Back from London/MK

It's been a brilliant and jam-packed week for me. Weekend at Anna's, just south of London, and three full days of design studio visits (also, still staying at Anna's). There's a few highlights from those studios which I shall blog about this week. I also went home Thursday, 'til this morning, taking my friend Ellinor along with me. That was nice, did a tiny bit of Christmas shopping but loads more to do.

I will, possibly, have a typewriter waiting for me when I go home again in three weeks. Found one in an antique shop in Stony Stratford, just waiting for my dad to go back next weekend and make sure it's actually working!

This sums up a few bits from the week.

1. Fascinated with the tiny letterpress studio, Harrington & Squires. Undoubtedly the highlight of London. So I purchased a book, which they are in, along with loads of other great letterpress work.

2. The panda, along with the book, was purchased in an awesome shop that sold every kind of design magazine, and lots and lots of books. Also, other fun things such as the panda which came flat and you blow it up.

3. I have filled nearly half an A6 sketchbook with train drawings, design studio visit notes and also some ideas and sketches for my branding project. (Need to get a move of with that project…)

4. The ink was purchased in the stupidly expensive Hobby Craft of MK. I need to actually get some rubber stamps to use with it – or make something. All of the stamps in Hobby Craft were either tacky and painful to look at, or over priced. £3.99 for a 1.5cm smiley face? Really?