Tag: design

Inexplicable Emporium

Remember the picture that was propped up against the wall in my Shed? Here it is outside, in the last of the snow, looking rather smart on its nice new easel.

We’re getting ready for a stall at an event in May, which I’ll tell you a bit more about once we’ve received confirmation that we can go ahead! Hopefully we’ll be launching the INEXPLICABLE EMPORIUM there, and this is the sign that we’ll be taking with us!

I’ve been ordering lots of materials and packaging, and doing a bit of product design while I wait for them to arrive.

Hopefully some of the things that I’ve been showing you recently are starting to make a bit more sense now!

I also have all of the ingredients necessary to make some scented candles, to which we’ll be giving thoroughly silly names and descriptions.

The idea is to give the impression of a Victorian-style shop, with a wide range of different products. Obviously the things I’m making are thoroughly anachronistic, but that’s all part of the fun! I’ve been really enjoying writing the copy and designing the labels. I knew my degree in Typography & Graphic Communication would come in useful one day…

British Design Classics

On Friday I did something that I’d never done before – I bought a Special Edition set of stamps at the Post Office!

The series is British Design Classics.

There are ten designs – the Spitfire, mini skirt, Mini (car!), anglepoise lamp, Concorde, the K2 telephone kiosk, Robin Day’s polypropylene chair, Penguin book covers, the London Underground map and the Routemaster bus.

My local Post Office didn’t have any special presentation packs left, so I simply have a sheet of ten first class stamps.

I don’t quite know what to do with them now! They look so lovely all together on their little perforated page that I’m quite reluctant to separate them. And I’m certainly not going to use them to send a letter!

Having said that, I am quite tempted to buy or make some interesting envelopes, and use the stamps to post ten letters to myself…

I’d like to try something along the lines of Harriet Russell’s Envelopes, but I’m not absolutely convinced that all ten would find their way back to me!