Lizzie Mary Cullen: Off the Wall!

What a great talk we went to tonight at Creative Networks and this time it wasn't from someone who has been in the industry for many years, it was by an emerging star, Lizzie Mary Cullen. Lizzie is a multi award-winning designer specialising in illustration and graphic design and was described as one of the industry’s ‘leading lights’ by Design Week. Her work has a real Mucha-esque feel to it which we really love especially when it's carried off as well as this!

Image 'Specials' © Lizzie Mary Cullan

Lizzie's First Solo Show at Artefact at the Framers Gallery

All proceeds went to the Big Issue Foundation. Dan Radcliffe (of Harry Potter fame) and John Bird (founder of The Big Issue) were there to show their support. Be sure to check out her joke at 1:14 - it'll have ya in stitches :D

Merry Doodle: 2010 - Blue Hive Agency Christmas Card
Blue Hive needed an Xmas card to generate buzz for their new agency. Lizzie filled a 12m x 3m 'Doodle Wall' in their office with tweeted messages all live on webcam. All this was uploaded to Flickr and in just 3 days they "received thousands of tweets, logged over 2,800 live viewer hours and saw a 632% increase in traffic" to their website. Amazing!

Lizzie drawing for Zizzi, Covent Garden

This stop motion creation of 'Bow Street Zizzi' was filmed over three days. What a beautiful large-scale mural and absolutely stunning to see it being produced start to finish.

We've both been really inspired and it definitely goes to show that you can learn from creative people at every stage in their career, not just the well seasoned professionals (although there's plenty to learn from them too!) A really entertaining night, packed full of funny anecdotes and giggles. Thanks Lizzie!

To see more of Lizzie's work visit her website here:
www.lizziemarycullen.com

Or, if you're into bird seed follow her tweets on twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/LizzieMCullen

RIP Doyald Young

We were very saddened to hear of the passing of Doyald Young, prolific lettering artist and logotype designer. It was by chance that we discovered the news as we were watching a very interesting documentary about him on Lynda.com. In it Doyald was discussing the work of other typographers which he admires, in particular that of Frank Blokland and his foundry the Dutch Type Library. We visited the site and that's when we read that he passed away last month. A great loss to us all.

I only wish we'd been able to meet him in person, but we can remember him through his work and his words. For example, he described his book 'Dangeous Curves' as an attempt ‘to show both emerging and expert designers how, in an age of computer-dominated design, the designer can turn to their very own hands for both inspiration and solution’. This really makes us smile :)

Image taken from the Dutch Type Library - a still from Lynda.com's documentary

A master craftsman and educator who we will continue to learn from. Rest in Peace Doyald and thank you.

Find out more about Doyald Young here:
http://doyaldyoung.com/

We've Joined Vimeo!

That's right! We've got ourselves an account on Vimeo (YouTube's cooler cousin). We thought...well we're on YouTube sharing all our faves, so why not get on Vimeo and share there too!!? So we have.


Head on over and check out our faves. It's so sleek and cool - Oh Vimeo, you're so dreamy!

Hmm, interesting post comparing Vimeo and YouTube:
5 reasons why Youtube is better than Vimeo | Vincent Rozenberg

We think they're BOTH cool :P but what we like about Vimeo is the 'Album' feature. We can organise our video 'likes' into albums and thus find stuff more easily. Niiice :D Ooo Ooo, it says here you can share your albums with a widget! Gonna go play!