A Saturday night in with the photocopier.

I spent my Saturday night playing with the photocopier, paper trimmer and double sided tape.

I've made this little book. It's kind of like a mini illustration portfolio. I guess I consider drawing as a hobby more than anything. And although illustration has crept in to a few of my design projects, my main portfolio doesn't show much of it.

But next week I'm taking my portfolio in to somewhere which is more illustration-focused, so I thought putting something like this together might be a good idea (plus, I just like mucking about with paper and photocopiers and making books and had nothing to do on a Saturday night).

Escape to the country.

I spent last weekend on my dad's farm in Norfolk. Having an iPhone is still a bit of a novelty for me, and I got a bit snap-happy. Always nice to have a change of scenery to draw and photograph.

In other news, I'm now half way through my current work placement. Enjoying it! Here's a snippet of what I've been up to:

It dont mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

I started watching a lovely documentary on BBC iPlayer about Swing music yesterday (The Swing Thing). I got to the above point and had to do a screengrab. Got to love a bit of vintage typography. Sadly iPlayer isn't letting me watch it today for some reason, so instead I did a bit of drawing from it, whilst listening to some 20s jazz on Spotify. Nice.

In other news, I've just completed the first week of my new work placement. So far so good! Think I'll be pretty happy there for the next five weeks.