For the past few months I’ve been hanging out with the girls from Gin & Jacqie. Not only are they great fun to be around, they’ve got their hearts in the right place – every year, they organize a charity event that’s focused on children and this year’s no exception.

A specially designed Gin & Jacqie bag will be on sale from 20 June 2012 in support of refugee children in Malaysia under a fundraising initiative called Art With Heart: A Refugee Art Project. Proceeds from the sales of these bags – featuring the artwork of Mary, a 15-year old refugee – will go towards refugee education programmes in Malaysia under the UN Refugee Agency.

For more information, visit UNHCR’s website and if you’re in KL, there’s going the be a launch at Bangsar Village One on the 20th of June!

These close-ups of Jean Charles Frémont’s series, rendered using a mouse (!) and indian ink has me a little transfixed. Mostly it’s because there’s so many strokes in there, and the fact that it’s a digital rendition based on a photograph – all of it makes for an interesting concept.

His about page clearly explains his approach:

At the border of illustration and photography, Frémont’s work is characterized by an intense approach of material. Texture and details create a surprising realism that astonishes the viewer at the door of the factual and its representations. From the digital natives generation, Frémont talks about Adobe, pixels or Google image search as they were pencils.

Analog pixels for a digital world. Fascinating!

I wish we had colder weather so I can have an excuse to wrap myself in cute little scarves, like these ones by Carolina Gronholm.

Happy Monday folks!