Happy Holidays

We're sending out a message of Kooji cheer to all our friends. Happy Holidays everyone :)

Katherine & Johnny XX


Check out previous Kooji Cards from Katherine & Johnny here

Kilo-Ho-Ho-75

We had a fantastic night out last week with the gang from Kilo75: Matt Seward, Monica Tailor, Pawel Dubiel, Dean Vipond and Mohsin Ali. After a delicious meal, some great conversation, lots of Xmas crackers (of which we had most of the prizes) Matt and Monica handed out groovy goody bags containing a moleskine, doodlebook, sharpies and sweeties. Here's to Kilo75 Hurray!


We've promised to have another get together to compare moleskines. Who's gonna have the best cover?

London Design Festival 2009

Well, it's that time again! A whole year has flown by since our last visit to the London Design Festival and despite us insisting that we would never step foot on a National Express coach again, we did (albeit only for the inbound journey - we booked bargain priced train tickets for the journey home though, which was a joy to behold). In true Kooji style we both staggered off the coach, after a brief 4+ hour ride, and treated ourselves to a full English Breakfast at Ponti's an Italian restaurant in Marble Arch. Delicious!

We checked out a few sights during our stay including a trip to Camden Market where we encountered some giant horses.

One of the highlights of this year's festival was emerge 'the debut graphic design graduate showcase of the london design festival' so we stopped by to take a look.

'Science Museum Posters' © Natalie Talbot http://www.piedesign.co.uk/
http://piesdesign.blogspot.com/

'Swagga' © Danielle Mullis http://www.daniellemullis.com/


London poster exhibition - All emerge graduates were asked to produce poster designs working with a brief produced by Pentagram. These posters were then pitched against those of established designers who worked on the same brief for the V&A. The posters celebrate London as the creative capital of the world and are created using only two colours. The results provide an interesting comparison between designers at different stages in their careers.


Emerging graduate portfolios: A selection of links found on business cards and promo material at the exhibition.

Natalie Talbot - http://www.piedesign.co.uk/
http://piesdesign.blogspot.com/
Danielle Mullis - http://www.daniellemullis.com/
Aki Makita - http://makitaaki.blogspot.com/
Lisa Edoff - http://www.edoffdesign.com/
Kristianne Phillips - http://www.kristiannephillips.co.uk/
http://www.kristiannephillips.blogspot.com/
Jack Lee - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacktherabbit
Lucy Brown - http://www.greycaine.com/
Rebekah Burke - http://www.rebekahburke.co.uk/
Richard Carey - http://www.richardcareydesign.co.uk/
J Hannevold - http://www.jhannevold.com/
Tom Lenartowicz - http://www.tom.thrilly.com/
Tom Lovell - http://www.lovelldesign.co.uk/
http://tomlovell.wordpress.com/
Tom Lynch - http://www.tomlynch.co.uk/
David Marsh - http://www.dmarshdesign.co.uk/
Ruth Pearson - http://www.ruthpearson.com/
Daniel Camacho - http://www.dscamacho.com/
Charlie Crook - http://www.charliecrook.com/
Richard Johnson - http://www.rjdesignstudio.co.uk/
Steve Loton - http://www.steveloton.co.uk/
Sarah Prismall - http://sarahprismall.co.uk/
Barbara Ward - http://www.bward.jotta.com/

Drawing Day 2009

We only heard about this by chance today as it was being advertised through redbubble (the site where Dom Palmer, fellow artiste extraordinaire and recent addition to the Kooji Gang, sells his art wares). What a find! We need more events like this and it's always a joy when we come across them. Plus, any excuse to draw for the purpose of uniting with our fellow humans world-wide is as good an excuse as any! The aim is to create 1 million drawings, so we got cracking and here's the result:




As you can see Johnny and I had a My Little Pony theme running throughout, but I can only chalk that down to the small toy sat next to my Mac and our need for inspiration.

Check out the Drawing Day website, Flickr Group, YouTube Channel and FaceBook Group for more details and to see how you can join in with the frivolity :D Drawing Day is an annual event (hurray!) and it lasts all weekend too, so quick! Go get ya pens, pencils, paper, sketch-books and draw! Don't forget to share your drawings online too :)

Free Comic Book Day 2009

It's gotta be one of the best days of the year! Yes! It's 'Free Comic Book Day.' A day when everything is right with the world and we all join hands with our fellow human beings in a joyous celebration of free comics throughout the land. Me, Johnny and Ste got ourselves on over to Travelling Man again this week (after a great night out earlier in the week at the fortnightly Travelling Man Comic Evening) and grabbed ourselves some great free comics. We'll definitely be going again next year! Woot! :D


http://www.freecomicbookday.com

Leeds Art Fair 2009

Leeds Art Fair is an annual event and we made certain we were there again this year to sample the tasty treats on display. This year we came armed with snazzy camera enabled mobile phones so we could take piccies to document the occasion. Check em out:

Image © Kathryn Edwards

I have to just say that I'm being quite biased with this artist (because I'm really into the hand-drawn style at the moment) but I thought this display by Kathryn Edwards was beautiful.

Image © Kathryn Edwards

Image © Kathryn Edwards


Image © Helen Parsley

Here's Johnny checking out Helen Parsley's work. Incredible art and beautifully framed too.

Image © Paula Dunn

Image © Nick Tankard

Image © Nick Tankard

Image © Richard Taylor

We finished off our daily dose of creative inspiration by popping into the Leeds College of Art & Design for their Damien Hirst exhibition: "In a Spin, The Action of the World on Things."

The entry below was written on Wikipedia for Damien Hirst: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst

What Hirst has insightfully observed of his spin-paintings in Life and Death and Damien Hirst is the only comment that needs to be made of his entire oeuvre:

"They're bright and they're zany - but there's fuck all there at the end of the day."

We have to agree with Damien really...

Happy Easter and Eggy Fun from Kooji!

We Love our Mummys

No we've not secretly started an Egyptian Mummy's collection, or begun preparing for this year's Halloween either. We're paying respect to our Mothers in celebration of Mothering Sunday. We Love our Mummys! X