Roome Consulting

Here’s a little festive cheer for your desktop - download it here. Merry Christmas from Roome.

Hopefully some of you will already have signed up to come along to the 11^th Glug, happening this Thursday 25^th June from 6pm at The Queen of Hoxton. Roome Consulting are very happy to be sponsoring the event by way of bangers and other fine fodder for the BBQ on the roof, and we hope there will be even more random chat and merriment than ever. To add to the fun the Glug boys have invited eight illustrators who’ll be working on the stairwell and roof creating bespoke t-shirts, so bring along a blank to get some free original art-T’s to take home. With that and the special Glug punch on offer, it’s shaping up to be a pretty special evening…

On the same day as the boat race (29th March) London’s going to host a new event - The Oxford & Cambridge Goat Race When Roome chums - Ant, Simeon & Anne told me their idea, I said where the hell are you going to get the goats from?!? Well luckily the nice folks at Spitalfields City Farm (just off Brick Lane) don’t mind them racing a couple of theirs around a field. In return the £3 admission fee will be going toward the up keep of their urban farm project.

THE EVENT:
2 actual real live goats, one representing Oxford and one representing Cambridge, race a tough, meandering course lined with cheering spectators. Then on to the pub for cheap or possibly free (trying to sort out a booze deal now) drinks and music.

AMUSEMENTS:
The Official Goat Race Bookie and Sweepstake
Enter the Goat Wrestling tournament (I’ve no idea wtf this is)
Goatee competition

TIME & PLACE:
Spitalfields City Farm E1, near Brick Lane - map »
Sunday March 29thGet there 2.30pm
Race 3.30pm
After party from 4.30pm (in the pub)

DRESS CODE:
Strictly: Black Tie, Rowing lycra, boat club jackets and ties, or goat.

ADMISSION:
£3 on the door charge, all proceeds go to a Spitalfields City Farm Charity.

GET INVOLVED:
If you would like to attend, or get involved in any other way (you could turn up with a few metres of bunting at least), head over to the Goat Race Facebook page »

Organised by - Team Magic-Ish (Anne Hopkins, Simeon Rose & Anthony Goh). Graphics by Roome’s own designer/illustrator - Cookie.

For those of you struggling to find the time to design or update your portfolio I thought this might be of interest.

Steve Pearce (Creative Director at Skype) just introduced me to this site Krop - Creative Database and its such a brilliant offering. Somewhere that you can be saved the hours of sitting around doodling wondering the what the best way is to display all your brilliant work.

You post your work and they beautifully put it together.

Last night the Roome Consulting massive made haste to the ‘big Christmas Glug’ at the Bodhi Gallery on Brick Lane. Thanks to Nick Clement and co for such a marvellous party and big congratulations to Paul Rayment who fought off stiff competition to win the ‘All I Want For Christmas Is…’ competition. Click upsidedownface man to see his winning animation, which we too agree is rather smashing

Our office has developed into some what of a gallery thanks to Cookie and Nicky. Pop by for a cup of tea and take a closer look!

Everyone probably knows about this site already but just in case you are thinking what do I want to do this weekend then check out  , its also showcases some really lovely illustrations

To celebrate the launch of our new website we’ve got some bright yellow Roome desktops for you to download. Select one of the two designs below (both lovingly made by Cookie):

Mr. Moustache & the Early Bird

   

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  Badger WOW

  

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