Archive for July, 2010

25/07/2010

Biscuiteers – “Why send flowers when you can send biscuits?”

The Biscuiteers website is not only anoter great design by the guys and gals at Big Fish, but the concept is fab too!

“Why send flowers when you can send biscuits?”.

What a great idea! If you have a gift to send, why not make it buscuits that your friends and family can enjoy over a nice cuppa Rosie Lee (tea, for those of you not acquaint to cockney rhyming slang!).

However, even I would find it hard to dunk these beauties.

The guys at Biscuiteers can bake up a storm (literally if you wanted) and create biscuits in all shapes, themes and colours.

They have designs such as “Udles of Poodles”, “New kid on the block”, “Green Fingers”, “Flower Power” and so on!

Here are a few pics of their delicious looking biscuits.

So the next time you have a gift to buy, think of the guys at Bisciteers and their lovely treats!

(All images from the Biscuiteers website)

Posted by Tina Webster 25/07/2010

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25/07/2010

Cornishware by T.G. Green & Co.

The good people at Big Fish saw my blog post “Time for tea and cereal” and left a lovely comment. They mentioned that I should take a look at a couple of websites they thought I might like. The first was the Cornishware by T.G. Green & Co site .

Big Fish designed the website and there are some lovely touches to it. Such as the gift service page which uses illustrations to show what pieces of Cornishware you receive in each set. The illustrations are very simple and use minimal amounts of mark making to illustrate the items on sale.

I also love the use of rustic photography in the site as they really place emphasis on the blue’s and creams of the ceramics in the shots.

In conclusions the Cornishware by T.G. Green & Co. website is a great example of design and shows a unique way of using informational graphics in a site too. They also have some lovely ceramics in the range, so be sure to drop by the site soon!

(All images taken from Cornishware by T.G. Green & Co. website)

Posted by Tina Webster 25/07/2010

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24/07/2010

Day & Night by Pixar

As soon as I heard there was going to be a 3rd Toy Story I new I had to see it! So me and Rob went along to the cinema (which was packed BTW) on Wednesday to check it out.

It’s a great film with lots of laughter, some tears, a fantastic cast and great animation.

However I’m not going to blog about Toy Story 3 today, I really want to tell you about Pixar’s short animation at the start of the film, called “Day & Night“.

As soon as we’d watched it we fell in love with the simple tale and concept!

The short story is about 2 characters created in 2D. The background for the whole animation is in black and the characters are “cut out” of this. Inside their bodies is a wonderful 3D word showing the same scene in day and night.

The sunny character is a happy chappie while night is more grumpy and slow to react. When the 2 meet it becomes a battle of “mine’s better that yours” and each character competes to show the best of their time of day.

The concept seems simple when you watch it but is difficult to explain properly so here is a clip of the directors trying to tell us what the tale is about:

In short, if you’re going to see Toy Story 3 then you’re going to see Day & Night! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

(First image taken from the Slash Film website)

Posted by Tina Webster 24/07/2010

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18/07/2010

It never rains but it pours

I illustrated these happy chappies today as I fancied doing a little bit of illustration work. I found the free vector mustaches on TheRantsandRaves website and decided to use them on my rain drops!

Lets hope I haven’t jinxed all this lovely weather where having now!

Posted by Tina Webster 18/07/2010

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17/07/2010

Legs eleven – mail art for July

A sneaky peak at Julys mail art that I sent Helen a few days ago…

This month i’ve been inspired by, yep you guessed it, legs!

Owing to the British isles basking in lovely hot sun shine lately, you cant deny the increased number of legs on show around London town. So this months piece plays on that fact and incorporates 11 lovely legs, along with some bicycle wheels and a bit if felt tip action.

Enjoy!

Posted by Tina Webster 17/07/2010

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11/07/2010

New Twitter background – (if only I could upload it!)

Here is my recent attempts at a new Twitter background for my page. The only problem is I can’t upload it as Twitter is being funny at the moment!  I’ll let you know once it is up!

Posted by Tina Webster 11/07/2010

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10/07/2010

Wicker on wheels

Last weekend I was lucky enough to go along to Goodwood Festival of Speed in deepest darkest Sussex.

The festival is a massive celebration of motorsport history and culture and is one of the greatest in the world.

Owners of racing cars (old and new), bikes, hot rods and anything speedy go along to the 3 day festival and exhibit their pride and joy as well as drive them (at some speed) up the famous “hill climb” in the grounds of Goodwood House. The whole idea is that the spectators can get up close and personal with the cars of their dreams and see them being driven at speed round the circuit.

I saw and heard a lot of cars while I was there but my favorites had to be these little beauties:

My boyfriend, Rob, later told me that they are all Fiat’s from the 50′s and 60′s and I think they are the cutest things ever!

I absolutely love the wicker interiors and the retro paint work and finishes. The pastel colours and chrome set the little cars off a treat and the best bit has to be the anchor emblem on the front of this one:

Posted by Tina Webster 10/07/2010

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