Scout Books: Mike Perry
Posted by Amy on Friday March 12, 2010
Scout Books are making their way around the interweb these days and understandably so: you can customize these little handy notebooks made of 100% recycled papers and soy inks with your artwork on the cover.
Every month, they also launch an illustrated cover edition by various artists, and this month it’s Mike Perry, whose work I absolutely adore. Get his limited edition Scout Book over here.
Vintage Children's Book Illustrations
Posted by Jamie Shelman on Friday March 5, 2010
Some time ago I happened to stumble across this incredible collection of vintage children’s book illustrations posted by Tiny Tin aka Christine Copland on flickr and haven’t been able to forget about them ever since! The bright colors, shapes and textures are an inspiration and joy to behold!
The first two images are from The Circus by Brian Wildsmith.
The third image from The Lion and the Bird’s Nest by Eriko Kishida.
Grab a cup of tea and curl up with your computer to spend sometime with this truly unique and interesting take on children’s illustration.
See the full set here.
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Rand Renfrow
Posted by Amy on Wednesday March 3, 2010
Quirky illustrations, zines and posters from Rand Renfrow. He hit the nail on the head with It Seems Like It’s Missing Something — an illustrated book of quotes collected from people’s humorous encounters with outsiders to the design and art world; a collaboration with Shaun Fox. I bet the designer who has these sort of clients are tearing their hair out instead of laughing when told the same thing!
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Christine Pym
Posted by Amy on Wednesday March 3, 2010
Beautiful watercolour illustrations from Christine Pym who studied Illustration for Children’s Publishing at the North East Wales Institute in the UK. She’s illustrated one book entitled The Tail of the Whale which will be out soon! I love how she talks about achieving a balance between your own vision and what the market wants in this blog post of hers on her experience after she graduated from university.
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Getting out of the box: Etsy virtual labs recap #2
Posted by Amy on Thursday October 22, 2009
Jamie Shelman sure knew how to keep her hands busy during my talk! ;)
For those who were eagerly awaiting my second chapter of the recap, I apologize for the delay! For the rest who might be wondering what this article is about, well, this is the second installment of the Etsy Virtual Labs recap of my talk, “Getting out of the box”. You can read the first one over here.
Now on to the good stuff.
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#2: Perseverance
The truth is, no one starts out fabulous. The Beatles sure didn’t. Tiger Woods for sure didn’t just pick up his golf stick and swung his way to victory.
They practiced a lot. And I bet they failed a lot too — which wasn’t mentioned much – not as much as the wins. That’s one thing I actually wish people would stress and share more stories of – their perseverance and the hard work – and knocks – that brought them there. That was one of the reason why I started the Good to Know project – so everyone can share their advice and inspire others along the way.
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Patricia Metola
Posted by Amy on Tuesday October 13, 2009
Patricia Metola drew these fabulous illustrations, which is done for her book Hansel and Gretel. I love the irregularity and surprises afforded by a brush!
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Do you need qualifications to be an artist?
Posted by Amy on Saturday September 19, 2009
… And that’s the topic for the fifth issue of the Good to Know zine! It’s our biggest issue ever too – 68 pages filled with shared experiences and thoughts by 51 artists, illustrators and designers. There’s also a special segment that’s generously shared by Melanie Maddison of Colouring Outside the Lines zine, and features snippets of previous 10 interviews with artists that relates to the topic at hand.
++GIVEAWAY TIME!++
To celebrate the launch, we’re giving away TWO issues of this zine; one each to lucky commentors who share with us their thoughts: Is it necessary to have a degree/qualification to be an artist? Do you have experiences or thoughts to share?
Giveaway ends on 25th September, and if you can’t wait, well you can always get your own copy at the Good to Know project page where you’ll also find past issues of the zine!
Pssst, also, if you want new updates every now and then, you might be interested in signing up for our mailing list?
{The pattern for the cover of issue #5 was designed by Vicky Smith}
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UPDATE: Commenting has now closed, thanks for participating!
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Giveaway #11: WE ARE... STRONG coloring zine!
Posted by Amy on Wednesday September 9, 2009
The lovely Yael Fran is giving out a copy of her latest collaborative effort with 15 other illustrators: a coloring zine that will showcase their interpretation of a different theme for each month. This issue’s theme is WE ARE… STRONG, and one lucky commenter will be able to get a copy of it in the mail to color it in as they please!
Just comment and we’ll pick out the winner after 15th September.
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P/S—Have you entered the Able & Game’s giveaway as well?
UPDATE: Commenting has now closed, thanks for participating!
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Binny Talib
Posted by Amy on Thursday August 20, 2009
When I had a look at Binny Talib’s website, I fell in love instantly! You can see her style right off the bat (and of course, I love how her illustrations lend a “handmade” feel to her website). My favourite category of her works has to be those that she did for books — she seems to have illustrated quite a few.
She is based in Sydney and was previously an art director before she went on to become an illustrator — I’ve been noticing quite a few others who made the same career transition as well!
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The Talented Chicken
Posted by Amy on Thursday July 23, 2009
Parisa Mahmoudi sent me an email to let me know about her new book entitled The Talented Chicken, which is now available for purchase (via email). The story is about a mother hen who is is prodding and pushing her young chick to fly, swim and sing… and seems to forget that her young one is only a chicken!
The book may be in Persian, but the storyline will definitely ring true anywhere in the world.
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