From the Supersonic website:
Capsule are currently putting together a zine about all things Supersonic and we’re looking for illustrators to contribute. If you’re interested, please contact admin@capsule.org.uk by 16th August and we can send you more details.
Capsule’s previous zines are on Issuu, in case you wanted to have a look.
Amanda’s blog, Snowflake Blueprints, is a world of plushies (she takes commissions), poetry and hirsute lovers. She’s studying illustration at BIAD.
This is Sunny:
Pointe Blank is:
An exhibition of original images inspired by the story of Coppélia. In a first-of-its-kind project for Birmingham Royal Ballet, 27 artists and designers have been invited to produce individual pieces of artwork based upon toymaker Doctor Coppélius, and his attempts to breathe life into his most prized creation
The exhibition has been pulled together by Rob Lindsay at Birmingham Royal Ballet and Claire Hartley.
It features the work of (deep breath…) Ashley O’Brien, Ben Javens, Chris Henley, Christine Hughes, Claire Hartley, Crayonfire, Darren John, Dave Hughes, Gavin Auty, Harriet Grey, The Hidden Dingbat Collective, Ian, Caulkett, Jamie Littler, Jimmy Rogers, Jo Spencer, Katie Parry, Luke Tonge, Mezzetty, Middle Boop, Nathan Monk, Rachel Tighe, Ryan Dean-Corke, Sam Pierpoint, Sarah Ray, Simon Wild, Studio Family and Sweaty Eskimo.
It’s all online so go and have a look. There’s some lovely work there.
It launched tonight for one night only (I was there – that photo stands as slightly blurry proof), although there are plans to exhibit the prints elsewhere and maybe sell them online or something.
It always seems to me that the illustrators around Birmingham are a very talented but criminally underserved bunch. When they get together and do something it tends to be really very good – see also the Not My Type exhibition that we hosted at the CiB shop last year.
Still, a very well done to everyone involved in this.
Apparently that’s our own fair Bullring in the picture above, albeit with a fair amount of retouching done. And a horde of bloodthirsty zombies running amok. [insert predictable joke here]
In case you don’t already know of it, Dead Rising is a computer game. Fluid did the branding for the advertising, POS, packaging and so on.
I’ve just been catching up on what Moyma‘s been doing. The answer seems to be a new series called The Adventures of P Chiddy. Here’s the latest:
This piece is a paradoxical view on engagement, the dialectical infringement of time and its juxtaposition of that paradox within a social time enhanced framework…or maybe its a picture of a P to the Chiddy hanging from a fish. I will let you decipher.
Luke Brookes is an illustrator based in Birmingham. His work has a mythical feel, with a focus of fictional characters, along with short stories to accompany some of his pieces. This a cute one about a bear and a fisherman.
He also has a really fun website, complete with rainbows, clouds and a hot air balloon. There’s also plenty more pieces on his blog.
Gareth Weston is a Birmingham based illustrator, specialising in quirky, satirical illustrations.
He holds a penchant for typography, flat colour, disproportionate figures, characters, traditional crafts and techniques and the deeply metaphorical.
Take a look at his growing portfolio containing both hand drawn and digital work.
Louise Wright is a Birmingham based illustrator, currently in her 3rd year as an illustration student at Birmingham City University. If you like her style keep an eye out for her folksy shop where she’s getting ready to sell some of her prints.
For now, she’s on Flickr and Tumblr for you to take a browse of her work.
Darren John designs these quirky illustrations, and is based in Birmingham. He’s also on Flickr, where you can take a look at some of his more recent work.
Todd Geary is an Birmingham based illustrator specialising in music, politics, social issues and sport. He works fast and regularly posts topical, vibrant pieces like this one on his blog, take a look at toddgearyonlineportfolio.blogspot.com
Cooler than your average comic book convention, this years British International Comic Show 2010 is being held at Thinktank Millennium Point on 16 & 17 October.
So far they have a whole bunch of comic legends announced as guests for the weekend, and are open to submissions for this years Portfolio Review.
This is your chance to show your stuff to top commissioning editors in the field, in previous years aspiring artists have been snapped up by the likes of DC, Panini and Warner Bros at BICS, going on to launch careers as professional comics artists.
There are still more events to be announced, so check their website for updates.
Tickets are now on sale, with concessions for the kids, available as either full weekend or single day passes.
Hi, I’m Tahgasa Bertram aka the Sweaty Eskimo. I’m not a graphic designer, but an illustrator based in the almost sunny city that is Birmingham, UK. I spend my days eating chicken and my nights milking cows. I like udders. I love anything created with a pencil as long as it stays in the CMYK form. Not a fan of all that moving RGB stuff. Occasionally you can catch me paragliding with penguins or wrapping wombats in bubble wrap. I like animals. At present I’m looking for an agent to represent me. I love to draw
Crazy name, crazy guy. Nice work.
Nod to CMYKern.
As reported by the Outcrowd Collective, Ben Javens now has a tea towel for sale via the rather wonderful To Dry For, a website I only discovered the other week. This is the design:
and, if you like, you can buy one here.
On a slightly related note, one of the strangest bits of merch I ever saw at a gig was Nick Cave tea towels.
Daisy Whitehouse is an illustrator. Murray Somerville is also an illustrator. But together they are Daze-Ray and they’re turning 48 Vyse Street in the Jewellery Quarter into an illustration exhibition from 21-28 May. The opening’s tonight – here’s the Facebook event and here’s the flyer:
