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!

LIFE Magazine Photographic Archive

If you love photography and history then you’ll love this, only last year about 2 months ago LIFE magazine posted on Google all its images dating back to 1860! Theres some seriously amazing moments that haven’t been seen by the rest of the world before now. I Really think everyone should look at this as a piece of history and the brilliant medium of photography.

” A cover of the earlier Life

Magazine from 1911

“Life was born January 4, 1883, in a New York City artist’s studio at 1155 Broadway. The founding publisher was John Ames Mitchell, a 37-year old illustrator, who used a $10,000 inheritance to launch the weekly magazine. Mitchell created the first Life nameplate with cupids as mascots; he later drew its masthead of a knight leveling his lance at the posterior of a fleeing devil. Mitchell took advantage of a revolutionary new printing process using zinc-coated plates, which improved the reproduction of his illustrations and artwork. This edge helped because Life faced stiff competition from the bestselling humor magazines Judge and Puck, which were already established and successful. Edward Sandford Martin was brought on as Life’s first literary editor; the recent Harvard graduate was a founder of the Harvard Lampoon.” (Wikipedia article)

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

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.

Parra.

On my visit to the Design museum in London I found Parras little book of his illustrations. Some of you might be aware that I have the t-shirt by him and have been a big fan since finding his work on Teenage Bad Girls album. Ever Since then i’ve been trying to find his stuff online and lo and behold have come across it since creating this blog. His work is completely original from what i’ve seen, and extremly colourful and humerous. I mostly enjoy his typographic treatments all hand drawn and then finished digitally. He is one of my top illustrators on here and can now finally be found where Rachel Thomas is, on the Big Active website, amongst other great minds. This book is mostly a portfolio of all the major work and piece’s he has created. He also has his own cloth line Rockwell Clothing, which i could plug with a link but im not into that sort of thing! Anyway check out more of his work on the Big Active

Grafik June 2008 Profile Rachel Thomas

I chose this issue out of my 14 because its just brilliant Pink! The letters INK have a special ink on them that glow in the dark, i just love this effect and the kind of effort Grafik puts in for its readers. This issue the profile is on Rachel Thomas and thats the real reason why i posted this up here. She works in a large range of media, from Giant Inflatables (a bit like Jeff Koons) intricate paper sculpture and glittering props shes “the mistress of materials.” A feel of 1930′s to 1940′s work, and often the surreal can be said to encompasses the work she produces. Come of her clients involve music heavy weights, Roslin Murphy, Oasis and Goldfrapp. Her work is very seductive and hugely feminine working with balloons, “there’s something really rude about balloons, not only the shape but the whole world of balloons…something perverted, something odd.” (Rachel Thomas: Grafik June 08), She is part of the Art and Design Agency The Big Active as well as other artists i will show on here, creating some amazing work.

Jhonen Vasquez’s SQUEE!!

This is the collection of all the comics of SQUEE! by Jhonen Vasquez, and what a brilliant one it is. This is the first comic book collection i have ever bought, im not into Marvel comics and super heros, but i do love a good Indie comic. The humour in these stories is brilliant and always on the darker side of it. Vasquez often leaves little notes and comments in the corner of his story, to give the viewer a few little distractions which are always brilliantly funny. This publication really inspired me to draw again and get back into the cartoon art i have always loved. Vasquez is also the master mind behind the short lived Invader Zim, unfrotunatly i haven’t seen a single episode, but i plan to do a little downloading…POLICE???

Monztaaah! Illustrations of Graffiti Artists.

I got this book back in the summer of 2006 in Barcelona, it’s amazing book of some of the best graffiti character artists around. The idea of the book is to beng them all together to create monsters that lurk in the forest, and it takes you on a journey through each artists illustrations and designs. It’s a really fun book to look through and has some lovely paper treatments in it. The cover is a felt and makes it a really tactile object. Such illustrators and Graffiti as Jon Burgerman, Derrick Hodgson, 108 and Dave The Chimp are some of the characters making their monsters come to life. Its published by Belio Magazine and you can check their website out, but you may need to change it to English as its all in Spanish! here are some links for you to check out from some of the artists involved.

Jon Burgerman

Dave The Chimp

108

D’Face

In The Night Country Writen By Stewart O’Nan, cover by Gary Taxali.

I bought this book a while back, and they say you should never judge a book by its cover when it comes to purchasing books right? WRONG! These two artists completely compliment each other, and it may be one of my first finds that does this. Stewart O’Nans book works from the perspective of 3 ghosts who were killed in a car crash and a year later at Halloween are brought back by the memories of the living, its these kind of horrors that touch small towns in suburbia America that give it that isolated feel to the story. The illustration reflects the kind of rustic look of small vintage business signs and advertisements, and Gar Taxli’s style captures this so well. He works with mix media, print, lino cutting, and pen and marking, this style creates that worn dated effect. He also prints onto old paper stocks or altered paper stocks that give them that vintage feel.