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Nicholas John Frith Retro style Illustrator

October 5, 2015

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Growing up in the Chiltern Hills, just a stone’s throw from the children’s author Roald Dahl, Nicholas John Frith  now lives and works on the Dorset Coast. He has a strong mid century style and creates designs for many different companies, including these for Red Cap Cards.

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Like myself, Nicholas includes humour in his work.

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Even retro inspired gift wrap designs !

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I like this illustration of the boy with his cap, quiff and dog.

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Nicholas also works with ceramics, he’s created a fabulous wildlife range selling through Magpie.

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I really, REALLY  like these mug designs now selling on the Beast In Show site.

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Wouldn’t your cuppa taste better with these chaps to look at ? : )

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More cards (above) for Lagom Design as well as children’s story books like Hector and the Hummingbird.

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And a cautionary tale about Greedy Gulliver Woodpigeon.

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There’s a wealth of things to like in Nicholas’s work and I think I like them all !

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A good reminder here, originally designed for the Bournemouth Air Festival in 2013, to… Let Your Imagination Fly. Something we should all try and do more often.  Thanks Nicholas and I hope this makes you smile today too.

6 Comments leave one →
  1. October 5, 2015 9:09 am

    Really beautiful work. Thank you

  2. October 5, 2015 9:52 am

    I love these! I would love the ceramics especially. I’m going to copy & paste and share on twitter and Facebook as somehow can’t see buttons on this page.

    • October 5, 2015 11:14 pm

      Thank you, I do post on FB and twitter under the Fishink name, you can find a link for both on the right side of my blog. Please follow me there.

  3. Melanie Parker permalink
    October 5, 2015 12:27 pm

    Love the “….tea and bears….oh, and, biscuits!” mug. Your animals have the same eyes 🙂 x

    • October 5, 2015 3:44 pm

      Thanks Mel. Yes those mugs are fav’s of mine to but the eyes are circa 1960, I can’t claim to have used them first lol

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