“Created out of a love for posters, modernism and television.”.

The TV shows poster series by Albert Exergian.

Also available for sale at Blanka.

“Just north of where I grew up there was an awesome bay on Lake Superior called Batchawana Bay. You could walk out for what felt like a mile and the water would still only be up to your knees. The water was warm and the sand was perfect. I miss that place.”. (Graham Annable)

Grickle. Illustrations and animations by Graham Annable.

Above: We Sing The Forest Electric, animation, headline.

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“So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever.
Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years.”.

Gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”. By Hugh MacLeod.

Above: Dinosaur (2006), print on paper, © gapingvoid gallery.

“Either printer ink is made from unicorn blood or we’re all getting screwed.”.
(Why I believe printers were sent from hell to make us miserable)

“Once you fix something, they’ll forever regard you as the Computer genius.
If it reaches this point, you’re pretty much screwed.”.
(Why it’s better to pretend you don’t know anything about computers)

The Oatmeal: written and drawn by Matthew Inman.

Beatriz Martin Vidal, illustrator. See also her work on deaviantART.

Above: Little Red Riding Hood, watercolor. (from Carbonmade)

“During the second half of the 1950’s, Joe Bowler was one of the best and most popular illustrators at the Charles E. Cooper Studio. Bowler did work for all the major magazines, and was especially well liked by the art directors of the women’s mags for his beautiful paintings of romantic couples.”.
	Harry Anderson “works directly from nature or from color slides. He makes no preliminary sketch. After he has tentatively finished a painting, he turns its face against a wall for several days and then brings it out for a fresh look. He may examine it upside down or in a mirror to detect any flaws.”. (Norman Kent, 100 Watercolor Techniques)

Today’s Inspiration: a blog and a collection on Flickr by Leif Peng.
“For those with an interest in illustration from the 40’s and 50’s.”.

Top, right: Joe Bowler, Art Directors Annual cover, detail, 1952.
Bottom, left: Harry Anderson, watercolor, from the Collection of the Society of Illustrators.

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9 0 0 0: a photostream on Flickr.

Above: el arte de perder (The art of losing).

“Saul Kripke uses the function exclusive disjunction to establish that there is no fact, either in one’s mind (inner) or in one’s past behaviour (outer), that fixes the meaning of the words one utters.”.

Oliver Jeffers “is an artist, designer, illustrator and writer from Northern Ireland.
These paintings are based on conversations about the relationship between traditional figurative painting, human behaviour and mathematics.”.

Above: Not A Something But Not A Nothing Either, oil and vinyl on canvas, from the Additional Information exhibition.

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“Polyvore is a web-based application for mixing and matching images from anywhere on the web, to create outfits, interior designs, or any kind of collage.”.

Right: Mon identité, by minaplume; based on Red 2007 by Oleg Dou.

“In the 60’s I became very much interested in grid systems and digital systems. In 1965 I saw the first digital typesetters, and the result was horrible. Then I came to the idea to make another system of alphabet. I called it the New Alphabet. This is a six point Garamond from the digitized period. If you have it twice as big the basic idea is still there, but the whole shape changes, and this is what I couldn’t stand for. So I did “Let me do a typeface with only 90 angles and 45 roundings”. I published it, and I said “This is a theory. This is the way of thinking, and typeface designers should design along this line of thinking”. It made me travel all around the world to give lectures on it.”. (Wim Crouwel)

Wim Crouwel: Proposal for a New Alphabet. From Helvetica (2007), by Gary Hustwit.
Above : New Alphabet font, by Matt McInerney, sample.

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