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    Nemesis: The Champions coming to a bad cable channel near you

    December 22, 2008by laurajb 1 Comment

    Oh joy upon joys, relaxing on the couch and suddenly before my eyes one of the maddest and baddest ‘secret organisation’ genre TV shows I’ve ever seen, The Champions. I [...]

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    life outside work
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    All I want for Xmas, Glug! London style

    December 17, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    “More Notworking than Networking”, Glug! is a brilliant organisation set up by old glue compatriot Nick Clemant (he of the inexhaustable font collection). I helped judge the inaugral Xmas competition, [...]

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    design, general brilliantness, glue, my press life
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    Fantastic illustrator – Serge Seidlitz

    December 10, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Wandering the Colombia Rd Christmas market tonight and dropped by Nelly Duff, heady with free mulled wine and cheap cava. Bought some great prints here for presents, but this one [...]

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    art, general brilliantness, shopping
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    FontShuffle – the new iPhone app from FontShop

    December 7, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    This application is perfect for geeking out to. Not entirely useful yet (the app contains a few hundred fonts, but its a bit fiddly to see the full range, and [...]

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    general brilliantness, mobile + location aware
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    D&AD eat your heart out! A real yellow pencil artist…

    November 26, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Jennifer Maestre is a South African artist who uses pencil stubs to create lush organic (and slightly fleshy and vaginal) sculptures. I’ve seen this kind of thing before, the technique [...]

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    art, craft
    Emma and Jo - two of the She Says crew

    Our Inaugral She Says Golden Stiletto Awards

    November 22, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Thanks to Getty Images for a great night – in excess of 200 women at the event, and some incredibly high-quality pieces of work entered for judging. Yasmin (Dare) has [...]

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    advertising, design, general brilliantness, my press life, She Says

    Sprint produces the Now Widget and Now Site…

    November 15, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    And creates one of the funniest pieces of work I’ve seen in a while. The kind of thing that can only be done entertainingly the first time, its made the [...]

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    advertising, general brilliantness, interweb
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    The Decapitator is back!!!

    October 2, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    My favourite secret squirrel, the Shoreditch Decapitaor, is back doing what he does best. This was taken on Great Eastern Street this morning, on the way to work…

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    advertising, general brilliantness, life outside work, London
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    Similacrum Lucida: Yundoo Jung and the kids come to life

    September 18, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Just came across this MOST fabulous artist – Yundoo Jung. Currently living in Korea, he studied here at Central St Martins and Goldsmiths about the same time as I was [...]

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    art, curiouser, general brilliantness

    Gigantic wooden GIF…

    September 15, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Just picked up a headsup on this great piece of work from Designboom… The Wooden Mirror by Daniel Rozin uses 830 square pieces of wood which are hooked up to [...]

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    art, craft, design, general brilliantness, ideas and inventions

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