Umbrella image of the week

This blog is amazing. It charts the progress of an art show for which every artist designs an umbrella of their choice. Here are two of my favourite pictures.

Umbrella image of the week

From a burlesque myspace site called Viva Valezz! Not sure where she got it from but ain’t it gorgeous.

In other news my brand spanking new umbrella site just got its eighth customer, but I’m sure there are more of you out there. I’m just working on getting the international shipping sorted and then I can pop them out to you world-wide!

Liftoff!

Just a quick post to let y’all know that www.um-brellas.co.uk has launched and is selling top quality umbrellas featuring my designs as of today! Go on – treat yourself. x

Shameless plug

Apologies for the lack of umbrella related research recently featured on these here pages. I am of course busy making umbrellas of my own, all of which you will be able to see from these links in the near future. In the meantime, here are those final designs as voted for by none of you, the viewing public…

I am scared, excited and broke. How are you? Been saying too many consecutive words beginning with R lately?

Bargabrellas

This is a charming story about painted umbrellas which have cropped up all over Italy and Switzerland. Many people assumed that they were traditional creations of the townspeople of Barga where they first appeared, but they are in fact all the work of one artist.

Thanks to doggybag for the link.

Peoplebrella

Pylones in the US make fantastic little figurines whose clothes open into bold coloured umbrellas. I’m particularly fond of this holy-looking orange number.

Lightbrella

Another day, another idea done better by someone else before me. These umbrellas are from a great range at Bright-Night, who have put a little light inside the canopy which illuminates the water-inspired designs. I’d love to see a crowd of them walking down a dark street, it would maximise the impact of the gorgeous shape that is the umbrella.

Justkillmenowbrella

The finest umbrellas I have ever seen can be found here.

It’s just this sort of gorgeous, funky, punky, loopy design that I aspire to create. With illustrations by Evgeny Kiselev (look at the blog, just look at it) and a fantastic printing process unrestricted by the usual triangle-by-triangle layout, this beats everything forever.

Umbrella image of the week

I got this lovely picture

from this lovely blog

about this lovely artist.

Wantbrella 2

More from the waterproof wishlist.

This is one of many pretty spotty umbrellas in the Radley collection. It’s worth using the zooming tool on their website to look at the gorgeous fine details on all of them.

And this one from Pasotti is probably the prettiest I’ve ever seen, but that’ll be why it’s £250.

I’m also a huge fan of these D’Amazoni umbrellas which I can only find on ebay. They have such a delicate and complex-looking design, and are quirky and just subtle enough to make you stand out beneath them.