This year Jewellery Week is a national event so the old London Jewellery Week branding has been replaced with our new logo. There are two versions, the full worded logotype and a monogram which is used as a decorative device. We wanted to create a stylish marque that would embrace the breadth of the jewellery industry from fine to contemporary and from high street to bespoke. The linking JW adds a little flourish which echoes the links in a chain and symbolizes the industry joining together to celebrate their craft.

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Another find from Islington’s wonderful ‘Past Caring’ which is the kind of old junk shop that hardly exists anymore. We just love the simplicity of the chunky font, the embossed faux leather paper and the embossing of the type itself. Each letter is defined so that the embossing plate is multi-layered and sculptured to create that plump cushioned effect. Yum!

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International health charity Merlin is using one of our tattoo illustrations in a Mother’s Day appeal. We were asked if we would donate use of our Swallow tattoo by JWT and we were happy to do so. The card shown above will be printed in Big Issue (out 12th March) and the idea is that you donate £3 to help train midwives and help save the lives of countless mums-to-be in countries where there is a dangerous shortage. You give your mum the printed card to show her that you have donated in her honour. If you cannot get hold of Big Issue you can still donate to the appeal by texting MUMS03 to 70070.

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This little book was first published in 1951 and is a wonderful insight into Festival of Britain, round-the-clock London. Illustrated by Osbert Lancaster, London Night and Day is full of tourist facts and figures including a list of night clubs with entrance fees, pubs by area and restaurants. I picked it up for the cover at the Hay on Wye literature festival but it wasnt until I started reading it that I became enchanted.

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I bought two tiny leather bound Thackeray novels from one of those cardboard boxes that you find outside antique shops thinking that they would always make good props. When I got home and was flicking through them this beautiful and pristine National Book Token with separate book plate fell out. I had no idea of the date or who illustrated it - though it looked a bit like Bawden.

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These knitting patterns were unearthed at curio shop ‘Past Caring’ in deepest Islington. The three boleros are from the carefree days when a ten year old girl had no qualms about being dressed the same as her four year old sister. The ‘chap’, sporting a 1940s ‘slipover’, is equally untroubled, with an inch of fag ash about to burn his fingers if the photographer faffs around any longer! Post Comment