incoming

I have been super lazy with my blogging, I apologize. It seems my life is about to embark on a yet another new chapter. I am currently working on two sites , ideas that I have wanted to launch for more than a year now. Wacudo.com is a personal project that I have schemed for a few years now. Created for my obsessive nature to travel and dream of exploring every square inch of the globe it is a personal online travel journal with content from locals on where visitors should eat/sleep/go/visit/buy etc

I have been laying the pages out with a duo team, Selina Lalli my art director and Rakhi our illustrator. The website already has a nice feel to it, unintimidating, clean, inviting, just how I like my sites. The first countries/cities we will be plugging in are LONDON, NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, TAMPA, BAHRAIN, KUWAIT, OMAN, ABU DHABI, DUBAI, BEIRUT and my personal fave TOKYO. This does mean that I will be saving up to buy airplane tickets, if there is anything I would love to do for a living it's travel.

The other site I am launching is Sketchbook Live, an online magazine version of Sketchbook Magazine. As my readers/loyal fans know Sketchbook is available to buy as a print publication/pdf we also have Sketchbook TV and a blog but we DO NOT have a horizontal online archive of all our blog features so we are moving camp.

It is a slower process than I thought with a team of 3 working on moving all 600 articles to the new site. Laura Sam- content editor, Lauren - content editor's assistant, and Amy Edgar - project manager have been moving every credit and thumbnail over cups of coffee and cake.




I do try to take the necessary steps to be innovative. I don't ever seem to be satisfied with production levels and want things faster, sharper, easier. I am glad that I am constantly evolving Sketchbook. It is a mission of mine to be updated , to make things fresh and new and to never be out of date so Sketchbook and all my projects really will be a work in progress.

Send over your feedback on Wacudo and Sketchbooklive folks!

Hours before our Final Event @ Kingly

The unveiling of the sign @ Kingly

Delightful spreads from issue 2

Along with creating my new design agency Obai and Hill I took a moment with Sketchbook's account director to look over numbers of issues sold in the first quarter since Issue 2 has taken off. And the result just made me marvel at how we were able to beat the numbers of sales of Issue 1. In celebration I am sharing my fave pages of Issue 2 - the London designers issue (part1) in my own personal blog to check out! Remember you can order the magazine here and view it here.

Your First Look Folks -----The Sketchbook i-app

For the past few months I have been developing the ipad-iphone app for Sketchbook Magazine, and let me just saw it has not been easy liaising with graphic artists, web and digital designers to get our desired effect but we have managed to get it to the T. In a few months or so all you iphoners and ipaders will be able to download Sketchbook's app and flick through all the issues of our magazine (that's almost 400 pages of pure content) that you can zoom in on. We have great in-depth studio articles and exclusive interviews with all our favorite bloggers and designers.

But the best part you will be able to really hone in on our hand drawn illustrations. I hope you all enjoy reading through our pages just as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

We really pride ourselves on being on top of social media network and scene and that means being up to date and offering all our readers another option to interact with SB