Pattern calendar gifs

I haven't blogged about animated gifs, or patterns in, well at least a week or so - so to rectify this - I have a post that includes both very nicely. This is from the site Pattern Matters, which is a graphic design project that aims to look at pattern in very possible angle.

Oh no! Melting cats!

Via a lovely blog: Clever Nettle. She is promoting Caturday or something? not sure exactly what that is but it's a great gif.

Yes - I am still drawing lips!

I like the graphic-ness of them! Colourful / I love you was a silly wind up we used to do at school as your lips make similar shapes saying these words...

Another gif!

A great one, from this blog here.

Council estate gif

Made this... just for the hell of it.

Easter comes early...

...on this blog. I am so sick of these eggs! I wanted to try and create a repeatable pattern, which is actually harder than it looks. I painted them rather badly, they looked really childish. After messing around with them in Photoshop, they do look a bit better.

A simple gif

I found on this blog. Lovely.

Shiny Shizzle

The 'iridescent' or 'holographic' trend has been creeping onto catwalks recently. With Hussein Chalayan and the shiny leggings and matching shoes from AW12. More currently Jonathan Saunders and Stella McCartney SS13. Is it tasteful? maybe not in all cases! is it fun? Hell yes!! I have been creating a board on Pinterest for a while now of this trend. I love the Sportmax jumper!
 

Top left, Hussein Chalayan leggings and shoes. Images and more from here.
Earrings by Dannijo
Top right, Jonathan Saunders SS13 
Middle, shoe by ASOS
Clutch bag by Stella McCartney from Farfetch
Wallet from Urban Outfitters
Oxford shoes; Zoe by Miista
Jumper by Sportmax SS12
Bottom right - Bottom, top by ASOS
Hologram Tee from here
Nail varnish by American Apparel
Gabby dress by Motel

Have your cake and wear it

Check out this crazy cake girl! DJCosmosis is from Toronto and bakes cakes inspired by her outfits. I discovered her via the brilliant Fred Butler and her blog. These cakes are kitsch and colourful with a pinch of madness - love it! You can see pictures of the sketches, planning and building of the site on this garishly fun tumblr found here.

According to Fred, she is also launching an online magazine called Galgalz which is worth checking out, even before it's launched - due to the crazy gif madness that will ensure I look back at this in the future!

Disco Twins

I hope my sister doesn't mind me doing this! It's been a while since I have had time to mess around with layers in Photoshop!

Time keeps ticking...

It was my birthday yesterday, another year older. I am basically using this as an excuse to put this clock up. Origin unknown. If a clock is broken, you should always set the time at ten to two, ten past ten works as well I guess. A happy clock.

3D Hand drawn Gifs

I am inspired by these illustrated gifs by Swedish artist Dain Fagerholm. Discovered via this site.

Taking gifs to a whole new level.

By the way, geek fact, gif is actually pronounced Jif. Not by me though, it just makes me think of cleaning products. Gil sans is another one that annoys me. I prefer to call it Jill, although that too is wrong.

A pretty gif

I can't resist turning something into a gif, a bit too pretty for my liking, but I thought worthy of a blog post. Art nouveau styley.

Jigsaw Advent Calendar

Have you had a look at the the Jigsaw Advent Calendar yet?

One of my freelance jobs at the moment is working with Jigsaw, and luckily for me it involved creating loads of animated gifs! Go check it out here. It was also turned into wrapping paper which you will find in stores around the country.

Gifs of the day

Love these!

from drippyjam

from OZNEO

Magic Tea

Designing a menu for a tea shop, but got carried away making this instead...

Lillies Gif

In your face!

EYE

I have gone flower mad

Giffy giffy gif gif. Although I think the pattern in the post below looks a bit banana-y?

A very long walk down a canal...

in London town.... and yes a sneaky little animated gif - almost worked.

bit wobbly dammit