Design

It’s art if can’t be explained.
It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation.
It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation.

— Wouter Stokkel

Telegramme Studios

Telegramme Studios state they are the purveyours of fine design and illustration on there website, and im going to state 'agreed!' There work is interesting and constantly conveys a hand rendered approach. There a london based company who again use a lot of screen print.

http://www.telegramme.co.uk/

Monkeys, Ducks and Mice, Continued

The continuation of monkeys ducks and mice then lead me on to creating these fun cards. It was actually after some research into Aardman's work and these cards create a more comic image. I think there fun and quirky but they seem very photoshopped even thought the illustrations are hand rendered. I would like to try something with screen printing.

So after this i went on to create these 3 characters out of my illustrations but from using painted backgrounds to give them a more handcrafted look. I Think that the colors used on the monkey are the most effective and ive also noticed how the duck now looks more like a chicken!

Charley Harper

August 4, 1922 - June 10, 2007

Charley Harper was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist. He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations.Im particularly drawn into Charles's work because of the smooth perfect lines and the geometric form most the animals in his work convey. There simple but very effective. I also notice how the majority of his illustrations are of animals and nature which i connect with because I rarely draw human forms myself.

https://www.charleyharperprints.com/

Tom Frost

Tom Frost is an illustrator living and working in Bristol. He uses screen printing, acrylic paint, bits of wood, gocco machines, pencils, vintage Meccano and paper to create hundreds of beautiful prints. I really love his work and if you follow this link you will find his blog, also here is a small selection of prints.

http://theboyfrost.blogspot.com/

Monkeys, Ducks and Mice

To begin the construction of a personal identity for myself i sent around a questionaire asking people to compare me and my personality to various things such as food, an accesory, a shape ect and for animal most came up saying, a duck a monkey and a mouse. I did a few pages of random drawings and doodles of these in prepeartion of designing a series of playful business cards.

I liked the animals faces and was thinking about what i could do with them. I wanted to do something fairly simple so i decided to just use the eyes and mouths so that the rectangle of the card makes up the face. Here is a photograph of these cards together which look very cute as a set together. Id like to continue to develop on this idea but will come back to it once i have explored other possibilities. 

After this i moved onto looking into paper mechanics. I thought the duck could look quite effective as a pop out card and i created 3 cards, one sunny, one raining, and one snowing. The concept being that I am perfect for what ever the weather.

Mike Perry Skate Boards

I was looking through Mike Perry's blog the other day and i saw these hand rendered skateboard designs,  i love how busy they are the fact that theres so much to look at draws me in. The color combinations are bright and eye catching and the general feel to them are well fitted to the skate scene. If i could skate board, id skate on a Mike Perry one!

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