100 Things #007
Modernist London Cards
Designed and produced by Stefi Orazi [stefiorazi.co.uk]. This year sees a special Winter Edition featuring illustrations of Telecom Tower, Royal Festival Hall, The Isokon Building, a K8 Telephone Box, Great Arthur House (or Boicozine Towers, if you like… joking!) and the Barbican (natch). Available via [thingsyoucanbuy.co.uk].
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What’s Up #44: House of Kids
You can’t talk about design and illustration studio House of Kids [houseofkids.fr] without mentioning French record label, institubes [institubes.com]. The two are intrinsically linked through House of Kids members Jean-René Etienne and Lola Raban-Oliva, although each has their own outstanding bodies of work and institubes continues to team up with some of the more interesting Parisienne pop-’artists’ such as Akroe [akroe.net] and Gaspirator [myspace.com/gaspirator].
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What’s Up: #40: Tristan Galdos Del Carpio
It’s taken me a while to track down the name of illustrator Tristan Galdos Del Carpio [via philippearnaud.com]. His portraits of various fashion aficionados commissioned by Self Service magazine [selfservicemagazine.com] ‘back in the day’ have been etched into my memory. It wasn’t until acquiring Ezra Petronio and Suzanne Koller’s [petronioassociates.com] recent tome (I say ‘tome’ not cause of weight but because of the hefty price tag) [jrp-ringier.com], that I could finally look it up (I think my old issues of Self Service are still in my Mum’s garage in Australia). His recent work does not disappoint either. There’s a nervous energy in his linework that makes anything pop… even dower old fashion bods.
Abbott, No Costello
I hope she won’t be too upset with me posting this but it’s a great little interview with ace illustrator, Chrissie Abbott [chrissieabbott.co.uk]. You get to poke around her studio too. Ace!
Bloody Show Offs
Meirion Pritchard, currently Art Director for Wallpaper [wallpaper.com] (along with pals Simon Robinson and Matt Thomas) likes to encourage shy and retiring creative types to Show Off (well, they’re not all shy, definitely top notch creatives though). I’ve been a tad slack and you now have only a few days left to catch the latest Show Off exhibition at the Art Vinyl store in Broadway Market, East London [facebook.com/events]. See original new pieces by Chrissie Abbott [chrissieabbott.co.uk], Laurent Fetis [laurentfetis.com] and Anthony Burill [anthonyburrill.com] (his contribution is shown below). Thanks to Melvin Galapon [mynameismelvin.co.uk] for pointing this out.
What’s Up #38: Mehmet Ulusahin
Mehmet Ulusahin [mehmetulusahin.com] isn’t waiting around for commissions, he’s been setting his own briefs and producing unique publications filled with his lush, hand-drawn illustrations, which he then exhibits at various zine and self-publishing fairs such as London’s excellent Publish and Be Damned [publishandbedamned.org] (photos of which, we’ll be posting on Flickr real soon) and the Zigzag ‘Independent Drawing Gig’ in Istanbul [idgnr4.blogspot.com].
What’s Up #37: Charlotte Mann
Charlotte Mann [charlottemann.co.uk] has just completed her latest massive wallscape of a commission for the intriguingly esoteric (and recently launched) shopping experience, The School of Life [theschooloflife.com]. There’s no sneaky digital reproduction going on here. Charlotte uses marker pens to draw straight said walls, which makes the resulting pieces all the more impressive. You can see her mural for the School in their ‘classroom’, appropriately enough.
The weather’s wine, wish you were beer
Boicozine is participating in a postcard exhibition to be held at the Geoff McFetridge designed Sunshine Cafe in Tokyo. The advantage being that postcards are such a neat size, you can pack loads more contributors in (66 at last count), so something you everyone? Visit [postcard-exhibition.blogspot.com] to spot submissions by creative types such as Toby Neilan [tobyneilan.com], Andreas Samuelsson [andreassamuelsson.com], Ingela och Vi [ingelaochvi.com], Körner Union [koernerunion.com] and Carolin Löbbert [ykeschotten.com]
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Ostrowski on the line
Alex Ostrowski [www.alexostrowski.com] recently got in touch with boicozine to share some quality linkage and here tis… Chris Clarke’s [chris-clarke.co.uk] Type Cube a neat idea that’s been doing the rounds on design blogs recently. Chris investigates modular typography and has created a movable typographic toy which you can mess about with to create letterforms and whole typefaces of your own. Hattie Newman [hattienewman.blogspot.com] crafts beautiful little three dimensional models which she turns into animations, or simply 3D illustrations. She has some gorgeous work, in particular her set designs. Alex himself is super busy, not least with this year’s YCN Book [ycnonline.com/blog/24] in collaboration with HudsonBec [hudsonbec.com]. The image above is from the recent YCN Live launch event. See more from the event here [Flickr].
This Post is Untitled… ish
Just a quick plug to a new gallery in Melbourne with some cool, graphic designer-ish work called the Untitled Gallery. Currently showing the graphic juxtapositions of Danny Guinsberg, up coming shows include the embroidered infographics of Michelle Hamer. Visit [untitledgallery.com.au] to feed your head.
