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MEGANORMOUS!!! My lovely lady lump is so low now that I can't close my legs anymore when I sit down - it gets in the way of my lap! I'm getting Braxton Hicks and plenty of kicks and I'm wondering how much longer Casper will hang on in there before gracing us with his presence...

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Revelation! Just finished 2 1/4 hrs of yoga this morning (including an hour on the fit ball) and it seems like its eased my bump down just a little - you can't notice too much on the photos, but i can definitely notice in my chest and my lap!

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Dan put the biggest smile on my face ever tonight... Arriving home from Lina's 30th at about midnight, I found he'd been entertaining himself looking up what actually happens on the International Space Station... something I'd wondered about myself, but have to admit never looked into... I have to say this is just totally cute...

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Absolutely no idea who is behind all of this fantastic typographical decoration around Shoreditch, but I love it!

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James Cooper from Dare gets all dolled up at Marketing Week for our fourth viral film.

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You've just got to love this splendid film for Epuron, a wind energy supplier.This TVC won a Gold Lion under the film category in the 54th edition of the Cannes International Advertising Awards.CREDITS:Country: GERMANYAdvertising Agency: NORDPOL+ HAMBURG Director: The Vikings

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Scenes from the first round of nursery decoration...Help sticking the vinyl up courtesy of Crina.Artwork courtesy of Tado, Geneviève Gauckler and Rolito, by Domestic.

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There's not as much movement here as I'd hoped (damn boy won't behave ;-) ) but you can see a little!

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Wondering if my tattoo can stretch any larger? Well, you're in good company because so am I... This is it so far, at 32 weeks...

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Scenes from the Children's Vegetable Display at the Lambeth County Fair in Brockwell Park, just up the road... The turtle got first prize...

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...and is it just me that thinks that being taught how to breastfeed on this knitted wonder is just a little bit kooky?This looks so much like a kids toy that you can almost imagine them in the toy basket... hand-knitted by grandma... or bought from the church féte...Couldn't stop giggling at this brilliant teaching tool, courtesy of Stockwell Community Centre.

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Starring Nicke Bergstrom from FarFar and Flo Heiss from Dare...

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Entitled Cannes Party - Check out Sebs crazy dancefloor moves ;-)

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Every morning I wake up and its just a little bit harder to fit into anything... Im glad my bump is pretty compact and up-front, but my goodness is it getting bigger...Dan made me laugh last night - I was talking about how I couldn't believe we'd made Casper 1/2 and 1/2... and he said "You did the manufacturing, I just did 50% of the design work and I'm sitting back waiting to see the prototype.

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This is the genesis of a great idea - done by the company that build my stroller (thanks mum!). If only they'd expand it so that other people could add their own trips and there was more of a community built around it. Its always a little disappointing when an idea isn't "completed", but left like this - functional but without the killer "app" that would transform it into something really

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This took me so long to write and rewrite - It's just never good/funny/relaxed enough when you're writing about yourself - Every time I rescan this I feel like a knob...

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I spoke at the Online Marketing Show at the Design Centre in Islington last week - and it was perhaps the most shambolic presentation I've ever did.Firstly, though I arrived with an 1/2 hr to spare as requested for technical run-through, the session before me was running late. This meant that the speakers entered the room at the same time as the audience, and with no checks.Secondly, two out of

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Trapped yesterday in this deluge and managed to wreck a pair of shoes, and make it back home, from what is usually 3 minutes away, covered in welts from the hail...All this a week after the longest day of the year - the middle of midsummer...

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Place:The Royal Agricultural Show at Warwick.Reason: To spend some time observing children on the McCain Potato Story bus, before getting started on the site design proper.It reminded me so much of school - the smells, the men wandering around with farm coats and wellies... and with jousting to boot it was a pretty spectacular day trip - just a shame it was dumping down for most of the day...Had

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Heres a great video of my mate Adam showing off his stuff on CBBC

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A wonderful video for the Aussie band The Bumblebeez. Just shows what you can do with a little bit of imagination, and without the usual 5-figure music video budget...

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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!

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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

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

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

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

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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...

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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

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

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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!

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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

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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/

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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...

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

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Absolutely incredible!What a hit this month's She Says was... with around 65 women in attendence, to listen to 4 of the big guns of digital (and offline in the case of Rhona) agencies speak about their tips for success, as well as their biggest mistakes...Firstly Jane (Recollective/Framfab) spoke very openly and frankly about everything from her active attitude to being a mum... a really funny

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Some more magical work from Wieden - for Lurpak.The Bread one just made me druel whilst watching TV...Potato:Bread:Mushroom:

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Can you believe someone has found this and posted it on YouTube? Featuring every true-blue Aussie x-gen's favourite mute bear - Humphrey B...

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SO, a warning to all you pregnant women out there: dont over-exert yourself - pulling a ligament is no laughing matter! Lunchtime in KL and I was feeling something akin to a strain or cramp in my lower abdomen - nothing to write home about, I thought, and continued walking...Cue two hours later, and were sitting outside Maharajalela station and I cant stand up anymore. The pain is spreading up to

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Delicious! So, the only thing that youre not allowed to bring into the hotel in Langkawi is Durian...

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A pic of Nitin and I, taken in his local bar, on the waterfront in Manly...

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Chatting with Brad and Dan at the flat tonight, and the issue of teaching design came up.Dan had a wonderful point - that more and more the designers role is to help identify and navigate different types and themes of information. Although this has always been true to some extent, digital media has made it much more so.So rather than concentrate purely on the visual/layout (often not really even

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Meet Casper (ish)... Sucking his thumb (and kicking relentlessly) at 20 weeks... It really is beginning to feel very real now...

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I've been waiting since YouTube kicked off for someone to post a snippet of Mr Squiggle up there, so that I can finally explain to everyone in the UK what its all about! It was one of my all-time favourite shows as a child - though I'm not sure if I ever actually sent in a squiggle!Its a shame such creative, simple and original storytelling is no longer the staple of kid's tv!

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The little one can hear as of this week, so I've constructed a tummyspeaker on an elasticised belt, with headphone splitters, so that we can listen to the same tracks whilst I have my iPod on on the tube.Unfortunately silver was the only colour I could find a stretchy belt in, big enough to accommodate the bump, but I'll just have to go beyond fashion... :-)If anyone out there wants to buy a "

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As of 9:30am this morning, I've officially got some kind of creature moving around inside me! I've been feeling a kind of weird movement - a fluttery feeling - for about a week (especially when I sit down to eat!) but this morning in the bath I felt a real knock! I've been feeling more knocks all day, especially when I'm lying down on the couch on my side. It's not strong enough for Dan to feel

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Here are the next lot of great baby things I've bought - a friendly walrus, and a great selection of hand-knitted animal puppets from Spitalfields Market...

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is displayed in this huge street mural outside the Wieden and Kennedy offices in London... makes you feel great just to stroll past it...

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Favourites and obsessions can be a great thing, and can spread meme-fire... this necklace is my ABSOLUTE favourite piece of jewellery at the moment. I saw one originally on a friend's young niece at a wedding; and went out and ordered one the following week. since then I've had so many people ask me where its from... so, here you go, its from a great little Shoreditch studio called Tatty Devine.

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I've been hitting the speakers trail this week:Firstly, attending the lasy day of the Wildfire - Flammable thinking event in Brick Lane...secondly seeing Crab speak at an NMK event on the future of digital design...and thirdly, Ale and I ran our 2nd She Says night this week.A week of really interesting (and not so) thinking, and a real energiser for me in the development of She Says as something

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I don't know if I congratulated my family back home enough for taking part in this momentus event! I was at a conference today listening to a talk by the ad team that worked on this and it really brought a tear of pride to my eye!WELL DONE THE JORDANS!!!

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These are 2 adverts for a tuna brand from Thai TV... kinda creepy but appealed to me somehow... their surreal nature reminds me of the WCRS 3 tv ads. I'm really unconvinced that it would make me want to go out and buy a can of tuna, more like go and rent a David Lynch film.

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Found this gem in Private Eye last week. One of the sharpest art-world giggles I've had in a while...

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Well, still 11 days until the big scan! But my bump really is growing at a rate of knots, and I'm looking properly pregnant now... Its been kicking (mostly at dinner times) for about the last 4 days too - real little fluttery kicks! It all seems so alien, and I can't imagine what it's going to be like once it really gets going! It doesn't look an awful lot bigger in the photos, but the change has

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Thought I'd spare a few lines for two of my favourite old men, who have both died recently...KURT VONNEGUT - died at 84 this weekMaster of the time-travelling, fantasy, Sci-Fi universe (and the salacious Sci-Fi paperback under his pseudonym of Kilgore Trout), and author of the most compelling book about the bombing of Dresden - Slaughterhouse 5.He was prolific, filthy, and a true post-linear

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Parliament's collection in the Reichstag is absolutely mindblowing... Jenny Holzer, Anselm Keifer and more... Here are some examples of the work - the greatest of which is the building itself, as transformed by Norman Foster for the opening in the late 90s.Standing solitary, this is an original piece of the old tunnel connecting the Reichstag with the buildings next door - there is a conspiracy

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Berlinertastic!!! Met up with Sean and Claire in Berlin, where they took me to a huge dancehall come pizza parlour/bar... It was swing night and we were surrounded by about 60 people in a sweaty dancing frenzy: from 18 to 80 everyone was cutting their moves on the dancefloor... They sold an artwork of there's a few days later and took me out for brunch at Gorki Park - an amazing Russian Cafe...

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A fantastic collection of rabbits... a great painting done by an American artist (details forthcoming) and a pair of stuffed rabbit toys from the Melbourne artist Beck Wheeler, who I already own a painting by... check out the work and toys for sale through her site!

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I'm going to be following this blog - absolutely brilliant, and check out his "Uncommon Knowledge" design tips. Every one a gem.♥Here's an example:

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for the Guardian newspaper.Simple. Beautiful.Just lovely pieces of design.

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Here are some images of the work I put in the show.The brief was to produce a piece of work that described your journey to London - be it your bus ride into work, or your emotional/physical/metaphysical journey up to this point, where you find yourself in London. Mum - I'll send you the brief later because I know you'll want to read it! I set the brief for the agency without thinking about what I

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Here are some photos from the glue Private View, the exhibition of artworks by staff that Emma and I organise at work every year. This year we had over 300 people at the event: staff, clients, family and friends. Even though I couldn't drink my way through the cocktail list like usual, I had a brilliant time... Big thanks go to Lina from Lime Events for helping us with the event co-ordination...

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Pardon the ever-stretching tattoos!! And being in my knickers! (None of my trousers are comfortable anymore... elastic sides coming up!)It seems hard to believe that there's only 5 and a bit months to go... It should already be hearing through vibrations...

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Here's a picture of my first to splurges for the little one... I was actually quite nervous about buying something for someone that isn't even here yet, but I couldn't resist just doing SOMETHING to make it all seem more real somehow...The toy on the left is handmade and 100% lambswool - and before you say anything let me say one word... DIVERSITY... I want to surround it with as many different

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Here's a great shot of the sprog sucking thumbs... taken at 12 weeks and a day... i'm 16 weeks today so its about double the size now!!! Mum Jordan reckons it must be a girl because looks like me, but i'm not so sure, it seems to be pulling a gesture more remeniscent of Dan :-)

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I've just picked up on this from the Creative Social blog:Following BBH’s win on Axe, John O’Keefe said ‘“A couple of years ago, we might have been at a disadvantage in a pitch like this, simply for lack of having the digital craft skills in-house. We now have that capability, whereupon this, and any other digital pitch for that matter, comes down to the same question that decides any such

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