Lydia Leith - more sick bags, screen prints and illustrations

We all remember Lydia Leith's genius Royal Wedding sick bags (blogged about here)

Since the Royal Wedding she's done a few more sick bags, I like the Sictorian Victorian

and the Art Nouveaurrgh 

sick bags still a bargain at £3

Lydia also makes limited edition screenprints on deckled edged Somerset Velvet* paper, also available from her Bigcartel shop

and I like this illustration she has done for an Edinburgh-based beer company

That reminds me: Oooo anchors, more on them and other nautical things another time

(*not to be confused with Kleenex Velvet)

Some favourite book illustrators

John Lawrence 

Eric Ravilious

Edward Bawden

Angie Lewin

Edward Ardizzone

Edward Bawden wallpaper

Wallpaper designed by Edward Bawden in the 1920s.  Swoon.

Trees and cows (1927)

Waves and fishes (lagoon) (1929)

More delicious modern (vintage) graphics, ceramics and textiles dating from the period from WW1 until Festival of Britain (1951) can be found at Rennies 'Seaside Modern' shop in Folkestone (also on-line).

Rennies, 47 The Old High Street, Folkestone, Kent
(01303) 24 24 27
info@rennart.co.uk

Sanna Annukka's illustrations and prints

I have a bit of a thing about biscuit tins: v useful storage for different categories of bits and bobs. This Christmas and last, one of my fav illustrators and print makers, Sanna Annukka, designed biscuit tins for M&S.

good biccies, GREAT tins

I know her work from collaborations with Marimekko - the wonderous Finnish designers who are famous for bright colours and bold patterns. Sanna is based in Brighton, and is half-British and half-Finnish - her designs draw inspiration from the fauna, flora and folklore of Lapland where she spent summer holidays and I love the fir trees and kaleidoscope suns on these biscuit tins.

Imagine my delight when I discovered that Sanna has also created a range of screenprints -I have my eye on this purple and gold Magic Berry Bush print (check out that wooden storage unit - is that new or vintage, Ms Annukka?)