Pick Me Up London 2014

This weekend I said a final farewell to Pick Me Up London. Here's my small selection of my favourites.

1) Cat Island by Jessica Das: each piece was cat themed and full of cat-filled goodness. Cats!!
2) This Frida portrait by Lou Taylor is made from finely delicate paper cut pieces, it's a wonderful homage to the Mexican painter.
3) Neon/fluro colours have been my new favourite thing ever since I invested in fluorescent gaffa tape. Which I think is why I love Annu Kilpelainen's use of neon colours, I'm always envious of any illustrator/design who can use such a luscious colour palette well.
4) Beautiful lettering by Jordan Metclaf, I love the way the strokes on the letterforms fade with that gradient, it's almost like the words are submerged in the page.
5) Paper stock is half the design and this is personified in the Jessica Das's funky fluorescent piece.

Cat Fridge

Yesterday I attend Rails Girl workshop, which was an absolutely brilliant experience, it opened my eyes up to the incredibly helpful and support ruby community.

I left with a taste for CSS/HTML as well as cat app. I proudly present Cat Fridge, a place to upload and freeze cat photos for all eternity. Ideal for every catless cat lady.

http://guarded-beach-2728.herokuapp.com/ideas

Processing

I've been dabbling in processing and creative coding recently and one of my most recent creations is a nice little bit of code which uses facial recognition to replace your face with a cat face. Below are a few snapshots of it in action. (Also potential cd covers for my potential band: Red Hot Kitty Peppers)

Cat Skirt

I stumbled across an amazing 'Kitty Garden Party' skirt over on etsy (the one with the kickstarter campaign) and loved it. But when you add shipping and customs, we've looking at paying a ridiculous amount for a skirt. So if you can't buy it, make it. (Actually even if you can buy, make it anyway.) Ravensbourne has some great digital fabric printers and large heat presses, so after knocking up possibly my most garish piece of design it was printed and heat pressed onto fabric and then sewn to create the most awesome skirt known to mankind.