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    Glug! London launches its Xmas exhibition with a bang!

    December 18, 2008by laurajb 1 Comment

    The Glug! London event last night was brilliant. Even better, Paul Rayment (wonderful glue illustrator) won with his neon video: more about “All I Want For Christmas Is … on [...]

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    art, design, general brilliantness, glue, London, mates, my press life
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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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    The martians are landing

    September 13, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    I’ve blogged about her before, but Beck Wheeler is just ace. Check out this great little comic strip…

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    art, Australia, general brilliantness, interweb, Uncategorized
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    Is this one of the D&AD creatures reborn?

    August 22, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Seen in the window of a charity shop in sunny Clapham…

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    curiouser, general brilliantness
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    Simon Mancera – brilliant illustrator from Colombia

    August 3, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Check out the work of the brilliant Kevin Simon Mancera. Via Nicky.

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    art, general brilliantness
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    The wonderful world of Joshua Gorchov

    July 29, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Sometimes someone just pops into your inbox that you know has something really special. In my role here I’m inundated with illustrator portfolios every day, but Californian-based artist Joshua’s work [...]

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    art, general brilliantness, life outside work, shopping

    Camberwell Illustration Grad Show – My Fave…

    June 18, 2007by laurajb 1 Comment

    Has to be Hyu Se – a Korean girl.Unfortunately the room was so dark its hard to see her work here, but it was a piece which covered the whole [...]

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    art, design, general brilliantness
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    If I told you that I loved you… would you scratch me on the ear?

    May 13, 2007by laurajb 1 Comment

    Bought this piece from the amazing Australian artist Beck Wheeler, about 2 years ago. Gotta love those rabbits… Buy her stuff here.

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    art, Australia, general brilliantness, shopping
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    Adidas Impossible Story

    May 11, 2007by laurajb Leave a comment

    Great site for Adidas from us here at glue. Our biggest leap ever in terms of really pushing the creative with this client, and an impressive display of illustration skills [...]

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