Biff gathering?

I feel the time has come for some kind of Biff reunion. Its been months and months! Yes? I am pretty much free whenever due to living a dangerously unstructured life with seemingly no real responsibility. Sigh. Soon? Maybe even THIS WEEK? Lets do this!

(I am going to kick of proceedings by suggesting this thursday night?)

Anyone feeling Christmasy yet?

Our blog has been sadly neglected over the summer!

I know it's a bit early to be thinking about Christmas but there is a Christmas card competition that some of you might be interested in. Deadline November 2nd. It tends to be very photoshopy images that do well rather than more traditional hand drawn ones but there are some good prizes such as graphics tablets for runners up and $1000 for the winner. The website is http://www.ooprint.fr/competition/ if anyone is interested.

In other news, I finally have my own blog yey!

Hope you're having a good time wherever you are, we should try and meet up at some point!

Here's my entry for the competition. It was actually a bit of an accident, I was making wrapping paper to use for a collage and turned out like this. Oh well...

Collaboration book!

Hello everyone... in case you've been wondering what ever happened to that collab book, I "have" it in the sense that it is still at my flat from when I scanned in everyone's work. My lovely flatmate had agreed to watch over it for a bit while I asked someone to come and get it, but since I didn't hear back from anyone I asked it still remains at 42 Brunstfield Place. If any of you would like to collect said collab book, please let me know and I'll see when my flatmate will be home to give it to you.
Hope everyone is having a good summer! I see from various blogs that some of you are going strong with the illustration side of things, which is more than I can say for myself at the moment :/ Life without a good scanner is the pits.
I also wanted to ask anyone who got good pics at graduation and has a moment of free time, could you possibly email some to me? I would be much obliged!
Also I wanted to add my own opinion to the ever on-going feud between owning a PC or a Mac: They each suck in their own special ways, so pick whichever one you'll yell at less! :)

I Need Help

Hello folks, long time no see. I was hoping someone could give a little help here, I'm goin to try makin myself a childrens book, and I've no idea how long it should be. How long did people make theres for the degree? i just have a habbit of writing long stories that go on a bit so i want to make sure i don't go overboard with it before I start. oh, and i have a rough draft of the story on my blog if you want to have a read. Cheers. x

P.C or Mac?

Hey i am going to buy a computer but don't know what to get. I was wondering what you lot thought about the pros and cons of P.Cs or Macs. I am going to be using it for Photoshop, Illustrator and other such fun stuff. I am also trying to decide if i should go for a laptop or desktop. I dont want to spend loads of money and get it wrong. I also need a scanner and printer so if any body knows a cheap place to get any of these shiny objects please give me a shout. Cheers.

Illustrative 2009

Illustrative is an international festival for illustration and graphics. This year it will be held in Berlin with expert judges from the industry. The 2009 competition is open to designers over 21, awarding creativity and innovation in contemporary illustration and graphic design. The prize is worth 6000 Euros, as well as publications and agency contracts.. and one winner will be invited to design a Swatch watch!

Have a look at some of the artists from previous shows... there is a fantastic variety and some really amazing work.

Julien Vallée

Luke Best

Olaf Hajek

The deadline for entries is not til 30th September, so there's lots of time to really work on something personal, creative and innovative. For more info and conditions of entry have a look at Illustrative online.

Cocktails and Punch!

If you're in Edinburgh, come to mine (just off Brunstfield, near Howies and the Post Office and Peckams, call if you don't know the address) tomorrow evening for some cocktails and punch at 9pm :) Bring something to mix!

xx

Fidra Gallery

Hallo, the Children's Bookshop in Bruntsfield has opened a children's illustration gallery! It is just along the road from the shop next to Falko, opposite Howies. You should all go on Monday afternoon and then come in for hot chocolate after! Yea!

brand

hey guys, i've decided to take step 5 to millionaire status and create my own brand... thinking of names.. here are two ideas, would be great to know what you think or if you have any ideas :)

osenn

or

ossenn

the skinny...

The skinny are having a t-shirt comp, all the details are here. For gen maybe? Or anyone else who needs a project (i do, total lack of creativeness in my world just now).
I hope everyone is good, i miss y'all. If anyone is in Edinburgh over summer and fancys some drinking or picnicing or general mischief lemme know, Im here being chocolaty all summer,. Love you Biff!!

when oh when

when is everyone leaving? i know some people have left already... anyone up for a biff gathering sometime soon? i don't want to say goodbye!

Its all over...Exciting and scary and making me all sentimental. Graduation day was amazing.

Ive celebrated finishing uni with the opening my first online shop!

www.libbywalker.etsy.com

go check it out and pass on the message.

We're finished!!!!

Hi all,

I didn't have time to say bye to you all after graduation - so well done everyone and I'll see you in October when I'm back from harvest job oblivion!
And Trine and Jaimie, I hope you both have a great time back home, stay in touch!

Love Lucy.

D&AD

the postcard holders have arrived, this is what they look like:http://www.3ddisplays.co.uk/displays/brochure-wall.htm

and Jim's thoughts about A1 stuff:

Any pref re. tablecloth colour? O.K, mountboard - it can look good if you decide to use it. You would have to transport quite a bit of it down, in A1 folios. I would recommend it myself. The other option is to stick with double sided tape 3cm strips of millboard on the top and bottom of each printout so that they hang down, but off the surface of the board. This is what I did last year with the large printouts and worked well. You could do a test - I think just sticking them on looks a bit cheap.

DO WE WANT BLACK TABLECLOTHS?

D&AD MEETING!!

Ok... D&AD meeting Monday 22nd at 11:30am... we need to have ideas and visuals, and be prepared to make yourselves heard!! We have to pretty much finalize everything on Monday.. also if you see and graphics crew pass the info on. GO BIFF!!! We are going to blow those london colleges away!! woooo!

D+AD URGENCY!!

hey guys,

so i missed the meeting on tues but i hear everyone is very unhappy about the post it notes idea, i too think this has been done many times and would not do our work any justice... why did no one say anything at the meeting!! well, i've just emailed Jim to propose two other ideas (courtesy of Lizzy).. frist idea is that we each do a handrendered letter to make up ILLUSTRATION and get it printed massive, or we print ILLUSTRATION in a simple typeface outline and colour all over the insides of the letters... what does everyone think?

I thought Gen might like this...

This is what happens when you play pictorial consequences and then make dolls out of the results! See more here

Links

Hey guys, thought I'd post up a couple links for future reference

First one, Goodprint UK, is where I got my business cards. They're pricier than Vistaprint, but often have good sales. There is one going on at the moment, plus this 50% off promo code that is valid until June 18th "MAH238"
Goodprint has a variety of options like the shiny gold cardstock mine are on, and in general their paper and print quality is very good. They also offer rounded corners (and you can pick which corners to round if you want round and square) for only 2 quid extra per 100 cards.

The other link is for crafty things - Craft Superstore. They have nice and cheap cellophane sleeves and envelopes or blank cards with envelopes, and even with the cheapest delivery option my orders have come two days after I placed them.

Manning the degree show

Hey Guys is there any set rota yet for the degree show?

Room for July

I was just wondering if any of you are looking for a room for July? I'm booking out of here the 3rd but I've got my place till the end of the month. It's 300 quid if anyone's interested.