Stanley's Globe...

Just before we first moved into our shiny new offices in Covent Garden, I nipped over to Stanley's Post (Post production company, full of lovely people), and they gave me this fine t-shirt.

Disregard the photo pose, naturally I didn't take it.

Then shortly after they sent the crew at Inferno some lovely little welcome gifts soon after. (And my oh my, I LOVE freebies).

...and now I'm getting to my point.

The Jam Jar Snow Globe Competition.

A DIY snow globe kit with lots of little goodies to glue, stick, mould, mix, oh and a little added Glycerin, to thicken the water (I always thought this was something explosive... Nitro Glycerine? Perhaps?) I even added some white-tac as snow ball as seen in the work in progress design above.

Without further adieu, here's mine:

The distortion on the glass ruined my perfectly positioned Santa & Xmas Tree, so naturally I added a Panda from a colleagues desk, and made it a lovely little box, of the same said wrapping paper that I keep banging on about and Voila! It might not win, but it looks good on a desk.

Ooh-La-La...

Inferno had a secret santa this year (like they do every year), although this one was my first Xmas here... So here's a small section of people using the wrapping paper I made the week before last, mainly because it was free and mainly because a lot of people had left it to the last minute. Proof that it works, I suppose.

Oh, and here's the poster I made for it... The theme was burlesque, so I went for a simple graphic piece, rather than the other three more illustrated versions I created. Little bit of inside knowledge for you... Baranis' (the venue) interior architecture honestly did resemble the shape of the suspenders. Coincidence?

Rrip

I've launched a little side project of mine, mainly for fun, but probably just another thing to keep me busy. It's called Rrip. It's a range of custom wrapping paper (Random, I know). I decided to make my own this year and felt I could offer it out for things like birthdays in the future. 

For now it's free, because you have to print it out yourself. In the near future there will be a shiny new site called Rrip.it - but it's just forwarding for now.

Here's a few samples to get you started: 

(If you use it, all I ask is that you please send me a photo).

Xmas No.1

Xmas No.2

Ice Flakes

Xmas No.3

MINIMAL INK

Some, non-Xmas samples too.

Draplin Inspired

Pop

Nighttime

 Kelly