Books Books Books

A little trip to the wonderful London Zoo lead to an unexpected bit of book shopping. The first book, My Heart is like a Zoo by Micheal Hall. Each animal is made of heart shapes - brilliant. The next two are My Zoo and Papercraft Animals, both by the very talented Ellen Giggenbach - Oh how much fun are we going to have making these in the studio! No kids allowed... well we may do a few with them over the summer.

Rachel Powell

We love all things bold, bright, playful and with a twist of mid century modern, so we were always going to love print maker and designer maker Rachel Powell's work. It's got the lot!

Sanna Annukka Prints

A little plug today for Sanna Annukka and another amazing set of prints. Beautiful, spoilt for choice!

Martin Leon Barreto

These wonderful illustrations are by illustrator and graphic designer Martin Leon Barreto. Our favourite work of his is a children's book titled El camino de Olaj and is a must for any childrens book illustrator fans. To view more of Martin Leon Barretos work go www.marlenaagency.com

Naoko Horiguchi

Darling Clementine drew our attention to artist Naoko Horiguchi's work about a month ago and we've been meaning to share it with you ever since. Naoko works in paint, collage and rubber stamp prints which you can see more of here. These more illustrative ones are our favourite. Just fantastic!

ISAK - Tingleby

ISAK is a Scandinavian style brand of design gifts and co-ordinated home accessories founded by graphic designer and illustrator Sandra Isaksson. We love their new sweet animation based on the Tingleby range which can be viewed on the ISAK Facebook page. Animated by Lisa Huxstep and music by Henrik Malmgren of goodjobstudios. Just lovely!

 

Saul Bass

Saul Bass's wonderfully warm illustrations from 'Henri's Walk To Paris' come to mind on this sunny August day. Half a century after it was first published it is now being printed by Rizzoli and is available on Amazon. This was the only children's book that Saul (super hero graphic designer and film maker) illustrated but oh what a visual treat it is. I could eat it!

Images have been sourced from La Pequeña ciudad de P. and Creativegirl.

Kateclarkelondon

You may have noticed that in our last MOTM we featured a mug from Kateclarkelondon. Since all the products and designs in this shop are so lovely we had to indulge in Kate's work a bit more. Viva fresh, bright, happy homewares !

Images from KateClarkeLondon and wemakelondon.

Google Doodle - Mary Blair

A fab Google Doodle today celebrating, the late American artist, Mary Blair's 100th birthday. Mary was famous for her concept art work and distinctive artistic style on many of Walt Disney's productions, including Dumbo, Lady and the Tramp and Fantasia. Here's a few more of her gorgeous illustrations.

To see more Google logos visit the Google Doodle blog. Images were sourced from the following groovy blogs and sites : SteamSters, Eye-Likey, Drawn, Jonathan E & Magic Jelly.

Inaluxe

Inaluxe are Australian super-duper duo Kristina Sostarko and Jason Odd. Not only do these two produce paintings, prints and textiles for Inaluxe but they also independently freelance. Part of their philosophy is 'make it beautiful', and they certainly do! Here's some more images. Enjoy!

Visit Inaluxe's gorgeous blog http://inaluxe.blogspot.com/ and shop http://inaluxe.bigcartel.com/.

Eric Carle

In June, the ever inspiring, Eric Carle blogged about the 'Architektur' and 'Violinkonzert' posters he designed before he started to illustrate picture books.

At 20 years old he worked at the Amerika Haus U.S. Information Center in Germany as a poster designer.

I don't know which to be more impressed with, designing these posters at 20 or blogging at over 80? Regardless his blog is well worth a visit, if you haven't already.

Here's hoping Eric posts more of his poster designs. I think I could eat through one on a Monday, two on a Tuesday, three on a Wednesday................. Oh yes!

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