WUW HOO

Picked up this magazine the other day called WUW Magazine. Basically I'm a sucker for a decent cover so handed over my hard earned (well earned), well I handed over my £4.95 cash without really knowing what the hell I was buying. Pleasantly surprised however as WUW describes itself as a 'little book of ideas' and that's exactly what it is. It features artists of all sorts (graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, product designers etc) and is filled with other snippets of inspiration from all things creative.

Just my cup of tea really. Milk no sugar.

Too much to talk about but I will pick out a few things that caught my eye. Jen Stark creates sculptures out of paper that are usually intricately cut and painstakingly put together but the results are spectacular. There was a nice quote in there (not from her) but that described the process quite nicely; 'Maturity means to rediscover the seriousness one had at play'.

Jeremy Pettis is an all round designer who is interested in typography in particular. He developed the 'Twenty-six types of animals' which was a series of animals spelled out, each developed by using the main characteristics from that animal. Nice. He also dedicates Wednesday as 'doodle day' which I think is possibly the most awesome way of spending a Wednesday ever! To be fair though, I spend most of my days doodling.

Ryan Frank is a furniture designer and he creates pieces from old scrap and generally stuff found in skips etc. He also does this really cool thing were he puts up big white boards in urban areas and leaves them there to 'absorb' their surroundings (i.e. get graffiti on). When they are suitably 'stained' he then uses them to create one-off pieces of furniture. Like it a lot. If only they weren't so god damn expensive!

Anyway that's the highlights from WUW magazine and to leave you with a little 'did you know' from WUW... All the chemicals in the human body have a combined value of approximately £4.00. So not that much. There goes my money-making plan A...