Plantlife Series 004

Hellooo.

No.004 in the Plantlife Series are all blue hues.

Top left: Even I know this one Cornflower! Yay. Centaurea cyanus (Cornflower, Bachelors button, Bluebottle, Boutonniere flower, Hurtsickle, Cyani flower) Wikipedia

Lower left: Nigella damascena (love-in-a-mist, ragged lady) again thanks Wikepidia

Lower Right: I can't pin this one down, although I think it could be some kind of Geranium Blue, however I could be way off with that. Please, I welcome being corrected. :-)

and Top Right, I have no idea! After much scanning of many websites and even using reverse google image search no luck.

Have a great day. LTS. :-D

Around the Corner - More Oliver Bonas

Hello. Hope you're well?

Yes we're back at Oliver Bonas. Well the window display was just so good! I've another post for this window front to come so look out for that one coming up. We're all about the black and white prints this time though.

 Top of the photos we're looking at a fabric called 'Abstract Trees' exclusive to Oliver Bonas that's applied to bags, credit card holders, iphone covers even dresses. I like it, it's bold and strong. I would love to be able to tell you who created the artwork for it but there's no details on the website, which is a shame, credit where credit is due. If you happen to know drop us a comment. :-)

Next, which I love! is Bird on a Wire by Poem. Great pattern, nothing, I assume, to do with the Bird On THE Wire song by Leonard Cohen... we hope. I can't find much out about the people Poem, which again is a shame. I want to know who designed these patterns.

The lower print, a bit like a dandelion, we reckon, again nothing about this dress or the designer but a great Motif.

Bye - LTS :-)

Plantlife Series 003

Glorious sunny day in London :-)

Hope it's nice where you are?

Here's some more plant and flower inspiration from around the streets.

Bottom Left - Echinacea purpurea (Eastern purple coneflower or Purple coneflower)

Echinacea used as a herbal remedy see the Wikipedia page for more details.

Bottom Right - Common Poppy seed head

The top two, well as usual my limited knowledge of flowers comes up short, but the bee buzzing around covered in pollen seemed to like the top left one. I don't think I've ever seen a bee so blissed out! If anyone is a naturaly gifted at plant identification please drop us a comment to share the names with everyone.

Have a great weekend - LTS

Print & Pattern

Yeeeeeah! :-D

A very Big Thank You to Print & Pattern and Rachel Taylor Art & Business of Surface Pattern Design for featuring one of Love This Shows designs,
part of the Speak Out Collection on Print & Pattern blogspot.

As a big fan of the Print & Pattern books and blog it's a huge honor to be featured.

 

Bob Wolf has been illustrating and animating for many years, you can find his web presence on the links below. Bob took the plunge into Surface Pattern Design earlier this year following Rachel Taylor's fantastic E-course The Art & Business of Surface Pattern Design.  The first 2 (of 3) modules of the course have been an amazing experience, and inspired Bob to pursue Surface Pattern Design in it's own right. Later this month will see the launch of Love This Show website dedicated to Surface Pattern Design work, until then please continue to follow our journey on the Love This Show Evelenses blog where we will be sharing some of our sources of inspiration along the way. 

For examples of Bob Wolf's design work you can find his web presence below:

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Congratulations to all our fellow Module 2 graduates and thanks for all your support and encouragement throughout the course.

Cheers again to the great folks at Print & Pattern, Rachel Taylor Designs & Do What You Love For Life!  

 

Have an awesome day : ) 

Mids & Wolf at LTS

xx

Plantlife Series 002

More plant inspiration from around the streets.

I'm no botanist but I did try to track down the names of these and managed to find 2 of them...

Top left - Achillea millefolium 'Terra Cotta' (Yarrow)

Bottom left - Nicandra physalodes (shoo-fly plant)

but as for the others, I had no luck, if any one knows please let us know in the comments section :-)

Thanks - LTS

Around the Corner - Oliver Bonas

Hello all :-)

Following on from yesterdays post on Oliver Bonas window display, here's another look at some of the cool patterns on show.

Firstly the super bold Wheat Straw Sphere Vase
 from EDC London "Putting the Fun back into furniture" Check out their website for some lovely goodies.

Secondly the Colors of Provence book by Michel Biehn full of recipes and home decorations from France.

The bright sunshine yellow Vila Sandra New Dress in the background by Vila Clothes who are featuring a new campaign video of catwalk models falling over... which is definitely worth a watch.

And lastly the wonderfully bright quilt/blanket that I can't seem to find any information on... so if anyone knows anything about it let us know.

Hope your day is going well - LTS :-)

Plantlife Series 001

Introducing the first in the Plantlife Series. Flora references, in this instance, from around the streets of Islington.

Much positivity - LTS :-)