More amazingly inspirational work brought together by the London Illustration Fair for their summer festival on a sunny Friday evening in Hoxton. Like the winter fair, I didn’t know where to look first – my brain trying desperately to take it all in and remember every sweep of colour, every beautiful and intricate detail. It opened my mind to the massive range and depth of graphic design and illustration out there. The creative possibilities are endless, and it made me want to go straight home to make some work of my own!

Words just don’t describe how much I loved visiting this quirky little fair in East London. I have just been offered a full time job in graphic design and so I made the most of my last day as a wanderer, going to the Egon Schiele exhibition at the Courtauld and then on to the London Illustration Fair in Hoxton. Everybody I know is now getting a print for Christmas!

I went particularly mad at Sandra Dieckmann and Ben Rothery‘s stalls. Both very different in style, but oh so beautiful. I was unable to leave without a large armful of prints from both. Sandra’s colourful prints fuel the imagination and drag you into a more beautiful reality and Ben’s prints are based more in the wonders of this reality, picking out forms and characters in wonderful detail and often adding a little twist so that you just have to look again.

It was a great and inspirational day and I’m sure that my head will buzz from all the fab artistic input for a long time yet!