Illustration

Quick Draw Postman Pat?

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No this isn’t Fibres latest Quick Draw venture. This sweet one line journey / interface is for the Japanese Postal Service (correct me if im wrong, as my Japanese isn’t great). The different one line illustrations at intervals are pretty cool – check it out here

Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Wednesday, 5th of March 2008 Permalink

The Pelican Project

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Things Magazine bring you The Pelican Project, hard to pick a favourite decade or cover, the 60’s and 70’s are where most of the superb graphic solutions are. My favourite changes everytime I visit the site, some are above, but today it’s ‘How Children Fail’

Dave Brown
Posted on Wednesday, 30th of January 2008 Permalink

The Design Grotto

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Get a festive design fix at The Design Grotto, at Somerset House next weekend (same place where you can make a fool of yourself on an ice rink every Christmas). It looks like a fun event with interactive stalls, creative workshops and unique gifts for under £20. Stallholders include Beyond the Valley, Multistorey, If You Could, Johnson Banks and Tatty Devine. Oh, and Michael Johnson will be Father Christmas this year (not really, but wouldn’t he be good?).

David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 7th of December 2007 Permalink

Peepshow Christmas

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The elves over at Peepshow collective have just solved all your Christmas problems. Launching just in time, Peepshop has an exclusive range of peepshow giclee prints, t-shirts, and decorations.  With the best assorted Christmas cards ever, awesome prints such as Miles Donovan’s World Fair 1964 and Jenny Bowers’ Leaf Bag, every good boy and girl should be happy. Or, if you’re a bit of a Grinch, just get some Andrew Rae Skull Decorations for the tree. That’ll scare Grandma!

David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 7th of December 2007 Permalink

Quick Draw Santa!

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Ho Ho Ho! here’s a Flickr set of jolly Santas – each drawn in one minute without lifting the pen off the paper. The challenge was set by Fibre last weekend at a charity event for Médecins Sans Frontières. At the end of the evening the winner (top-left - uncanny!) loaded his sleigh with a creative Christmas hamper. See also photos of the event.

David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 23rd of November 2007 Permalink

Spam One-Liners

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Lizzie Hunter experiments with hand lettering based on spam subject lines in her mailbox. If only all spam looked like this – maybe we’d read it? Link (via Drawn!)

David Rainbird
Posted on Tuesday, 30th of October 2007 Permalink

“now i know my abc…

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..buy this wallchart”. Here’s a nice thing. An ABC of endangered species in the British Isles as a very beautiful illustated A2 wallchart. This is the handiwork of Present & Correct of Kentish Town. £1 for every one sold goes to The National Trust, for new hedges and dormice boxes. Buy it here. via I Like

Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Monday, 15th of October 2007 Permalink

“If You Could…

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...design anything to improve the way we live what would it be”. October sees our good friends at If you could curate a new exhibition posing a twist to their trade mark question to 12 top flight illustrators and designers. 

The exhibition runs from the 20-28th October at The Fire Station Newcastle NE99 1HR and is a showcase of all the one off illustrations drawn on blueprint style paper. If you cant make it to Newcastle, check out what the creative people came up with here.

Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Monday, 8th of October 2007 Permalink

ZZAP!

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For all you old skool gamers, heres a blast from the past. Zzap 64 magazine launched in 1985 was a monthly mag that I purchased back in the day for my Commodore 64. Every cover was a beautiful hand drawn illustration by Oli Frey up to issue 63. If you remember either the Commodore 64 or vaguely remember the cover artwork take a look at the entire archive here.

Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Thursday, 20th of September 2007 Permalink

Eat it

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This poster designed by Joseph Luffman, produced by the international type academy (ITA) in support of British Food Fortnight is just one of the lovely things you can see and buy at Blanka, a site devoted to celebrating the very best in creative communication and print.

Dave Brown
Posted on Tuesday, 18th of September 2007 Permalink

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