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Bude for Food

My hat is firmly tipped in the direction of the wonderful Bude for Food crew, what an incredible first festival! 

The sun shone, the chefs and local artisan food producers did their thing and the foodies and the party goers of the south west rocked up.  

Happy mackerel moments with Martin Dorey...  Sampling, sampling, and oh well go on then, (be rude not to) some more sampling and lazing in the sunshine on the grass with friends, cider in hand, deliberating Paella or Thai, were a few of my best bits... Plus of course, seeing the logo I designed for Bude for Food in situ, and seeing the incredibly proud faces of the Bude for Food crew...

Late Sunday afternoon the Marquee doors closed on Bude for Food 2014 leaving the festival foodies to trek home with full tums, bags full of delicious treats, and a warm fuzzy feeling, and the crew with the task of packing it all away.

A mahoosive round of mighty cheers to everybody who made it happen, it really was a wonderful weekend, you've set yourself a very high bench mark for 2015.

Avril X 

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HAPPY NEW YEAR to clients, suppliers and friends

 Avril xx 

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#CHOCOLATE MILL - Edible Art

This is not the sort of artwork you want to be looking at for too long when you are on a self imposed low GI diet… but this is so beautiful I could not resist.  

Thin layers of chocolate are slowly removed from a cylindrical block of chocolate to reveal layer upon layer of geometrical patterns.  The Chocolate Mill by Wieki Somers at the Vitra Design Museum, and helped by Swiss chocolatier Rafael Mutter, was adapted from a cheese cutter.

The laborious process reveals many beautiful layers and the length of this process maybe also reflects the length of time it takes to mill really good chocolate... time is not an issue here.

Little chocolate mills are on sale in the Vitra Shop, including special chocolate for refilling.  

Sweet.

Enjoy xx

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A new crush .......

When I first saw these black and white images by Baptiste Debombourg I was immediately drawn to them.  I really loved the Renaissance style mural in shades of grey on the expanse of white wall, with the simple yet dramatic backdrop of the warehouse.   The use of scale is effective and I love the way the artist hasn't contained the image with the frame of the wall and floor, but instead let the bodies escape the canvas.  

until I saw the shots of Aerial also by Baptiste Debombourg.  Using waves of shattered laminate glass against the backdrop of Brauweiler Abbey in Germany.  The installation gives the effect of waves of water smashing in through the large windows.  There is greater meaning, the Abbey has had many uses, amongst them a beggar's Institute, a concentration camp, a Gestapo prison and a mental hospital, Debombourg playing with transformation/change.  The light flooding through the windows and shining through the glass referencing the original, spiritual use of the Abbey.  Even without the references and deeper meaning, it works for me, juxtaposed with the architecture of the Abbey,  it is simply stunning.

Avril x 

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Ian Wright talking about his collaboration with Keaykolour and the exhibition A Colourful Life

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a colourful life

Ever since I was old enough to hold a colour crayon in my fingers I have loved to draw and create.  It's never been a particular choice, more something that is a part of me.  I love that 100 different people given just a pencil and paper could each create an artwork, common in it's medium but that is totally unique.

I was reminded of this recently, when  I received  a surprise parcel from Arjo Wiggins,  ... I was the winner of one of three signed prints by Ian Wright, as part of a creative collaboration between Wright, design agency Blast and Keaykolour Paper.  

The Print is of an artwork made using Keaykolour paper rolled into cones to create a 3d portrait of Hendrix, a common theme for Wright, whose work has been inspired by music and has been a contributor for the NME  .. it's fab and I feel incredibly lucky to have received one of the signed prints.

It's a clever piece of marketing.  The Exhibition by Wright showcased Keaykolour Paper, in a innovative way.  Wright's collaboration with Keaykolour is an impressive endorsement, giving credibility.  The idea has "legs", .... the exhibition, the prints, the competition to win the prints, youtube videos capturing the art in progress, lucky designer who won a print blogging about it, and hence effectively utilising social media.  

The film itself (above) shows Ian Wright talking about his work, and the creative process, using paper not as something to draw on but as a material, and how music has inspired his work.

Avril X

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Ian Wright - A Colourful Life Exhibition/Keaykolour Paper