- Editorial illustration

Illustration for an article outlying a few prevalent uses of Twitter (back to when that was necessary)

What should companies with a stockpile of cash do with it?

More and more consumers are choosing generic over brand names.

When the media gets involved with criminal cases, it's always guilty until proven innocent.

This is a collection of illustrations that really caught my attention. This guy's name is Marius Roosendal and you can see the rest of his work, here. They feel very much like the mad collages project that i did at school last year. You can check it here.

- Master show Carberwell

So, this is the invitation to the MA show happening at the Carberwell College of Arts from where i just arrived. I was really excited about this one, so, when i left home at 6:30 and planning to get there by 7, i was hopping to enjoy 2 hours of great work...

Well, i did, in a way. But then, as i was about to go to the Fine Art galleries a friendly fella tells me that the College was just about to close, not, therefore, as advertised on the Facebook invitation that i was sent. Bear in mind, at 8, it closes.

The first galleries i visited were the illustration ones, and there is some jaw-dropping work, really. In fact, most of the work is absolutely incredible, these will be the vanguard illustrators in a couple of years, no doubt about it. Then, of course, there is the average work, just some of it. Bad work, i haven't seen.

This guy's work, for example, was amazing. His name is Will Morris and the reason i picked his card and not from others, was due to the ammount of work he presented. Incredible. He made an entire comic book, very funny, about some Scotish fishermen. I guess the text has been written by him, in a nice Northen accent - "shite!" His personal blog is, willmorris.blogspot.com, check it out.

To be honest, i find it quite unfair to select this or other work out of what was on offer, but hey, my intention is uniquely to invite you to go there and see by yourselves. This one is by Weiyi Li and again, just one that for some reason catched my eye more than others. 

I find her work very unique - i mean, personal - , again, check some more of her work at weiyilicreation.tumblr.com, its well worth the few minutes it takes to explore.

Well, here is the last link with information on how to get there in case you came to my blog on time and want to have a go at it. Yes, it is free, of course.  http://newsevents.arts.ac.uk/event/camberwell-summer-shows-2011-ma

See you soon...

- Fish and chiiiips

Work done by ICO Design agency. If only i was an illustrator... :-)

- Silhouettes, love war

- What the hell did i start!

- Moooo

For my layers chapter... Found this lovely street art cow this morning, in brick lane...

- Just brilliant

Found this image on the book i was looking into: the art of looking sideways by Alan Fletcher. It's one in many great visual stuff you can find inside, but this one was in particularly strong enough to make me grab the iphone, photograph it and share it. Hope you like it.

- Mono print workshop

This Tuesday we had a workshop on Mono print.  Well, it sounds like a really fancy thing, but it is in fact a very simple process o applying colour to a surface and then transferring ink into a new page by applying pressure. What you press is what you get, in reverse. If you press by using a thin surface like a coin or the back of a pen you get a thin transferred line. That's what i did in these two illustrations. The process is simple but the result can be very interesting.

- Working with silhouettes

This last Friday i had my third tutorial, this time with Darren. After a brief presentation on what silhouettes can bring to design we were left on the computers to work on the subject. They had to relate to London.

Here i played with the dimensions of the elements. The policeman's helmets is quite a piece of ephemera that tourist like to buy. Red is the colour of the buses in London. The Beatles zebra's cross in North London is an iconic picture here portrait by a kid.

Elephant and no Castle works as a fractal of london when one is considering the multiculturality of the city...

Eros, that lithe angel on top of the fountain in Picadilly's square is here revenging himself from falling in disbelief after Darwin's evolution theory put his word at stake... Darwin which on his side is shown wearing a badge from Hackney, a place increasingly more popular with artist and thinkers...

- ICA's facade

Originally i had thought about painting the crosswalk from one side to the road until the other side, where would be the ICA. This way, i would direct passer byes to the entrance.. There was only a little problem. there is no crosswalk... I am happy with the plan B though..

- Anti smoking concept

Brilliant. I am not sure if it is effective on its purpose to make people hate tobacco and i refuse to make such research on it, this work is conceptually/artistically beautiful.