31/05/2009 In delicious, humour, poster, sigrid martinez by mel
This weeks delicious image is Animalphabet by Sigrid Martinez, the poster is available in two sizes (12? x 16? = 29 euros and 20? x 28?=59 euros). If I ad that kind of money this poster would deffinately be in my room , but I persume this is aimed more at schools.
I chose [...]
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30/05/2009 In funny, stumbleupon by mel
I couldn’t decide which site to feature this week, so I’m gonna show 2!
First up is… Cute Overload ! Puppies, kittens, hedgehogs, bunnies, lambs, etc, all doing cutesy things – pictures and videos… sooo adorable, such a nice site to check out. Sure to put a smile on your face.
Site 2 is Awkard Family Photos [...]
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29/05/2009 In childrensbooks, contemporary, illustration, illustrators, links, uni by mel
I need to narrow this list of my favourite illustrators to 10 for my summer project… the requirments for the brief is “people/companies who have been producing work over the last 10 years, and who are regularly featured in current books and journals.”
I thought that I would put all the links I had found on [...]
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28/05/2009 In humour, teddies, toys by mel
When I think of toys, I think of teddies, dolls, cars, barbies, action figures, bikes, etc.
When I think of animals I think of animals I think of pets and sleepy zoo animals.
Apparently, I still think inside the box. I absolutely love the crochet toys by Patricia Waller, they’re brilliantly twisted plays on the usual. Theres [...]
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26/05/2009 In blogging, competitions, project, summer, todo by mel
Get a job.
Work on Summer Project. – A2 poster, 24 page programme, Invite, 1000 words, research…
Enter some competitions.
Make stuff to sell on etsy.
Shop/spend.
Blog. (Create links page too.) Plus, add to delicious and stumbleupon!
Relax.
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24/05/2009 In culture, delicious by mel
I have only recently discovered the vast array of cubbees, I knew they existed, but then I found Obama, and cheked out the cubeecraft site and theres soo many to choose from! There’s Spiderman, Batman and Robin, Spongebob, Buffy, Dexter, Totoro, Earthworm Jim, hello kitty, gamer ones, tv shows, etc!So many to make, my housemates [...]
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23/05/2009 In comic, stumbleupon by mel
I have been a fan of the minimalist comic sketchers for some time now and recently stumbleupon’d this blog by Andre Jordan.
Here are a few of my favourite posts…
Sometimes it’s not about the art, although I think the style does suit the jokes, it’s all about the idea, and this blog has a lot of [...]
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22/05/2009 In communication, graphics, illustration, uni by mel
As my blogger profile states I’m a graphic design and illustration student, I do however lean more towards illustration.
On my course we spent the first half of the year with small projects while looking at different technques (illustrator, indesign, photography, drawing, typography, printmaking) the small projects did lean more towards graphics and found drawing more [...]
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17/05/2009 In delicious, fashion, funny, graphics, swine flu by mel
My second new addition to the blog…delicious sunday! Go here for more delicious images.
This weeks best image is…
The fashionable surgical masks by Josh Spear.
I especially love the bearded one! These are funny and funky, they add some humour to an other wise depressing situation.
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16/05/2009 In art, scribbler, stumbleupon by mel
I have decided to start up a new weekly feature for the blog – StumbleUpon Saturday! Basically a look at some of the sites I have fav’ed via StumbleUpon…(click the links for more of my saved websites). I thought that it would give this blog some structure, a more arty feel and display some of [...]
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