I drew some letters

Yes, this afternoon I drew some letters. I quite like some of them. This is something I would like to do more. Much, much more.

Woodgrain font, perhaps?

Beer mats

I had the urge to design beer mats, or coasters, after seeing these last week.

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/may/ryan-todds-letterpress-coasters

Let's Hang the Landlord

I don't normally share general music videos on this blog, but this video is pretty fun. And I literally cannot stop listening to The King Blues, as my last.fm chart shows this week. Plus, this song is one of my favourites. So chuffed that they're coming to Falmouth at the end of term, will be a brilliant.

Oh and no offense meant towards my future landlord!

Flickr finds

I seem to have accumulated several Flickr bookmarks on my bookmark bar - things waiting to be blogged!

The first has been bookmarked since this time last week, after attending a lecture by Andy Neal, one of my second year tutors. He talked briefly about his, and other graphic design tutors involvement in the Cornish Lettering Archive. Which is what I will proceed to post here!

Unfortunately their Flickr account hasn't been updated in well over a year but some nice finds anyway. I have many of my own I could add to their collection.

Which brings me to... my new Flickr account. Filled with signs, lettering, typography and trees.

Snufkin

Snufkin is so awesome, Spring doesn't arrive 'til he does.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Snufkin/187281344652265

How long do animals live?

I haven't posted any info graphics for a long time. Normally all the ones I see either just look pretty or are about politics or sports, or something I am not so bothered about learning. However, this one is both simple and informative, everything it should be really.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2011/vintage-infoporn-no-1/

And I like animals, of course. Didn't know a swan lived for so long. Or that a fox lives for less than 10 years. I wonder if this is taking into account road kill... or just general lifespan. Interesting anyway!

Gnomeo and Juliet (at last)

Only two months after it was originally released, I have finally seen Gnomeo and Juliet. And for a mere £2.99 with popcorn and drink as well.

I knew I'd like it simply because it has garden gnomes (duh!) in it but it was seriously brilliant. I'm even going to go as far as to say it's the best animated movie ever (maybe... the Lion King will put up a fight). But that's just me.

They even made clunky terracotta-style noise when they moved. And lookee what you can buy on ebay, although to be honest actual garden gnomes would be a million times better.

I have yet to find actual garden gnomes of the same characters as in the film, although you would think that would be the logical movie memorabilia to sell. And there were some fine characters that would look lovely in my garden.

It's not going to beat Arcade Fire

But this is amazing.

At least the music, not the video quality. Haha.

Just over a month 'til I see Arcade Fire, and I will hopefully see Crazy Arm again sometime... soon - maybe, maybe not.