Tag: typography

home: event [ sale at King & Mcgaw ] 

home: event [ sale at King & Mcgaw ] 

To update a room, to add more accessories to a ‘look’, to have a sentiment or motivation to see everyday, to see your favourite artist or even to inspire the kids; by adding prints and art work to your walls is a great way to improve an interior and personalise a room. 

We love King & Mcgaw for their huge range of styles, artists, words, designs and patterns, and when they have a sale option it’s got to be taken advantage of !

Head to there website now to get to have 25% off your shopping when you spend over £25. Use the discount code REVIVE25 at the checkout. 

home: nice price [ prints ]

home: nice price [ prints ]

Art is always a key part to accessorizing a room. Whether it’s typography, fine art, film, portraits, pop art or graphic, framed prints bring interest to a room and are a way to tie a scheme together.

We have found a great selection of prints at John Lewis all at a low price. [ all the above 30cm x 40cm are £5 or less ]

Johnlewis.com

home: found this [ typography prints ] 

home: found this [ typography prints ] 

Always popular and stylish for walls, typography and quote based prints work well as alternative art for the walls. It can create a modern, clean look which isn’t fussy for a room, as well as depending on the wording can be motivational or inspiring. 

We love the huge selection of prints at King&McGaw. It has an extensive range of styles and designs with great brands and artists on their books. The price range is broad from basic prints to more rarer designs. 

Search under ‘typography’ and ‘quotes’ and explore the range. 

home: event [ calligraphy ]

home: event [ calligraphy ]

The typography trend has been growing over the last couple of years – letters of the alphabet used on ceramics, quotes and slogans used on soft furnishings and art, the ideas are endless. A once popular skill making a comeback is calligraphy: the art of of producing decorative handwriting with a pen or brush. If you have ever thought you wanted to give it a go then why not sign up for a class at Liberty department store in London.
During their Brush Lettering class you will be introduced to contemporary brush lettering, and then guided through the techniques of brush strokes and creating shapes and letters. By the end of the workshop you’ll be well on your way to developing your own brush lettering style.

£60 [ class cost includes a kit of calligraphy materials to use in class and to take home with you ]

Sat 25th June – 12pm – 2:30pm
Sat 25th June – 3:30pm – 6pm

Visit the website liberty.co.uk for booking and contact details.

home: featured [ Typo ]

home: featured [ Typo ]

It is already well established in it’s home country of Australia, but now Typo [ part of cotton:on group ] is dipping it’s toes in the UK.
Typo is full of fun homeware, accessories and stationary, with prints focused on typography – letters, phrases and quotes.
The online shop [ launched this month ] is full of quirky trend led gifts including letter light boxes, an array of pen / plant pots, some great storage and really cool stationary.
Typo is very well priced with a huge selection of products. With bricks and mortar stores planned in the UK it looks like it could be the next big thing – watch out tigerstores.co.uk.

home: made [ creating with text ] 

home: made [ creating with text ] 

Discovering TipJunkie was a good moment. A collated selection of DIY projects all designed with the typography fan in mind. 

From creating giant initials to hang on the wall to decoupage with book pages to word art, this feature has 16 projects to have a go at. 

Our favourite DIY is the printed letters or numbers on a cork board, as featured in last Friday’s trend post. Either freehand or with stencils, with emulsion paint and a brush or sponge, you can get creative with words, letters and numbers on a simple plain cork board (see bottom right in the picture). A good spray varnish finish will help to ensure your work lasts and won’t chip with the daily use. 

Home accessories and styling created with typography designs are the perfect way to personalise your home, whether it be the initials of the family hung on the wall, or the pages of your favourite book pasted onto the wall, a quote you love on a giant canvas, or even stencilled letters spelling out ‘welcome’ on a wooden hallway floor as you enter the house. 
  

home: trend [ Words & Pictures ] 

home: trend [ Words & Pictures ]  

We encouraged, we embraced and we excitedly bought the latest in technology. We made our lives easier with computers and emails, no longer needed seperate devices for photography, work, writing and tv (now all in the palm of our hand). We created minimal homes with hidden features and buttons to evolve and improve our habitat. 

Now we remember the joy of hand writing, handling printed matter, the emotion of an actual photograph in the hand, or on the wall, and the memory it evokes. We look to books and script, appreciating the written form and the ink from real letterpress printing. 

Bring this emotion and tactile quality back into the home with words and pictures. Use initials, words, quotes and poetry to demonstrate the household characters, lifestyle and personalise your home. In prints on the wall, home accessories, fabric design and even use greys and inky blues synonymous with print and type as the colour palette. 

   

1 Using initials in a wall display / where fonts become art 

2 Letter Ornament / George at Asda £10 

3 Create a gallery wall of artistic, eclectic, quirky family photography. Print your photos with Photobox 

4 Visit a professional photographer* for a family photo shoot. Make your family into a piece of photographic art [ photo  credit www.kristendukephotography.com ] 

5 DIY typography cork board using paint and stencils 

6 Printed typographic fabric / Green Olive

7 Farrow & Ball No 253 Drawing Room Blue / from £39.50 

8 Superize a letter for a strong, bold statement look / contact a local carpenter for wood-cutting quotes and then finish and paint yourself 

9 Words make pictures in this 2012 film poster for Words starting Bradley Cooper / £8.99 Amazon 

*for great modern photography, we love RosewarneCox Photography based in Buckinghamshire, UK 

home: featured [ junique ]

home: featured [ junique ] 

A fantastic idea. Affordable art from new talents. The ‘Junique‘ concept is innovative and allows what ever design you are attracted to, whether it be typographical, illustrative or pattern based, to be purchased on the medium to suit the brief – a new cushion, art work for the wall, printed onto bedding or even a shower curtain! Explore their website for the endless curated range of brilliant designers. Like the print ? Get the cushion to match! Like the quote on the poster, get it printed on a tea towel or even wall paper! 

[ about ] 

”Berlin, September 2013. Three young design enthusiasts decide to put an end to the lack of affordable art in Europe’s living rooms. To create a platform for talented emerging artists from all around the world. To inspire people, to bring more art into their lives. In January 2014, http://www.juniqe.com goes live.

JUNIQE is the online marketplace for art from all around the world. The antidote to bare walls. Injecting creativity into homes and wardrobes. Guided by the mantra Art. Everywhere. we bring to life the designs of international artists on prints, fashion, home textiles and other products. We hand-pick each design to bring you a carefully curated selection of artworks that speak your language.

Our magazine is overflowing with inspiration and ideas for interiors, art and fashion. We show you how to make the most of your JUNIQE products, plus share our tips and tricks for styling them.”

[ prints, tea towels, bedding, wall paper and cushions ]

home: featured [ Skandivis ] 

home: featured [ Skandivis ] 

Skandivis is a beautiful curated online store of some of the best Scandinavian homeware and design. 

Featuring designers including Arne Jacobsen, Ole Palsby, Playtype and Ferm Living, their ranges include tableware, wall art and prints, ceramics and great stuff for kids. 

With simple, minimal design, strong typography influences, a great colour palette and good pricing there is timeless pieces for every room. Skandivis  will bring any home great style and clean lines. 

  

home: made [ printing ceramics ] 

home: made [ printing ceramics ] 

Sometimes home accessories just need a personal element. The current trend for getting creative with ceramics is a fun, easy way to create pieces for your own home, for a party or for a gift that stands out for being individual and personal. 

There’s a variety of art mediums to use to get illustrations, text or any design onto ceramics or glassware. Transfer or decal paper can be printed on and used, sharpie markers can be used to draw, write and design straight on plates or cups and ceramic paint is also available. 

Apartment Therapy offer a great tutorial for using printable transfer paper and you can buy printable decal paper from Crafty Computer Paper. If you want inspiration for using sharpies head to A Beautiful Mess. 

Take inspiration from current trends in botanical drawings, typography and geometric designs. For extra depth to the design, layering your designs over already patterned plates can look brilliant too. Search eBay, charity shops and carboot sales for vintage crockery to use or head to IKEA for good quality plain modern ceramics. 

Ceramics can be designed with names or pictures tailored for an event, a seasonal time of year or even with a selection of great motivational quotes or words. 

If creativity doesn’t come naturally printing images onto transfer paper means you don’t actually have to draw or write a design yourself. And if you just can’t face a little DIY have a peak at Etsy and buy straight from the creative folk making it already, like the talented Ivonne Ellen who’s gorgeous pieces including vodka tea cups and animal illustrated plates are just incredible. Prices from £35.