The Jubilee photoshoot

The amazing I Love Crafty lady, Laura Hunter, took these AMAZINGLY sweet pics of our jewellery range with her lovely model Phoebe. I think they’re fab, well done I.L.C! :)

Check out the rest of our range to buy from here:

www.etsy.com/shop/BernysPlace

It just happened, right then! History :) YAY Jubilee jewels! The little golden corgi shall be sent to Japan pronto!

It’s alive!!! I’ve been banging on about doing one for AGES…and it’s finally here! The Blighty Almighty jewellery range is for sale at my Etsy shop, and more bits will be added soon, like the Brizzle illustrated prints and cards. I hope the Queen approves :)

www.etsy.com/shop/BernysPlace

Bristol Harbourside Market

Saturday was my first time as a seller at a market. Myself and I Love Crafty’s Laura Hunter had a little stall selling our jewellery collaboration, ‘Blighty Almighty’, along with some of her other FAB jewellery (her mermaid range is LUSH), and some of my illustrated Brizzle prints and cards. The stall looked so cute, with British picnic baskets, tea cups and cake stands, and we had an awesome day in the sunshine eating falafel. I thoroughly recommend a bit of market fun for everyone, and hopefully that was the first of many :)

It’s here, it’s here, we’re almost ready!!! Get prepared for some shiny loveliness in your bank holiday-loving faces :)

The jewellery collab myself and Miss I Love Crafty, Laura Hunter, have been working on is almost ready, just packaging designs and photoshoots to do then we are well away! And just in time for the bloomin British Jubilee! Nice!

It will be called Blighty Almighty and will be available to pre-order from I love crafty’s shop and from my soon-to-be-revealed Etsy shop!

There are shiny, lovely corgi’s, crowns and diamonds, in necklaces, brooches and earrings, to get your British-on in style! But all will be revealed very soon!

Now where’s that gin?! :)

Dashing Mag…simply dashing (yep, I said it)

Another delight of the day, is this fab online mag, Dashing! again it’s a gorge mixture of fashion, crafts, design, interiors, and lots of lovely illustration, which is why it prob stood out to me. I love that these mags just do whatever they like, there’s no rules, and I think it’s a really fun and creative way to work. If I was to create a magazine I would want it to be like these :)

http://www.dashingmag.com/

N.E.E.T Magazine (aka, utter gorgeousness!)

Today I was introduced to this delight, N.E.E.T mag. It’s a beautiful mixture of fashion, interiors, design and millions of other lovely things. I’m a sucker for magazine layout design, and this one is superb! Check it out if you want a pretty perv :)

http://www.neetmagazine.com/

The Pirates! Beard Weevils

A normal day in the Aardman Digital office is when I’m asked to hand-draw a beard for a weevil to run through, and not just any beard, the Pirate Captain’s beard. And what would this weevil eat, ham of course! Average day :)

So, that’s what I did! We (with the amazing tech skills of Mr Tom Milner) created this ridiculously silly, fun, mad, and slightly trippy game for The Pirates website. The ham speeds the weevil up to help him escape from the soapy water that is gaining on him, and of course the cheese makes him groggy, the bone slows him, and the broccoli makes him fly…all standard I think you’ll find :)

Have a play if you fancy some feeling like you’re in a strange, beardy, mad land!

http://www.thepirates-movie.co.uk/game/beardweevil/

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

So, The film is out and it’s super dupe (if you haven’t seen it yet, I can’t recommend it enough! Good ol’ British giggles!)…and his means, ace new website and games! woop!

Here in Aardman Digital, along with Sony, we’ve have created this lovely site of Blood Island with animated characters, fun games, and (my fave) a moving ship background, which WILL make you feel sick…sorry!

The games are a fun mixture of Pirate pelting, peg-leg stomping, Polly-saving madness, and I’m proud to say I worked on one of the maddest games we’ve done, Beard Weevils! Have a play :)

http://thepirates-movie.co.uk/

WOW, what a bloomin’ lovely surprise from my old university…Pompey!!! :)

Thanks guys!

portsmouthgraphicdesign:

Congratulations to alumni Sarah Matthews for being part of the team who won a Bafta for her work with Aardman Digital

http://sarah-matthews.tumblr.com/

NOV 2011

Aardman Digital’s new game is out for the wonderful Mr Tony Robinson! His new series of books; Weird World of Wonders, have been transformed into an online adventure, where you can join Tony and Nits the dog as they gallop headlong through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, smelly and disgusting bits! It’s history but not as you know it!

The game is super fun, beautifully illustrated and the voice-overs are hilarious, so go and have a play, it’s what Tony would want you to do :)

www.weirdworldofwonders.com

Also (following on from below), as well as Lionheart mag just generally being super DUPE, the lovely Hels asked me to do a little interview about my job and other creative things. It was a pleasure! :)

Lionheart Magazine!

This is ridiculously late, but if you haven’t already heard of the WONDERFUL magazine Lionheart you should definately check it out!!!

Created by the super lady Hels Martin, it’s a simply gorgeous mixture of fashion, art, music, illustration, food, and lots and lots of beautiful things! The only way to describe this beauty is ‘delightful’, and must be seen if you love all things pretty and creative! 

Hels has worked her little butt off, and it really shows in this mag, so if you fancy a gander (and why wouldn’t you!) then head down to one of the many stockists, or buy online.

WOW, I’ve just realised how utterly rubbish I’ve been at updating the ol’ blog lately, but I have good excuses…honest! So do expect a sudden rush of amazingly awesome posts coming soon (I may have over-sold them there!)

Here is the first of my blog-distractions :)

His name is Garcia, he is the Godfather in our household. 

Other distractions include flat moving (again!), lack of internet, and lots of work and funtimes! Now strap in for some serious updates….

RTS Awards, Bristol

On Thursday Aardman Digital were lucky enough to go to the RTS (Royal Television Society) awards, AND to be nominated for 3!

We ended up winning ‘Best On-screen game’ for Championsheeps, which is an awesome set of games based around Shaun the sheep. We had a super night, well done team, totes proud ;)