A woman just came into the gallery and spoke about how her 6 year old daughter references places in east London based on pieces of ROA work, eg ‘it is near the rabbit’, says hello to each animal every day on her way to school, and was heart broken when her favourite piece was tagged over. I don’t think any other art movement can claim to directly effect so many different people’s lives.

New things:

- I went to Frankfurt a few weeks ago to take part in After School Club. Met a bunch of great people from all over the world and drank a lot of German beer.

- I currently work full time for D*Face, designing his first retrospective book.

- London really excites me again.

- I have my own studio space in Bermondsey, and it has the best accessible roof in the world.

- I sold my first pieces of work through StolenSpace a couple of weeks back.

- oh, and going quite a bit back I got down the interviews for that job with Kate Moross, but didn’t get it. Win some, lose some.

Offset 2012.

Last weekend I flew out to Dublin to attend Offset 2012.

I can’t be bothered to write a full review as no one will read it so instead I will do a series of top 5’s. It was just really great all round.

Top 5 speakers:

Sagmeister

Eric Kessels

Friends With You

Droga5

United Visual Artists

Top 5 things about Dublin:

The people

How walkable it is

The urge to drink nothing but Guinness

Accommodation- My hostel was good and a rad bloke put me up for a few nights too.

The excitement of buying things in euros

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”

I don’t want to admit who I am quoting from here…

…Bear Grylls

I have been invited by my friends at Clinic Presents to draw on some books as part of this years Pick Me Up. I will be down at Somerset House on Friday 30th, swing by and say hi.

The logo that a bunch of my ideas were rejected for. Designed by the client in the end, because obviously clients know best.

‘Nobody is interested in you, they are interested in what you believe’

‘If something can’t break your heart, it’s not worth doing it, right?’

‘style isn’t about what’s cool!! Style comes from a philosophy behind the work.’

-Jonathan Barnbrook