Our pram arrives!

All the way from Australia (well, from John Lewis actually, but ordered from Oz).
An absolute demon of a pram, and something extensible enough to last us for the next few years with any luck!
A big thankyou to Mum and Dad for providing me with such stylish mobility!

She Says event #3 going off Grey style!

Brilliant night! The third meeting was held at Grey, at their new offices in Hatton Garden.
We had about 35 women to the event, which was called 'Mini-Battles' as we put together a few topics suggested by SheSays members and invited women in digital to debate them.

• BATTLE 1 – The best creatives are budget aware and have a good understanding of commercial strategy .
Speakers: Deborah Keay – MD at Candi/Lbi vs Liz Sivel – Associate Creative Director at Profero

• BATTLE 2 – Outsourcing production is the way forward in digital.
  
Speakers: Angie Cameron – Senior Consultant at Six and Co vs Rachel Bishop – Producer at glue London

• BATTLE 3 – Media buying constrains creativity.
  
Speakers: Jaime Mclennan – Senior Creative at Profero vs Fiona McKinnon – Group Account Director at Agency Republic

I said V, I said A, I said V-A-N...

A brilliant piece of street art that suddenly appeared yesterday, caught on the way home form work last night...

A present for me from my sister this morning...

Antony singing If "It Be Your Will". Beautiful! Thanks Kip! x

Woah-woah, the bump is getting bigger...

Amazingly though, it seems only in one direction - out the front! This is me, taken this afternoon...

Camberwell Illustration Grad Show - My Fave...

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 wall, consisting of drawings of her family, displayed as a family tree, complete with kinky and very personal comments...

glue Loves London

This Saturday saw the glue annual festival extravaganza kick-off, with a barbeque and hot shoe shuffle at The Green in Clerkenwell, followed by a mad open-top bus mission down Oxford St to the O2 Festival in Hyde Park.



Here we see fine examples of the frivolity - happy husband and Leila "no, really, I think that guys would find this moustache sexy, like they're thinking "Could I be gay?" It's tantalising" Naghashi.


Thanks to Marky (who lent me a collapsible chair) and Dan (who carried it for me) I was able to get through Plan B, CSS, LCD Soundsystem and the amazing stageshow of Daft Punk, even with a baby on board. And although waiting in the queue for the portaloos almost drove me to tears (and pulling pregnancy privileges) we had an incredible day, topped off by a walk through the gaggle of war memorials in the roundabout at the bottom of Hyde Park - a hitherto undiscovered gem of a place.

SHITDISCO pop-up book music video...

WHat can I say? This video rocks bigtime...

3D Super-Vision Extravaganza

This is a beautiful piece of work, designed and directed by Federico Reano and Tomás Peña for the opening of the OFFF Festival in Barcelona.
Put those red/cyan 3D glasses on and be amazed!

what? me? organised?

Over the last week or so, I've been overcome with an irresistible and immovable force - to get ready for little Casper.
As well as tearing the spare room apart at 10pm on a Sunday night, and getting annoyed when Dan has the gaul to keep sitting on the sofa (sorry for that, babe), I found myself this week putting together an Excel spreadsheet of all the things we were going to need to buy before he's born.
And then adding to it. And reshuffling it. Constantly. As if the paper list I had made before wasn't going to do the trick anyway...
I guess it makes me feel more as if something really big is about to happen to me, even if it's not the best use of my years of training ;-)
Weirdly enough, I'm SO not an uncluttered, spreadsheet kinda girl in real life its like finding a new part of myself... Finally organised at 33? You'd better believe it.

The Wonderful World of Nagi Noda

The portfolio site from one of the kookiest, and most intriguing Directors/Art Directors around - Nagi Noda - fresh from Japan.
http://www.uchu-country.com/

my bump at 6 months

I saw my tummy move for the first time last night - my belly button started angling to the left and there was some real visible movement...

glue Private View makes it into Computer Arts

Pity about the poor photograph! Where did my lips go? Thanks to Sam Gilbey for the opportunity to contribute to the article.