Secrets.

i heart...


secrets.

Thing is, I am RUBBISH at keeping them & get far too excited. I'm rubbish at presents, merely for the fact that I end up telling the person what it is before they can even open it. Well, we have one very big secret & I think I've done very well by keeping it for 2 whole days, so as my reward I'm going to allow myself to tell you now :)

i heart... is soon to publish it's very own monthly zine called...

It will act as a platform for artists/designers, allow you to have your say, inspire collaboration, keep you up-to-date on events & projects, have a different artist design the cover each month... Contribution is the key!

Our first issue will be available on the 1st of June 2011, but you can pre-order yours now if you like. Now this is the different bit. We want you to choose how much you'd like to pay, so it's accessible to everyone. That's right, we could be slightly mad but, you only have to pay what you can afford & our zine will wing it's way to your postbox.

We want you to get involved as much as possible. Firstly, we want one of you talented lot to design the front cover. The only guidelines are...

The theme is 'beards & bears'.

Submissions must be black & white and A5 in size.

So get doodling & send your submissions by 15th May to -

heartandlungs@iheartdotdotdot.co.uk

To read about a whole bunch of other ways you can contribute head on over to the website - 

www.heartandlungszine.co.uk

We've also got a facebook page - 

www.facebook.com/HeartandLungsZine

And a twitter page -

www.twitter.com/heart_and_lungs

Ahhhh, now doesn't that feel better!

xox.

'my favourite place' zine launch!

i heart...


our 'my favourite place' collaborative zine.

& today is launch day! the zine consists of artwork & sounds of 10 different talented people, depicting their favourite place. And yes, you heard right. The zine has sounds! not only will you be able to see what the artist's favourite place looks like, you'll be able to hear it too!

From New York to Newport, swans gaggling to magpies cawing, a cosy cabin to a spider skull mountain where the spider skull monkey lives, you can safely say there's a huge range of different places, sounds & techniques included in the zine.

With pieces from...
Murray Somerville
Barbara Ana Gomez
Helen Macdonald
Melanie Chadwick
Gillian Gibson
Natalie Hughes
Emma Cowley
Sarah McGarva
Matt Ellero
Daria Hlazatova

...the zine is full to the brim with talent from around the world!

To get your eyes & ears a copy, click HERE. & be quick! it's a limited edition of only 30!

xox.

projects, projects, projects.

i heart...


community projects.

& i've got quite a few buzzing around in my head just now. first of all there's our 'my favourite place' collaborative zine. at the end of last year we called for people around the globe to submit an artwork & sound that depicted what/where/who their favourite place was. we received an amazing range of submissions & after trying & failing to get funding to get the zines printed & a very busy festive season, i've finally managed to save up some pennies to get the zine finished & they will be ready for you to get your hands on soon. hurray! part of today was spent figuring out what to put on the front cover of the zine. i like making the front covers to our zines a bit different - our last zine, 'i heart...zines!' has a concoction of paint, photos, illustration & sewing on it's front - & came up with this embroidered piece...

unfortunately it's too big, but if you like it you can get it here. (if you would like me to do any custom embroidery pieces just drop me an e-mail at hello@iheartdotdotdot.co.uk)
so, i'm back to square one, but i'll think of something!

now to a project that i've taken part in myself, the 100 million stitches project which is part of the celebration of the centenary of international women's day. they are calling out for knitted patches which will be sewn together to make a huge art piece to raise awareness of the estimated 100 million women that are missing in the world today due to gender discrimination.
this is my patch...

if you would like to get involved too, you can find more info here.

this project has inspired me for our next community collaboration. so watch this space & get your knitting needles at the ready.

xox.

i heart...my favourite place announcement.

i heart...

all the submissions i have received over the last wee while for our next collaborative zine project - 'i heart...my favourite place.'

and i am very happy to announce that the 10 very talented creative people that will have their artwork & sounds featured in the zine are...

Barbara Ana Gomez

Matthew Ellero

Emma Cowley

Helen Macdonald

Natalie Hughes

Melanie Chadwick

Murray Sommerville

Gillian Gibson

Daria Hlazatova

Sarah McGarva

the zine will be available to purchase from my online shop in january, after the mayhem of the festivities are over. but i'll be sure to keep you up-to-date on how it's all coming along.

can't wait till then to feed your collaborative zine desires? a few zines from our last project are still available here.

xox.

i heart...my favourite place.

i heart...


organising another collaborative zine!

whilst taking submissions for the last zine project i organised ('i heart...zines!' grab yourself one here) i had the idea of having the awesome RM Hubbert record some of his amazing guitar playing onto one of those sound chip things you get in greetings cards & putting it into the zine so that when you opened it you could hear his music. but unfortunately recordable chips were quite expensive & majorly bulky so that idea was scrapped...

...which made room for this idea! to organise another collaborative zine where every page of artwork would have a corresponding sound, not through horrible big expensive chips, but through a website link. the idea being that you can look at the artwork whilst listening to the sound that goes with it at the same time! pretty cool huh?

i've decided that the theme for this one will be 'my favourite place.' as you can see...

if you would like to send a submission, think of your favourite place. maybe it's the seaside, or at a gig, or at your folk's house watching corrie. create an A6 size piece using whatever materials you choose & then think of the sound that's incorporated with that place & RECORD IT! use your phone, your computer, a mic - anything that can record .wav files.

then all you have to do is:

post me your A6 size art piece to...

lodge 8

mains of garten farm

boat of garten

ph24 3by

(because i love getting post & people should most definitely send more things in the post).

then e-mail the .wav file of your sound to...

iona@iheartdotdotdot.co.uk

& bob's your auntie!

xox.

i heart...zines! are here!

i heart...


i heart...zines!

after transforming a little idea in my head into a reality, a month of getting excited about the submissions the postie would bring me in the morning & finally collating them all & stitching them together, the i heart...zines! collaborative zine is here!

the zine includes work from a whole array of creative lovelies & each of them has created a piece that depicts what they 'heart.'

it is a limited edition of 30, so be quick before they all go!

you can purchase one HERE.

xox.

i heart...zines! update.

i heart...


every single one of the submissions people from across the world sent in for the i heart...zines! collaborative zine project. each one is so unique, so many different techniques were used, from people of all different artistic backgrounds. thank you to everyone that spend time & effort creating their submission.

the deadline was on sunday & i can proudly announce that the lovely people that will have their pieces in the zine are...

Stephanie Spindler
Luke Joyce
Helen Macdonald
Yvonne Stewart
Gillian Gibson
Lisa-Marie Ferla
Michelle Price
Faye West
Camille Condon
Lynsay Neil
Melanie Chadwick
Fay Newman

and heres a wee sneak peek of the cover with real thread, photos, paint, pencil & mini zine all  included...

one down, only another 29 to handmake!

the zines will be on sale for 6 squid on my website, which launches on saturday!

i really hope this is the first collaborative zine of many :)

xox.

i heart...zines!

i heart...

zines!

i heart...collaboration.
i heart...creative people irrespective of their experience.
i heart...giving people the opportunity to showcase their work.
i heart...fun projects!

so after a weekend of the cogs in my wee head turning, i came up with this idea.

to celebrate the launch of the i heart... website on 18th september 2010, i would like to produce a collaborative zine which will be sold in my online shop.

i'd like the submissions to be as diverse as possible, from as many different disciplines as possible & using as many different materials as you want.

most importantly i'd like the submissions to come from ANYONE. it doesn't matter if you've studied art or not, call yourself an 'artist' or not, are 5 or 95, create things professionally or just doodle in your spare time. this project is inclusive of EVERYONE.

and all you have to do is...
tell me what YOU heart.
send me an A6 piece with the caption 'i heart...' on it somewhere & write, draw, paint, photograph etc, what you heart.

successful submissions will be included in a limited edition zine & their details (name, website/e-mail addresses) will be featured also. you will also benefit from lots of free advertising from myself via social networks, blogs etc so people can find out who you talented lovelies are & get your work out there for all to see :)

any questions drop me a wee e-mail to:
iona@iheartdotdotdot.co.uk

i don't think people send post enough these days so all submissions should be popped in a postbox & sent to:

Lodge 8
Mains Of Garten Farm
Boat Of Garten
PH24 3BY

i think that's everything, so get making!

xox.