New Year design hunting

Spent a wonderful new year in London. The day before 2008 became 2009 we did some London wandering around and we found a store called CyberCandy close to Covent Garden and I found some very pretty boxes.

mad week

Well it has been mad. Since Monday Cat, Ben and I have been in the office until midnight drawing, scanning, drawing again. We were here all weekend as well. But it was fun in a stressed out kind of way and it did pay off, nearly finished now.

Got this short mail from Mark who was in NY speaking to the client.
"Great work rebbeca ... Just so u know we just doubled your wages keep up the good work thankyou"

BEST FEEDBACK EVER

British packaging

Well, the hunt is on! As always I am on the lookout for awesome packaging design and this is what I have collected on the precious occasions that I had actually brought my camera.













This is a delicious white chocolate powder for hot white chocolate. It is as delicious as its packaging.

On the same theme I found this jar of white chocolate buttons on my trip together with Cat to Chichester.










There were a lot of nice things in Chichester actually:












And some serial from the super market. cereal and chocolate, they do make the nicest boxes...

Dad visiting!

Dad came to visit on the weekend and we met up in London for lunch and sightseeing. We went to a wonderful restaurant on what was called the Roof Gardens and there we had a fantastic lunch with some wonderful white wine called the Black Lagoon. He also announced that this was my birthday lunch (two weeks early) and gave me my birthday present, a brand new digital camera!

So now I can post the photos from the unusually sunny weekend with dad.

Finally got a table at the Roof Gardens and I got my camera!
Wonderful white wine, Black Lagoon


Tate Modern, more impressed with the building than the art.

Metro!
Sunny breakfast at home in Portsmouth, in the garden.

Walk along the beach
At the carboot sale (I bought a book)
Lunch at gunwarf
The TOWER
Me at gunwarf
Hooooover craft! (We took the fast cat, a more ordinary ferry) to the Isle of Wight
Dad at the sunny island before we started our hunt for scones.
Taking a beer break at the student bar called the Registry.

pics!

My camera is, as you can see, complete crap (I only have my cellphone) but here you get some idea of our cramped little office looks!

Meanwhile in a small village called Emsworth...

Yesterday I moved to the UK, to Portsmouth. It was weird and a little scary. Got up frightfully early, Jonatan followed me to the airport and kissed and hugged me good-bye. Then there was an air-plane, heavy bags and a train and dragging the bag to Liss Rd.

I was scared of fitted carpets in every room and the strange smell that they create but I was pleasantly surprised to find the bottom floor completely carpet free and two super cute and cuddly cats in the hallway. The upper floor does have a fitted carpet but that’s ok. It really is a lovely hose and I’ve got a nice room and a really great bed.

My landlord, Paul, is a great guy and he took me around town, showing me the different parts of Portsmouth, taking me to a bank to get an account, even taking me to the supermarket. We visited my second roommate Nadine at work, she works at an Ecco store here and hates it. But she is really outgoing and friendly and terminated to get me drunk during the evening when we went to the local pub (very British of us) and later when we sat in the garden.

I can proudly and smugly report that I was the only one not hung over the following morning even though I gave in to the friendliness and free drinks. One litre of water before you go to bed, that’s the very simple trick.

And this morning I went to work and it was great. I mean really. I was nervous and a bit insecure of course but it really worked out, everyone I talked to was funny, friendly and helpful. I worked on a t-shirt print for Artful Dodger and by the end of the day I was on the right track and feeling a bit proud actually.

There is talk of me maybe accompanying some of the others to New York for a week at the end of August and help paint some walls for a exhibition. That would be so much fun, I hope I can go.

So far the UK is nice and the people are great. The only thing I can’t stand is the water which is frankly undrinkable. Tastes like it comes directly from a swimming pool. But otherwise I am happy and I can’t wait until work tomorrow.

I think I am jinxed

The way nothing is working out as it should right now is making me suspect that I am jinxed. Or maybe it is bad karma? In a few days time I have drowned and killed my cellphone, lost the receipt for it, managed to crack the plastic shell of my computer I don’t know how and I feel my expenses running away. Nothing seems to work, everything is hitting complications. Hope it passes over soon.