About

Blanket is an online PDF magazine that uncovers art + design + photography from the talented people who create it.

Bec Brown – Editor / Art Director / Publisher

Blanket is run by me – Bec Brown. I spend my every waking hour loving, obsessing and going slightly kooky over Blanket Magazine. I currently live in Manchester in the UK with my husband, John Fry but we move around a lot – this is part of the reason Blanket is an online magazine – I can pick it up and take it with me wherever we go!

I have put together a talented team of Blanketeers, dotted all over the world, who help me to create a beautiful magazine each and every issue with their contributions of artist interviews, cheeky and humorous stories, craft, cartoons and, of course, beautiful art, design and photography.

My goal is to one day have enough financial support to have a printed magazine – so if any businesses, paper companies, printers, publishers, individual philanthropists, etc, would like to get together and create a beautiful printed publication full or emerging artists, designers and photographers then please let me know!

Email: editor {at} blanketmagazine.com

The Blanketeers!

Caitlin Gahan – Assistant Editor / Designer / Writer
Caitlin Gahan is a Graphic Designer and Writer who never learnt to ride a bike or do maths of any kind. She loves being a Graphic Designer for two reasons:
- She can Photoshop photos of herself and
- She gets to be involved in Blanket and remain in a constant state of schoolgirl awe of the talent of the artists and designers she interviews. When she is not near her beloved Mac called “Velvet”, she likes to read every book and magazine in sight. Then, her fingers get too itchy and she has to get back to her desk.

John Fry – Web Guru / Moral support
John Fry is the long suffering partner of Bec.
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Jonathan Hulme – Feature Writer
Jonathan Hulme lives in Sydney and doesn’t know what he wants to be if he grows up.

David Self – Writer/Designer
Selfy is a guy who knows a little bit about pretty much everything. Ask people what he does, and they would call him a Graphic Designer, Photographer, Musician or Writer. In truth he is only one of these things, but we’re not quite sure which. A self-confessed “Internaut”, he revels in the geeky and is most comfortable when there’s a Firefox window open in front of him. If you feel like forwarding him a funny email that’s going around, chances are he saw it before you were born. Why not ask him about web comics instead?

Jessica Wilson – Craft Writer & Photographer
Jessica Wilson is the Crafty-mad Scientist behind jek in the box, scrumdillydilly and scrumdilly-do! She lives a short hop away from Hollywood with her sock crafty husbandman, their evil kitty and a mob of sock monkeys. She favours stripey socks and never leaves home without her camera.
www.scrumdillydilly.blogspot.com

Melissa Gardner – Designer
In her spare time, Mel likes to paint ‘Nushka Dolls’, look at pretty pictures in design books, go to nice places for coffee with her boy, dabble on the guitar, laugh loudly, collect Moleskin journals (and dream of one day writing in them without ruining them!) and she loves finding new artists to inspire her. Check out Mel’s cute hand-painted Nushka dolls:
www.nushkadolls.com
www.nushkadolls.etsy.com

Drew Fellows – Designer
Drew was recently diagnosed by a doctor as being a creative compulsive. Medical tests showed that if Drew was to go a day without creating something new or working on an ongoing project, the results could be fatal. Under doctors recommendations, Drew now fills his days with photography, graphic design, drawing in moleskins, making badges, music production, performing, a hint of creative writing and countless blogs, websites and online communities.
flickr.com/photos/drewfellows/
www.26theband.com

Jeff Stephens – Blanket ‘Pik Shaws’ Comic Illustrator
I work for an encyclopedic art museum. I move art all day. People come to me and they say, “That must be exciting! moving art all day… touching 4000 year old stone purses, going nose to nose with La Gioconda…” and here they drift off and their eyes get foggy. Nah, the glamor wears off in a week or so, Nydia is just a really heavy hunk of rock, and Weeping Coconuts is starting to flake. So, I litter the world with my own stuff when I get the chance.
picshaws.blogspot.com

Tanya Ruxton (nee McKay) – One of the Original Blanket Editors
Tanya was one of the original Editors of Blanket magazine and although she left Blanket in November 2007 her influence is still present in the pages of Blanket. You can now find her at www.rumpusdesign.com

If you would like to be a contributing writer or blogger then send Bec and email at editor (at) blanketmagazine.com with a brief outline of what you think you could bring to the Blanketeer team!