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From me to you

(not intended to sound like the Chuckle Brothers, but hey…)

So I’ve been blogging for almost 4 years now. In the beginning this blog was just about me keeping a record of my journey through college and it was just me talking to myself. Fast forward to now, and my blog is a lot more than that. I’m still keeping a record of my journey (through Uni), but now people actually read what I write – people from 315 countries have visited my blog!

I get complimented on my blog, which always makes me blush and have been referred to as ‘the blog girl’ which as weird as it is, is great because that was someone that I had never met before that remembered my blog!

I love blogging and would still be doing it even if no one read mine, but it’s a great feeling to think that my blog has helped people. J’adore and Triangle Friday have both provided design inspiration and I’ve heard that I’ve inspired a few people to write their own blog which is great! I’ve also been giving my blog link to students I have met whilst helping at the University open day – to give a real insight to the course. But I want to give something more to you guys.

Graphique Fantastique is really close to reaching 100,000 views – which is crazy. At the moment I’m writing this, the number stands at 99,388, but by looking at stats I predict I will reach the big 100K by the end of the week! To say thank you to everyone who reads, likes, comments and follows I want to give you the opportunity to win a silk screen printed poster:

This is a poster which I produced for a group magazine project . It’s the optimistic version because I feel that a positive outlook on life is the best to have and I would like to think it’s an attitude that my blog conveys. It’s just smaller than A3, printed with white ink on fluorescent orange paper (Paperchase’s finest!). I only printed 10 of these so it’s limited edition, and when I’m famous it might be worth something? (a girl can dream) ha

To win, either send me an email including your name (and a nice message if you like) to trianglefriday@hotmail.com – OR tweet/retweet this:
I’m helping @natashanuttall celebrate 100K views for http://www.graphiquefantastique.com & want to win the fluoro poster for my wall RT TO ENTER

Spread the word :)  I’ll pick the winner a week today,on Tuesday 27th November at 9PM (UK time) so keep your fingers crossed! Winning this poster will brighten up your day – it literally will; the orange is that bright! :)

Good Luck :)

EDIT:
Someone asked me to see a close up of the details of the type, so here’s a close up of the digital file which I used to print from:

So you can tell now – the type has been sliced and framed by 2 lines at the top and bottom. It’s set in the lovely Didot too :)

EDIT:
So at around 2PM UK Time on 23rd November, this happened:

100,003 views! Thanks to everyone who has supported my blog since I began posting on WordPress in June 2009 (and before on blogspot from Jan 2009). I really appreciate every view, comment and follower :)

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Lucky Six

Since August I’ve been pretty lucky either winning or aquiring Graphic Design items (posters, books etc) through twitter and facebook.

I thought it was about time I shared them with you so I photographed them all before the snow came to visit Lincoln (we’ve got a couple of cms now)!

Back in August I won the first issue of Imagine That, a zine showing student work.

I even feature inside… well, one of my tweets:

Included was this cute screen print poster of a typewriter:

In November I won one of only 50 black & gold Kern prints from Pixel One:

At the end of January I retweeted ex-Lincoln Student Sophie Adams‘ tweet competition to win one of her Ghosts books about the abandoned underground stations of London:

And it must have been my lucky week because the day after I was picked as the winner of a breakfast themed poster from Tom Davie of Studio twentysix-2. I did a J’adore post about Tom’s work a while back, so was really excited to be getting a print of his work! It came all the way from America:

Looks good enough to eat – yum!

At Leeds Print Festival I was kindly given 2 posters; a Leeds Print Festival 2012 lilac poster by Aaron Skipper (who was helping to organise it):

(The only photo taken today – Lincoln has snow now!)

and also a Lestaret lino print, which I did show already but I just wanted to show you it’s beauty again:

Amazing!

I’m not usually a lucky person so it just proves that it’s worth keeping an eye out for competitions on social networking because you really could win!

Thanks to Imagine That, Pixel One, Sophie Adams, Tom Davie, Aaron Skipper and Lestaret. I love all of my goodies and am quickly developing a design wall in my room!

The next thing I’m hoping to win is a yellow pencil or a framed YCN A (fingers crossed!) but I guess I could settle for a lovely print in the meantime :)

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Fundamental: SCY Lincoln Flyers

It’s all a bit exciting when you get live briefs – a chance to get your work out into the real world! Still, a bit daunting too!

This month Amy, who currently does most of the nightlife flyers/design work, kindly persuaded SCY to start a design competition. This is going to be a monthly thing hopefully so watch this space! The brief was to create an A6  flyer for a new night at nightclub SCY, Lincoln called Fundamental.

There wasn’t really a lot of constraints, so we were quite free with what we were able to put forward. I have got a bit of a thing for triangles, so used them in my design:

Congratulations to the winners; 1st place – Thomas Heaps, 2nd place – Helen Finlinson and 3rd place – Talveer Uppal :) Can’t wait to see your flyers around Lincoln!

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Creative Faces

I work at a chinese restaurant, and something has been bugging me for weeks.

One of my jobs before we open is to clean the salt, pepper and toothpick trays. I do this every Tuesday, and for a while now I have been seeing a face in the arrangement!
It was very co-incidental/odd/perfect when at the ucas fair last week, a student at Leeds College of Art and Design told me about a ‘creative faces’ competition that is running at the moment! The prize is a Digital SLR camera! How cool is that?  So, I managed to take a sneaky picture last night and have submitted it:

Who else can see the cheeky face sticking it’s tongue out at you?
(Click the picture to go to the site and check out my competition)

I had a look at the competition and the majority of entries are photos of people or animal faces, which I don’t think is very creative really… so hopefully I will be in with a chance!
You can enter upto 3 times, so I have 2 gos left… watch this post for updates on any more faces I see!

ALSO, let me know if you submit any faces!

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