Over the past few months, residents, Groundwork London and Hackney Homes have been working hard to transform the community garden at Linzell Estate in Hackney.
Groundwork called me up to run some workshop sessions at Bsix Sixth Form College in Clapton, which will eventually result in an environmental / ‘foresty’ inspired mural on a wall in the Linzell Garden area, with the help of the Sixth Formers generating potential ideas.
More pics coming soon!
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Reached Upmarket, Brick Lane, after a month off, and the one time I decide to reach it snowed! I for one, always try my very best not to let this ‘good’ ol random british weather get in the way of one’s quest to sell freshness to the spending public, even if it snows! The turn out was pretty schweet considering, nuff oversized bobble hats n wench fur coats!
Big up my new customers from Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Geramny (seriously, if you wanna brush up on your languages, Upmarket is the place to be…gonna be fluent in each by the end of the year, watch!) and the trio, Rins / Cree / Forgot Name (allow me), from down the road 
The only thing that jarred me was my toes, even with triple socks on, they were chap-a-lapin!
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Came across these beautiful images created by DDB Berlin for Volkswagen’s Blue Motion. They mashed up the styles of Dali, Bosh and Magritte to create a more contemporary landscape representing ‘absurdly low-consumption’…absolute dopeness!
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The first PINS Workshop of the year kicked off at Charlton School, a Group 7 Community Special (ages 11–19) School for students with low incidence special educational needs. They asked me to come down and deliver some creative therapy sessions which would allow the young people to express themselves through t-shirt/cap/canvas design and then all come together at the end to create an Olympic inspired mural.
The first session normally kicks off with some ‘Free thinking’ exercises, essential for the generation and flow of ideas, progressing onto idea development and then final outcomes…similar to how most Designers do their thing, literally breakdown the process.
I’ve always enjoyed running these workshops from way back in the days…the feeling of inspiring others, them inspiring you with crazy ideas, and having nuff jokes…can’t beat that…almost feels therapeutic at times, I know, random, but hey, that’s me!
A toast (ginger beer in hand), to plenty more PINS Workshops across the land!
Ps. For more info or if you’d like some creative therapy at your school / youth centre / community event / cooperate sectors, feel free to get in touch with Vanessa Moon at info@pinspired.com
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When my mate told me his aunty made cakes, i thought cool, yet another ‘cupcake queeny’…told him to get some samples of some carrot cake ones, lurrrrrve my carrot cake!! Expecting one, two small little cupcakes, his aunty went all out and actually duplicated the ‘Are You Donuts’ design (the one on the blue hoody) into a proper size carrot cake…my eyes popped and my mouth dropped!
And here it is…and if you want it, or another flavour/style of your choice, im talking orders so just ask…
…now off to demolish this beast, wish me luck!
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