chris haughton http://chrishaughton.com design | fair trade | illustration | random posterous.com Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:44:00 -0800 Oh No, GEORGE!: The making of... http://chrishaughton.com/george http://chrishaughton.com/george

FINALLY...! this book has been two years in the making...! This post is just to show where the idea came from, and how the book took shape. its also quite useful for me to put together this post because its always such a long process that i kind of forget where the ideas came from to begin with.

My first idea for this book was a cause and effect sequence called Oh No!... it was an idea for a sort of elaborate circular accident... i may come back to that idea in future in fact...

 

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I was toying with that but was reluctant to settle on it. Another idea was 'Bad duck' about a duck who was bad at being a duck.. swimming and quacking etc... its was a bit like a version of the Ugly Duckling and was sparked by seeing a worried looking duck in London who seemed to be swimming about 2 inches below the water level of his friends

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A third idea featured 'clown man and clown dog' which i think also could be quite good in the future... 

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i didnt realise it at the time but all these ideas revolved around the idea of characters somehow messing up (which i thought would make entertaining drawings) I realised its a lot funnier if there is intention from the character to not mess up, so in the end i scrapped clown man and sort of fused all three ideas to make the dog the comic lead character.

One part of the picture book i try to make use of are the page-turns.. they can be great fun when reading aloud if there is bit of a build up so i decided to build up to a page-turn where the dog messes up somehow... that was how the basic idea came about ... i jotted it down on 3 pieces of A4 which it turned out hardly changed at all from this first sketch.

some initial character sketches...

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I usually draw from my head without using much reference but i found myself googling 'guilty dogs' to see if i could find some good material. It turns out there's a lot about this on the internet. the video below is really worth watching if you havent seen it.

 

 

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most of this work was done while i was in kathmandu. I went over to get more involved in my fair trade work and ended up staying between there and India for more than 8 months in 2010. I was lucky to work on some super projects there which was the main reason i was very late for my book deadlines. In fact this book was 9 months late and was supposed to have been out last august (!)

I did most of the sketches for george from this room..

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 and i sent the bologna draft from this internet cafe (the monks were on facebook)

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this is me trying to finish it off the last images in the airport on my way home, i had to meet my editors deirdre and lucy the following week and i hadn't done half as much as i had said i had... (!)

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This is the part of the book im most proud of.. the first page builds up in three images to a large close up of george with the text 'what will george do?' When the page turns the following double page spread tells us exactly what george has done.. OH NO!!! 

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as you can see george does some pretty terrible things, but all is forgiven in the end

 

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the end-papers are a kind of before and after 

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i quite liked having a little quote on the title page for A Bit Lost. i decided to go with this one from the stoic philosopher epictetus for George. 

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the final proofs and tweaks were all done in a very intensive few weeks with the help from deirdre and dan when i got back to the UK (my room was being lived in so i did all this from my next door neighbour's place!)

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Oh No George is out on the 1st March 2012 or available for pre-order in these countries, im told there are more to follow soon

Oh No, GEORGE! IRE/UK              here 
Oh No, GEORGE! USA/CANADA    here
Stoute Hond Netherlands                here
Oh Non, GEORGE! France              here
Oh Nein, PAUL! Germany               here
Voi Sinua SULO! Finland                here

 

 The making of 'A Bit Lost' is here 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:41:00 -0800 Nationale Voorleesdagen http://chrishaughton.com/nationale-voorleesdagen http://chrishaughton.com/nationale-voorleesdagen

Mama Kwijt won the Dutch Picture Book of the Year 2012 and there are many amazing events across the country. It was awarded by CPNB, a read-for-fun/literacy non-profit equivalent to Booktrust or CBI. Each year they choose a book for its read-aloud qualities and on the 18th Jan they celebrated by hosting 'reading breakfasts' (complete with pancakes!) in libraries and schools across the country. Its the 9th year of this award you can read more about it here Im particularly proud of the book's success in holland as im a huge fan of dutch design as pretty much all irish designers are

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Many celebrities were pictured taking part for the press including Princess Laurentien from the Dutch royal family and prime minister Mark Rutte (!) In the last photo there is even a real owl at the school!!!!

 

There was even a reading at Schipol Airport Library

 

There are puppet performances too. The second to last performance was by Ton Meijer in the oba library (the little girl in the picture is pretending she is a sleepy owl about to fall) and the last was by Pagetti jeungdtheatre

It was interesting to see how the story was adapted to performances and to see how each adapts it differently. One of the performances is of Oma Kwijt (I lost my granny!)

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theres even a Mama Kwijt song...(!!!)

I did some press events too, on thursday 19th I opened the amsterdam stock market!!!!!! i had drawn '99%' on my t-shirt in black marker and unzipped my hoodie right before i gonged (!)

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At the moment Mama Kwijt is the best selling childrens book in the Netherlands and is #11 in the book chart. The bookshops also got involved and there are amazing shop window displays as well as little hand-puppets and bags. 60,000 finger puppets were made by CPNB to be given away free with the books, we really tried to have the finger puppets made fair trade (thank you CPNB) but the cost and timescale sadly could not work out. Then 7 bookshops emailed me and clubbed together to make an order of the fair trade owls too..! Thank you to all the bookshops who supported this!! You can see some of them on sale below...

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This last few days in holland has been INCREDIBLE! im in total shock. To have my book at the centre of such wonderful events promoting literacy and reading for fun in public access libraries is all i could have ever wished for, i cant tell you how honoured i am. I was amazed by the thought, care and humour that went into these events and the quality of the other beautiful children's books and events that I saw. The time and resources that go towards childrens events seem incredible to me, the Dutch certainly seem to be really focused on all the the good things. I have met amazing people in the last few days. Thanks to so much to everyone involved in this amazing project, in all the libraries, Gottmer and CPNB. Hartelijk bedankt!! 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:18:48 -0800 De Drvkkery: a little exhibition in Holland http://chrishaughton.com/de-drvkkery-a-little-exhibition-in-holland http://chrishaughton.com/de-drvkkery-a-little-exhibition-in-holland
I have a little wall of my sketches/prints and rugs from Mama Kwijt in De Drvkkery bookstore in Middelburg take a look here it runs until the end of January. 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:31:18 -0800 Camden Food Co. http://chrishaughton.com/camden-food-co http://chrishaughton.com/camden-food-co
i did some of the branding for the Camden Food Co's new stores in US and Canada. Here's the Toronto store. The beautiful art direction is by Adam Gallagher at the excellent zeroG  studio in Dublin. They do some really amazing work, thanks for getting me involved!


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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:39:53 -0800 merry christmas http://chrishaughton.com/merry-christmas http://chrishaughton.com/merry-christmas
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hope you all have a nice break and very best wishes for 2012 x

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:37:00 -0800 Getting your children's book published: Offset 2010 http://chrishaughton.com/getting-your-childrens-book-published-offset http://chrishaughton.com/getting-your-childrens-book-published-offset

Myself, Niamh Sharkey and Childrens Books Ireland had a discussion at Offset in Dublin last year under the heading Getting your childrens book published: from idea to publication


For more videos have a look at offset's video page theres lots of great speakers. Hopefully see you at Offset next March. They have another great lineup and i think ill be doing something smallish in the second room.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:07:00 -0800 online shop http://chrishaughton.com/online-shop http://chrishaughton.com/online-shop
Ive just opened a shop!
Everything is fair trade and made in Nepal.
there are owl toys, lampshades, bags and also some digital prints
take a look....

i meant to sort this out a lot earlier but i have been very busy, if you order in the next 2 days you can make christmas if you are sending to the UK (!)

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the amazing product shots above were all taken by nikos tsogkas
NIKOS ROCKS!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:04:00 -0800 Crafts Council: 40 years/40 objects http://chrishaughton.com/crafts-council-4040-show http://chrishaughton.com/crafts-council-4040-show

I was asked to create work in response to some of the objects at the Craft Council's 40:40 show. They've made a beautiful website to show forty objects from their 40 year collection and have asked six artists/musicians/collectives and an illustrator (me!) to create work inspired by them.Its Nice That and Prick your Finger are among the others asked to respond to the show. Theres some amazing pieces in there and some lovely responses, i love this scanner track

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Take a look at the full website here 
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My page is over here, i created the images below and explain how they were inspired by the objects from their collection

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:25:00 -0800 Gasholder #8 Kings Cross: A carboniferous park for a post-carbon city http://chrishaughton.com/gasholder8-kings-cross-a-carboniferous-park-f http://chrishaughton.com/gasholder8-kings-cross-a-carboniferous-park-f
I was involved in this architecture competition a couple of years ago through my friend Leonora. I didnt have this blog at the time but just thought to post it now. The competition was to design a multi-use park around a Grade II listed Victorian Gasholder next to Kings Cross station in London. It is part of the massive re-development of Kings Cross 

The gasholder structure is one of the first ever built and our idea was to remind visitors of energy past and future in London, one of the worlds first industrial cities. The park surrounding it was to resemble a carboniferous landscape which formed the gas that the gasholder contained and would be planted with carboniferous-era vegetation; ferns, monkey puzzles and cycad palms. The design also featured solar panels and wind turbines and through engraved paving slabs visually tells the story of the carbon and energy. A huge movable canopy covers the area for indoor events. I did some visualisations and presentation design and was going to design the paving features. We didnt win :( There was more than 100 other entries and the overall winning design was by Bell Phillips

Our team were Leonora Oppenheim, Anna Maria Orru, Nick Hancock, Jacek Grabowski, Luke Engleback, Roger Cooper and Fergus McCormick and Laurie Abbott

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:23:00 -0800 Creative Data http://chrishaughton.com/creative-data http://chrishaughton.com/creative-data
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I did this illustration a little while ago for the designer and sustainability consultant Leonora Oppenheim. Leonora is one of the most knowledgable people i know about design and sustainability and is very active writing for coolhunting and treehugger as well as consulting and a ton of other things besides. She has a huge passion for the possibilities of design as an agent of change.

Creative Data was set up by her to get design and artists together with science and researchers to communicate data and research to the wider public. 
would be so nice if more design was for projects like this rather than advertising and branding. hope to see lots more from creative data. have a look>

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:04:00 -0800 Illustrated alphabet: Z http://chrishaughton.com/illustrated-alphabet-z http://chrishaughton.com/illustrated-alphabet-z
I was asked to illustrate the letter Z for the small print's latest project to illustrate the alphabet. Theres some amazing artists involved and some beautiful images. I think my favourite is richard hogg's nocturnal
They are all available to buy online via PrintProcess and there's a write up about it on creative review

thanks to everyone at the small print

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:26:00 -0800 Digital Handmade http://chrishaughton.com/digital-handmade-34935 http://chrishaughton.com/digital-handmade-34935

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we also had a competition to design your fair trade own rug through NODE
the winner was the very talented and funny nadia shireen with this AWESOME bear rug! there were so many fantastic rug designs, thanks to everyone who entered.
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So Far the Future
44 Emerald St
London WC1N 3LH

1-7 Dec
Tues-Sat 11am-7pm

Thanks very much to the Lamb bookshop for doing a lovely display in their window and the Peoples Supermarket for supplying the beer and wine

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:15:00 -0800 Digital Handmade http://chrishaughton.com/digital-handmade http://chrishaughton.com/digital-handmade
FAIR TRADE from Nepal...

I am doing a little solo exhibition called Digital Handmade in the So far the future gallery off Lambs Conduit St from December 1-7. The private view will be at 6-9pm on December the 1st.

The exhibits have all been somehow created from images ive made and either woven into wool, cut into felt or sewn into fabrics with traditional craft-makers in Nepal. It is the results of an eight month trip to Nepal and India to work with fair trade craft-makers. There will be rugs, bags, toys, prints, lampshades and books, i will also have a preview copy of my new book. There will be nice photos of the items being made also. 

Many of the items are for sale. Many of the carpets from NODE will also be displayed and on sale. Hope to see you there!

*UPDATE* there is also a competition to design your own rug!
go here to enter

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4 screenprinted bags

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preview of my new book Oh No, George!

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Digital designs made by hand with traditional Nepalese craft makers.

These designs were all created digitally and translated into objects by traditional crafts. In 2010 I spent 8 months in India and Nepal working directly with fair trade makers. I collaborated with the craft-makers to conceive and design products and projects that can be made and be sold to help support fair trade schooling and literacy projects. The items in the show are all made in Kathmandu with fair trade producers.
The makers of all these projects are either illiterate / disabled or in need of financial assistance. The fair trade projects operate literacy classes for the adults and provide schooling for their children without which many would not have the opportunity to attend.
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THE WORK

NODE: Hand woven tibetan wool. Digital images woven in wool by hand
The rugs are entirely made by hand traditional Tibetan carpet making techniques. They are made from Tibetan wool. It is hand spun into yarn, hand dyed with natural and non-polluting dyes, and then hand-knotted on our looms into carpet. Together with the makers we found a way to convert designs into from pixels into carpet knots on the loom using graphs.
We plan to connect more artists with the makers and have set up Node to help facilitate this.
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Made from raw cotton. It is hand-spun into yarn, dyed, hand-woven and finally sewn by the women at Mahaguthi. Ullu is the nepalese word for owl
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Screen-printed on hand-made nepalese Lokta paper, it has been created by the womens shelter at Mahaguthi.
Felt toys
These characters have been converted from 2D designs into 3 dimensional felt toys
Picture books and prints
Some images and prints related to my picture book A Bit Lost as well as a preview of the next book Oh No George! 
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THE MAKERS

Mahaguthi 
Mahaguthi is the oldest social enterprise in Nepal. It was started by the legendary social reformer Tulsi Mehar in 1923. In the early 20th century Nepal had a very rigid caste and social structure, only the high caste men were educated and literate. Mehar campaigned against this inequality and for this he was exiled by the Rana government to India. His interest in reform led him to Mahatma Gandhi and they worked together for many years. His time with Gandhi gave him an opportunity to gain insight to the liberation of the underprivileged. In a system where there are no opportunities for women to bring in money for themselves they must rely on their husbands and fathers. Without the means to improve their own lives women's situations can be very restrictive and this can be hugely problematic if there is domestic violence or abuse. Mehar and Gandhi's vision for reform was to empower women through education and income generation projects so that they can become economically self-reliant. Gandhi wrote to the Prime Minister of Nepal to ask him to let Mehar back into the country. Once back in Kathmandu in 1923 and with a donation from Gandhi, Mehar set up the spinning and weaving development project that became Mahaguthi. It was not only the first social development project in Nepal but was actually among the first ever manufacturing units in the economically closed feudal country.
Mahaguthi currently takes on 90 new women annually (most are widows or victims of domestic abuse) to train them in literacy and employable skills and school their children as well as supporting a hospital.
Kumbeshwar Technical School
Kumbeshwar are a founder member of Fair Trade Nepal. Employees are taught literacy and skills. In addition to fair wages their work supports a school of 260 children and an orphanage of nineteen.
Associated Craft Producers
The largest fair trade group in Nepal. They were founded in 1984 with 38 producer and have now grown to support 1,200 makers. They teach literacy and skills to their makers.
for more information you can mail me at chris at vegetablefriedrice dot com

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:36:00 -0800 PKN Kathmandu: Nepal in 2020 http://chrishaughton.com/pkn-kathmandu-nepal-in-2020 http://chrishaughton.com/pkn-kathmandu-nepal-in-2020

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The theme for the next Pecha Kucha Night Kathmandu is 'Envisioning Nepal in 2020'.
Designers and artists as well as policy makers and other interesting folk are each to each give their 20-slide point of view. Im very excited by this theme in particular, Nepal has an amazingly talented and energetic bunch of young people. I wish i could be there to see it. I am so excited to see PKN doing so well and am very proud to have a part in setting up the first one. Hats off to the inspiring Sujan Chitrakar for all his super-human organising powers.

join their facebook group or like them here to get updates

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:39:00 -0700 Ivor Cutler and clowning in Walker Books http://chrishaughton.com/ivor-cutler-clowns-and-walker-books http://chrishaughton.com/ivor-cutler-clowns-and-walker-books

Im a big fan of the late scottish poet and comedian Ivor Cutler. I had read an interview with David Shrigley ages ago and he mentioned him as his biggest influence and since managed to get hold of some of his amazing recordings... he has a wonderful surreal and skewed view of the world. This BBC4 documentary is really really worth watching if you dont know his work..


I was absolutely in AWE when my editors Deirdre and Lucy mentioned they worked together with him at Walker. I didnt even know he had done books... they were big fans of his and david lloyd who i work with now  was his publisher and editor. WOW! Apparently Ivor had a thing for printing his own stickers and then sticking them all over the office, this is david's old typewriter...

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I also discovered at Walker recently that not only has my old editor Lucy studied as a clown (amongst many other fascinating things) but that my new editor David worked for 12 years as a clown and successfully taught a goose how to dance (!)
What a magical place Walker books is....!

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this is david, maria and deirdre (taking the photo) and me editing our new book 'dont worry, i have a plan' recently.. 

I will be sure to keep you up to date with any new stories i hear from the office. In the meantime you can follow them on twitter. they meet very interesting people and eat a lot of cake

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:24:00 -0700 Serge Seidlitz's rugs http://chrishaughton.com/serge-seidlitzs-rugs http://chrishaughton.com/serge-seidlitzs-rugs


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One of my favourite illustrators, Serge Seidlitz has made some AWESOME rugs with us at NODE. He ended up making 22 of them (!) 

Theyll be on display at his show SERGE VS SPACESHIP EARTH from the 25th Oct in the Coningsby Gallery London. Theres lots more besides the rugs... i love this upholstered chair

If you want to get your own designs made into a lovely rug drop me a line.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:25:00 -0700 Burton snowboards http://chrishaughton.com/burton-snowboard-designs http://chrishaughton.com/burton-snowboard-designs
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I recently did some designs for snowboards (and clothing) for Burton. WOO HOO! Heres some of the images i did for them... the first three were roughs... the actual finished boards are up on the burton site.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:37:00 -0700 South Ken Kids Festival http://chrishaughton.com/south-ken-kids-festival http://chrishaughton.com/south-ken-kids-festival
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Im very very excited about the South Ken Kids festival next month.
The line-up is really AMAZING... have a look... quentin blake / marc boutavant / kitty crowther 
the entire list is really amazing, ive really never seen such an exciting line-up like that before and im very honoured to be alongside those names

I will be doing 3 different events. see my events page here. It includes a DRAWING DUEL with Joëlle Jolivet .... Im not exactly sure what is involved but im sharpening all my best pencils in preparation (owl is sharpening his beak just in case it gets nasty)

The full programme can be viewed from here

PS if you look on the website you might see a stray owl has accidentally fallen in there. we are very sorry about that. myself and owl are working on our professionalism over the next month to make sure this wont happen again.


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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:05:00 -0700 Wired magazine http://chrishaughton.com/wired-magazine http://chrishaughton.com/wired-magazine

Wired

i did a little illustration for the 11.11 issue of wired magazine (UK) and it ended up getting animated for the ipad version! its the one with james dyson on the cover. the article is here

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1270368/ullus2.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AvH80sxPw6R Chris Haughton chris Chris Haughton Sat, 17 Sep 2011 07:27:34 -0700 Claudia Janke | Dear Clare http://chrishaughton.com/claudia-janke-dear-clare http://chrishaughton.com/claudia-janke-dear-clare
My lovely ex-studiomate Claudia Janke is a photographer specialising in human rights issues. She wanted to highlight the issues she photographs to a wider audience and came up with the idea of writing a series of letters to her friend Clare and publishing the letters as a zine called Dear Clare. Each issue focuses on a different  cause. The second issue documents garment exploitation in India and has been released to coincide with London Fashion Week. It aims to provoke thought and debate around the role that consumers have to play in the fashion industry. The magazine inspires shoppers to take action and to put into practice the power that every consumer has to change the situation and supports the growing ethical fashion movement.

Claudia is self-funding this project and printing the magazines and posters all with her own money.. How cool is that?? Claudia ROCKS!!! 

The outdoor photography exhibition of images from the magazine will take place along Regents Canal in Islington from 15 - 25 September.
Dear Clare is available at the Regent’s Canal exhibition, cafes, bars and shops in Islington and Hackney and online at www.dearclare.com

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