The Tanoshiboy Chronicles: The Art of Salvatier Studios: Is Repurposing Old Designs Okay? After we'd met through our blogs, I decided I wanted Designer and Illustrator, Donny Gallagher to guest post. The stars finally aligned and we made it happen! Although the story is about a dead design having new life breathed into it, it also deals with the larger subject of repurposing old design work for a new client. Many think repurposing is unethical, but we'd like to hear your thoughts. Donny did an awesome job, in my opinion. It’s always fun when new life gets pumped into a dying, or in this case, dead project. Only a few sketches in, for one reason or another the original poster project fizzled.
Sometimes when one project dies, an even larger one is born. The original illustration is a mixture of linocut and digital techniques. A square format of the illustration with additional type and design will be used for CD/album covers. Have you ever had a dead project rise from the dead? 100 Must-See Art Blogs (of Every Form) | Art Career. Posted by Site Administrator in Learning ToolsNov 24th, 2008 The Internet can be a great place for artists to come together, share art and read information about the latest exhibitions in their area. These blogs can help keep you in the loop and provide inspiration for art of just about any kind from illustration to performance art so you don’t miss out on a single opportunity. News and Reviews Get updates on the latest goings-ons in the art world from updates on artists to critiques of recent exhibits.
Galleries, Exhibitions and Collecting Check out these blogs to read all about upcoming shows and learn how you can build your own art career and collection. Drawing and Painting For those working in painting and drawing, these blogs offer tips and inspiration while sharing personal experiences in the art field. Making a Mark: Katherine Tyrrell writes this blog and provides helpful instruction on drawing with pastels, ink and pencil.David G. Graphic Design and Digital Media By the Artist. About | Designers Who Blog: Design, Illustration, Photography, Web, Advertising, Branding ...
Designers Who Blog is about blogging designers. Due to the slopover in the industry, included are: Graphic Designers, Web Designers, Illustrators, Typographers, Logo Designers, Artists, Photographers, Marketers, Writers, Branders and Podcasters and more. Much more. At DWB you’ll discover people sharing thoughts, ideas and creativity about their industries. You’ll also find off-the-rack blogs amongst well-designed sites. View the banner collection by repeatedly refreshing the page (I use a rotating.php), or by visiting Year 1 Banner Gallery and Year 2 Banner Gallery and Year 3 Banner Gallery.
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This is a guest post written by Vivien from Inspirationbit. You can see the original post here. Did you know that colour and visual elements activate the right brain (emotions), while the printed words activate the left brain (logic)? Colour and Typography remain to be the two most important elements in design. When you harmoniously combine them all you attract a quicker attention to the subject, reinforce impact and recognition, help in establishing powerful identities and brand, set a mood.
Today we examine the DOs and DON’Ts in designing with colour. Babies are colour-dominant: they are more attracted by colour than form. And even though we generally become more form-dominant as we mature, colour still plays an important role on how we perceive the message. DO take time to learn the colour wheel. All colours are made up of three primaries: red, blue and yellow. Every colour has a temperature: from the red/yellow side of the spectrum it’s warm, and from the blue/purple side it’s cool.
Illustration Stuff » How to become an illustrator. The Illustrator’s Market: A Professional’s Insights Into the Illustration Industry. Since 1975, Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market has been a must-have reference guide for emerging artists who want to establish a successful career in fine art, illustration, cartooning or graphic design. Beyond up-to-date contact and submission information for more than 1,100 art markets, AGDM includes informative articles and interviews with successful artists and art buyers. Read on for a 2011 AGDM article by Chris Gall, an illustrator and author from Tucson, Arizona.
Also, be sure to check out ArtistsMarketOnline.com, the new online version of AGDM—you can try it for free with the 7-day risk-free trial. The Illustrator’s Market A Professional’s Insights Into the Illustration Industry by Chris Gall Once limited to the role of accompanying text to aid in the sale of products, commercial illustration’s function has expanded to include providing editorial commentary, defining business identities, and accompanying text as an equally important partner in expressing ideas. Blogs / Containerlist. August 14th, 2012 by Zachary Sachs Mockup box of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, published 1957-60. Covers illustrated by James McMullan. James McMullan did the art for Dutton’s 1961 paperback box set of Lawrence Durrell’s tetralogy, The Alexandria Quartet.
Durrell’s most famous work, it was that rare success, both critical and commercial. The first one, Justine, was my favorite novel at one time, though now—perhaps because I was too young when I read it, or otherwise because of subsequent damage to my long-term memory—I can’t remember much about it, plot-wise. The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind. McMullan’s covers are done in a mixture of earthy soulful browns for the box; and emphatic oranges, emerald, and purple on the individual covers. Though the series is occasionally counted among “the greatest novels of the twentieth century,” its star seems to have dimmed more than many of its peers on those sorts of lists. Analytical Figure Drawing SP08. ABOUT CREATUREMAG | Creaturemag Online Art Magazine.
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With the help of Creature’s eager following on Twitter and Facebook we establish grand collaborations, devise projects and generally beaver away, making and seeking out the best new illustration and creative projects for your enjoyment. Stay up to date with our latest projects and submission calls via these sites: Creaturemag Illustrators Our illustrators contribute brand new illustrations to our exclusive weekly features. YOU! A word from Matt Witt – Founder. Browse Palettes. Log In Sign Up COLOURlovers Search Create Explore Over a Million Color Palettes You'll find over 4,542,712 user-created color palettes to inspire your ideas.
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Even with professionals, there is often no idea what or even how to present work to a client. Without senior level courses on portfolio preparation or classes taught by those who have been out of the field too long to know current trends, it is confusing and students are left with their own thoughts on what a client wants to see. The biggest misconception is you need printed or live web pieces to show a client.
To this end, as many professionals complain, students will do free or lower paying work just to garner a few “professional” samples to say, “SEE! NOTE: This article, the second in a series of eight articles on Professional Practices which they don’t teach you in art school. How A Portfolio Can Turn OFF A Client “These are my ‘brain paintings.’ You shouldn’t be. Addictive Web-based Drawing Apps. Tech: 3D-drawing with Rhonda. Nanophysical. This 65 meters long and 2.5 meters high wall piece was made by Ludivine Lechat and Tom De Smedt for IMEC (European Institute for Nanotechnology) using NodeBox software (and Adobe Illustrator).
NodeBox is Open Source software, developed by Frederik De Blesser and Tom De Smedt from the Experimental Media Group of the St. Lucas School of Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. The NodeBox-site says: NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. If you want to know more about NodeBox, go check out the site... There is also a NodeBox2 for Windows, but this is still in beta. To learn more about the Nanophysical project, visit the NodeBox gallery here. The blogs of Basil Sedbuk. Researching the previous post I came across a blog dedicated to Avril, made by a certain Basil Sedbuk. As it turns out, that one is not the only illustration blog he does. He has no less than 6 different blogs, five of which are dedicated to an individual artist (François Avril of course, but also Serge Clerc, Dominique Corbasson, Floc’h and Ted Benoit) and a sixed called “La belle illustration” where he tends to put all other illustrators he likes but who somehow didn’t get their own blog (yet?).
Here we find the work of people like Lorenzo Mattotti, Robert Crumb, Loustal, Götting, and many, many others. Yes, They are all written in French, but the pictures are not. So, go explore ! François Avril (once more) Serge Clerc Floc'h Dominique Corbasson Ted Benoit La belle illustration. The Japanese Postcard – Part 4 | Aqua-Velvet. Soganoya Goro Theatre Japanese | Artist Unknown Japanese postcard Japanese | Artist Unknown Poster Design for Calpis: Masks by Raphael Ramirez (ten-year-old from Mexico) Japanese, Taisho era | Artist Unknown Japanese postcard Japanese | Artist Unknown, Japanese Tokyo Marunouchi Hotel Japanese | Artist Unknown Rooster: Poster Design for Kalpis Japanese, Taisho-early Showa era | Artist: Hisae Aoki New Year’s Card: Advertisement of the Komatsu Fertilizer Distribution Japanese, Late Meiji era, 1910 | Artist Unknown New Year’s Card: Advertisement of Seibyoen Japanese, Late Meiji era, 1906 | Artist Unknown Biwako Hotel Japanese | Artist Unknown Imperial Hotel, Tokyo Japanese, Late Meiji era | Artist Unknown New Year’s Card: Advertisement of Soganoya Goro Japanese, Taisho era, 1918 | Artist Unknown Japanese postcard Japanese | Artist Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Browse the Lauder Japanese Postcard Collection here. Some Amazing Retro Style Illustrations Part 1 | Dzine Blog. Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Click Here Looking for hosting?. We recommend MediaTemple for web hosting. Use Code MTLOVESDESIGN for 20% off Previously we had a look at the very original ad thought-provoking retro illustrations of Dan Page. This article means to prove that there is more than one way of being a retro-style illustrator, actually, and that there is great freedom of expression within this very popular trend. Their work is a proof that it is the point of view of the artist that matters the most in an illustration and that makes it original. If you feel like trying to draw in this style too or you just want to use this kind of illustrations in your graphic design, check out the amazing examples in this collection!
Andrew Bannecker Andrew Rae David Mcmacken Nigel Owen Staffan Larsson Brian Grimwood Chris Kasch Dave Needham About brantwilson Brant Wilson is a staff writer for the DesignMag network. Animalarium. The name speaks somewhat for itself: It’s animals galore on animalarium. All creatures, great and small… and all kinds of media: illustrations, arts, crafts, videos, you name it. A real nice place to visit. Go check it out at theanimalarium.blogspot.com. The Chap / Even Your Friend from Lo+LOAF TV on Vimeo. Animalarium. Planeta tangerina. Container List: Use your head.