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Award-winning UK design blog established in 2010 to discover, champion and inspire new designers.

out and about :: pick me up, 2014

Katie, May 5, 2014June 16, 2020
This article was published 12 years

Pick Me Up London 2014

Contemporary graphic arts festival, Pick Me Up, is back at Somerset House for the fifth year running. I popped in to have to look and found all this lovely stuff…

Pick Me Up London 2014

Pick Me Up is a fun, informal way to explore graphic art and an affordable way to buy some. Unfortunately, I went along last Monday, when it was pretty quiet, but there’s loads going on and today’s the last day, so swing by if you can. My two favourite  finds were the reworking of Anthony Burrill‘s iconic Work Hard and Be Nice to People in notebook form – it’s got hot pink pages – and the swimmers, new from Outline Artists. If you can’t make it in person, everything is available from the Pick Me Up online shop

Further reading for the especially geeky:

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  • out and about :: wallpaper*handmade, milan 2014
  • out and about :: milan 2014 preview

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Comments (2)

  1. Lauren says:
    May 5, 2014 at 3:39 pm

    I was actually at this last Tuesday! I have to admit I felt that a lot of the designers and stuff were a bit disconnected from it.
    Lauren | OhHay Blogs!
    xxx

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  2. Yviemarie says:
    May 7, 2014 at 1:49 pm

    Gutted I missed this year’s show! Looks like a good one too 🙂

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