Art Space Tokyo is an intimate guide to the Tokyo art world by Ashley Rawlings and Craig Mod and a very beautiful book describing the buildings and neighbourhoods of 12 distinctive Tokyo galleries. There are maps for each of the areas, illustrations of the galleries by Nobumasa Takahashi (the cover is a composite map of [...]
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Art Space Tokyo: Shared Making
July 30th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: book · design · drawing · electronic · inspiration · making · sharing
Storybird – collaborative storytelling
July 22nd, 2010 No Comments
Storybird is a website where you can create your own online illustrated storybook. Aimed at children from 3 – 13 books can be created collaboratively and they positively encourage families, friends and school classes to work together. The artwork for your stories is provided by illustators and visual artists who are able to upload their [...]
Tags: augmented · book · drawing · inspiration · online
Sneaky Peek at Alice’s Desk
July 21st, 2010 1 Comment
While Alice was out getting lunch I took some sneaky photos of the 3-dimensional illustrations she’s been working on. The drawings for these come from the ones made in Brixton and Coventry for the Empty Shops Network tour. Parts of them have then been cut out, folded and re-attached to give a diorama feel. I’d [...]
Tags: drawing · experiments · inspiration · pop-up
Alice Angus: 12 Month Schedule
July 16th, 2010 No Comments
This 12 Month Schedule by Alice is my new favourite eBook. It has one month per page with pages for notes and every page is decorated with illustrations by Alice. It’s designed as a notebook to carry around and use as a way to keep yourself organised, jot down ideas or make sketches. But seriously, [...]
Tags: drawing · eBooks · eNotebooks · inspiration
PU&P with We Are Words + Pictures
January 20th, 2010 3 Comments
Yesterday we held the first Pitch Up & Publish of the year with seven of the members of We Are Word + Pictures, a “team running comic and ‘zine themed events throughout the UK” – Matt Sheret, Michael Leader, Mark Higgins, Anne Hollowday, Emilie Chalcraft, Tom Humberstone and Julia Scheele… It was really inspiring for [...]
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