About Hole In My Pocket

"Hole in my Pocket create work with a lopsided and utterly uncynical charm that makes delighted children out of the most serious of grown-ups." Hole in my Pocket is the name I (Allistair Burt) have been producing art, film & projects under since 2001 when I first graduated and started working as an architect for a large Commercial practice. Over the next 15 years I lived a double life, working as an Architect by day and making art in my free time. As Hole in my Pocket I have worked on a vast range of unusual projects from major international exhibitions, illustration commissions, short films for TV, storytelling machines & travelling around Scotland with an air-hostess trolley full of wine. In the latter couple of years I started to develop products for retail featuring my illustrations and sense of humour and these proved so popular that in 2016 I hung up my hard hat and started in HIMP full time. We are lucky to have worked with wonderful shops like Paperchase, Olive Bonas and John Lewis but you can also find my designs in brilliant independents, galleries and museums around the world. All our paper products are printed & made in Scotland with FSC, recycled card stock to a high standard. In 2020 the bespoke collection we created for the National Trust for Scotland was shortlisted for the prestigious Cultural Enterprise Association best product award. Other clients we have produced collections for include, The National Museum Scotland, Oxford University and Fenwick.Read their story