Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 November 2014

The things that caught my eye in Reykjavik…

This amazing roundabout sculpture… 
which looked like it was 3D or painted different shades of purple. To our astonishment, it was all one uniform colour and almost flat!!! Only a very slight angle to the surfaces reflected different amounts of light to give this incredible effect. 




This nicely lettered sign… (although this chalk board stuff is getting a bit overdone)


This funny wall art…




This single glove speed dating service… 



These folded and suspended books… 



The shapes in the music hall… 




This organic looking light… 



This colour-grouped window display… 



This cute wall doodle…



This cathedral which looks like a rocket… 


This street stitching… 



This exciting shop frontage… 


This block-head man…  


All this fur… 



This nicely colour-coordinated outfit… 



This lovely cat graphic on their basic range of cat product… 




The Northern Lights… 



These amazing yellow rubber boots by Ilse Jacobsen… 



This view through the streets…



The moon looking really big…

Sunday, 12 October 2014

Things that caught my eye in Vienna…

This hammock in the hotel room…



This doorway…



This tourist attraction…



 This little cherub…



This stomach-churner…



These stripes…



This graph…



This display of real chairs…




This bit of Klimt…



This army of painted wooden toys…



This chair…



This diagram of how the proportions of the body change between baby and adulthood…



This tape word…

Monday, 29 September 2014

Things that caught my eye in Birmingham…

This Hummer Limousine…


The library…


This birdy…



These big chairs…




This street name…



These big chairs again…



This un-misted part of the mirror…



This street-side piano…




This view in Selfridges…



This Lee Bull exhibition…




These eyeballs in a shop…



This plate by Isaac…


Thursday, 20 December 2012

Hello Rob!



Mum and I travelled to London for the day to finish our Christmas shopping, meet Rob Ryan and collect the prize for winning the Christmas Competition.




Naturally, it was incredible to see behind the scenes and meet an artist whose work I've been admiring for years. Rob Ryan, and all the people in his studio, are as lovely as you would expect them to be for being behind such beautiful work. He showed us around his pad, including his yummy studio and cute bedroom. My camera couldn't capture everything with enough quality, but I can confirm his studio looks like this:



There was an enormous, intricate paper cut work in progress…



As Rob showed us around his (occasional) living space, I got a lovely photo of his finished rest room with their (own made) periodic table tiles, which I read about on his blog post a few months ago…


On the train home, mum and I had so much fun looking through all the glorious prizes I'd been presented with! Here are a few…

Desk Calendar
Cushion Cover
Money Box
Note Book
2013 wall calendar
Limited Edition Laser Cut
Limited Edition Screen Print
Signed Book
Tea Towel
Tea Towel
Tea Towel
Book
Ceramic Tile
Ceramic Tile
Tape
Christmas Tape
And lots more!

Aside from all these beautiful items, by far the best part of winning this prize was meeting Rob and his team, seeing his studios, being invited to do work experience, and getting a massive hug accompanied by a mouthful of fluffy hair. I do hope we meet again.