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Some groovy painted signs behind the "Bogaloo" bar in Highgate.

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Design!

I've been working at wonderlandWPA for four weeks now and it has been a really great experience. One of my favourite things I have done there was a design proposal for a coffee packaging for a Swedish brand called Löfbergs Lila. Wonderland has re-designed all of their products (really cool stuff I think), except that there was one type of coffee that they hadn't been able to "crack." All of the options they presented were rejected by the coffee company. So they asked me to come up with some new ideas for this Colombian blend. I made four options, and today I found out that Löfbergs Lila wanted one of my designs! It feels awesome because the designers had done sooo many different options for them before, yet all of them were rejected, and now they have approved on my idea! This just proves what I have always suspected... I'm a f-cking design genius! :)

Next week I'm gonna develop the idea, I have to change the colours a bit which will be a new challenge since they have used almost all of the colours under the sun on the other packages. But I'm looking forward! I can't show you any pictures yet, but here are some other designs that wonderlandWPA have done for Löfbergs Lila.

So the design I'm working on will have a similar theme of the cup with a coloured background…

Susie Bubble Portrait

My favourite fashion blog is Style Bubble, run by London girl Susie Bubble. I love her crazy style, she's so quirky and cute. Susie definitely has her own style, which you can't say about a lot of fashion-bloggers, I think most of them look the same!

Anyway, I love her blog so I made this portrait of Susie, I think I captured her look. What do you think?

Illustrations, Prints, and a Huge Bum!

Last weekend I went to an exhibiton called "Pick Me Up" at Somerset House. I went with Josefin and Laura, and we had a great time! Really enjoyed the exhibiton, it was a mixture of graphic prints, illustrations and some other types of art.

We all loved these illustrations by Micah Lidberg, published by a specialist art print house called Nobrow.

They had a really nice display with this big flower and other cool props…

The illustrator's collective Peepshow had organized a printing workshop.

I love these simple but effective graphic prints by James Joyce.

This piece by Hvass&Hannibal was another favourite.

Some cool dolls (I forgot who the artist was).

This has got to be the funniest "art piece" I have ever seen! It was like this big shape with a hole in the middle, and if you looked through that hole you could see paintings inside a small room, and there was music too. It wasn't until Josie asked "did you put your face in that big bum?" that I actually looked at the white shape and realised what it was! The fact that it was called "Le Bum" made it even funnier. As if adding a French "le" in front of the word would make it sound more sophisticated or something...

Then I forced Josie and Laura to look inside Le Bum as well, he he…

We also said hello to my old classmate Jackie, who worked at the exhibiton, printing for Rob Ryan. Here's her hand!

Let Them Eat Designer Cake!

Fashion+food=heaven!

These amazingly cool cupcakes were made by Swedish prop stylist Lisa Edsälv. The collection is called "Couture Cupcakes" and were photographed by Therese Aldgård.

The Betsey Johnson ones are my favourites. I want!

Today's Outfit

This is my outfit of the day. I went to a christening for James' nephew, and afterwards there was a teaparty.

From Highgate With Love

I love my part of town, Highgate is so beautiful in the spring.

Yesterday I walked around after work and took some photos. The cutest picture is of course this one with the dog and family, they were sitting outside a pub, and it looked really sweet with the dog having its own seat. So I was going to take a sneak photo, but as soon as they saw me the kids wanted to pose as well, they were so sweet! And just after I took the shot, the dog jumped down and ran up to me and started licking my face, aaaaw!

Mustache Friday

It's the end of the workweek and I had an absolutely brilliant Friday! I have now been working at Wonderland WPA for a week, doing my placement. It started off a bit slow, I didn't have a lot to do. But yesterday was much better, and we had a really nice lunch out because there was three people who had their birthdays this week. Today was the best though, I worked on a really fun project, I enjoyed it so much. And then there was the mustache birthday celebration, what that was about I will leave unsaid, but it was hilarious for sure!

Anna channeling her inner Poirot!

PS. I did not draw the mustaches on in Photoshop! :)

My ♥ of the Week

When spring comes, I ♥ pastels. Fashion designers brings out pastel-coloured clothes every year like it is a brand new idea, but it doesn't matter, because it always feels fresh and the sweet shades makes your heart a little lighter.

I want pastels in my home…

on my nails…

and on my jewellery.

I wanna eat pastel cakes…

and wear pastel clothes.

Image sources (from top): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Sun, Fun in the Park and the First Day!

Today was the first day at my design placement. It was good, but I felt a bit nervous 'cause I didn't really know what to do :) But now the scary first day is over, so from now on it will only get easier!

I did get to work on a design project straight away though, which was great! At the last internship I did it was almost like they had to invent some meaningless tasks for me to kill time, and when you're not getting paid that's not very satisfying.

Yesterday it was such beautiful weather, James and I went to a park nearby and had a yummie picnic dinner.

I used sunglasses for the first time this year...

and the park looked this lovely.

We ate fruit salad with vanilla creme fraiche...

and drank raspberry squash out of these funny "nose-cups" that my brother gave us!

Then we went home and watched "Back to the Future." What a fab day!