{Weekly Giveaway}: Kristybee Photography

Shall we get straight into it? This week's giveaway is from the talented Kristybee Photography, her gorgeous photos have been very popular around the blogworld, amongst those are Decor8, Creature Comforts & of course the new fan - moi! I just adore the way she captures dreamy, soft light.

The lucky winner will have the choice of any 5x5 or 5x7 prints, go now to check out the full range of choices.

Sorry to bore you with the conditions again, only read if you're new here!

How to Enter? Anyone who leaves a comment on any post during the next 7 days is automatically entered in the draw, starting with this post and ending Saturday the 25th of April at 10am GMT. The winner will be revealed later that day.

Rules: only leave one comment per post please, meaningless comments will also be discarded. To pick the winner, I will first use randome.org to generate a number between 1 to 7 (7 posts a week) and then pick a randome comment within that post. So to maximise your chances you can reply to every post, don't want to miss a post? follow this blog via Blogger, Reader or Bloglovin & these technology will remind you!

Now to last week's winner...

Congratulation Hanako66 !! I will contact you shortly for delivery address :)

xx

I do like Tea

While taking a break from the coursework that is currently taking over my life - it's amazing how in programme coding a little missing "," can make your life so miserable! I discovered the amazinly talented Tabitha behind Tabitha Emma, her illustrations are so beautiful and sweet I wanted to buy her whole shop!

I love her tea themed illustrations the best as I know if I looked at any of her cute cupcake illustrations I'll get hungry ;)

How pretty are these teacups? I am putting this at the top of my wishlist!

I couldn't leave without buying a thing so I bought this sweet little calendar, ONLY $1.50! Shame the other two designs sold out otherwise I would so buy all three! :)

I feel like I need some tea now, and maybe with some cakes ;)

(images from tabidesigns)

Making History

I am getting really excited, I really hope he wins. ( even though I can't vote, even though I live in the UK!)

Just wanted to share some really cool posters on this important day!

Prints & Pattern

For those of you who don't know it yet, I have a massive obsession with prints. I also love the hand draw illustration style at the moment and have also always loved patterns. So guess how happy I was when I found something that combines all three of these!

I adore these beautiful prints at Swallowfield, especially the drawing on vintage text series. Hope you'll like it too!


(images from Here and Here)

Robert Ryan

After discovering the fun tiles at Robert Ryan's Etsy shop (see the previous post), I've decided to have a nose at the creator behind it and it turned out he's multi talented and produce some of the most beautiful paper cuts I have ever seen!

and he does screen prints in the same paper cut style too! Remeber that I am obsessed about prints? The only problem is because he's quite famous (created work for Paul Smith, Vogue ... & being shortlisted for best new shop in Elle Deorations' 2008 British Design Awards), his prints are quite pricy, although if I would afford I would definite bag one or two or until the money is out! Also, check out his blog and Etsy shop.

(image from http://www.misterrob.co.uk/)

For The Love of Prints

For me, the best media of showcasing my favorite design/illustration/painting/photography is prints, it might be a little odd fashioned but I prefer my walls to be plain to bring in more light (so sorry wallpapers) and I prefer the fabric on my furniture to be plain too, but at the same time I love patterns and colours. Quite a contradiction isn't it, so prints are my saviors! Plus, not all designs are available as wallpaper, bedding etc, but you can pretty much always get them as a print!

And I always get excited when I discover a new spot to buy lovely prints! These are some of my favorites from http://www.designsupremo.com/

1. Airport 2. Flamboyant Forrest 3. Falling in Love Poster 4. Public Bath

and I love this one by Present&Correct,

(images from Design Supremo)

Petar Crnokrak - Art & Politics

Peter Crnokrak is a graphics designer currently based in London UK and the founder of The Luxury of Protest. I love the way he uses lots of information/data on his prints and many of which is linked with politics.

Like this print "A_B_ peace & terror etc.", is a geopolitical survey of the 192 member states of the United Nations with regard to the quantitative degree to which each contributes to peace and terror in the world. It is available exclusively to Design Supremo.

This print is my personal favorite, it is formed using the information of the 85+ recorded covers of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and is mapped in relation to the original recordings by the band. You can also read an interview with Peter Crnokrak at Aisle One here.



(images from http://theluxuryofprotest.com/)

Vintage Friday: Kareem Rizk

I decided to start a weekly post on anything that is vintage or has a vintage style.

Why Fridays? Because Friday evenings are my favorite evenings of the week, it's better Sunday evening when I know Monday is just around the corner and it's certainly better than all the other weekday evenings. Friday evenings are the start of the weekends!

(although if one day I ditch my day job for good and just concentrate on the design side, this theory would not stay as I would love everyday just as much!)

Ok, back to today's topic: Kareem Rizk is a collage artist based in Melbourne. I love his work, it's like vintage with a edge.



His prints are available to buy from http://www.ivoteforart.com/ and http://www.shopmoose.com.au/

Daily Cup of Coffee

I want this print! A more healthy alfternative than the real thing, not too sure about its effects but it sure is stylish!

V&A Prints

One of the places to get cheap good quality prints is V&A prints. It is a great place to find retro posters, art deco prints and vintage black and white fashion photography.

The floral prints tend to be the old text book botanical pictures but I found these two "Chinese Wallpaper" prints which I really love!


(images from http://www.vandaprints.com/)