Resources
Mimi believes that resources are best when shared. So here are some of our favourite tools, links, books and podcasts to keep you inspired and working creatively.
We aim to update these resources regularly and we’re also open to good recommendations.
Tools
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Seawhite Brighton paper and sketchbooks
Daler Rowney brushes
Frisk drawing ink
Daler Rowney Designer’s Gouache Professional
Posca coloured pencils
Posca pens
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Computer: Microsoft Surface Studio or Imac
Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe Express
Ipad Pro
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Dropbox
Samsung T5 hard drive
Synology
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Notion
Milanote
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Canon Pixma iP8750 or newer
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Cricut Explore 3
Cricut Joy
Instax Mini
Craft knife
Mat
Glue gun
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Canon EOS Mark III or newer
Sony A7 IV
Ring light
Tripod
Phone holder
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Munbyn thermal printer
Links
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Printing cards, postcards...
Printing art prints, cards...
Packaging and marketing tools printing
Risograph printing
Newspaper printing
Custom handprinted screens
Fabric and merch printing
Merch printing
High end merch printing
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Mockups, templates...
Mockups, fonts, 3Ds...
Colour palettes creator
Public Domain Images
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Podcasts
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Creative Pep Talk by Andy J. Pizza
The Lisa Congdon Sessions by Lisa Congdon
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
The Creative Boom Podcast
The Handsome Frank Podcast
Creative Lives in Progress
Clever by Amy Devers
How I built this by Guy Raz
Illustration Hour by Julia Dufossé
On Design by Justyna Green
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Building your brand by Liz Mosley
The Robora by Annie Ridout
Work Party
Girlboss Radio
Good Boss by Coco Studio
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Happy Place by Fearne Cotton
Wellness unpacked with Ella Mills
Unlocking it with Brené Brown
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Eco Sassy by Colleen Tracey
BBC Earth Podcast by BBC Earth
Wild ideas worth living by REI co-op
Green Dreamer by Kamea Chayne
Voyage to the wild by Charlie Young
Books
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Handbook Guide and Ethical Guidelines
by the Graphic Artists Guild
Little black book
by Otegha Uwagba
The Freelance Mum
by Annie Ridout
Show your work!
by Austin Kleon
Mind your business
by Ilana Griffo
The Artists’s Way
by Julia Cameron
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Big Magic
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Find your artistic voice
by Lisa Congdon
How to think like a graphic designer
by Debbie Millman
Let my people go surfing
by Yvon Chouinard
Graphic design is mental
by Ben Longden
Thing are what you make of them
by Adam J Kurtz
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In progress
by Jessica Hische
Print workshop
by Christine Schmidt
Screenprinting: The ultimate studio guide
by Print Club London
So you want to publish a magazine?
by Angharad Lewis
How to make books
by Esther K. Smith
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Colour
by Marion Deuchars
Dream baby dream
by Jimmy Marble
Jazz
by Henri Matisse
The secret lives of colour
by Kassia St Clair
Gray malin photography
by Gray Malin
Caleidoscopica
by Olimpia Zagnoli
Camille Walala
by Camille Walala