The year I discovered Sagmeister

October 23, 2011 • 9:16 pm 1

Johanna Basford

Johanna Basford, scottish illustrator ‘and ink evangelist who prefers pens and pencils to pixels’. Rather lovely work on her site. Pics and words from her site.

Filed under: Design, Illustration, illustration, johanna basford

October 17, 2011 • 8:48 pm 2

Animal note cards – Melanie Kimmett

Cards by Melanie Kimmett, (a fab designer from Vancouver with a fab blog).
You can buy them via Etsy‘s shop.

“A happy maker of cute paperie things here in Vancouver, Canada. I’m heavily influenced by clean, modern design and illustration but take many inspired cues from the quirky urban world around me. Every one of my greeting cards are printed on 100% recycled, FSC-certified paper.”

Words from the Etsy site, pics from Melanie Kimmett.

Filed under: Design, Graphic, Illustration, Shop, cards, design, Etsy, illustration, mélanie Kimmett

October 4, 2011 • 4:22 am 0

Samantha Hahn

Seen via the fab What Makes Us

Samantha Hahn, illustrator out of Brooklyn NYC. Too tired to write a full para but she also has a blog which has got some great work with new work, thoughts and links (kind of like a blog really!). Pics taken from What Makes Us and Samatha Hahn. Samatha’s blog

Filed under: Blogs, Illustration, Reference, blog, illustration, samantha hahn

June 22, 2011 • 9:59 pm 3

Mélanie Kimmett – 1

A bit of a love in of Melanie Kimmett’s portfolio and blog. I discovered her site yesterday, checked out some of it today and am so impressed with the content of the blog and the fantastic work she does. Melanie is a designer and illustrator based in Vancouver “specialized in conceptualizing identity + brand design, print publication and illustration”. The work that she (and her team) worked on for the Vancouver Olympics is fab – in particular the AMAZING mascots that she was involved with – “from colour/fabric selection, approval of shape and form as well as calculating and producing 3D sewing patterns to ensure the placement of specific characteristics matched the 2D drawings”. I actually wanted these (and still do)!! Words and pics via her site. This will be the first of many posts…!

Links: the Vancouver Olympics 2010 work here.
Blog site here.

Filed under: Blogs, Design, Graphic, blog, design, illustration, mélanie Kimmett

June 13, 2011 • 8:36 pm 1

Courtney Brims

Fab illustrator from Brisbane, Australia. Courtney Brims. If you are in London she is part of a Little White Lies exhibition at the Kemistry Gallery, Charlotte St (16 June – 2 July 2011) click here for more info.

“Her drawings are influenced by Victoriana, ghost stories, old photographs, daydreams and nightmares.” Words and pic from her site here.

Filed under: Illustration, courtney brims, illustration

June 11, 2011 • 7:15 pm 1

Geekhearts a day – Rebekah Lock

Awesome daily online sketch book by my mate Becky. She has set herself the challenge of creating a heart shaped ‘design’ every day for 2011. Each heart that is created has a lovely story with it. Check it out here.

Filed under: Blogs, Graphic, blog, design, illustration, Rebekah Lock

March 7, 2011 • 10:20 pm 0

Eight Hour Day – Eli No!

“Inspired by a phrase often said by our nephew, “Eli, no!” uses iconic illustrations to tell the story of a trouble-making dog (our own Eli) and the one word that follows him around. We paired bold graphics and bright colors with clean, strong typographic layouts to instantly engage audiences of all ages. A call-and-response writing style makes this book easy to read, and even more fun to shout!”

Seen originally an age ago via Graphic Exchange but as I love it it had to go on this site as well.
Eight Hour Day great work coming out of Minneapolis. Words and images from Eight Hour Day.

Filed under: Design, Illustration, book, design, eight hour day, illustration, katie kirk

March 7, 2011 • 10:09 pm 1