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26. New-Look Website Launch!!!


Remember me telling you about my website updating? Well, the designer and I have been tweaking and fiddling about with it, and it's at last ready to set before you!


This is my new homepage - the animal still dance about, but now they blink too. The little red plane is Giddy Goat, who flies across the top of each page, bringing you up-to-the-minute news.


It's not radically different in appearance - I've hung on to the basic colour and feel of the original, but it has some new features (like the form above, for leaving feedback after workshops), and it's a lot easier to find your way around.

It's also much, much easier for me to keep updated, so I will be adding new work far more frequently. This is what the individual book pages look like:


Spot the little rhino, swinging behind my name? There are lots of cute creatures that appear in corners, which change randomly each time you return.

There are tons more sketchbooks to see this time, including all my train portraits gathered together and the books of the various places I have travelled to:


Those montage sketchbook pages I showed you are in action too (the drawing in the book varies according to which set of sketches you choose):


The kids Funclub section is still the same I'm afraid - that's the next thing to tackle. Plus some sections still haven't had all the images re-loaded yet, as that's my bit of donkey-work (I'm trying to keep costs down by loading some stuff myself).


Please do have a look round and come back and let me know if anything's flaky, or if you find any weird anomalies. Your feedback would be really useful!

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27. Creating More Website Montages


Remember I designed a sketchbook montage for my new website? It works well, so I have been stealing time to create another one, for an introduction page to my sketchbooks.

I want to be able to add more sketches over time, so have decided to divide the sketchbooks into locations (ie Asia, UK, Europe etc) to keep things manageable. My new montage will go behind the thumbnails for these categories:


It's muted so the thumbs will show up, and of course big lumps will be eclipsed by them, which is why it's so 'busy'. This is roughly how it will work:


Each of these white square will contain a relevant drawing. When you click one, you'll see a selection of sketchbooks to choose from, which you click to see the specific drawings.

I wanted to keep things lively and varied, but can't afford the time to do any more montages, so the designer has enlarged various sketches as background images for the thumbnails within each of the categories above.

This drawing sits behind all my 'In The UK' sketchbooks for instance.

I did end up having to create one more montage - none of my train portraits worked as a background, so I combined several (in Photoshop of course) for the backdrop to the 'Train People' sketchbooks:

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28. Designing the Exhibition Space

The design of my exhibition space is being finalised this week. The work is all being framed, all the props are being made and the final layout decided.

We are now having mobiles of animals from Kangaroos Cancan Cafe instead of monkeys - I think the platypus and koala would be really funny. The monkeys are now part of a monkey's tea party instead, as in Stinky!
, with fake food etc for children's play. This will combine nicely with the magnetic flies game.

We are going to cut one monkey's face out, making a hole in the board, for children to stick their face through and be part if the party. If they stick their face through the other way, they will appear in the belly of the anaconda in Class Two at the Zoo.

There is a new idea (inspired by something we saw at the Quentin Blake show) - a quiz board about dinosaurs, based on Gnash, Gnaw, Dinosaur!, with round shapes you can twirl to reveal the answers.


I am a little disappointed that we are unable to include the ark now, with the little stuffed animals for the children to put into it. Some breakdown in communication meant that the publisher did not supply copies of Lark in the Ark for sale at the show, and so the curator has dropped the idea. Very frustrating!



We are still going to have the reading area, which will be a mock-up of Smudge's sitting room, with pictures of Smudge and her friends on the wall in frames, and Smudge visible through a fake window, playing in the garden. Aaah...



And since Giddy Goat is part of the show's title, he is going to be stencilled on the walls around the exhibition, leaping from picture to picture, or balancing on top of frames!

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29. As seen in Baby Couture

The summer issue of Baby Couture arrived the other day. Tori & Dean along with their adorable tots appear on the cover. An article - and photos - of Scott Baio's family can be found inside, along with many hip and haute fashions for infants and toddlers. Here's just a small sample of the clothing lines found in this Special Anniversary Issue (for kids and adults):
Of course, the cutest clothes in the Tori Spelling article were from her own line of baby clothes, Little Maven, available in department stores and boutiques this fall!

You or your child can upload a photo to the Baby Couture editors for a chance at modeling in an upcoming issue! Head over to their website to register.

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30. Jewelry based on Matt’s comic

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Montreal designer, Roadkill Roadkill, has made a series of pendants based on my comic Ojingogo! There are three of them and she has them up for sale in her Etsy shop.

They’re beautiful. I love them - but whatevs, yeah, I ‘m biased.

Check out Roadkill Roadkill’s blog for more great designs. I also highly recommend subscribing to her Google Reader favourites. Lots of great design links there.

Also check out:

Matt’s book available online
Ojingogo Nominated

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