Sir, I need to search your bag!

It's not just girls that carry around far too much in their bags, guys do as well. I was clearing out my old bag during the week and I felt just like Mary Poppins, it was never ending, so naturally I thought, get the camera. And this is the contents.

I never carried a bag until I moved to London last summer, where, after a day with pockets overflowing and a tesco bag full of my belongings I decided it was to invest in a good man bag. And now I would be lost with out it.



This beauty was the first thing I brought when I started college in 2005 down in Cork. God, 2005. Anyways seeing as I was trendy wendy 17 year old in the making I figured all the cool college kids all have messenger bags, nobody would be caught dead with a backpack. Especially in a film school, of all places. Well, I was wrong. No one had a trendy wendy man bag, and worst of all NOTHING FUCKING FITS! You can get about 2 sketch books and maybe a few pens. Then about a week later the zip broke and my lovely green trendy wendy Dunlop went into early retirement.

Until last week when I took him to get fixed, and that took forever, the man who fixed the zip great trouble locating a green zip, even though I said about 20 times I dont care what colour it is, and yet 2 weeks later when he called to say it was fixed, he was proud as punch to inform me he located a green zip. He failed to mention the zip was probably older than I am and is as stiff as a motherfucker. Either way, it is now fixed and I once again have a (almost) functional trendy wendy bag.

DRN

Let Me Illustrate

One of my greatest regrets is how like I know/care about Adobe Illustrator, its capable of making some fantastic pieces of work, yet I just can't get my head around the program. Maybe its just like riding a bike, practice, practice, practice.

Anyways someone who knows exactly what they are doing when it comes to fabulous illustration is American designer Dan Stiles. His simple prints are so colourful and eye catching.






An interview with Dan can be read on Grain Edit. It's really interesting to see him design process.

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First Class service...

X-Men: First Class will be released June 2nd. I'm excited, are you?

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And the nominees are...

The BFC/Vogue Fashion Fund is awarded every year to a designer so they can help develop their brand, with the help of the £200,000 cash prize fund. Among the nominees are Scottish hunk Johnathan Saunders, who talks to Vogue.com in the video below about his plans for the brand.


The overall winner was Christopher Kane. He's not as cute as Johnathan, but its still interesting to hear him talk about what winning would mean to him and his sister Tammy. And I do love his design style, so congratulations Chris & Tammy.


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I Follow Him...

River Viiperi for Drama magazine, more over on HE'S HAVING A MOMENT.

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Space Invader!

Lady Gaga took to Twitter last night to unveil the album cover for her latest release, Born This Way. And in keeping with the theme of being Born This Way, Gaga has gone all Sci-Fi for the cover, which to be perfectly honest I think is stunning.

Lady Gaga has become such a force in the music world, and in such a ridiculous short space of time, so naturally there will become a point to over exposure, the feeling of too too much, but I think she has kept the balance quite well. The cover was shot by the wonderful Nick Kinight.

The first single, Born This Way, will be released Friday.

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