Change of Mood (Board)

Had a small shuffle-round of the images on the inspiration board this evening (the blue pinboard that hangs above my desk as a little reminder of my fads of the week/month/year). Some are transient, some are more permanent!

Current prompts:

1. Business card for Woodtype and Font Shop originally in Brighton where I bought my printers' tray and two woodcut print letters
2. Tag from Girl from Blue City bourbon biscuit necklace (birthday present!)
3. Business card for my website, b seen photography, to remind me to update it now and then...
4. Postcard from amazing stationery shop in Brighton's Sydney Street, Pen to Paper

5. Mini chalkboard-clipboard, true purpose as yet unknown but here reminding me which eras I seem to be obsessed with at the moment... 20s and 60s...

6. Photo-postcard of actress Mona Maris by E. O. Hoppé

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7. Mick Jagger by Colin Jones, courtesy of the Guardian and Observer, also on display at the National Portrait Gallery

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 8. Photo-postcard of Rebecca West also by Hoppé

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9. Postcard of Automat, Edward Hopper, originally featured here

10. Postcard of Le Jugement de Paris, George Barbier, also previously featured here

11. Photo-postcard of The Rolling Stones, by David Bailey

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 12.  Photo-postcard of Marianne Faithfull, by Gered Mankowitz

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13. "A terrier poses for the camera", © Ros Fraser Collection/Mary Evans

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14. Photo-postcard of Lily Cole, "Like a painting", by Miles Aldridge

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Have decided that the sublime Louise Brooks photo deserves a frame rather than a ladybird pin adhesion...

Sunday Miscellany

I think I want to make this into a postcard, or poster, and flyer my flat with it.

Staring into space...

...is something I do less of these days because who has time? But with the new 'work year' (and subsequently, official blog entries) kicking off tomorrow, this QB has decided it's high time to update her inspiration board. (I <3 Bank Holidays!)

Here are just a few of the postcards currently gracing my pin- and magnetised boards at the moment:

 

From the top:

• Automat, Edward Hopper (1927)
• 'Camp' Coffee advertisement (date unknown but WWII era)
• Le Jugement de Paris, George Barbier (1923)
• Only Boring People Get Bored, Diane Bielik (unknown but picked up at university circa 1997!)
• Dusty Springfield at the BBC flyer from the 1960s? 1970s?

It's a slightly mixed bag but Hopper and Barbier are there to indulge my slight 1920s fetish at the moment, following my purchase of a little black cloche just before Christmas. It's the little things. The Camp Coffee ad just tickles me, and the Diane Bielik print keeps me in check if I'm ever prone to complain of boredom -- a rarity now but sometimes it happens...

And the Dusty Springfield flyer is just a bit retro cool. Managed to wangle this from my mother who couldn't quite understand why I wanted it in all its orange/sepia glory.

Last night I watched The September Issue on DVD and am now coveting the September 2007 Vogue itself to see first-hand Grace Coddington's gorgeous (albeit edited-down!) 1920s shoot, elements of which can be found here on the Swing Fashionista blog, and shot by Steven Meisel.

So... what to watch tonight for inspiration? Hmm...

Oh, by the way... Happy New Year! :)

qb