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Month: January 2024

Knowledge and skills | Podcasts

From triangles to samosas – what Veganuary taught us about design

29th January, 2024 by Lydia Thornley

From triangles to samosas – what Veganuary taught us about design In our first Studio Snack podcast of 2024, Snack resolution, fellow designer Narcis Sauleda and I do Veganuary. We chat about accidentally vegan snacks, Pythagoras, vegan equivalents of meat-based snacks, we try out two recipes and we ask what … Read More

Behind the scenes | Design Life | Talks

Grawlix – a type story on a comedy stage

18th January, 2024 by Lydia Thornley

Inspired by the best question I’ve ever been asked in a briefing meeting – “Could we have some sweary type?” I discovered that it has a name: Grawlix. Or does it? My sixth talk for Nerd Nite London goes down a rabbit-hole of research on cartoon history, fashions in writing, … Read More

Design Life | Illustration Life | Knowledge and skills

Using my loaf

8th January, 2024 by Lydia Thornley

I’ve started my new studio year by starting off a loaf of bread, to rise and prove while I get on with the overview, admin and communication that get the work under way. As I knead the dough, I think about the mindset that does this. Creative professionals are multitaskers … Read More

Recent posts

  • Cover and three pages from the exhibition catalogue
    A potted exhibition16th May, 2025
  • Seed packet sized sketchbook in use at my exhibition, showing cover, drawing outdoors and the finished sketchbook in a seed packet sized envelope
    Sowing sketches15th May, 2025
  • Four question marks used to illustrate what happens when seeds are sown well, or badly
    How do your letterforms grow?5th May, 2025
  • Tea and tee – a new life for a proof23rd April, 2025
  • Montage of details from portrait and botanical sketches, and detail of Lydia at the exhibition opening, with the framed botanical sketch behind
    Testing, testing15th April, 2025
  • Composite image of eye logo, deconstructed logo, Lydia at a live sketching gig and Lydia pointing upwards
    Eye, aye!2nd April, 2025
  • A photo of a Pyrex jug, its measurements replaced with more approximate words, cookie cutters spelling the word 'hand', with the A turning downwards for 'handing down' and an illustration of a 1960s hand whisk
    Cooking with words and whisking up sound26th March, 2025
  • A sampler of notes about age based assumptions and details of a life drawing tracing the contours of a pose on a map.
    Communication as translation7th March, 2025
  • A rose made from the day's newspsper, a flat graphic rose, kites made from the spaces between hearts and tracing a heart cookie cutter
    A bouquet of experiments26th February, 2025
  • The Trampery on the Gantry and the sketchbooks made to look like its colourful studios
    A Gantry of sketchbooks19th February, 2025

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