TEN MAGAZINE PRINTED (IMAGES)

This is the final piece of 10 Magazine, the piece I’ve been working towards making all the products for! So her is a preview of how it looks with the Screen Printed Sleeve, and double page spreads! Hope you Like it, comments are very welcome!

Dallas Clayton

This illustrator i just found on a stumble over the web. This little book is how all of us designers should be, always dreaming, always thinking of things that are more mad than life will allow, BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE, NOT WHAT EVERYONE ELSE WANTS YOU TO BE SO DREAM!!! YAY!!!

http://www.veryawesomeworld.com/awesomebook/inside.html go and read the book here it will make you smile a huge smile!

LE GUN Magazine.

I can’t remember how i came across Le Gun, but im bloody glad i have, a real underground gritty kinda magazine from London. It has a very eccentric feel about it illustration and stories make up most of the contributions in the magazines. Its a contribution magazine, people send in their work of stories or art and the rest i loosely based around a theme. They have become a their way worldwide onto bookshelves in 2007 and are into their 4th issue. They are already taking contributions for 2009 for the summer issue, so if you want to send something in do so now, but i warn you, it doesn’t look easy to get published

Susan Kare.

Now growing up, all those little pixel graphics seems amazing, they were the height of technology, in the 80′s through to the early 90′s. Susan Kare is possibly responsible for much of what you clicked on, as icons on your computers. She designed for mac (that old version of solitaire and the little load graphics) I came across Kare through an issue of Grafik, and thought it would be great for you all to see who designed those little icons you hold so dear….information graphics in a sense. Her thesis for the icons were that they were easily identifiable and without clutter like road signs. Her work is similar to a contruction of mosaic grids as the simple pixels create the minimalist identity for big software companies such as MAC computers.

Alex Grey.

Alex Greys work my seem out of the loop of all these Geometric Design wizards, but Alex greys work, is far superior in detail, beauty and colour than the previous artists. His work has been used or the band Tool as shown earlier and focuses of the spirituality of the human anatomy. His work is very much that of existentialism examining the human form with in his work and almost paints a detailed anatomy of the effects spiritual human experiences have on the body. His work is detailed and well crafted its hard not to believe its accuracy, often graphically arranged using line and light to capture the pathways of energy around and through the bodies he depicts. Beautiful.

MELVIN GALAPON!

Melvin is an English boy born and bred. He works mostly with sticky tape and labels creating exciting typographic outcomes and making bright and brilliant pieces of work. His instillation pieces often cover a lot of space, lines of colour weaving in and out of each other as they place around architecture and over objects. His work for Nike seems most suitable because his work often represents sports stripes and goes hand in hand with the tasks set out by Nike he decorated a bench using the different coloured tape. He’s largely known for his poster work, using sticky labels to create amazing typographic pieces for the university exhibition for YCN titled “SHOW OFF”.

Samuel François

Samuel François started out as a graffiti artist, witnessing the shift in cultural acceptance from its beginning to its place int he art world. His work uses a variety of urban space and transforms with his illustrative style. He also exhibits, his work often as installation, often spontaneous reflecting on the mark of society within an ever changing environment. His work is vibrant and often uses colour to evoke the sensibilities of child like play, that entertains the viewer. My favorite pieces are his urban landscapes but his illustration of the ever changing fashion of our culture, his use of felt-tip pens reflects directly to the art movement made within the fashion of the people, and is an astute  reflection of the contemporary art culture.

Jim O’Raw

Jim O’raw has not so long got out of the University Of Brighton with a 2.1 in Illustration. His work is largely based around the ideas of technology, Space and even pornography. It isnt often you come across some with a process as interesting as Jims, he uses multi layered colour photocopies to create that edgy rustic effect, printing them onto naturally sun bleached gloss paper. Its this that gives his images that extra edge and style that he has created for himself. He’s also dabbled into the graffiti street art with his bunny man character but it is his almost Dada-esk images that really inspire me. Her are a few examples of what he creates, the rest ill leave down to you to look at.

Siggi Eggertsson Illustraor and designer

Siggi Eggertsson, is an Icelandik Bloke who enjoys a bit of the old Illustration….basically if you like geometric art and love Iceland, this guys right for you. This guys been all over the place, New York, Berlin, His home land Reykjavík captial and now london, where the lucky old gezzer works for big active with the likes of Rachel Thomas, Parra and many more great minds. His work is largly based around the use of geometric shapes to create images of animals, people and landscapes, but he has been known to dabble with typography and illustration. Siggi has been everywhere and in my ealier part of my blog he’s on the cover of my issue of IDN, and MAN i wish i could do something as cool as that! He’s created posters for “If You Could…” and created the image for Knarls Barkley’s new album cover. He’s just great!

Mike Perry Designer & Illustrator

I came across Mike Perry on the cover of an Issue of Grafik, now getting yourself on the cover of any magazine is a big deal, so i guessed this guy would be as well. He’s an American boy from Minneapolis, his recent publication “Hand Job” Is a collection of hand illustrated typographical treatments for all sorts of text and in imaginative outcomes. His other work, is based mainly around illustration and uses that as his main medium to communicate ideas. His style reminds me of the cut and paste accuracy of being in primary school and as you may have read i love the nostalgic forces of using limited style and technique to create a new exciting visual style that has no boundaries, it almost comes under the term of vernacular and is almost an instinctive style from his younger years. click the images to whizz yourself over to his web page.