My lovely room is up for rent...

Anyone fancy it?
£585 pcm. Bills not included.
5 mins to Finsbury park, 5 mins walk to the beautiful Crouch End. Opposite a really good bar.
Email me if interested in more details. Available from beginning of September .

B3TA.

http://www.b3ta.com/
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Nightmare Clients Part 4. (drink)

This Saturday is V.I.N.T.A.G.E

Haven't been more excited about a girls day
out for a long time, apart from the tea party naturally.
Wayne Hemmingway you beauty. Up Red or Dead,
up British design and up the vintage dresses (OOER)!
I'm going to be snapping up some typography
left, right and centre (justified).*

*TYPE JOKE - GEEK.

watch the video here...pant wettingly exciting.

http://www.vintagebyhemingway.co.uk/

Victoria Bark

Here's my lovely friend Dan and his brilliant dog Snippy. Snippy gave Dan and his girlfriend Becca (pictured with The Snipster below) the idea to open Victoria Bark, a dog grooming and pet supplies store in - Victoria Park! Leaving their design studios behind and replacing marker pens and pads with doggy bones and combs they have taken the big leap of starting their own business. Grand opening this week - I wish them loads of luck and say a big thank you to the three of them for leaving the bottle of bubbles behind the bar at my birthday party.x
give me a job brushing dogs? please!!!

Back to the future photography.

I love this idea so much,

/back-to-the-future/

all (c) Irina Werning 2011

going to try and recreate a pictures with my brother. This is a personal favourite of the two of us that I'd like to remake.

What doe s a Hawaiian BBQ look like?

It looks like a dog in flower garlands, loads of lovely people doing the limbo and a watermelon being thrown off the roof of the house...

Sir Peter Blake

Absolute L.E.G.E.N.D Peter Blake, British contemporary pop artist and designer
(of Sgt. Peppers album cover)...


has been commissioned by Fred Perry to produce a selection of limited edition wares. True to the mass produced ethos of the pop art movement - art for the people, accessible and affordable for everyone. God I love him.

register interest in the products

Nevermind the t-shirts and shoes I WANT THE BUS!

register interest in the products 

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Ah you guys!

My freelance rate just went UP.

ah jesus my eyes!

Here's the old pack design for Walkers SunBites, (remarkable crisps, rubbish branding.) 

This week saw the launch of their new pack, a Frankenstein mishmash of at least three concepts as far as I can tell.

Concept 1: watercolour, lovely sunshiney logo with some mad crisps flying off the edges, could have been a real stand out pack on shelf if only they'd stuck to this singular idea... Nice hand drawn branding too.

Concept 2: Let's integrate the product and ingredient shot and add some quirkiness to our descriptor, again, not very original and considering there's generally only one ingredient - pretty boring, but would nevertheless could have been an adequate move on.

Concept 3: A completely disjointed illustration style to everything else on pack. Generic wheat and butterfly composition. I can picture the brief landing on the designers desk requesting ' a bit from each concept'. Finally being asked to sling a few flashes in each corner - messy and RUBBISH.

(still in my top three crisps though - third only to Doritos and Prawn Cocktail walkers.)

BOOM BOOM CLUB old vic tunnels.

This event is completely sold out because it's so brilliant and was only intended as a short run - it's coming back for another massive bonanza edition later in the summer. In the meantime get on the good ship Bordello which features lots of the same acts and cruises up and down the Thames and is almost, almost as good as BOOM BOOM club.

Shouldn't Laugh...

(click to view)

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=210&t=1017090&mid=19567&i=0&nmt=How

Clare & Oli wedding poem.

Makes me get a lump in my throat just reading it!
(click to read - it's a bit musssshy though!)

Cwazy lips.

launced at Selfridges this week -temp lip tattoos (shudder)

this however is AWESOME.

Narcissus

Whoop. This book arrived this morning, it's so interesting, compiled from your facebook account - it breaks down various chunks of information into beautifully executed statistical graphics. Including a page of thumbnails of every single fb friend, providing a great aidé-memoire for years to come.
I take far too many pictures of Hanna evidently.

https://apps.facebook.com/mysocialmemories/

Story Web is live!

http://www.storybrands.co.uk/index.php
Robin is still META tagging, but the initial site is live, so excited.

Rough development work and choosing a name...
3/4 shrink - (proved too expensive for a start out company - but something certain for the future design)

moved onto PSL with screen printed white, leaving areas of the design clear to see the liquid through.
I hated this name - no idea why it was chosen to look at.

Finally settled on 'Story'...

Using the idea of telling a story through copy on the business cards, back of pack and website.

Naming and strategy by Nik,

Pack design, illustration, branding, website design, visuals, stationary all by me, me, ME!
Robin and our clever coder made artwork and website work beautifully. Good team.

http://www.storybrands.co.uk/index.php