Johanna Basford

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 [...]

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Illustration in film

Went to see ‘500 days of summer’ a couple of days ago, a kindof indie-romance film. Really liked the film-work, but also the illustrated graphics. Couldn’t get an image of them, but there are recurring line-drawings as time skips backward and forward throughout the film.

I also then thought of the graphics for ‘Juno’. Whether or [...]

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Hint Mint by James Jean

Here are some designs created by James Jean for the new collectibles for Hint Mine tin cases.  I love the way that every individual tin has been made by him by utilising one main colour and the overall outcome of the pieces are beautiful.  These pieces took a year to produce!

Fire Breather

Chocomoth

Minty Mamba

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Belfast Graffiti

I was walking to the train from work the other day and I noticed this graffiti on the wall under the bridge outside Cenrtal Station. I just thought I would share it because I think it’s cool. It reminds me of work done by a guy who was in my foundation year, his name was Lucas, [...]

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Noma Bar: Negative Space

The use of negative space within the work of Noma Bar is exceptional.  Some of his illustrations are composed by the use of a single image or by utilising a variety of elements that all carry the same theme.  This in turn gives the shape to the final piece.  Contained within his book Negative Space, [...]

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Have you seen the film of the book?

I discovered these films on the Creative Review blog and thought that it may be a really good idea to build films which would give you a glimpse into some new illustration books. 
The Tate has created films that demonstrate two art books that have not yet been released.  They are Peter Blake’s ABC and Black [...]

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The Forest

The Forest is a short animation that has been produced by David Scharf.  He worked at the Faculty of Graphic Design in the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg and this animation is his last piece of work.  The content of this 5 minute film shows the struggle of a 12 year old girl and her struggle [...]

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Invader

These images have been taken from Low Fidelity a new solo show by a French artist Invader, running at London’s Lazarides Rathbone gallery until the 17th Sept. Invader’s work could be found in many streets around the world where he created and displayed mosaics, at a miniature scale, of space invaders using differently coloured tiles.  [...]

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