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Updating your interiors with Posterlounge

Published by Karen Knox

As you guys will probably know, i’ve been faffing around with our living room gallery wall for a while now. Ya know, since I finally painted all the walls black. Finally black. I liked it, but it wasn’t quite right. Not yet anyway. Luckily, around the same time, Posterlounge got in touch asking if i’d like to work with them on a post. Erm yes please! Yeah, I would. So I jumped onto their site and began the search for new art and artists. Stage 1 of operation ‘Gallery Wall Update’. Still not quite right. The Posterlounge site is BIG! They have A LOT of stuff and the best thing is it’s all super affordable with prices starting from around £6.90 with free delivery. Pretty good eh? ‘WAITING MAGRITTE’ by THE USUAL DESIGNERS Absolutely love the colours. Clouds and faces. Faces and clouds. They get me every time! They have everything you could think of; photography, illustrations, abstract, realism, surrealism, advertising posters, paintings, graphic design, digital art, collage art, typography…. The list is endless, so it took …

There is art inside…

Published by Karen Knox

We’ve had a gallery wall at home for the last 18 months. It’s grown a fair bit over that time. As has my taste in art and design in general I guess. Bits and pieces have been added, changed, updated and moved about. Photo by Oliver Gordon It’s not a huge wall, but big enough to do something with. We can’t place furniture here or hang shelves as a door opens onto it. It’s not big enough to take a statement piece of art either because of where the light switch is. It’s a pretty limited space actually, but that hasn’t stopped me having itchy fingers. I wanted something more compact. A more cohesive look. I also wanted to save money by re-using the original frames. So, bright and early on a Sunday morning, the frames were taken down, walls filled and sanded, skirting board masked up, sheets put down and paint pots brought out. I was armed and ready. I’d also already received a cheeky little delivery earlier that week. Cue, Desenio a Stockholm based online art retailer …

The Italic Poster

Published by Karen Knox

  The Italic Poster How cool is that? The Italic Poster by Eivind Molvær. I spotted it during a little peruse through at{mine} and it sparked me to do a bit of research and find out why a) I’d never seen it before and b) why I don’t own one. How is this even possible? It was designed and produced in 2007 which is when I really started getting into art, prints and all things “wall”. It’s such a simple concept, but aren’t the best ones always simple?! A clean, monochrome poster with three simple words in bold, cap locks typography. But whack the traditional poster shape on it’s head, make it Italic, and you’ve got a completely genius piece of art. “If only i’d thought of that??”   rikiki The first run sold out pretty quickly by all accounts, but another run of 77 (good number) was done in collaboration with rikiki in Germany. They’re currently for sale at €75 (about £53). Not bad for a limited edition, signed, and numbered piece of genius. Although I can foresee trying …

#loveyourwalls

Published by Karen Knox

There isn’t a room in our house that doesn’t have a print, photo, or picture. Most rooms have several. My current stash has taken me about a decade to collect and source. The latest two can be found over at my Ikea Art Event post from last month. I’m rather a big fan of bold graphic designs. Bizarreness. Urban art. Slogans or quotes. Anything that I might look at which may make me think about my day differently. I thought i’d share with you all what’s on my walls. Will start in the kitchen. Make Art Not War by Shepard Fairey Obey – Andre the Giant by Shepard Fairey Any self professing lover of street art must own one of these. Or at least have it as their screen saver. Drift by David Walker (with my son’s hand painted red bus and handprints from toddler group to the right). The most beautiful detail. The living room. Where I tried my best to keep it simple, but so far we have six prints. Is Hate Too …

Ikea Art Event 2015

Published by Karen Knox

Ikea “The story behind this year’s IKEA art event comes directly from the reality of the streets of the world. 12 different street artists with different styles and expressions were invited to create 12 unique 70x100cm posters just for IKEA. And with these collections, art becomes accessible for a lot of people at a surprisingly affordable price of £10 each. You don’t need to be wealthy to buy something extravagant. Now… take an inspirational journey and meet the artists behind the motifs!” Here are the pieces all in a row. Good eh? I don’t tend to buy much Ikea artwork. I kind of think it’s a bit lazy, like you’ve not taken the time to think about what you want on your walls or in your space. There are certainly some Ikea pieces i’ve seen FAR too many times, hung badly and in the wrong setting. These poster prints however were different. They were all completely individual, bold, detailed and full of colour. And being limited edition meant you were only going to see them in …