Sunday 17 February 2013

Hugh's fish fight

Join the campaign to save our seas. An insightful and inspiring documentary series about the effects unsustainable fishing is having on underwater wildlife. In this episode a team of award winning sand sculptors create a healthy and living vision of the sea floor on the beach. Coral is replaced with blooming plants and flowers and ice cream cornets.  Meanwhile Hugh Fearnley gathers an audience from the surrounding beach area and lets them watch as the beautiful scene is destroyed by the heavy metal nets that scour the real sea's floor everyday.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hughs-fish-fight/4od

Monday 4 February 2013

Naïve and Funtastic

Naive and funtastic illustrations by Nate Williams, an illustrator and author with a love for hand lettering, children's illustration and "Naïve art."










http://www.n8w.com/wp/6866

Sunday 3 February 2013

The Circular economy


The Circular economy as apposed to the Linear economy, where make, use and dump is the consumer product life cycle. The Circular economy is a great concept and something really worth thinking about in our throw away culture. If we were to buy into a service rather than a product how would it change the way we think about products as our own?

http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/

Friday 1 February 2013

Colouring, the real family business


The Rosie Flo colouring company evolved through Rosie's endless sessions drawing with her two daughters. Taking instruction from her daughters the various designs for colouring books were created. They drew all types of people: rich and poor, fat and thin etc. The beauty of the company is the simplicity of it. Rosie and her husband, a graphic designer, publish everything in house and their products are printed in the UK on FSC certified paper.
http://www.rosieflo.co.uk/index.htm