Izzy in SF

On 01/01/2010 I will be relocating to San Francisco from London to take part in Chronicle Book's children's design fellowship and I have decided to document this amazing experience on here!
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I have decided to move my blog as tumbler photo quality is so poor. Please keep reading. Just use this new address.

Les Queues De Sardines 

Les Queues De Sardines have the collest tights I have ever seen. Check out all the funny deisgns! I especiall like the Chimera and Bonny Designs in the Spring/Summer 2010 collection. Now I just need a to find a way to justify spending 40 euros on a pair of tights!

My Photostream 

Check out all my photos here!

Bad Uploads

Woahhh Tumbler has bad upload quality. I can promise you my photos are a lot better than they look. I think I will have to set up a Flickr account to link to this blog!

Oooo New Camera

Here are a few of the photos i have taken on my fancy new camera!

MONTAGE


I have had a very busy past couple of weeks, hence why I haven’t written anything in a while. I am now going to write a list (I like lists!) in chronological order (starting from Friday 12th Feb) to let you know what I have been up to:

Fri

- After work beer at Ironside (bar/restaurant/cafe next to work) to celebrate the start of the long weekend.

-Go to a gig at The Bottom of the Hill on Potrero hill with my Irish friend Brian.

Sat

- Shop till I drop on Powell street and around union square. I managed to find a $5 dress at Macy’s! And I went to the Cheesecake factory (one piece took me 3 attempts to finish!).

- Paint my nails a lovely shade of pink.

-Go out for my birthday drinks at Brunos on Mission and somewhere called The Lone Palm (I’m not sure where it was)

-Walk home via a bakery giving out free wine and cupcakes, Yum!

- Put on the disco lights at the apartment and dance to Kate Bush with Ryan (roommate), Eloise (workmate) and Ben (workmate).

-Listen to R Kelly, Prince and more Kate Bush.

- Watch Buster Keaton film.

Sun

-Stay in Bed until 3pm.

-Go to the amazing Pillow Fight with Eloise.

-Go to diner for traditional American food, otherwise known as hangover supper!

-Meet up with Amelia, Erica, Ryan and a group of Ryan’s friends and go to Karaoke (I didn’t sing!)

Mon

- Yay it’s presidents day so no work and it’s sunny!

- tidy bedroom and do Laundry.

-Walk down to Valencia Street where I bump into Erica who takes me on a tour of the best shops:

http://www.paxtongate.com/

http://www.curiosityshoppeonline.com/

-We went to meet Amelia and Tess (Amelia’s dog) in Delores Park.

-Get a Mani Pedi (bright blue!)

- Go for Thai with Ryan, Dylan (Ryan’s brother) and a couple of their friends.

Tue

- My birthday!!

- Go to work.

-Open some cards and presents

- Work on World Almanac 2nd Grade answer pages.

- Go to Ironside for some wine after work.

- Go for Thai and cocktails at Ozone with sarah, Emily and Ben.

-Go to Emily’s apartment, drink white Russians and play scrabble (I won!)

Wed

- Feel completely rubbish all day

- Am cheered up by another influx of presents from England, including Minstrels (cheers Jus!)

-Start grouping and reducing answer pages for the Almanac.

-Go home straight to bed after work.

Thurs

- The end to the Almanac is almost insight. I set about finishing it.

- I finish it at 8.30 pm yipee!!!!

- Sleep!

Friday

- Now the almanac is pretty much over I have more time to focus on more exciting projects.

-Go to design lab completely unprepared.

-Come away from design lab completely inspired.

-Spend the rest of the afternoon working on new book ideas (I will show you when they are actually mocked up).

- Go for Sushi and to see Shutter Island (watch it, it has an amazing twist) with Amelia in Japan town.

Sat

- Wake up really inspired and excited about new projects.

- Go to Arch and buy some art supplies.

-Go to a fabric shop and buy a tonne of felt (all will be revealed in the next week!)

-Go to a camera shop and buy a digital SLR (eeeekkk and yay!)

-Travel all the way to Hobby co on geary and 15th for more art supplies.

-Get home just in time for drawing party and pizza.

-Cover the living room walls in paper and play a massive game of pictionary until 3am. Rather than using actual pictionary clues we used answers from a 1980’s trivial pursuit, it was hilarious!

Sun

-Wake up and draw for a few hours.

-Head over to Berkley for supper with my parents friend Tom and his wife Elizabeth and daughter Jordan.

-Go on a tour of Berkley, but stay in the car as it’s raining.

-Eat like a queen - Roast chicken, garlic pasta, green beans and creme brulee (Tom is an amazing cook)

Mon

-Work on loads of different projects which was awesome.

- My main project today was The Present by Bob Gill, Its a nice little story about a boy called Arthur trying to guess what his birthday present is. It felt so nice to be designing again!

- Have the first Chronicle movie night of 2010, we watched The Beach on the big projector screen in the library and ate popcorn.

-Wrote blog…Oh hello, that’s now!

P.S. From now on I’m going to try and make this blog more photographic and work based as that is the whole reason I am in San Francisco.

P.P.S Please comment on here so I know people are reading it, or alternatively email me your thoughts at izzy@izzylangridge.com.

I Love This Book!!

I got The Art of Paper Folding for Pop-Up by Miyuki Yoshida for my birthday (Thanks Emily!). I have been wanting it for ages so Im very happy! It has 30 removable pages, each of which has a different pop on! Amazing!

KATIE SOKOLER is a reelance photographer and street artist living in Brooklyn. Her blog colormekatie is so much fun! Watch this short documentary and see how awesome she is!

Simon Evans took a photo of everything he owns and put it on this poster, It looks amazing! I think if I was to do this I would have a much larger poster as I am a super hoarder!

Simon Evans took a photo of everything he owns and put it on this poster, It looks amazing! I think if I was to do this I would have a much larger poster as I am a super hoarder!

My Godson

Joshua Jack Bridges born at 1:16 am on the 14th February 2010 weighing in at 6lb 15oz. Well done Alex and Emma!

This Parkour flip book is amazing! Its by a graphic designer from Singapore called Serene Teh.

Museum of Modern Tweets 

This is hilarious, Odessa Begay takes celebrity tweets and turns them into abstract illustrations!

Hipster Puppies 

The Graphic design puppy is the best!

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