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Our own Penny Dullaghan recently posted about going green on her blog which prompted me to recall this fantastic series of symbols California artist Savio Alphonso created for his MFA thesis project, Sprout. Savio spent two years designing these bold graphics to promote environmental awareness. Not only are these symbols conceptually inspiring communicating a powerful message beyond the boundaries of language and culture, they really challenge you to think about how you can put your own creative skills to service for our precious planet.
Savio’s Sprout series can be viewed either on his site or at Design Boom where he captured first place in their “Love Your Earth” contest. Other finalists in the “Love Your Earth” contest can be viewed here .
While perusing magazines in the bookstore, I stumbled upon Selvedge — and instantly fell in love. I know nothing of fabric or textile design. But the patterns and photos and textures are sublime. I ordered a subscription and every time it comes in the mail, I get my notebook out while I read it because the ideas just flow. Inspiration galore.
(They have a free trial digital issue on their site, if you want to see what I’m talking about!)
Russ Roca posts a video recap of Davy and Peter Rothbart from FOUND magazine performing at Open in Long Beach.
Not only is it a great video, but - look at all that lovely art on the walls! (A nice way to sample the IF show from the comfort of your computer monitor).
From the FOUND website: “We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else’s life. Anything goes…”
when i was in college, our teachers encouraged us to see Bugsy because the poster was painted by Ralph Steadman and “we have a responsibility to support the use of illustration in all mediums.” well, i consider it my responsibility to see The Savages now because Chris Ware created the poster. i hope the film lives up to the drawing!
thanks to gregory han for the heads up!
If you’re still struggling for a costume at this late hour, StarWars.com is offering some beautifully painted masks for printing, cutting, and strapping to your face. May the treats be with you!
To celebrate the release of his latest graphic novel, Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine is embarking on a nine city tour. The first stop is Skylight Books right here in Los Angeles but complete details of the tour can be found on the Drawn & Quarterly website. This will be his last tour for some time, supposedly. So, stalk him while you can!
pic from thinkjotdraw.com
Have you seen these books at thinkjotdraw?
Think.jot.draw is a handy, three-in-one workbook designed with artists in mind. Combining the elements of a journal, sketchbook and layout planner, you can record sketches, doodles, ideas, thoughts and thumbnails. (especially good for organizing spreads for books, etc). You can see all the page designs here (right hand column).
Very handy tool. Good idea Leeza! 
this and the kennedy school are why i miss portland so much.
I cannot for the life of me remember exactly where I found the link to Diana Fayt’s extraordinary ceramic creations, but I am ever so thankful. I love everything about her work: the colors, the organic shapes, and especially the “drawings”. They feel like maps to some secret and incredibly beautiful life, maps of the soul, etchings of imagination. Every time I look at her work, I start to tingle all over with the urge to draw, to map out my own inner world. Quick, get yourself over to her website and treat yourself to a bowl of wonderful:
Diana has been pushing the envelope recently… quite literally. And the results (posted on her blog One Blackbird ) are just as spectacular.
i like to listen to radio podcasts while i work. thanks to paul pope, i found a great channel for science fiction: Escape Pod, “the science fiction podcast magazine.”
click here to listen to cory docktorow’s Craphound, illustrated for idw by paul pope.
speaking of stan lee and zines, “the man” created one of his own: Secrets Behind The Comics.
there is a controversy in the comic world about whether stan lee was a superhero himself or just a huckster. regardless of which side you take in that debate, stan does deserve credit for elevating comic book creators from anonymous tradesmen to recognized artists and writers. when he became the editor of marvel comics, he introduced a credits page and gave all the artists nicknames (like jack “the king” kirby and “jazzy johnny” romita) so that they would be recognized and remembered by their readers.
before that though, when stan was still a hired hand at timely comics, he used his spare time and comic book connections to publish this booklet. it was an early bid for recognition for himself and his coworkers. the book was a behind the scenes look at the hard work that goes into the creation of a comic book.
GO TO THE LIBRARY!
it occurred to me that i write about books a lot. before my posts become a portal to amazon, it’s worth mentioning that i don’t buy all this stuff. i go to the library. i go to the library a lot. if you haven’t been to one in a while, you should know that they stock most new releases, not to mention comics, movies, and music. the Brand Library in glendale, california (portrayed above) specializes in art books. thanks to the internet, you can order books online, receive notifications when they are ready, and renew your items online to avoid late fees. libraries are the perfect bookstore for those of us with crowded studios or tight budgets. and you can find them all over the place.
Philipp Lenssen is taking the time to collect the covers of what seems like every comic ever drawn. His mission, the Cover Browser, is my current museum of choice.
Thanks to a plea from Ira Glass to support This American Life’s free podcasts, I discovered Lost Buildings. The slide show, narrated by Ira and illustrated by Chris Ware, tells the sad story of a boy who loves old buildings.
You can view a preview of the slide show here. If it convinces you to support This American Life, you can purchase the dvd and a gorgeous companion book, also designed by Mr. Ware.
I felt charged and excited when I read Pasqualina Azzarello’s interview at sidewalkpressed some months ago. She paints public murals at construction sites around NYC. She also painted 500 rocks for people to find! So inspiring! I thought it was worth digging out of the internet world and sharing on IF.
A quote from her interview:
It is clear to me that context affects how a work of art is seen and experienced, and by the same token, nothing is truly neutral. Even the white window-less walls of a gallery or museum create a culturally potent backdrop. So yes, the context I choose to share my work in is critical. In the case of the 500 painted rocks or the painted flowers around the construction site in Dumbo, I was interested in the element of people, while in the throes of the mundane of the day-to-day, being able to happen upon something that was blatantly handmade. I believe that a certain disruption occurs when that which is automated is juxtaposed with that which is created and vital. I find that creative disruption compelling and incredibly important.
Check out more images in Michael’s flickr photo set.
I have been entranced by this fascinating blog for a week now, so I have to share it - “Things Look Like Things” - blogs and photos as fable, fairytale, fiction and fact.
My favorite entry so far (click the title to view the entire post):
The Afterlife of a Pink Umbrella
Are your drink coasters dull? Are they boring and uninspired? Well, they need not be drab any longer! Claire Louise Milne has posted a beautiful tutorial on how you can make your very own custom set of coasters!
Today, I stumbled on the work of Vancouver artist Julie Morstad
and was left staggered, my jaw bouncing off my knees, at the beauty of her work. I’d seen it before, on the cover of a
Neko Case cd, but I didn’t know her name. Now I do… and wow. I’m not likely to forget it anytime soon.
Trying to find out more about her, I googled her name and landed here where you can see yet more of her work, a lot larger. And if that isn’t big enough for you, I recommend investing in a roll of her wallpaper. Yes, wallpaper! From this amazingly cool (and also Canadian) wallpaper company, Rollout.
Roll it out indeed.
“Draw anyway (when you think you can’t and even if you could you haven’t got any time and everyone said your last picture was fab, until you told them what it was meant to be, and, look, you never said you could draw, anyway, right?)”
Myfanwy Nixon’s new site is great for a little extra encouragement to draw anyway, with daily tasks that are somewhere between fun assignment and inspiring drawing lesson. The image above is from the “Negative Space” task, with some informative tips and great illos describing the method of drawing subjects by drawing the space around them.
Um, wow… Have you heard of Christopher Greco and what he’s up to? That would be one painting per day - every - day. And it’s usually oil to boot. And they are all really, really good. I hate him. (in the kindest way possible… hee). You rock Christopher!
(Thank you, Stephen, for the link!)
This morning I did a quick run around the house with a digital camera capturing the different colors, patterns and textures that I’ve accumulated over time. Pillows, blankets, rugs, rocks, bags, cutting board… they are the things that surround me.
Some are natural things, some are bold colorful things and some are just boring useful things. But I see a connection to them and my work. The things that are in our everyday settings seem to pop up into our work over time. Maybe subconsciously, maybe on purpose. But I think it’s inevitable…
I noticed that the red coral I have sitting in a vase informed my “Hummingbird” piece. A striped rug was modified and became a tablecloth in another. And a floral pillow pattern made its way onto a dress for another. Sometimes it’s just the color that pops up. Little bursts of bright red just like an accent vase in a room or the yellow vacuum cleaner you just bought. You can’t help but let it affect you. It just shows up.
(Makes you really think about what you choose to have around you at any given time, doesn’t it?)
One of my favorite artists sees this in her work too… click here.
I wonder if you can notice this too in your own work… Do you see connections? If so, I’d love to see it… Write a blog post and link to it in the comments…
So howdy kids and cowboys! It’s been like forever since I posted, but I’ve been frantically working to clear my drawing board before I’m off to New York City in a few short weeks. New York City… if you’ve never been there, you simply must go. It’s nothing short of amazing and every inch is crammed with some sort of spectacular inspiration.
Last summer, my whirlwind tour included a visit to the esteemed MoMA
, and the awesome spectacle of the
DADA exhibit there. But just as impactful was the installation “Conversations with Contemporary Artists.” It was there that I promptly mesmerized by the revolutionary street artist Swoon. As a young Florida transplant with a yen for classical painting, Swoon literally imprinted herself on NYC with delicate papercuts inspired by Indoniasian shadow puppets and astonishing woodcuts, developing her own incredible vocabulary. Her process and evolution are completely fascinating, leading her in startling directions from a installation in an underground tunnel leading to the Kremelin, to building and floating bio-friendly, VW engine powered flotillas amassed out of garbage down the majestic Mississippi.
Her website is sadly “still under construction” and my photo above is not great and certainly doesn’t do her work justice, but there is a wonderful Flickr group devoted to documenting her street art here, footage of her presenting her MoMA installation here
and
here (it’s a two-parter), and an interview
here. If you know of more Swoon stuff, please share! Ditto any must see exhibitions going on in NYC during the second week of June.
For those of you who couldn’t make the trek to Los Angeles for this year’s Star Wars Celebration, here is a collection of artwork by Ralph McQuarrie. It includes the conceptual paintings that George Lucas used to sell his vision for the films to 20th Century Fox.
Thanks to Michael Heileman for collecting it all in one place.
The U.S. Postal service made their mark on the most recent Star Wars Celebration with these limited edition stamps
by poster artist,
Drew Struzan.
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