Paper robots.

Definitely getting into the whole paper robot thing.
After trying my hand a t a bit of simple origami earlier this week wanted some thing a little more involved and came across the robot cut out books in the local design book shop.

Here's something from the blog Custom Paper Toys from Matt Hawkins to give people out there in blog land an idea of what's capable.

Found a whole bunch of other stuff while I was browsing and am about to set about my first model before I try something more custom.

Mailman

Here's a piece inspired by the theme of the week at Illustration Friday.
The theme is 'Mail' so I decided to highlight the problems faced by the postal service during the festive season, especially the difficulties caused by the increasing number of orders from digital retailers now-a-days.

BioWorkZ/YouWorkForThem

Just stumbled across this rather interesting vector based illustrator.
From his web-site:
"Ben Yin-Pan Kwok (BYK) aka BioWorkZ is a traditionally trained illustrator with a BFA Degree in Illustration from California State University Long Beach. Ben was born in Taipei, Taiwan and moved to California at the age of 4 and has lived in Los Angeles ever since. Working as a graphic artist in the fashion industry for several years has allowed Ben to develop his comfort with vector programs."



Though this work interesting, what really caught my attention was the stuff on the merchandise link that leads to YouWorkForThem.com . Which is full of all sorts of inspiring and interesting stuff. I especially liked the videos which are all available as little pop-out previews (see pic).

Ian Wright

The work of (mr) Ian Wright consists largely of contemporary portraiture, but also some clever graphic ideas. His work has been featured in gallery spaces and also in magazines making him someone interesting to look at.

This video shows him talking to It's Nice That about his work, including an interesting section on installing large artworks on interior walls.

Using everyday objects or those that relate specifically to his subject his work has a character that is intrinsic to it's style.




Hopefully he responds to emails.....

Lauren Moriarty

Although I missed her lecture at our college, I was pointed to the work of Lauren Moriarty and her work at the festival hall in particular.
An interesting application of coloured vinyl to these windows offers more exciting, cast shapes for the interior space.

Lines and Colours

Check out what Charlie Parker thinks is cool enough to blog because I think he is right!

Speaking of which I just found this on said blog and had to let you see it! (words/image taken from Lines and Colours, I would've posted something directly from Eric Feng's site but it was taking ages to respond due to everyone and his dog being online at the moment, that and some pretty heavy video use on the site. I'm sure it's lovely but Sorry Eric I couldn't watch it)

Things to do...

Upon my travels searching for things I might like to do for a major project I happened upon this list by Dani Jones of (funnily enough) things for an illustrator to do.
It includes suggestions such as "create-a-monster-a-day-for-a-month", and smaller activities like "why did the chicken cross the road?".
All of the activities are split into sections such as 'practical projects' or 'academic exercises'.

Dani ( a children's illustrator) also has lots of other content on her site including practical tutorials and even on weekdays a live, streaming show on which she will create illustrations and the like...

DRAWN!

Here is a site I just visited featuring some of the very best illustrative content by people really pushing their art...

Drawn! is "a collaborative weblog for illustrators, artists, cartoonists, and anyone who likes to draw. Visit us daily for a dose of links and creative inspiration."

Art directors club

Following Charles Hiveley's advice(see previous post), I am attempting to find out more about Art directors and what makes them tick.
Here is a link to the Art Director's Club, an international organisation based in NYC. A not-for-profit company which contains details for the awards they offer and podcasts about the job they do. They also offer things like portfolio reviews, help regarding scholorships and student competitionsas well as other services.
Worth a look.

Toy Blog

Bibi's Toys..
More toys than you can shake a stick at... Lots of ideas here

Peepshow

Was browsing around and found this work Peepshow have done in conjunction with CBeebies...Promoting educational themes such as ethnic diversity the usage of different language and locations is backed up by the animations backdrops using designs derived from materials associated with the specific culture involved... It's all very pretty and the bold design is attractive and seems very appropriate for children's illustration. Using cut out shapes in a basic but fun kind of way and combining them with real time footage of children.

All of their other stuff is worth checking out too!

SiDEBAR

An artist that I've been following on Deviantart has just been interviewed by this Ezine that focusses on comics, illustration, animation and other arty stuff. There's lots to look through, lots more interviews, blog stuff, you could probably be reading it for weeks.
So, if American illustration is your thing it's worth checking out.

Sam Webber....Stephane Tartelin..Yuko Shimizu and more

don't ask me, just look....

Sam Webber

Stephane Tartelin

Yuko Shimizu

Jeremy Forson

link to my deviant art account

I am trying to use my Deviant art profile to raise my profile and also gain constructive critcism from the community. http://spungle.deviantart.com/

Link to juxtapoz

Here's a link to another interesting site for creatives.

link to itsnicethat....because it is

http://www.itsnicethat.com/