21st Century Design Lecture at DJCAD

A little while ago the lovely Kate Pickering got in touch with me to ask me to be part of the 21st Designer lecture program at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Being on the other side of the lecture theatre during my studies at DJCAD from 2003 - 2008 I was really excited to go back and give it a go!

I spoke to 2nd year Design students about my journey since leaving art school, my business and the joys of twitter!

I got some lovely tweets from students attending my talk as well as a few blog posts later on in the day that I've linked to below. Thanks so much to Kate Pickering and Jonathan Baldwin for having me along- and also for inviting me to stay to talk to 4th year textiles students in the afternoon with Angharad McLaren.

Thanks to all of the students who blogged about my talk (If I've missed anyone, drop me a line with your link) Thanks also to Kate for taking the photo above!

Chloe Henderson

Helen Witham

Alison Best

Shonagh Gardiner

Sheila Roussel

Craig Gilroy

Tarka Heath

Rebecca Black

Laura Speirs

Errin Miller

Wing Lam Chan

Brian Davidson

Kristen Neillie

There's still a week left to enter my competition- so make sure you get your comments in before the 9th of March for your chance to win!

DIY Pie in the Post

It's not often you get really good Mail but last week, I did! I got a wee stack of DIY Pie goodies from the lovely Mahala LeMay of Edible/Wearable. I got a fabulous zine, full of lovely pie-themed illustrations, things to make and recipes to try; along with some DIY Pie postcards.

Edible/Wearable are Mahala Lemay and Hilary Grant- who both graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2007. The created DIY Pie for the Maker Faire festival in Newcastle in March this year. I've got a good feeling there may be some pie-shaped fun coming to Dundee in the very near future...fingers crossed!

In the mean time, i'll be giving the Puff-Pastry tips a go!

Jumpers and Jamboree: A Success!

After only a few very busy days of organisation, Jumpers and Jamboree kicked off on Tuesday night with 20 fabulous exhibitors and hoardes of excited visitors! A huge thank-you to all of our exhibitors who showed such an eclectic variety of beautiful and well-made work, and everyone who came along for a peep! My personal highlights included the musical banjo interludes, presenting Jen Collins with her surprise birthday cake and Lauren McCorkindale and Jenni Mackenzie's hilarious beardy banter!




Thank you also to Kokomo's who stopped at nothing to help us in hosting our night and Paddy Stevenson, our photographer for the night, who did a brilliant job capturing the atmosphere of the night. For all of the photos, join the J&J Flickr group.

Jen, Lauren and I were so chuffed with the whole night that we've already talked about having another...so stay tuned for more info!

If you missed Jumpers and Jamboree and would like to read more about the night and how it came about, click here for our illustrated PDF.

crEATe 2009

I'd like to announce an event which I am organising on the 10th of December this year at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. It's called crEATe 2009 and combines my all time two favourite things- Cake and Art! There'll be an open call for submissions for a Cake and Edible sculpture competition, which will be judged by an esteemed panel of "experts!" There'll be prizes for winners, as well as the chance to eat the art! For more information, or if you would like to enter email me or check out the crEATe 2009 Blog.

As well as the cake competition, there'll also be a food themed film showing. Duncan of Jordanstone's Overwhelming Film Night are screening the fantastic "Delicatessen" along with exhibiting their handmade film posters from previous Film Nights. DJCAD's Cooper Gallery will be transformed into a mini Cinema (free popcorn provided, of course!) to complete the night.