Knowledge is power

I don’t read a great deal!.. well, I lie! I do… but I don’t have much time lately!

I am also a bit like Alice in Wonderland – I do love a book with pictures!

As a child I used to get lost in many a book – particularly the Famous Five by Enid Blyton (I wanted to be Georgie – she was a Tomboy like me back then and she seemed kinda cool) My mum was pretty hot on buying me books with small text and no pictures to build on my reading level and boost my imagination. They had to be “proper English” though, she was convinced the Americanised books were ruining my grammar! – imagine when I got to my teenage “girly” years and started to love The Babysitter Club series!

Her original theory worked well though because whenever I remember my favourite childhood books I can remember the pictures I made of the scenes in my head. I can remember where I was, how I felt and how old I was reading them. The brain and the imagination is an amazing tool.

Nowadays I mostly get lost in design books, fashion magazines… magazines in general actually! I have a bit of a magazine addiction! (my sisters eye rolling every time we go shopping and I ask to go into WHSmiths… :P) I also love looking at great illustrated children’s books; I have kept quite a collection of some of my old ones at home! “Miss McTaffertys Cats” being one… I remember my Grandma bought me this book, it was signed personally by the author and each page is beautifully illustrated. It is also interactive; the way it is made with cut out areas and hidden treasures on each page allowed the reader to interact with it more than just as a story.

Getting with the here and now though!

Here is where I shall be documenting the design greats.. The design books I will read that will inspire, motivate or just simply wow me.

Oh and finally- Thanks Mum for my A grade in GCSE English and my overactive imagination 😀 xo