I’ve been reading Grimms Fairytales lately, I really don’t agree that kids should be mollycoddled (not sure if it’s a real word but you know what I mean), I think stories that are purely sweet and nice and full of fluff and puppy dogs tails (although that is a little gruesome) are under estimating children. I really believe they see things differently than us and everything has a little magic to it for them, I think for a story to have dimension for kids it needs a little darkness, and so to bring this full circle, that is why I went back to Grimms Tales, to see where our original Fairytales started.
So, today when I accidently found The Islanders An Introduction by Charles Avery it reminded me straight away of Grimms. I love his almost human worlds, full of unusual characters, the weird and the wonderful. I’ve uploaded some images above, see what I mean!
Have a look at Irishbusinesstalk.com, going for a gander now! It’s a new forum for people in business to share ideas and get a little help when required (which form my experience is always!)
The aim of the game is to get to the top 5 on the editors list and earn yourself a Harper Collins review or possible publication. The gold star gained for a top five finish is highly sought after and is a great marketing tool for your work so obviously I’d love to get one!
“A Load of Rubbish” has done way better than I ever imagined firstly taking the no.1 position on the weekly book list for a number of days when initially loaded up and now after only 2 months, climbing above approx 5000 books to be within grasp of the editors list.
So please if you know anyone or if you care to have a gawk yourself and maybe pass on a vote, click on this link!
I met Rosemary Murphy through a “Start your own business” course back at the beginning of the year.
On seeing my work Rosemary asked me to design her branding and website for her online wool company “The Constant Knitter” I have to say she was one of the easiest clients to work with, she wanted something different, a little quirky and the rest she left to me. Since then we have become good friends and I am pleased to announce that after months of work on the backend from KRO, her website The Constant Knitter.com has gone live.
Have a look and buy some wool. A knitting craze is sweeping the country, pick up those needles!
Hello and welcome to my site, well I mean my bosses site, but she’s put me in charge so to all extensive purposes its my site!
What will I say, this is my first time to use a blog and I’m not sure what I am doing but maybe I will start with introducing myself…
No actually rethinking that, first I better talk about my boss and this company because that’s what this site is supposed to be about. I’ll tell you about me later (It’s much more interesting). So I work for a company called HelD. It’s a design agency based in Ireland and we do everything, design wise that is! Anyway we specialise in innovative design, I’ve been told to say that but what it really breaks down to is that we love ideas, all sorts of ideas and our favourite part of the job (well my favourite part at least) is sitting down and trying to come up with the maddest (and obviously the best) idea I can and then selling it to the client, its especilly good when they get as excited as I do about it!
So anyway have a look at our website helddesign.ie and you’ll see what I mean.
