Over the past few weeks I've been working on the Elmwood Christmas card and one of the ideas I had was to work with Ian Wright, the artist we went to go and see talk a couple of months ago.
Unfortunately the idea wasn't really liked by the big cheeses at work, and the whole Christmas card project became a complete mess and the idea that was approved was later canned, a week before it was supposed to be artworked... anyway - that's boring...
The good thing to have come out of this whole messy project is that I was able to get in contact with Ian Wright a bit, and despite not working with him I was able to meet up with him for lunch last Thursday.
It was great to finally meet him as we'd been emailing backwards and forward over the weeks and it was even better to go and see his studio down near China Town and see some of his pieces and see one new piece in progress. He was working on a picture of a dog made completely out of bark which he was hoping to sell at the Miami Art Fair this week.He was an incredibly nice man and I felt we hit it off straight away, he said we should meet up again and he'd introduce me to some of his other designery contacts/friends in the city - so hopefully I'll get to meet some more inspiring people.
Who knows - we might be able to do a collaboration soon?!
it sounds as though he is a very inspiring designer. One you'll remember from your time in NYC.
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