Things I’ve Seen
Jeff Koons at The Serpentine
When I was reading this month’s Elle I was pretty excited to see that Jeff Koons will be exhibiting at The Serpentine from 2nd July – 13th Septmeber 2009. I visited an exhibition of his a couple of years ago which featured the famous inflatables, I was even allowed to touch them as I couldn’t believe they were metal! Basically…his work is amazing and I would highly reccomend visiting the exhibition if you have a chance over the summer.
For those of you who don’t know, The Serpentine is in Kensington Gardens right next to Hyde Park, why not have a nice picnic while you’re at it?! Also at The Serpentine is an amazing bookshop, Koenig Books, try not to break the bank though!
See you there
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Soap&Glory
The most gorgeous packaging ever!
(And the products are amazing too)
I absolutely love the retro packaging on Soap&Glory products designed by Biggs&Co, the mix of coloured text and black and white images looks great and also the combination of swirly text with simple, bold text. The witty lines on the front and the blurb are a great read whilst in the shower!
Tag…
Bought some jeans in H&M last week, (so happy beacuse I can never find jeans which fit properly!) and I love the tag which was on them.
It’s interactive which is something a bit unique for a clothes tag, but mainly I like how simple it is, just string and brown (recycled!) paper…I think I have some kind of brown paper fetsih! Not too sure about the text going across as well as down the page…a bit too cluttered, but the typeface and colour looks good.
Nina Chakrabarti
I picked up the Cass Art Manifesto when I was in their Charing Cross store last week and I love the illustrations and text on it.
They’re drawn by Nina Chakrabarti
I visited her website and she’s done some awesome stuff! One piece which particularly inspired me was ‘Wallpaper’ (below), Nina Chakrabarti used drawings and photographs to record her kitchen when she moved house as it was her favourite room. In a couple of weeks I’m moving out of halls and was thinking I could use a similar technique to record my pinboard in my bedroom (it’s huge!).
