Month: July 2020

• Scribble the Way

  Scribble the Way is a logo design concept proposed for Writers Block a new online writing centre which is part of Writing on the Wall. Scribble the Way A scratch, a scroll, a doodle, or simply an intensely worked scribble demands centre stage for this graphic concept: ‘Scribble the Way’. We see the angst of […]

  Alison Little

  July 31, 2020

  Aryan culture, Bi Sexual, Britishness, City, Graphic Art, Learning to Read, Library, Liverpool Central Library, Logo, Logo Design, Uncategorized, Writing

• Masks: Why now?

    Today marked the mandatory rule for face coverings to be worn in all retailers or the possibility of a £100 fine in the UK. Yet, why now, we must question, at the height of the pandemic we were free to shop without the insistence of masks? At the start of lock down, we were […]

  Alison Little

  July 24, 2020

  Art, Corona Virus, Covid, Disorder, Face coverings, Masks, pandemic, Uncategorized

• I May Destroy You

  I May Destroy You A staggering 6 weeks ago, when lock down restrictions were beginning to ease, our TV screens and minds were illuminated by: ‘I May Destroy you’. I, myself, who fared badly from the pandemic, was starting to recover from a long tail case of Covid-19. This drama series was the primary broadcast […]

  Alison Little

  July 17, 2020

  Abortion, Adverse Lifestyle, Bi Sexual, Britishness, Casual Sex, Conflict, Consent, Covid-19, Female Icons, Feminism, Fertility, Fetish, fiction, Gender Roles, High School, Morality, Narcotics, Non-consensual sex, pandemic, Period, Rape and Sexual Violence, Rape culture, Relationships, Reynhard Sinaga, Same Sex Relationships, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Warped

• Missed: Mrs America?

  Wednesday night saw the TV series Mrs America hit our screen in the UK. The series dramatises, more than documents the path of second-wave feminism in the United States. The initial episode centres around Phyllis Schlafly, played by the Hollywood great: Cate Blanchette. Schlafly, a staunch anti-feminist who lead the fight against the Equal Rights […]

  Alison Little

  July 10, 2020

  1950’s, Abortion, Beauty Pageanting, Conflict, Conquering, Consentual Sex, Degrading, Depression, Domesticity, Family, Female Icons, Feminism, fiction, Gloria Steinem, House Wife, Leg over, Morality, Mother, No Sex, Non-consensual sex, Phyllis Schlafly, Relationships, Religious Controlling Mechanism, Second Wave Feminism, Seventies, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, The Sixties, Uncategorized

• Fine Art Cocktails

  Too many ‘Sex on the Beach’ for Tracey Emin, the ‘Shaggy’ years, Margate’ solution to an easy ride throughout the difficulties of her adolescence. Sarah Locus stirred a ‘Cosmopolitan’ to remind her of the metropolis, the capital now she has moved to rural Norfolk. The man who screen printed the stars from his down-town New […]

  Alison Little

  July 3, 2020

  Abstract Art, accidents, Affair, Alcoholism, Andy Warhol, Cocktails, David Hockney, Jackson Pollock, Judy Chicago, Kandinsky, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Uncategorized