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.

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

Helen Baines

An artist who we have the pleasure of bumping into from time to time is artist and print maker
Helen Baines. We really admire her work - simply beautiful. To see more of Helen's prints check out www.helenbaines.com

Laurie King

Seeing as le tour is well underway, having waved it good bye from London, we though what better time than to share the work of printmaker Laurie King. 

Take a look at his website and new prints - "The Chase" and "The Chase - Night"

Prints Prints Prints

A few current favorite prints... we need more walls!  From left to right, "Kainuu" by Sanna Annukka,
"The Sun" by going Danish, "Sun Chaser" by Andrew Holder, next row "Wee Alphas" by Wee Society",  "Mr Poster" by Ferm Living, "Kinetic Bird" by James Bates and last row "Over the Rainbow" by Rebecca J Kaye, "Nadadora Print" by Blanca Gomez and "Blossom 3" by Inaluxe

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!

Google Doodle - Winsor McCay's 'Little Nemo In Slumberland'

We were enchanted yesterday by Google Doodle's 'Little Nemo in Google-Land', to mark the 107th anniversary of the cartoonist Winsor McCay's 'Little Nemo in Slumberland'. It was a joy to watch unfold with many of the sections of artwork animated. If you missed it you can watch it here. Below are three of Winsor McCay's original magical cartoon strips from 1908.

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.

Lisa Stubbs - 'Free Spirit'

This gorgeous 'Free Spirit' screen print is by the wonderful illustrator and printmaker Lisa Stubbs. I came across it on Pinterest this morning, instantly fell in love with it and bought one. Afterwards I found there is a story behind this print and read how Lisa is embarking into fund raising for cancer through the sales of 'Free Spirit', and a three Volcano's Trek Challenge - Vesuvius, Stromboli and Mount Etna no less !

As you can see it's in a limited edition of 30, so be quick if you want one and be sure to visit Lisa's inspiring blog for more fab illustrations and updates on volcanos. We have the pom poms out - 'Go Lisa ! GO!'

Lisa's Etsy & Folksy Shops.

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.

Design Supremo

Patrick Edgeley 'Kitchen Utensils'

Design Supremo has a very nice selection of prints and does exactly what it says on the tin - "Design Supremo is an online art print and poster emporium showcasing outstanding modern wall art from leading international artists. This remarkable creative forum celebrates graphic design and illustration as a truly contemporary art form, expressed in a uniquely accessible and democratic medium. The limited edition giclee prints, screen prints and poster art lithographs available from Design Supremo represent an eclectic range of visual styles, each with individual appeal and each destined to become a modern design classic."
 

Dee Beale 'Scandinavian Red Hare'

Anthony Peters 'Leaf Me Alone' & Gill McColl 'An Apple A Day Keeps Windows Away'

Kate Mclelland 'Edinburgh Skyline'

HelloMarine 'Rochefort' & Graham Carter 'Panda Crossing'

Patrick Thomas 'Signs #09'


EXIT This way!

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/.

Old Try

Old Try are a couple from Alabama and North Carolina who moved to Boston a few years ago and found an old letterpress shop run by locals in Massachusetts. They now make Southern related letterpress posters, printed on old machines with moveable type and wood blocks.

We stumbled across Old Try whilst on Big Cartel setting up our shop recently. They too were in the midst of setting up online. It's great to see they are now also up and running. Wonderful stuff Old Try, wishing you a world of success! We will be buying from you.

 

Old Try

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!

www.ericcarleblog.blogspot.com/
www.eric-carle.com/home.html

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Ben Howard - The Wolves

Ben Howard is a singer-songwriter from Totnes, South Devon.

At only 22 he already has a huge following after releasing the brilliant track 'The Wolves'.

He is characterised by his odd way of guitar playing and recently did a tour with Australian artist Xavier Rudd.

Robot's seen him play twice, is going to another of his gigs in October, is wearing out the CD and will no doubt be buying this fab limited edition screen print very soon - hurry or there'll be nothing left!

benhowardmusic.co.uk/

www.myspace.com/benhoward

Oooo! We do like.....

'Raining on my Parade' - Copywriter: Van Horgen & Designer: Anne Ulku. 'Do healthy what you promised sick' - Writer: Mike Derus & Designer: Robert Pflaum. Visit Six Word Story Every Day - It's a real treat! Website: SWSED