Applied Illustration

This is Steve Harrington's work with Nike. This is his rework of the classic logo and i think it looks excellent.
it's been subtly applied but with lots of small details. Such as the applied pattern of little shapes  in the Nike text forming a
granulated colour. The crazy tree with the spaced out eyes is also a lovely addition the colours all work nicely and i would wear this over a plain nike logo tee shirt any day.

These are both Bendik Kaltenborns work. The top one is an album cover which I think looks great.
The colours are bold and vibrant and the lines, waves and shapes bring a playful aesthetic to it.
This cover matches the tone of the artists song perfectly in my opinion. Todd Terje uses a lot of
bright synths which reflect well on the cover.

This is an applied Illustration that i am very much interested.
In this application by Andy Rementer  he has turned one of his illustrations into a 3D wooden figure.
This serves less of a purpose then some of the others but i think it would be a great decoration.
It looks like it is well painted and the aspect of 3D really helps show off Andy's shapes which look
cool. The presentation box also looks great to i love the matched pattern on the box to the trousers very neat.

Mikkeller Ales and Beers always have fantastic illustrations by Bendik Kaltenborn on.
They are extremely striking and would most definitely get someones attention and this one is one of my personal favourites.
The 3 colours work very well and the can also has great form and arrangement of shapes. I'm not too sure what's going on in this illustration but it looks like the character is smoking the hops and barley and it's hit hard. Even if you don't fully know what's happening in the illustration though i still think it wouldn't make you uninterested in the product.  

This is a lovely pot by a ceramic artist Laura Bird. This is pot has great characterisation to it.
the paint on it makes it look homemade and and has great wavy lines on it giving it a nice pattern.
I think this pot is great as it holds a major purpose of keeping your small things together but also doubles up as a lovely illustrative decoration.

Thought Bubble

I recently went to Thought Bubble in Leeds mainly for a browse and a chat to a few of the fellow illustrators there to maybe gather some advice or see anything that inspires me. There where lot's of noticeably great things there. I talked to one illustrator who i remember seeing his comics when i went to Berlin once his name is Diego Cumplido.

The thing that attracted me most to his work was the humour that ran throughout each comic.

within his drawings Diego is good at illustrating emotions through the characters body language,

which works excellently in his black and white comics.

Another illustrator i met was Peony Gent http://www.peonygent.com/sketchbook/

there is a link to the his work sketch book work which is what i was interested in most as 

it is an excellent example of experimenting with some lines and textures effectively.

As an illustrator he seems very diverse to with experimentation with photography to pencil crayon.

I also had a chat to a few people on what stationary they used especially one guy who i really liked his line work and was interested in the pens he used for it. He then told me a 10 minute story on how he was on the hunt for the perfect fine liner. Supposedly according to him the best fine liners are Graphik pens. His line work was great though so i will take that advice on board and test them out.

I lost his business card though so unfortunately the advice is uncredited.

While i was there i made a few purchases but money is short so i only budgeted £25 but i got a fair few for my money. 

These include...

• Baltic Comics Magazine #21 ( great little collection of comics from very interesting illustrators)
• Six Tiny Bricks - Diego Cumplido
• The Fever Closing - Liam Cobb ( This is a comic printed by Breakdown Press which print a lot of beautifully illustrated comics)
• Libby's Dad - Eleanor Davis ( This is a lovely comic done beautifully in pencil crayon )

The Unmentionables - Jack Teagle ( i am a big fan of teagles work and haven't yet got this comic haven't yet read it but the illustrations look awesome).

Overall, great day and i enjoyed along with many dressed up Harley Quinns and Hellboys. 

Inspiration for illumination

I have added this poster to my blog as it came to be great inspiration for my illumination project
i watched this film ages ago and it followed a similar plot to what my article was about.
The poster in my opinion captures the idea of loneliness well  and defiantly influenced my designs.