Tuesday 31 January 2012

josie-random inspiration

The back of a secret on the Postsecret website! Thought it was quite nice!


And a nice little article about Phil Pascuzzo redesigning the twitter bird logo! HERE


 If you scroll down theres some nice illustrations at the bottom! Good ideas if you are designing merchandise too :)

Monday 30 January 2012

Amy - Matt Sewell

http://mattsewell.co.uk/
love this guys work :)
also really interested in birds...
Love the way he paints. His designs are really simple as well.

Not only paints but does a lot of screen prints.
Sells them etc....


Also was part of the Ghost of Gone birds project.
Created some images for a colouring book along with other artists.


Sunday 29 January 2012

Earth Flight - Jordan

Hey guys, just to let you know there is a really good TV series up on BBC iplayer called 'Earth Flight' No extinct birds but some amazing camera shots to spark your imaginations!

Jo LB really interesting image development blog post

Illustration Fixation: Snow White and Rose Red - process: Here's a walk through of my process for creating my picture, Snow White and Rose Red. The piece was also featured in Spectrum a few years ba...

Birds In Hats. -Katie

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Amazing blog by Alice Tams, It shows her work, with a variation of different birds in hats. She uses the birds on cards, this above one is her latest for her valentines cards. 
Beautifully rendered birds, I really like her style. Have a look.
-Katie. 

Saturday 28 January 2012

Jo for katie

paulmorstad

Hi Katie I saw this and thought of your recipe book idea!!!!!  and that made me laugh.

He seems to be quite a prolific illustrator I found him through ""Lost At E Minor"
he has done magazine and book illustrations.  I like his drawings for Life of Pi but he has also has also done some cool birds too.





Friday 27 January 2012

Jo - Added Widget

I added the widget thing - hope this is what you were talking about Josie!!

Josie-bird artist research

Hi guys, this is a blog post I made last week with a few artists on, a wide range of media, all who use birds as a subject! Names under the artists link to their websites! 



JoLB - Group Meeting Notes

Todays meeting

Josie, Jordan, Katie, Amy and Jo LB

1. Blog

Jordan has set up this blog and can give everyone the email address and password so they can post up.

When you do post up remember to add your name to the title and also to add the appropriate labels.

Please follow this blog and then we can add your blog or website link to the page (this increases your page rating in google)

2. Research questions

Josie - reconsidering her research question from looking at illustrators involved in charity work to covering illustrators and community projects.

Jo - Look at Visual aids used in Illustration aimed at young children learning to read and what makes an effective children's book illustrator

Amy - Wants to research educational pop ups but is not sure how broad this subject would be or where to start.  Now has a list of books to consider looking at from the bibliography of Core Curriculum Books and thinks she might look at an older age group than the macmillan brief.

Jordan - has looked into developing a minizine app for his images which were going to be a series of posters, something similar to Jack knife posters  and Josie suggested he contacted them for possible work experience.

He spoke to Tom (who was passing) about maybe using learning app code as his research and Tom said he could look into the influence of technology  and what makes a good/bad use of illustration in apps.

Katie - Is creating crests which will tell the story of how each bird has gone extinct.  Metaphors would be an avenue for her research but having just bought a book about designer makers it might be worth considering the role of the illustrator in this field.

We have a couple of useful contacts re apps

USTWO  who developed Whale Tail and the mouth app - Neil McFarland and ex student Ralph Manning who is n app developer.  There is a link to him on the course website.


I've joined this group aha

Jo Did this

Hello!

Hello everyone. This is a blog created for people doing the Ghosts of Gone Birds brief to share their thoughts and ideas and to help each other out.

Jordan