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Showing posts with label Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration. Show all posts
Saturday, 25 June 2011
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Well I arrived a tad late at Amelia's Compendium Of Fashion Illustration Book Tour at Tatty Devine last night. When I got there the shop windows already had lots of doodles and I was itching to get the Posca pens out. Although I was feeling a little bit flustered from travelling Amelia offered us some lovely mini cup cakes from Cute as a Cup Cake which made me feel a million times better! (No photos of the cup cakes unfortunately but they were good!)
I said hi to Gemma and June and then we went inside as Amelia was going to give a talk.
I found the talk to be really interesting and informative as Amelia spoke about the history of Amelia's Magazine, how it all came together and why she decided to finish it and the importance of the website whilst it was in print and after. I liked how she was also honest about the publishing and business side of it as she stressed although it was a true labour of love but so much hard work from start to finish!
In relation to the previous book and the ACOFI book Amelia also talked about how she uses social media to promote the website and illustrator's who contribute. For instance by making a hash tag on Twitter so people can follow up to the minute news about ACOFI. And she's always up for trying new social network sites such as Pinterest, a virtual pin board where you bookmark and share your images to people/ followers. So also like FFFFOUND and We Heart It. Amelia was saying how she uses Pinterest to pin images in relation to ACOFI from illustrator's websites and else where. Amelia stressed the importance of artists (students and graduates) to have some sort of website/ blog/ Twitter so that people can see your work. Even the smallest things like blogging about the process of your work is important as it shows like a small part of your daily life.
Like myself, and many others, I use Facebook and Twitter a lot to promote my own work and technology and social media has completely changed the way we communicate and interact with one another. We're able to form small communities and network with other artists and obviously you have to spend some time doing it. But once you get into the swing of things by having an online presence you can reach a far greater audience, and potential clients too!
...... and how pretty is the window??? If you're around Covent Garden do pop into the Tatty Devine shop. They have most amazing jewellery like ever!
Lot's of postcards and freebies from Dr. Hauschka. At this point I must have had about 5 cup cakes.
Here's my birdy traingle doodle on the shop window.
For more information and details about ACOFI Book Tour please go here. And why not join in on Twitter using the unique hash tag to follow up ACOFI (apparently one of the illustrator's came up with it!) #ACOFI
Cute as a Cup Cake are also on Twitter too @cuteasacupcakes. Yay!
Last Night at ACOFI Book Tour at Tatty Devine
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Friday, 6 May 2011
Linky Dinks.....
- ACOFI Facebook Event. Or head over to Amelia's Magazine for more detail and lovely photos of the book accompanying the post.
- Amelia's Magazine Facebook page
- Amelia's Magazine on Twitter. You can also follow up to date news (just by doing a search) or tweet about the event using the hash tag #ACOFI. Clever huh?
- Tatty Devine's post about the event can be read here. (Oh and you need to RSVP as to which date you want to attend at admin@tattydevine.com)
See you there on the night!
ACOFI's Book Tour at Tatty Devine in Covent Garden
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Friday, 28 January 2011
Woohooo it's Friday! It's been a bit of a long week... yesterday I was down in Kennington helping out with Gia London with their autumn/winter 2011/2012 look book.
To end the week this evening I'm off to Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration launch party at 123 Bethnal Green Road. For once I'm going to look a bit smart and so I bought an All Saints dress for tonight. Double yay! Looking forward to meeting everyone, swapping business cards of some sort and having a right good old time.
And the final stop for tonight is heading down to Brick Lane for a salt beef bagel (if we're completely intoxicated with beer/ Strongbow for me.......) With mustard of course!
Anyway to get to you in the mood for the weekend have a listen to Flying Lotus can't stop playing this at the moment. He is most awesome.
I'm going to get ready pretty soon because it'll take me freakin' ages...... x
To end the week this evening I'm off to Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration launch party at 123 Bethnal Green Road. For once I'm going to look a bit smart and so I bought an All Saints dress for tonight. Double yay! Looking forward to meeting everyone, swapping business cards of some sort and having a right good old time.
And the final stop for tonight is heading down to Brick Lane for a salt beef bagel (if we're completely intoxicated with beer/ Strongbow for me.......) With mustard of course!
Anyway to get to you in the mood for the weekend have a listen to Flying Lotus can't stop playing this at the moment. He is most awesome.
I'm going to get ready pretty soon because it'll take me freakin' ages...... x
Yay for Friday!
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Wednesday, 19 January 2011
I've been meaning to write up about Amelia's new book it but I've been a tad busy with some small commissions and my day time job.....anyhoo I received my copy of Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration a few weeks ago as I took part in the open design briefs (a big fat woohoo!!!) Along with the book I got a selection of 12 limited edition postcards which I've framed and they're proudly sitting on our Ikea bookshelf!
The open brief was to select an ethical fashion designer so I decided to illustrate Leila Hafzi S/S 2009 Utopia Collection (lots of floaty dresses) and Ciel. I also illustrated some articles to co-inside with London Fashion Week such as Antipodium S/S 2011 and Eun Jeong S/S 2011 collection.
It's a really beautiful book featuring some amazing illustrations. What I love about the book is the variety of styles and how each illustrator has their own individual page. Below are my spreads.
I'll be going along to the launch party on Friday 28th January, I need to buy a new dress for it and I'm most likely going to pop into Selfridges and get someone to do my make up.......! Looking forward to meeting everyone who took part in it i.e. those who use Twitter, though I don't know their faces probably be one of those things where I'll recognise their username!
You can purchase the book on Amelia's Magazine website here and to get the latest news and updates on Twitter you can join in with the live conversation by adding the hash tag #ACOFI . Amelia's Magazine can be found here on Twitter @AmeliasMagazine and be a fan on Facebook by click here.
That's all folks! Hope you're all having a smashing week!
The open brief was to select an ethical fashion designer so I decided to illustrate Leila Hafzi S/S 2009 Utopia Collection (lots of floaty dresses) and Ciel. I also illustrated some articles to co-inside with London Fashion Week such as Antipodium S/S 2011 and Eun Jeong S/S 2011 collection.
It's a really beautiful book featuring some amazing illustrations. What I love about the book is the variety of styles and how each illustrator has their own individual page. Below are my spreads.
I'll be going along to the launch party on Friday 28th January, I need to buy a new dress for it and I'm most likely going to pop into Selfridges and get someone to do my make up.......! Looking forward to meeting everyone who took part in it i.e. those who use Twitter, though I don't know their faces probably be one of those things where I'll recognise their username!
You can purchase the book on Amelia's Magazine website here and to get the latest news and updates on Twitter you can join in with the live conversation by adding the hash tag #ACOFI . Amelia's Magazine can be found here on Twitter @AmeliasMagazine and be a fan on Facebook by click here.
That's all folks! Hope you're all having a smashing week!
Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration
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