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10 th Mar 2010

Me 4 You, Threadless submission

Me 4 You, Threadless T-Shirt submission, by Cookie

It’s been a while since I’ve done any bloggin I know.. My excuse? Well I’m in Amsterdam and computerless in the evenings, I need to get a laptop but don’t want to buy one until they bring out the new MacBooks..

Anyhow, I haven’t been completely idle, I’ve also been working on a wedding invite for my brother who is getting married later this year. Which among other things led to this new t-shirt submission for Threadless, if you’d like them to print it, please head over and vote » Sadly it didn’t make the grade, voting has ended early..

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01 st Feb 2010

Spot The Tiger

Spot The Tiger

Normally I would have a blind spot to web polls like online advertising, but not these from Spot The Tiger. Each week a new poll is illustrated by a guest designer and put up for vote, there’s some great designs and interesting results.

Pictured above: Nuclear weapons by Nazario Graziano, Smoking by Ed Nacional and Alcohol minimum price by Adam Morris.

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29 th Jan 2010

Amanda Wachob Tattoo

Amanda Wachob Tattoo

Stunning tattoo style from Amanda Wachob. Looks like nothing I’ve seen before, the colours, the brush strokes, doesn’t look like it could of been made with a needle?

Via: design work life.

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14 th Jan 2010

Fictional Movie Title Screens

Erase: The Lust for Logs (1978)

21 year old Illustration & animation student Matthew Lyons is knocking out great work reminiscent of classic animation backgrounds. The highlight I think is his (hopefully) growing collection of fictional movie title screens.

The Light-Fingered Raw Material Fiddler below cracked me up, got to be the best movie title ever :)

The Light-Fingered Raw Material Fiddler (1981)

Via: Matthew Buchanan.

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14 th Dec 2009

Tattooed Portraits

Tattooed Portraits, Shawn Barber

Fascinating tattoo paintings by Shawn Barber. Quite a large growing collection, I particularly like the equipment/tattoo gun studies.

Via: NOTCOT.

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12 th Dec 2009

Jonas Bergstrand

Jonas Bergstrand, Illustrator

Swedish illustrator Jonas Bergstrand has a style firmly set in the golden age of illustration, and he does it so well. Gorgeous backgrounds, great character design and some pretty innovative stuff in there too.

Jonas Bergstrand, Illustrator

Via: FFFFOUND!

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11 th Dec 2009

Lotta Nieminen

Lotta Nieminen, Illustrator

Lovely style from Finnish illustrator Lotta Nieminen, can’t get enough of the simple geometric shapes with detailed layering and texture. Be interested to learn her technique, reminds me a bit of an ink spraying technique I used to use many years ago, hmm where did I put that little thing…

Lotta Nieminen, Illustrator

Via: Grain Edit.

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03 rd Dec 2009

Re-worked Twitter Avatars

Twitter Avatars

Lovely on going collection of re-worked Twitter Avatars by Adam Koford. Reminds me of those cartoon political maps.

Via: Drawn!

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12 th Nov 2009

A Love Letter For You

A Love Letter For You

I‘m loving this series of murals - A Love Letter For You, by Stephen Powers. He’s still got a few more to do (50 comissioned in total), reminds me a bit of Bob & Roberta Smith’s shop signage stuff around Hoxton Street, although Steve’s stuff is much more graphically interesting and funny.

Via: 30gms.

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12 th Nov 2009

Drawings on paper towels

Drawings on paper towels

Nice take on toilet graffiti by doodler Marc Johns, check out all his paper towel drawings here. Must remember my felt tip next time I’m dropping the kids off.

Via: DivineCaroline.

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21 st Oct 2009

Skwirrol’s Number Characters

Skwirrol - Characters Numbers

I‘ve seen plenty of custom alphabets, but can’t think of any that focused on numbers, that is until I saw this Number Character project by Skwirrol. Not quite finished yet, but I like where it’s going and eagerly anticipate the rest of the set.

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08 th Oct 2009

Pencil Test Depot

Animator Victor Ens is building up a nice collection of Pencil Tests and posting them to his blog. This one is by BJ Crawford.

Via: Drawn!

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24 th Sep 2009

More awesome wedding invites

More awesome wedding invites

Stumbled onto Studio On Fire’s blog Beast Pieces. Plenty of gorgeous letterpress work, but particularly taken by the collection of wedding invites they’ve printed. Loving the ligatures on the invite above by (the groom) Jefferson Perky.

It’s interesting that they print a whole set of cards, invites, RSVP’s, thankyou cards etc all in one go - “One of the things that we do to make printing them affordable is run all of the pieces on the same press sheet. Our presses are big enough to run several different cards on the same press sheet, then trim them down to size. This represents a huge cost savings over printing individual cards, setting up the press for each form on each card”.

Lovemix Boombox:

Lovemix Boombox

Great old school boombox with the love dial set to max, designed by Adam Ramerth. This design is even available for customisation if you’re interested.

Lovely set:

Wedding invite

Loving all the colour combos and mix of paper stock & printing techniques. Great all together set with nice envelope labels, perforated RSVP’s and even tiny little envelope to send it back in. Designed by Erin Jang.

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08 th Sep 2009

Learn something every day

Learn something every day

Just found these great daily illustrated facts on Cargo. This one seemed appropriate, not because I’ve just been robbed, but it is Tuesday.. By the Manchester based design studio - Young.

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28 th Aug 2009

Stefan Kanchev

Stefan Kanchev - Stamps

Wow, the work of Bulgarian Graphic artist Stefan Kanchev is blowing my mind. Fantastic line, form and colour combinations to die for.

He style inspired by Bulgarian folklore and traditions, reminds me a lot of the more recent Finnish folklore inspired work by Sanna Annukka.

Stefan Kanchev - buildings stamps

I think I like his stamp designs best out of his vast body of work. It seems I’ve blogged about them before, but never knew the original designer. It’s funny I’ve drawn some trees recently almost exactly the same is these here, weird..

Logos by Stefan Kanchev

Crap load of great logo designs too.

“Stefan Kanchev was not just talented but also exceptionally industrious artist. All of his works to the last letter were drawn by hand. His passion was so great that often he worked night and day without stopping. The artist’s wife remembered that he was working at his drawing table till the last moment when he was taken to the hospital. Stefan Kanchev died in 2001 at the age of 85.”

Via: grain edit.

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