close up on the other.

Jim Lambie

While in Glasgow I visited the Gallery of Modern Art. The main exhibition that was on was called forever changes and was by an artist called Jim Lambie.


Lambie was born in 1964 in Glasgow, and is a contemporary visual artist. He was shortlisted for the 2005 Turner Prize with an installation called Mental Oyster. Lambie specialises in colourful sculptural installations made from everyday modern materials including pop culture objects, such as posters and album covers, and household accessories. The other trademark theme in his artistic practice is using brightly coloured vinyl tape arranged into patterns around the floor of the gallery space, tracing the shape of the room to reveal the idiosyncrasies of its architecture.


The forever changes exhibition I saw was no different. One of the main art pieces were concreate slabs sticking out of the floor with the side of vinyl covers stuck to them, 100s on each. However although I wasn’t majorly impressed with his art pieces (as I am not a lover of modern art) his designed floor for the gallery was amazing. Below are some pictures of the floors he has created in gallerys around the world.

Edinburgh Castle

I recently went on a two week holiday to Scotland, hence why there hasn’t been posts for a while. I saw many wonderful designs here and the next few posts will be a some of them that I have chosen to put on here.

The main thing I couldn’t ignore while I was in Edinburgh was the magnificant castle. Human habitation of the castle is dated back as far as the 9th century BC. As it stands today though, few of the castle's structures pre-date the Lang Siege of the 16th century, with the notable exception of St. Margarets chapel, the oldest surviving building in Edinburgh, which dates from the early 12th century. The city centre is overlooked by the castle and you can just imagine the history that went on there. The castle is definatly the must see of Edinburgh. Below is a picture of the castle:

As with all castles, Edinburgh's fortress has been a centre of military activity. As an ancient fortress, Edinburgh Castle is one of the few that still has a military garrison, albeit for largely ceremonial and administrative purposes. The New Barrack Block is now home to the official headquarters of the Royal regiment of Scotland and 52 Infantry Brigade, as well as home to the regimental museum of the Royal Scots and Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. The Governor of Edinburgh Castle is Major General David MacDowall, GOC of the British Army's 2nd Division. The Governor of the Castle has always been the head of the Army in Scotland. Direct administration of the castle by the War Office only came to an end in 1923 when the army formally moved to the city's new Redford Barracks. Nevertheless, the Castle continues to have a strong connection with the Army. Sentries still stand watch at the castle gatehouse after opening hours, with responsibility for guarding the Honours of Scotland.

Here are a couple of intresting facts about the castle I found while on a tour of the site and thought might be intresting:

In August 1830, some bones of a child, a fragment of cloth and pieces of wood were discovered in a wall in the Royal Palace. The cloth bore the letter ‘J’. Within 50 years, fertile imaginations had created the myth that the baby born to Mary Queen of Scots in 1566 had been still-born; and that the boy believed to be her son was a surrogate!

In February 1720, 21 pirates, captured in Argyll with their ship Eagle, were thrown into the castle dungeons. They had all previously sailed with one of the most infamous pirate-captains of the Caribbean, Bartholomew ‘Black Bart’ Roberts. Most were ‘hanged by the neck upon the gibbet’ on Leith Sands nine months later.