Animator Victor Ens is building up a nice collection of Pencil Tests and posting them to his blog. This one is by BJ Crawford.
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Category Archives: Illustration
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:
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:
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.
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.
Stefan Kanchev
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.
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..
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.”
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Theory One
Just been sent the Flickr portfolio of Theory One by a mate who thought I might like it, damn right! He’s got quite a few different styles going on, my favorite is this one above.
Josh Cochran
I saw the link to Josh Cochran’s work in the comments on Boooooom, while researching the previous post. Equally sumptuous colour palette action and a little bit more sketchy style. Awesome work.
Pietari Posti
Finnish illustrator, now based in Barcelona – Pietari Posti is knocking out some pretty tastey work. Loving the colours, free flowing lines and general energy going on here. Good Work.
Phaeton Typeface
I‘m a massive fan of Kevin Cornell’s illustration work, so was delighted today when I saw he’s made his first font – Phaeton. Like most of his stuff it’s straight out of the Victorian era, oozing with charm & character, and chock-full of different ligatures & vignettes. You can get it for £35 from Veer.
He was helped out by typographer Randy Jones, who’s made a similar hand-drawn type – Olduvai. Sadly my budget didn’t quite stretch to that.. but it looks very nice.
Mignon Khargie
She’s named after a cut of meat, maybe that’s why she likes drawing animals ;) Pretty damn good at it too, check out Mignon Khargie’s clean style here.
Via: LoopLoop.
Pool Party!
Via: Denegro.