some of you might have noticed a problem with archiving on print & pattern today, or the first thing that probably strikes you is the lack of posts on the main page.
on feb 18th blogger imposed 'auto pagination' onto all of its blogs. basically this automatically cut the number of posts that can be displayed on one page. now this is fine for those who use layouts - but for people like me who started in 2007 who are on classic templates, it just doesnt work as you now have no way of getting to my older posts that drop off the front page. im furious with blogger for imposing the restriction, but as those of you with blogs will know there is no way to contact them and complain. since the auto pagination took place when you click on a month from the archives only a few posts will appear - not the whole series. obviously this is annoying for everyone and im now trying to figure out how to solve it. if anyone has any suggestions feel free to post here. i will try and get a html designer expert to take a look and see if i can repair blogger's damage in any way - or if blogger continue to pull the rug from under me i will consider shifting over to typepad. please bear with me whilst we work through this techno crisis. it might take a few days so massive apologies.
the wait is over at last, the print & pattern book is finally here, and today im posting some snapshots to give you the flavour of how it turned out. i have included 120 designers spread over 300 pages each with a mini bio and contact details. they've been gathered from all over the world, many of them are people i approached back in 2008 when i first had the chance to make this book. we also had a call for entries here on P+P which resulted in hundreds of submissions, in fact we had more good stuff than space allowed. some of those included are : orla kiely, cath kidston, paperchase, caroline gardner, lotta kuhlhorn, petra boase, crowded teeth, rock scissor paper, nathalie lete, sukie, and sanna annukka. the official date for release is march 1st but amazon uk have stock in already. in the USA the wait is slightly longer, with amazon us putting it down as march 24th. but with chronicle books distributing it here its sure to widely available when the time comes. 
