Gareth Wild and Michelle Thompson are an East Anglian graphic designer and illustrator, who live on the web at 59highstreet.com. They’ve come up with a way to commemorate the beautiful old village signs that are slowly disappearing from our lanes and hedgerows.
There’s such music in those village names. Ickleton. Elsenham. Sewards End.
Now you can own [...]
Entries Tagged as 'design'
Village typography
July 9th, 2010 1 Comment
East Anglian Herbal
October 18th, 2009 No Comments
I’ve written before about East Anglian illuminated manuscripts – the area was a byword for particular beauty in Medieval times. Bibliodyssey (a great book illustration blog) has a wonderful post on lovely pattern book – Tudor rather than earlier, part bestiary, part herbal, a collection of interesting things that caught the artist’s eye.
The animals range [...]
Tags: illuminated manuscripts
Bending the Line
August 23rd, 2009 No Comments
The Arts Council thinks Sleaford is in the East Midlands, but lets sneak it in here because it’s still in the Fens. Sleaford is home to The Hub National Centre for Design and Craft.
It has an energetic programme of exhibitions, courses and events that aims to encourage appreciation of design, craft and culture, and acts [...]
Reynolds Stone
June 29th, 2009 1 Comment
Reynolds Stone was a hugely talented engraver who spent much of his adult life in East Anglia, staying on after a degree at Cambridge to be an unofficial apprentice at the Cambridge University Press and experimenting with engraving. A story quoted on his official website goes that he met Eric Gill on a train, who [...]
Tags: Bristish talent · east anglia · penguin books design · reynolds stone · times logo · wood engraving
Christchurch Mansion
June 24th, 2009 No Comments
The children of Ipswich are lucky indeed. Not only do they have an estimable town museum, they also have Christchurch Mansion, where they can go and develop their taste by looking at beautiful domestic objects from centuries past, in a beautiful old house surrounded by parkland for running around in afterwards.
The interiors are from every [...]
Tags: christchurch mansion · furniture · ipswich · museum
Denmark to Suffolk
June 4th, 2009 2 Comments
In the small Suffolk village of Fressingfield opposite the old flint parish church is an outpost of a purist Scandanavian aesthetic. A building that in the last century was the village post office is now the Pottery, workshop and showroom of Lars P. Soendergaard Gregersen, a Danish potter who makes domestic pieces in hand thrown [...]
Tags: china · craftsman · east anglia · fressingfield · hand thrown porcelain · pottery · soendergaard design · suffolk
Fenland garden
May 19th, 2009 No Comments
One of the more interesting gardens at Chelsea this year is the unromantically named Foreign and Colonial Investments garden, which is partly based on East Anglian fens by Thomas Hoblyn Garden Design of Bury St Edmunds. If you are gardening in the fenlands it has some interesting ideas to take home.
Snaking round a mysterious pool [...]
Tags: chelsea flower show 2009 · fenland · garden design · gardens · pitcher plants · planting
Beth Morrison
May 6th, 2009 3 Comments
Beth Morrison is an artist living on the North Norfolk Coast who paints cheerful, evocative scenes of seaside life and the characters around her. Her dogs have an agenda, her little old ladies and small children have a life and character of their own – the way the paintings are made, in stages, they are [...]
Tags: beach · beth morrisson · circus · drawing · east anglia · jewellery · little old ladies · norfolk · painting
Pleasure Gardens
April 27th, 2009 1 Comment
Anglesey Abbey was actually never an abbey in the religious sense, and hasn’t had any connection with religious orders since the Augustinian Priory on this site was dissolved during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1535.
In its current form, as looked after by the National Trust, it is an elegant party house surrounded by a [...]
Tags: anglesey abbey · cambridgeshire · eighteenth century style · espalier apple tree · formal · gardens · lode mill · national trust · plants · sculpture · statues · traditional materials
life.com
April 12th, 2009 No Comments
Under the that wonderfully evocative URL, Life magazine has put its photo archive online. There are photos of everything both great and ordinary, from the early years of the twentieth century onwards.
It’s a great resource for anyone interested in local history, twentieth century fashion, architecture, design, and just how life was lived. There are also [...]
Tags: 1920s · 1930s · art · culture · design · east anglia · history · life · life magazine · photography · photos · pictures · social history