Leeds Postcards now stocked at Leeds Art Gallery

Very proud to announce that Leeds Postcards are now stocked in Leeds Art Gallery shop as well as the city museum. Being pointed at are the cards whilst just behind you can see the display of fridge magnets. So if you are in Leeds get yourself down to the art gallery shop and buy some lovely gifts.

leeds postcards in the leeds art gallery shop

 

acappella prodigy

Genius – choirs rock

The Joy of Books

Beautiful stop frame animation – all about the beauty of reading books – lovely. Watch it. It is less than 2 minutes

The Joy of Books.

2012 colours

Just finished redesigning this fridge magnet for Leeds Postcards. The pallet was teal, brown purple mustard and burnt umber. This words are an old Chekov quote  - any idiot can face a crisis it is this day to day living that wears you out. By using the colour pallet it brings the design bang up to date. You can buy the fridge magnet here http://www.leedspostcards.co.uk/products/246-day-to-day-fridge-magnet.aspx

fridge magnet walk dance

Just finished designing a new fridge magnet for Leeds Postcards . The inspiration was 1970′s disco and talent shows. The words are from a Zimbabwean proverb. If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing.

Leeds Postcards Button Badges and Fridge Magnets

I have been busy producing Button badges and Fridge Magnets for Leeds Postcards. What started as a simple idea soon revealed itself to be more complicated than first considered. Leeds Postcards produce radical cards and are stocked by art galleries, bookshops and health food stores across the UK. They have a great selection of powerful cards which seemed to be crying out to be turned into button badges and fridge magnets. However, when revisited one quickly realises that the media changes the message. Sometimes this is to do with where it is displayed other times it is the constraint of a different size and shape.
Well I was hurried along into production by Oxfam books putting in an order of badges for the Hay on wye festival .The badges were then taken up by Leeds art Gallery for their new shop, they also asked for 25 designs of the fridge magnets. This meant we had to go full steam ahead and produce the artwork and get them produced. So thanks to our stockists support we have some great new products ready to go on sale on the Leeds Postcards website

Peanut Lady – The Gambia

Peanut Lady, originally uploaded by Paul Mallett.

Just back from The Gambia which was breathtaking, so much nature and beautiful people. And to top it off we were able to take some great shots I hope you agree

New Leeds Postcards shop launched

Delighted to see that Leeds Postcards have got their own online store. Leeds Postcards are an alternative press that create original pieces of activist political art as postcards and Badges, they have been going since 1979 and published many famous cards including anti thatcher, support for the striking miners and free Nelson Mandela. They are still very active and their most recent card features the David Cameron Think Tank card that was recently featured in the Guardian newspaper. Why not pay them a visit and at www.leedspostcards.co.uk

Yesterday saw the launch of the Leeds Postcards online store. The shop contains all your favourite cards and will in the future be bringing you exciting new products so watch this space. In the meantime rush over there and have a look we would love to say hello. Leeds Postcards shop … Read More

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They would love to have you r support or if you have any good designs let them know

Whitby gothic weekend

what better way to spend a Halloween sunday than going to the seaside to watch goths eat ice cream and buy fudge. Steam Punk was definitely a favourite theme with some great brass and clockwork guns, eyeglasses and jewellery. My favourite was Bingley the dog Goth – but might be a bit biased here
If you want to know more check out the Whitby Gothic weekend website

Yellow Wellies

Autumn is made even more glorious by kicking up leaves in yellow wellies. These are lace up wellingtons by Hunter which makes them a joy to take off too

Poisonous Mushrooms

Last year the woods were full of berries and the rowan trees looked spectacular but this year the stars of Autumn were the mushrooms. The Flying Agaric mushrooms, fondly remembered as the mushroom on which the caterpillar sat in Alice in Wonderland, looked amazing. They just kept on coming

ten inquisitive owls

I don’t have a new calendar this year but fear not Johanna Basford has come to my rescue with her downloadable calendar. In fact not only can you print it off you can also tweet her suggestions for the coming months and she will illustrate them. Beautiful

Need to write a cv?

How about presenting it as infographics – what a great CV definitely makes you want to read it

Micheal Anderson

But will they see it?

Fresh from Google Labs: Google Browser Size, a nifty visualization tool for checking how much of a web page sits “above the fold,” i.e., what’s visible in Google without scrolling. Just type in any URL to see how the site looks. Color contours show different window sizes and the percentage of users that have this size or larger. (Presumably these percentages are based on Google’s own statistics.) For instance, in the example above, the “donate now” button falls within the 80% contour, meaning that 20% of users cannot see this button when they first visit the page. If getting donations is a priority of the site, the web design team now knows they ought to position the button higher on the page.

The tool works as an overlay, allowing you to interact normally with the page you’re examining. Thus you can easily review other pages on the site as well. This tool also works for designs that are still in development–you are able to view a .png on a project site.
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New Year New Phone

Why not combine a love all things Vampire and the latest technology – this implant uses your blood to create a display which can then work as a phone, MP3 player or even video – this is very weird

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Tiny gingerbread house

this is the cutest ever – though not for those short of time or a bit slapdash – rules out everyone I know then! If you do have time and can cut in a straight line then check out the instructions from Not Martha

Not Martha

Stormtroopers for every day of the year

Ahh the simple pleasure of toys doing silly things

Subscribe to stefans feed and he will send you a new photo of stormtroopers on their days off every day of the year – that has got to make you smile

Ultimate chocolate buttons

Many of my friends are afraid of buttons !?! but surely they could overcome their fear for these edible delights – get them from hotel chocolat

Thornback and Peel

I once had dreams of opening a shop and then the credit crunch hit. If I had opened the shop one thing I wanted to stock was Thornback and Peel I love their teatowels but now they have added cushions and bags – and the cutest baby wear ever – mmmmm check them out with their online shop – bags are a bit too expensive i think at £50 a pop. thornback and peel

Do you want a dog for christmas?

I have one but would happily make home for this beautiful set of felt sculptures. Unfortunately they all seem to have sold but the kits are available – ohh how exciting sitting round a wood fire with dog making a dog – heaven get them here