You may know Dave Gaskarth from his work on the Flatpack Festival and various other such things. He’s just rejigged his portfolio.
Illustration
There’s a lot of illustrators getting all collaborative at the moment, what with the Not My Type project and this here news about the new thing from the Love to Print collective. Katie from Supercool has explained things better than I would:
Patterns contains loads of exquisite illustrations from five fantastically talented screenprint artists, who each have very different styles – Karoline Rerrie, Sarah Lynch, Ruth Green, Helen Entwisle, Daisy Whitehouse – and yeah, I did some stuff too. (Though I can’t call myself an artist!)
Love to Print Patterns #1 will be available at The New Art Gallery Walsall’s Artists’ Bookfair on 22-23rd May. If you can’t make it there though, watch this space for other ways of getting your hands on Pattern
Her post has photos too.
Punch are doing another one of their pop-up shops – the Swifty one was great and this next one looks pretty ace too. For those that don’t know:
His work has become synonymous with new music and club culture, working alongside the most prominent musicians of the last decade, includingChase & Status, Amp Fiddler, Bugz in the Attic, Nitin Sawhney, Ziggy Marley, Howie B and many others.
In addition, Mitch has worked on many special projects, live paints and collaborations with other artists: 55 Roots for 55 DSL (live paint and group art show with Dragon and Shibuya from Japan), Bacardi brand development (with Mode 2) and Blak Twang/We Love You album projects with Banksy.
It’ll be at the Sauce Gallery at the Custard Factory from 10 April 2010.
Intriguingly, graphic designer and illustrator David Gaskarth does not really practise what he preaches. His mantra is visual clarity, his idols such practitioners of Swiss Modernist typography as Josef Müller-Brockmann. Müller-Brockmann’s socialist ideals also greatly appeal to Gaskarth, who did a BA in illustration at Bristol University, followed by an MA on ‘graphic propaganda’ at Birmingham University. In 2005, he co-founded the collective Cyrk – the name Gaskarth, who grew up in Birmingham, also trades under as a freelance. His work ranges from promoting film and music events to animation, Web and snowboard design.
(Via @flatpack)
Mark Wilkinson is an artist and illustrator working predominantly with paper collages and marker pen. Here’s one of his slightly surreal graphic works, which I particularly like:
You can see more of his collage work on his Tumblr.
Phill Blake has done a rather good job of describing himself on his website, so I’ll let him take over:
Phill Blake is an artist, designer and an illustrator from middle England who refuses to be tied down to one specific genre preferring to spread his talents over multiple art forms and retain an ever evolving style that is all terrain and knows no boundaries. His influences lie in street art, comics, hip hop or urban culture and the different sub cultures that emerge around the world.
His site’s also packed full of lots of lovely examples of his work like this one:
Sarah Lynch is an illustrator and a member of the Love to Print collective, which is a project handily described on Shoulder to Crayon.
You can see some of Sarah’s ornithologically-inspired illustrations and screen prints on her blog.
Leon Sparkes is an artist, painter, illustrator, author, graphic designer and music composer who’s also done bits and pieces on interior design with The Rainbow pub and Saint Caffe in St Pauls Square. I’ll let Leon explain more:
I have merged various art forms creating my own distinctive art style, creating storytelling trends and concepts. I’m enthusiastic and hard working. I’m success driven and enjoy making a difference to my space and environment. My Incentive is driven on the basis of ergonomics, our enviroment and landscape.
You can check out more of his stuff on his portfolio site.
N4T4 is an artist and illustrator with a specialism in spray paint. This is from his ‘About Page’:
I paint portraits using realism as a reference point for more abstract experimentation. The images are built in layers that become ambiguous and open to interpretation from the viewer. I am inspired by aboriginal art and graffiti; aesthetically and conceptually with their self evolved visual languages, dual meanings, temporal quality and its basis in culture, people and environment rather than just commerce.
And here’s just one example of N4T4′s work:
Daisy Whitehouse / White Wolf Illustrations.
Daisy’s restless mind is forever thinking up new creatures and stories to entertain. Her work often incorporates handmade typography to run with humorous hand drawn imagery
She’s got a blog too.
Lewes Herriot is a self-taught illustrator/artist who’s worked for Johnny Foreigner, Charlotte Hatherley, Tubelord, Free Moral Agents, NME, Fly Magazine, Fused Magazine, Topman Design, Ikon Gallery (Birmingham) and This Is Tomorrow.
Busy chap. He’s got a MySpace page, a blog at The Dark Inventory and a Flickr account with plenty of work on show.
Jan Bowman trained as an architect and now draws pictures for a living. Her work celebrates the best of 21st-century civilisation. Originally from Scotland via Canada, she lives in England with the Old Boot and two cats
She’s also the writer/illustrator of a new book called This Is Birmingham which is out on 10 December and recently earned this gushing review from Shirley Dent in The Guardian:
a book very much continuing that tradition of imaginative non-fiction at its best. Stunningly illustrated it brings to glorious life the sights and sounds of Brum so familiar to my nephews. But the real genius is that it sneaks in some hardcore social and political history, starting with Birmingham’s Lunar Society and broadening out into the American, French and industrial revolutions, taking in immigration and urban development along the way. And the whole thing, my middle nephew will be pleased to learn, reads like an adventure through time and place
It’s well worth visiting Jan Bowman’s website for a glance at some more of the pics. The book’s aimed at those of us who are aged 8+ and it’s only £6.99 on Amazon at the moment.
Sam Pierpoint is an illustrator and designer based in Birmingham and Southampton. She completed a BA in Graphic Design with a 2:1 at The Nottingham Trent University. She’s an illustrator by day and a techno dj by night with a passion for quirky shapes and patterns, unconventional colour schemes, jazz, soul, tech, minimal, house and general obscurity in all it’s glory!
By layering and a diverse range of papers, building her work in 3d and breaking away from the standard rule of illustrating on the page, Sam has made her work come to life and is excited about how much further she can push her style.
She’s on Twitter and has a Tumblr too.
How can I not post something about someone going by the name of rainbow_donkeys?
I was in Cybercandy (a sweet shop on Bull St, the same street John Cadbury opened his first grocery) on Saturday when I spied a flyer for Teeth’s upcoming gig at the Sunflower Lounge on 28 October. This is the one:
If I’ve got this right, rainbow_donkeys is Kris Jones who describes himself as “a freelance illustrator / doodler / designer based in the West Midlands”, specifically Birmingham, according to his Twitter account. He’s available for commissions, should you be interested.
He’s notched work for Fused and Area Magazines, has a T-shirt for sale via www.cutoutshop.com and Mouldy Loaf’s shop, featured in the recent Inkygoodness Exhibition and, as seen above, has a nice line in gig posters. Heres’s the one for Capsule’s upcoming Efterklang gig (29 Oct at The Asylum – ):
(PS – I’m not entirely certain whether that underscore is meant to be in there or what the deal is with capitalisation. Or whether it matters. I’d be happy to correct what I’ve gone with if someone wants to put me right).
Colour is the night run by Cib alumnus Katie Spragg and it returns to The Victoria on Thursday 15 October. Back in February (that long ago) they brought Charlie Parr along – there’s a video of him performing a fantastic version of ‘Cheap Wine‘.
This time round they’ve got a Commercially Inviable special starring World of Fox with support from James Summerfield, Friends of the Stars and Richard Burke.
Pixie Sixer’s already written all about it on More Canals Than Venice so check that for more info. I’m really posting this for an excuse to post Ruth Green‘s artwork for World of Fox.
Ruth is a recent addition to the Love to Print collective – a project explained on the rather wonderfully named Shoulder to Crayon. Most of that collective are also involved with Girls Who Draw, including Karoline Rerrie and Sarah Ray.
There seems to be quite a tangled web of ladies out there producing pretty, quirky illustrations. See also i heart joan and the Inkygoodness folks.
