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My illustration on a nostalgic vintage Vienna tram

Updated: Feb 5, 2024

Pinch me! I never thought something like this was even possible.

We travelled to Vienna in the summer of 2018. The architecture, the museums were just spectacular. But what I loved the most was these lovely criss crossing trams claiming the routes across the busy streets. In particular this square, i can't recall the name- flanked by colourful rows of pastel townhouses, contrasted by bright red trams in the foreground. This image stuck in my mind and I came home to do an illustration.

Years later seeing this on the very same trams made me a bit emotional. It's small, but it's these are the kind of things that bring me joy over a huge sale.

This is the M1 4152 - build in 1929, making it's first journey in 2024.

Vienna Art Print by Eye for London Prints — Vintage Vienna Trams

The original illustration:

Wien Vienna Art Print by Eye for London Prints — Wien Vienna Art Print

Brutalist London Coaster Sets

Mathanki Kodavasal

Honestly when I made these, I never imagined they would be so popular. Now stocked at the Barbican Shop, they have sold out multiple times and I'm always scrambling to keep up with the demand. In a good way of course! It's probably the unexpected pop of colour injected into London's grey brutalist buildings that's doing the magic. This set features The One Croydon building, National Theatre, Southwyck House Brixton and The Barbican towers. Packed in a smart minimal black matchbox style box.

I had a lot of fun creating this cute stop motion video for the Barbican digital team. In my previous job in advertising I used to write content and films was something I really enjoyed and sometimes miss.

Shop the Brutalist London Coaster Sets here or browse through the extensive Brutalist London Collection.

Alexandra Palace London Art Prints for the 150th Anniversary.

Mathanki Kodavasal

This was such a special commission. A new range of illustrations for prints and merchandise featuring the stunning palace.

This came through by pure chance. A customer purchased one of my Ally Pally prints from a shop in North London and reached out to the Ally Pally team to use it for the cover for the Palace's quarterly magazine. The in house marketing team then wrote to me to commission more illustrations for the palace shop in time for the 150th anniversary celebration.

I was pretty nervous at first, as not only was I to design but also supply wholesale a whole range of products from prints, greetings, notebooks, postcards, tea towels and totes within a deadline. As a one woman band (with a toddler), it was quite risky but something I couldn't let go off as I knew I would enjoy every moment of working on this. Luckily I have a great team of local suppliers as the quality of every singe item had to be top notch.

A slow burn project, with quite a few back and forth but at the end everything turned out exactly the way I wanted, or even better! Have a look at some of the pieces, available at the Alexandra Palace shop. I haven't been there to see for myself as it' a bit of a trek to North London, but maybe soon.

This year I'm hoping to take up more private commissions, it's one of the directions I hope to grow this business. Would love your feedback!

The Palm Court Print is available to buy online, would be listing the other soon!

https://www.eyeforlondonprints.com/product-page/alexandra-palace-london-illustrated-art-print