I pretend to work

I'm amazed I have yet to dislike these illustration, they have now been put on canvas to sell at the markets. Sometime this week I'll have my first t-shirt design all screen printed if I'm happy with the quality then the other will be printed up us well.

Not often I buy a book but it was all of 5 buck and the cover was just all to cool to sit in the barging bin. Such a sucker for Saul Bass like design its been done to death so much but I still think it interesting.

These were on show at GOMA taken shots of the one which had the most attention-grabbing things on their head which I found to be of interest.

My Studio

Semi-Permanent 09

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I enjoyed semi-permanent more then I did last year which is always a good sign. The speakers were great not a boring one among the bunch although both Ron English and Dean from Tamara & Dean didn’t seem us comfortable on stage talking their work help convey what they wanted to says.  Scott from wired magazine was easily the most professional of the speakers being both funny and informative personal Timba Smits was my favourite he just really loved what he was doing I’m sure like most people their brought his magazine for that reason alone (does help when the issue was all about women). I’m a huge fun of illustration but the glue society work was just sooo smart and funny now I want to do whatever it is they do, Ian Francis gave me hope that its going to take a little longer then I would like to get paid to go want I love, the guy from XYZ studios was a lot like Scott from wired but in an Australian , Toko was just plain funny cause of their accents oh plus they had great work to and I learnt how to say pussy in Dutch or something and Tamara & Dean brought me back down to earth with their photos cause not all art get to be crazy and wild.  Looking forward to next year.

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http://www.xyzstudios.com/

http://www.wired.com/

http://www.oculi.com.au/

http://www.woodentoyquarterly.com/

http://www.popaganda.com/

http://www.toko.nu/

http://www.gluesociety.com/

I Love design books

Design book are awesome their like comics but with even more attractive drawings well most of the time not all the stuff in them are winners. Big fan of all thing hand drawn like the fact that hand done stuff has a energy and life about it, thats why I picked up Mike Perrys first book Hand Job: A Catalog of Type great book full of wacky stuff and the name was killer also why I picked his second book Over and Over: A Catalog of Hand-Drawn Patterns up with out hesitation. Anything Frank Frazetta is awesome.  If you want to get some awesome design book like the one's I have I suggest going to Folio Books  (this endorsement was not paid for by folio book but I wish is was or was given a discount next time I brought something their).

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