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18.1.16

Brighten up your January Desktop

Each month this year I'll be giving away free downloadable artwork to brighten up your desktops.

To kick off the series, here's something for your January!

Click here and to get your free download.

Hope you like it!

Sabrina

8.1.16

2016 starts with podcasts!

To kick off the new year I decided to delve into the world of podcasts and only after 2 days I am hooked - all thanks to Grace Bonney's (Design Sponge) "After The Jump".

In the series, Grace chats with various independent artists, designers, small business owners, writers and general makers and shakers in the creative community. The show is jam packed with real-life examples of best practice and things to avoid and above all, it's inspiring!

In just two days I have made it to Episode 28 (interview with the great illustrator and designer Julia Rothman).

I love how Grace is able to share her personal success stories and challenges whilst including a range of perspectives along the way.

If you are interested, Seasons 1 & 2 of After the Jump are online here and on iTunes here.

Grace if you happen to read this, thank you! I look forward to tuning in to Season 3.

14.10.15

Art Inc. - Recommended book

Art Inc. was one of my summer reads and comes highly recommended by me.

It reminded of the small things and more importantly, how to re-energise myself when creativity seems to slip away.

It's definitely inspiration for my career ahead!

Hilights include interviews with some top practitioners and independent creative businesses and a step by step guide on how to create a vision map and reach your goals.

The only thing I would say is some of the legal stuff will not be that useful if you are practising in the UK, like me.

Thanks to Lisa Congdon, a fine artist and illustrator and author for sharing her tips and experience!

#supportfortheartist

Art Inc.: The Essential Guide to building your career as an artist by Lisa Congdon is published by Chronicle Books.
www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/art-inc.html

I found it in the Tate Modern main bookshop - one of the best art book shops in London!

12.10.15

Serpentine gallery shop

This small but perfectly formed book shop in Serpentine Gallery has a great selection of contemporary and classic books and magazines covering a range of specialisms in the arts.

I absolutely love that it is situated in the heart of Regents Park and had some new titles to refresh my library.

5.8.15

Potsdam

The Chinese House, a garden pavilion in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, was designed by the garden architect Johann Gottfried Büring in the then-popular style of Chinoiserie; a combination of ornamental rococo elements and parts of Chinese architecture for the Prussian king Frederick the Great. It's a little crazy and well worth a visit!

To visit Sanssouci Park and learn about the crazy party animal and militant reign of Frederick the Great you can join a Fat Tire Bike Tour of Potsdam Gardens and Pavillions from Alexanderplatz, Mitte. I highly recommend it!

www.berlin.fattirebiketours.com.

Berlin 2015

Links and places:

Helmut Newton Foundation
www.helmutnewton.com

Mario Testino. In Your Face from: 20.01.2015 to 26.07.2015 at Kulturforum
www.kulturforum-berlin.de

do you read me?! (bookshop)
www.doyoureadme.de
Auguststraße 28, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Gestalten Store
www.shop.gestalten.com

Potsdam with Fat Tire Bike Tours (Gardens and Palaces Tour)
www.berlin.fattirebiketours.com
(more pics in my previous post)

Wannsee Lake
www.visitberlin.de/en/spot/strandbad-wannsee

Hackesche Höfe
Rosenthaler Straße 40/41
10178 Berlin-Mitte

22.7.15

Do you read me? #Berlinbookstore

I popped into this great bookstore on the last day of my latest Berlin visit ... a must do for book lovers and creatives!

I came across Lucky Peach and picked up a copy - an American quarterly journal of food and writing.

The cover is by Stacey Rozich.

The back cover is by Maren Caruso.

do you read me?!

www.doyoureadme.de/

Auguststraße 28, 10117 Berlin, Germany

16.6.15

Sonia Delaunay - Tate Modern

I definitely recommend visiting this exhibition if you can!

Sonia Delaunay at the Tate Modern ends 9 August 2015

9.12.14

Sabrina Samsoodin x Hejira collaboration

This year my cards will be making it to TRAUM!
A live music night run by the amazing band Hejira.

To celebrate the festive season we have collaborated to present you with a special xmas gift.

The first 100 people through the door Thursday 11th December will be gifted with a card with a special music download code in it.

Click below to get an advance ticket to visit us at TRAUM and you can see how it all turned out!

TRAUM event
TRAUM tickets

3.12.14

Portrait by Alice Rainis

portrait by Alice Rainis, 2014

I couldn't be any happier to share this portrait with you.
Thanks to the wonderful photographer Alice Rainis.

To see more from Alice Rainis visit her website.

5.10.14

Yayoi Kusama - Victoria Miro

After seeing the work of Yayoi Kusama at the Tate show a couple of years ago I became an instant fan. I popped along last week to see her latest exhibition 'Pumpkins' at the Victoria Miro gallery.

Here's what you can expect to see and some of my favourite works.