Drawing Unlimited promotes and celebrates the experimental drawing work of UU students across courses and across year groups.

The Drawing Unlimited Project (School of Art and Design) took place in November 2009 and March 2010. Students used drawing to motivate, challenge, inspire and make links.

The workshops were designed to explore traditional drawing methods alongside digital methods e.g. drawing over still and moving imagery projected onto large rolls of paper, using paint, ink, crayons, pencils, drawing directly onto video footage via a drawing tablet and collaborating with others to devise drawing methods, improvise tools and solve problems.

Very special thanks to filmmaker Brian Davis: brianphilipdavis.com

An unlikely pairing has been made when Tom Gauld, a comic artist, was requested to produce a series of art work which would appear on Diet Coke cans.  The unfortunate part of this is that they only were released in America.  The idea behind these designs was to elevate the awareness of a woman’s heart health programme called The Heart Truth. As well as producing this art work he went unto create some animations that were also used within this campaign.  You can view two of them here.

If you want to view more of his work you can do so by visiting tomgauld.com.  He is renowned for the work that he has produced for comic books and these have appeared in The Guardian. 

I really like his work and they appear so simple but they create a completely different look to that of a normal drinks can.

As part of the “Issues” class project, for which I’m putting together a kinetic typography piece, I’ve been looking for inspiration on the superb Vimeo.com. Whereas there are hundreds of good examples on both Vimeo and Youtube, I came across one studio in particular whose work just blew my mind. Motion Graphics studio MK12 have produced the graphics/credits for the Will Ferrell film, “Stranger than Fiction”, and more recently, the famous opening animation/graphics and gun barrel scene for Bond movie, Quantum of Solace.

You can see much of MK12’s astounding work here on Vimeo, their main website is here, or here’s a few links to some of the videos that stood out for me:

Stranger than Fiction Opening Scene
Stranger than Fiction Closing Credits
007: Quantum of Solace Barrel Shot
007: Quantum of Solace Main Title Reel
Untitled 01: Infinity

http://winnieshek.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/i-live-for-cupcakes/

You can veiw a short film of his work here.

Hand Job: A Catalogue of Type by Mike Perry is one of those books that I can open to any page and instantly think, “I wish I was this awesome.” I love hand drawn type and this book, it has become my favorite source of inspiration and can’t wait for the opportunity to draw some type to arise. Mike has included a great collection of artists and designers with a variety of styles. It is available to loan from the library at uni too

This illustrator was brought to my attention on the Creative Review blog were she designed her own cover for Creative Review.  When I saw this I was drawn to see more of her work and decided to explore her website and really liked her style and the way the she only uses pen and paper, all of her pieces have been hand produced.   I believe that there isn’t much of this style around and the moment given that more and more illustrators are moving towards computer generated images and it’s nice to get to observe some hand drawing illustrations. 

I also then thought of the graphics for ‘Juno’. Whether or not you like/have seen the film the titles are really well done. A mix of video and hand-drawn illustration. They are done by ‘shadowplay‘ who have done some other graphics too. Really like the titles – but maybe because of the music too – if it had been a still from it I might not have given it a second thought, but music seems to add more life to illustration I think…

www.shadowplaystudio.com