This was another Spring Summer 2013 Collection called Homespun Blues for Tesco. The buying team there were great at coming up with new themes for each phase of the season, this ditsy floral story allowed Peppa to look pretty, but still lots of fun.

Peppa Mothercare SS13 Collection

I spent last year working with a licensed character company, Blues Clothing. They were a great company to work for, representing some of my favourite kids' characters, so I spent a lot of time and had a lot of fun with Peppa Pig. This was one of my first collections for Mothercare Spring Summer 2013.

Went in search of this little beach dress with my print in Sainsburys, couldn't find it anywhere. They must have sold out, not surprising at that price! Luckily someone at work had already taken this picture. 

Pants!

GAP have a lovely 3 per pack of baby boy pants with my mini mechanic print at the moment. What a joy to think that my drawings done in the studio on Charlotte road will be reaching all those cute little bottoms around the world! Here are the picture from the GAP website, plus the original artwork.

Tropical Sneak Peak

The sunshine was out this week, yeah! Which made designing High Summer 2013 prints a whole lot easier, even if i was stuck indoors. Here's a sneak peek at my tropical designs. I started by looking at some old favorite Raoul Dufy paintings of the Côte d'Azur and the fantastic prints of Brazilian label Neon. I found the photo of the scarf on their blog, although I couldn't see the detail I loved the pastelly shades and the hand drawn feel.

Little Prince

I've been drawing a lot of girl characters and their ugly, lovable little dogs this week. Here's a quick friday doodle of little prince pug.

New illustrations

I really want to make the most of having a little extra time on my hands to do some more illustrations. These I reworked from some of my old sketches, but it made me really keen to do more in this style. Watch this space!

The little cats i did for My Sugar Cube were in store before Christmas.

Found my busy around town print at Sainsbury's. They used it in a sweet pack of 3 boys babysuits - perfect for my nephew!

Spotted some of my summery prints on the peacocks website, cheer up lounging about indoors in these bright colours away from the unsummery weather!

Boys Things!

It's been a long time since I posted anything here, almost exactly 1 year! But I haven't stopped working, just the opposite, i've been busy designing. Stacking up designs, some selling, some not but plenty to post here. A little bit like my squirrel stacking up nuts designed for Autumn/Winter 11, almost there so i think he'll be ok out in the ether just before he hits the shops in the US.

Pick Me Up

A few snaps from the Pick Me Up graphic arts exhibition at Somerset House a couple of weeks back. Starting from the top, is the illustration work of Patrick Gildersleeves. 2nd/3rd picture from top Rob Ryan who moved his studio to the exhibition space for some live paper cutting - exciting stuff! And last pic, on the left geometric inspiration from Melvin Galapon, and right, lettering by Alex Trochut.

Ready, Able

Pushing and squishing the boundaries with plasticine, Allison Schulnik's video for the Grizzly Bear track, Ready, Able is beautiful. More monsters and hobo clowns to be found appearing from Allison's primordial plasticine sludge on her website.

Contact !

A wicked little Japanese printing machine. This lo-fi piece of technology has a cult following with films dedicated to it and an internet campaign to keep it alive, although unfortunately manufacturing stopped in 2008. プリン トゴッコ Print Gocco is a self-contained battery operated screen printer that allows you press off mini-prints. Wiki says the print gocco name derives from the Japanese Gokko loosely translated as make-believe play. The film is from Koleo to a Bridgitte Bardot soundtrack, singing 'contact!'. And artwork on the left by print gocco fans Peskimo, and photo right from Lullatone.

The bookshelves were a photo from an event listed on the dazed digital newsletter about a series of talks on the influence of italian design taking place at the design museum in London. I saw it and just thought - wouldn't that look nice with a matching jumper! Which I quickly found on SupermarketSarah. I really shouldn't be so easily distracted, back to work.

I came very close to buying this lovely print by Roddy and Ginger at the kids modern fair yesterday. I'm still thinking about it, time to raid the piggy bank!

Acid House Rave 89 chandal

Just found this clip early in the morning on you tube, all these people having fun is pretty feel-good and set me up for the day i reckon!

Not long after I finally finished the lacey print I spotted these these tights from Bebaroque at Urban Outfitters, with a similar lace inspiration. The brand is run by 2 young scottish designers doing a great job with this line of bonnie leg wear.