BIG FUN!

I don't want to bore all you sweaty office workers out there with the whole story...But I will tell you that Barcelona and Sonar smashed it. The sun, the sea, the music, the company, the food have left me smiling for a good few months. Goldfrapp, Madness, Diplo, Justice and the rest... and my new favourite DJ- DJ Kawazaki. Just when we thought the party was over on Saturday morning, he got all us dregs dancing like fresh little bunnies. Zoe has the magic camera with all the beautiful photos, so for now, I am just going to post my two best phone pics. Trust me, the gorilla man is not someone you want following you round and jumping out at you every two seconds when you are feeling sketchy! SUCH an amazing holiday and hopefully...The start of a good summer, including lots of BIG FUN work too. I am ready for anything!

Vice- Mexican Issue

Apparently our Nike piece scared Vice. Shame it didn't quite make the 'Don'ts' page. Ho-hum, maybe next time.

Nike 'Art of Football' Basel

Well what a jet-setting week last week was! I was flown from my (well deserved) holiday in Sicily to meet Anna in Basel, Switzerland where our 'Just for Kicks' piece was being exhibited. It was shortlisted out of the thousands of entries along with 10 others. Great to meet Penny and Paul from ShowStudio and some of the other artists taking part such as: Ewan Spencer, Patrik Söderstam (winner! : ) ), Danielle Mudd, Oskar & Ewan and last but by no means least Brian Sweeney (thanks for the photo!) The opening night was a lot of drunken fun. Luckily we were put up at the most beautiful hotel in Zurich, the Dolder Grand and had the spa with its outdoor hot-tubs, saunas, snow room (!?!?!) naked relaxation rooms, steam rooms, thermal stone batch, swimming pools etc to help us recover. I won't even mention the six-thousand jet shower and amazing toiletries...Not sure about £10 bagels though. Only joking. Nice one Nike, you did us proud.

Random Phone Flicks

The biggest trainers EVER in the world in Spitalfields Market. Found whilst pottering and perusing wonderful objects for our current project.



The wacky rainbow house viewable from Streatham Hill station. Although I was cursing Katie and Jonny for moving to the furthest place possible from me, I did delight in this pretty (badly) painted house on my sleepy journey home one Sunday.



Tufnell Park's most up-to-date printing shop. You NEVER find classic vinyl window graphics like this anymore. Get me some now.



A lighters-in-air moment during the Feist gig at the Royal Albert Hall recently. What a shining ray of lovely starry light she is. Her recorded stuff is nothing on the real thing. Amazing.



Last but not least, the graduate Freerange shows began at the Truman Brewery a couple of weeks ago. Thursday nights during the summer see thousands of thirsty (for the art of course) people head to Brick Lane to check out the fresh emerging talent from art and design courses across the country. Well done to all the Brightonians graduating this year. Their show 'Into the Woods' was a smasher. Props to Ness for all her amazing hard work organising it all and to everyone that helped her. Brighton pulled it-off yet again! This guy was obviously enjoying himself no-end, cotching on the pavement, in the rain, half-naked. Oh and we saw David Rodigan perform live that night too...What a night.

Art of Football

Yep there is more!
Lauren and I have been chosen to show our piece at the Art of Football show in Basel. We are being flown out next week for the privet view. We are really looking forward to it!! So if anyone is in Switzerland and wants to come send us an email...

Nike Live Drawing

We came, we drew and we WON!!!!!!
Yep who would have thought it. WE WON!!!

An ice creamy football delight. Glitter is the way forward for sure. What a good fun week all thanks to our mates at Nike.

Dazed and Confused Feature.

Pick up your copy of Dazed this month and check out the little feature they have done on Jiggery Pokery in conjunction with the Nike 'Art of Football' project. Thanks for the beautiful 'work in progress' photograph by Will Robson-Scott. They also got us to design a Jiggery Pokery pair of kicks (pictured) which will be delivered to our doorsteps very soon. Result!





As soon as we have some pics of the monster we created for the Live Drawing battle in Nike Town we will put them up too.

Call me 'No Blogs'

Jamie Jongo's painty room of fun. We had to borrow his shoes to then change it from Francis Bacon-esque studio to a photography studio. We got busy with diamonds, New Era and old skool Transformer wrapping paper to create a flyer for a friend's night at Corsica Studio on 26th June. Tis gonna be heavy. Watch this space for pictures.



Since then we have been working with the lovely Chrissie Macdonald from the Peepshow Collective on a very exciting project that I will post more up about when it comes out. Getting busy in our temporary studio near Brick Lane also includes making quick felt headbands and making our legs into hotdogs.



I just got back from Brighton where I have spent the weekend, sorting stuff my other house-full of junk out and generally trying (unsuccessfully) to switch off. I am pretty sad that Annie is finishing up in Brighton now- it is the end of a very happy era. On the other hand though, the start of a very exciting new one in London. Someone writes their 'N's' funny!





In between the madness of Nike and the other job we are working on I have been playing around with some new collage ideas. Not sure why or what for but hey. If you can't switch off then switch it up instead.

I have another collage to do today and stuff to prepare for an exciting pitch on Saturday but after that, Anna and I are off to lead a trainer design session at Nike town. Yippee! You can also catch us there tomorrow from 3pm doing a 'Live Drawing'(!?!) event with the lovely Lucy Butler. Wow. My first blog in yonks. Lets hope it is not so long until the next...

Busy

We have been super super busy! Which is a good thing of course.
We have been working on a project for Nike and Nick Knight. That is being run by YCN. We get to go and design trainers at the end of may and do some live drawing in Nike town. I have been sourcing for inspiration down Lewisham TK MAX... We spent the last couple of week juggling mannequin legs, balls, pots of paint, girl bands, giant scenery, lots of polystyrene and trying to get hours kip a night to keep us sane! On top of that last weekend Lauren and I did art department for a music video and met some wicked people while we were working on it. A lovely Brighton based artist called Pinky.Check out his site The video involved drawing on girls and making a bad boy gas mask. Set us a challenge and we will deliver! This week we are waiting on confirmation of a very big job that will take us working through until june! Very excited! Bring on the work, we will earn our sleep.

Big Stuff

The job we are working on at the moment involves making a huge set...so big that our initial ideas of constructing, painting and beautifying dans le studio have had to be moved outdoors. We have put up a massive canopy to protect us from the weird weather of the moment...check it. It is a project for a new girl band called the Saturdays who will be touring with Girls Aloud in the summer. Watch this space - it's about to get colourful.