I ♥ art ♥ Illustration

We grabbed 5 mins with Melvin Galapon and enter his world of pushpins, retro computer graphics and Daft Punk! Check out our interview with him interview here

Love, love, love these! Beautifully hand embroidered by Lauren DiCioccio, applying a focus to these objects we currently see everyday, challenging the viewers perception and the future of such materials…

The statement below from Lauren nicely sums up her work:

“My work investigates the physical/tangible beauty of commonplace mass-produced media-objects, most recently: the newspaper, magazines, office papers and writing pads, plastic bags, 35 mm slides. These media are becoming obsolete, replaced by the invisible efficiency of various technologies. In some cases, this transition is a good thing- faster transmission and distribution of information, streamlined systems, openness to user input, less waste. But a hole is left behind by the disappearance of these everyday objects. What will happen when we no longer touch information? When newsprint does not rub off onto our fingertips? When we no longer write longhand?
The tedious handiwork and obsessive care I employ to create my work aims to remind the viewer of these simple but intimate pieces of everyday life and to provoke a pang of nostalgia for the familiar physicality of these objects.”

Loving this typewriter illustration by Luke Bott, an Illustrator/Designer from Kansas. Check out his other works here. His works have an almost playful but sopisticated feel to them. Check out his dig at the recent BP oil spil in the Gulf of Mexico…

Another Faunagraphic post…Bit last minute but if any of you folk are in Manchester this eve, Faunagraphic and Rocket01 are exhibiting at Mooch Art Gallery and tonight is the launch.

Mooch N4 is a new contemporary street art gallery situated in the centre, in the Northern Quarter.

The launch is Thursday 8th July : at 6pm - 9pm, then the show will run for 6 weeks thereafter!
They will be the first to exhibit in the new gallery, so I will report back tomorrow. Already Mooch has some amazing names lined up for the coming future.

There is over 35 pieces of new orginal artwork in the gallery, and lots of new prints some of which a limited editions.

On the launch night there will be A Screenprinting company printing off tshirt designs…

See you there?

Working on a friends wedding invites at the moment and whilst researching, I came across a great selection by a Graphic Designer in New York called Erin Jang. Definitely worth checking out…there are some really great concepts and gorgeous finishes, I’m feeling very inspired now!

Melvin is a Designer/Illustrator who hails from Burnley, a small town in the Northwest of England and after studying at Central St Martins, now boasts a list of great clients including Wallpaper*, Howies, The New York Times and The Guardian. Check it out.

OOh, check out Philladelphia based Mikey Burton for some delicious design here. Loads of effortlessly brilliant work including some letterpress goodness. Well worth checking out!

On the subject of great American Print, I couldn’t help but mention the brilliant Hatch Show Print in Nashville, Tennessee. A 130 year-old working letterpress shop (established 1879), Hatch Show have worked in the same way for over a century and the only computer you’ll find in their workshop is that to email/take customer orders etc…so refreshing to see such beautiful work still being produced in this way despite being in such a fast paced industry where many give in to the advancements in technology…

Love this site, get your mits on some delicious silkscreen prints for around $25, plus they deliver outside of the US. Based in Milwaukee, The Little Friends of Printmaking consists of silk screen artists,  husband-and-wife team, J W & Melissa Buchanan. Beautiful…

…just because you can never have enough Rob Ryan! I just came across this piece and it reminded me of his timeless, delicate, intricate brilliance! And check out the new, beautiful fragile tape below, available to buy at etsy.com. I’ve already ordered mine! Yum!