EMMA BLOCK: JUBILEE TEA AND CAKE LAUNCH

JUBILEE TEA AND CAKE LAUNCH

Friday 31st May 2012

Watermark Books

London Kings Cross Station

(near platform 9 3/4) 

tea, cake & loveliness ♥

The lovely Emma Block will be celebrating the launch of her book Tea And Cake Jubilee style at King's Cross  this Friday 3pm until 10pm. There will be lots of tea and cake, only fitting for such an occasion, gorgeous goodie bags and a chance to treat yourself to a copy of the illustrated book. The event is also on facebook which you can have a look at and also features some of Emma's delightful illustrations. Pop down and have a lovely afternoon ♥ ♥ ♥

Out & About: British Design 1948-2012 at the V&A

Last week I popped along to the V&A to check out their new British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age Exhibition.

It's an "homage to the creative spirit of Britain's design story over the past 60 years. Using the 1948 London ‘Austerity Olympics’ (the scaled-back post war games) as its starting hook, the show's buoyant, can-do attitude echoes the spirit of current Olympic anticipation.

This is the first time the subject of British post-war design and art has been tackled on such a scale. The narrative, bolstered by over 350 objects (250 harvested from the V&A’s archive collection) looks at some of the country's key design innovations, spanning everything from fashion, furniture, fine art, graphic design, photography and ceramics, to architecture and industrial products."

Unfortunately, you're not allowed to take photos while in the exhibition so I'll have to make do with ones borrowed from le interwebs.

On that note, before I continue - I think it's horribly archaic to ban photos from exhibitions these days. SLRs, ok, fine, I can understand because of copying/copyright issues as they are such high res, but tiny digitals and camera phones? Please. This is the age of the internet, of sharing, and the way in which the exhibition staff pounced on me as I got my phone out of my pocket was disgusting. "You can't take photos!!!" they yelled (loudly) "Yes, I know, I'm texting...?" (which I actually was) "Yes, well, you can't take photos in here!" What the actual frog? Seriously. It made me extremely uncomfortable. Most people have blogs or tumblrs these days, and want to post their thoughts on exhibitions etc - it's not 'revenue protection', it's out of touch and it's wrong.

So anyway, the exhibition starts in 1948, just after the war and before the coronation of Elizabeth II and the Festival of Britain. It continues chronologically, depicting most major British design successes in a fairly comprehensible layout.

 Ah, David Bowie. How we love thee.

The punk era section was one of my favourites I think. As was the Factory Records/Hacienda-esque corner, too. Nice originals from Peter Saville for great record covers from New Order and Joy Division.

 Lots of beautiful examples of great British textile designs too - we often forget we were once the world leaders in textile design and manufacturing.

 Some amazingly well preserved Mary Quant and Cecil Beaton dresses.

 V&A British Design 1948-2012 Exhibition Print Collateral by Barnbrook Design - the collage image was enough in itself to make me want to go!

I came out of the exhibition feeling thoroughly proud of this country's design heritage - everything from Grand Theft Auto (yes, a british made game) to Alexander McQueen, Jamie Reid to Concorde - it really makes you think about how much this country has done. I thoroughly recommend spending a couple of hours here. Amazing.

Hello & Domestic Sluttery Postcard Workshop!

Hello crayonettes!!
How are we all? Have you all had a good summer?

We've all been suuuper busy, moving house, new jobs, growing people, graduating etc etc we haven't had a minute to stop! Lots of updates and new work to come soon though - our own Abby is featuring a tutorial in the new Digital Arts mag so grab yourself a copy! And if you haven't seen Company's High Street Edit our lovely Fritha, Natasha and Abby have all been busy illustrating away for the Autumn Winter issue! We'll post pics v soon. its all v exciting!

In the mean time, the Rachsls will be taking part in a Letter writing and Postcard making workshop on Sunday (18th Sept) with the wonderful Domestic Sluttery blog.
We're super excited to share our love of all things hand made so if you're in London this weekend pop along to Handmade London on sunday for creative fun things.  We'll be there all afternoon so come and say hi! Workshops run all day but all the deets are on the website :)

See you there! Have a lovely weekend! xo xo

T&C Meet up in sunny London Town

Last weekend Rachel, Rachel and Fritha met up in sunny London!
We popped along to the New Blood show on Brick Lane to see our Abby's work exhibited among the many wonderful creatives! Lots of inspiring work, we were feeling v motivated about the future of tea and crayons so we made lists and many plans! :)

Photos courtesy of Fritha :)

 

 

(Above - Rachel P, Rachel L, Fritha at the very glam Paddington train station)

We've just set up a brand new mailing list (points to the left) so, send us your deets and we'll send you lots of lovely emails.

Don't forget to follow us on twitter @teaandcrayons - we'll be closing our giveaway when we hit lucky 1000 followers!
xo xo

Outline Editions presents ‘The Joys of Spring’ - An Exhibition

Hey Crayonettes! (That's what I'm going to call all you lovely T&C fans ^.^)

There's an ace new exhibition on in London, starting this friday, that I know lots of you will be interested in. Following its hugely successful winter show, Outline Editions is on a seasonal cheer-up mission, with  a new exhibition of specially commissioned, Spring-themed prints at their buzzing pop-up gallery in Berwick Street, Soho.

The show will include work from some of Britain’s most in-demand image-makers. Anthony Burrill, Kate Moross, Noma Bar, David Foldvari, Beyond The Valley and Klaus Haapaniemi are among the roll call of new-wave graphic artists whose work will be on display.

The gallery, in a former second-hand record store, will be transformed for springtime by the internationally renowned Anthony Burrill, who is creating a bold new design for the front window and interior space.

In addition to the wall art, Outline Editions will be selling a selection of T-shirts, books, plates and other products created by Kate Moross, Anthony Burrill, Supermundane, Emily Forgot and David Foldvari.

 

Kate Moross

 

Beyond The Valley

Berwick Street is a great location, right in the centre of Soho, a great place to be.

‘The Joys of Spring’ runs from 4 March– 9th April 2011, Tuesday to Saturday, 12pm to 6.30pm at 94 Berwick St, London W1F 0QF.

I’ve kindly been invited to go to the Private View on 3rd March (after I’ve had my hair cut; been waiting so long for that damn appointment!) So will take tonnes of photos, if I make it in time! Really exciting, hope I get to meet a couple of the artists. Noma Bar is one of my favourites, I went to one of his talks at a Glug Meet Up and he’s so inspirational:

The folkloric fantasia of fashion-favourite Klaus Haapaniemi (below) are among the highlights of this celebration of graphic art’s new wave.

The temporary gallery is designed by master-sloganeer and all-round graphic god Anthony Burrill:

Specially commissioned limited-edition prints will be available, from £15 to £200, and also available from the online shop at outline-editions.co.uk from 4th March.
Can’t wait! Are any of you guys going to take a visit?

Rachel L x x

We Illustrate - Music

Well! I thought I was being all organized last week when I emailed the girls on Sunday to let them know what my theme would be...and then forgot to post about it all week on here!

So the theme a little backdated is Music! I thought music is a good subject as it is so personal and songs can mean different things to different people and touch them in different sorts of ways. My idea was to illustrate the lyrics of our favorite songs..

Then I started to think what was my favorite song and became a little stuck! I *think* I'm probably going to to go with the Pixies 'Winterlong' and I do love it so..

Anyways, what have you been up to this past week? Sorry I haven't posted much, I know alot of the tea and crayons ladies have been poorly sick recently, myself included.

I did however end up going to London with my mum and we went to basically all the museums! It was great though probably the V&A was my favorite.

We went to the Tate Modern book shop and picked up an issue of Balled Of..look at my proudness as I show off my work to the rest of the shop hehe :)

Sorry for bad quality pics! Taken with my phone although my mum took some better ones xoxo

Ballad Of - Nanny Floff Launch Party

Hello! Fritha here, hope you all had a lovely weekend?

I was off in London town with my mister for the Ballad Of party in Shorditch. I had an apsolute fail regarding pics I'm afraid as my Iphone as no flash and I forgot my camera!

'Ballad Of ' is a magazine that was founded by two 'Northern Art geeks' (Lindsey & Claire) who are based in South London.

They spend their time publishing art they love in their own magazine and online exhibition space for brand new, emerging artists


They are stocked in : RD Franks,Jumbo Records (Leeds), The Tate Modern, Compton News, Selfridges, Harrods (Waterstones), Terrys News Stand, Rococo, Lauries, M2 (Covent Garden), Press Bureau, Magma (Covent Garden), Artswords Bookshop (Shoreditch) & Soho Original.

Tom and I turned up fairly early (after getting a little lost in the rain around Shorditch and trying to located ourselves on my Iphone map hehe). As soon as we turned up Lindsey and Claire greeted us with hugs and a free Nanny Floff cocktail (yum). I thought it might be kind of odd as I had spoken with them quite alot through the Internet but they are just as lovely in real life!

There was a live drawing event featuring the artists Iamanoctopus, Jamie Mills, Sandra Dieckmann, Natsuki Otani,  Murray Somerville & Thomas Bates . I didnt want to disturb them as I am a little in awe of a lot of these artists, but I really wish I had gone and said hello now!

images of Sandra Deikmand and Erd Octo

I did have the lovely Emma Block come up and say hello though and bumped into Stacie Swift both of who's art work I really love, and talk to regularly on twitter. I'm pretty sure there were more peeps there that I might of 'known' but would not recognise them as there twitter avatars are usually illustrations!

I also got to speak to the lovely Be from Ballad Of in person which was ace as I had recently designed her logo and bits and bobs for her website (which is due to go live any day now) and is going to be full of lots of lovely vintage clothes mmmm.

What did you get up to this weekend? xoxo