Mooz
This week in the Crackpot calendar: the secretive Mooz
click for Mooz's (??) portfolio
Illustrativo is closed for a short winter break
(Lisa Evans)
I'm going on a holiday soon - so there will be no posts for a week.
But I won't let you down. I've made sure that you - dear reader - will find enough illustrators and entertaining links here and there.
Shotopop
Shotopop
"Born out of the need for freedom. To explore without boundaries, create without precedent and innovate dreams into aesthetically appealing visual solutions. This is shotopop. Generating graphic concepts, print based designs, motion graphics, art direction and illustration for clients in need of contemporary flair. Shotopop is organic, able to adapt and accommodate both medium and thinking to exceed expectations. Based in Brighton UK, Shotopop collaborates with like-minded people and companies worldwide."
Timothy Karpinski
"From a young age i've always been making things. Building forts turned into building skate ramps which lead to building art installations. I love the art making process, from the initial spark of the "idea", the creation to the finished product. Art for me is very personal and everything i make is a direct reflection on my feelings about this world and my struggle and fascination with trying to understand it and find my purpose within it."
Source: Together Gallery
Source: Together Gallery
Aya Kakeda
Aya Kakeda was born and raised in Tokyo Japan.
She now works and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
She likes Cats, seals , and receiving postcards and she has ever changing weekly obsessions, now it's
Clavariaceae and star nosed mole.
She also elaborates lots of theories about lot of things.
When she doesn't indulge in her obsessions she paints and draws, creating her own whimsical narratives.
Saelee Oh
Most of her artwork explores themes of modern femininity, utopia and nature as metaphor. She intentionally reference traditional crafts and evidence of the hand-made is important to me. She makes paper outcuts, drawings and paintings.
http://www.saeleeoh.com/
Daniel Lim
This week in the Crackpot calendar: Daniel Lim.
Blog on blogspot
Portfolio on http://www.daniel-lim.com
"The influence of my work mainly comes from media. I grew up watching
lots and lots of television. My work revolves around pop culture, fun
and excitment. However, when people see my work, they do not see
"bumble gum hyper japanese things". Although it is filled with these
images, I could not let go of my darker, more depressed nature. It
may be because of loosing my mother to depression, or a simple crushed
heart. Whatever it is, there was always a taste of darkness in my work.
People have different ways of coping with such tragedies. I've learned
to cope through drawing. My color pallete has changed from dark muted
tones to those of pastel colors. The medium has also changed, from
heavy arcylics to the more light, colorpencils.
Working with children has also played an integral part in my life as an
artist. I've learned to not take life so seriously and just have fun
making images. Like a Pre Schooler wouldn't question his/her ability to
draw the human figure, I've learned to just draw for fun.
When people see my work, I would like them to see hope. We all go
through struggles in life, some bigger than others,...we are all
bombarded with images of dispair and destrcuction. Me? I just want to
draw something that will bring smiles, peace and healing to the
audience."
CandyCrash
Terrible beauty and innocence is at http://candycrash.blogspot.com/ from now on.
Cutting edge, extreme and erotic images will be posted separately and not on Illustrativo.
Will be much much more extreme, girly, surrealist image on Candycrash soon and hopefully will become one of the most comprehensive collection of lowbrow art.
James Greenaway
"James Greenaway’s (or Jagi..) illustrative imagery is best described as pop-fantasy art, taking inspiration from manga, retro videogames, art nouveau and surrealism. Portrayed with these stylistic influences and within Jagi’s worlds live giant, childlike, bionic samurai creatures, sometimes riddled with grief or floating around blissfully daydreaming, but always trapped and inseparable from their biomechanical armor. Bored and melancholic adventurers are found sitting a top floating plat form game islands with rubix cubes and power-ups gathering dust nearby. These characters and landscapes are a reflection Jagi’s youth, introvertedly spent drawing and designing platform and adventure video games in his sketchbooks."
Squidfingers
"Squidfingers a graphic designer/programmer living in Nashville. He's been in the web development industry for 11 years. Bringing a brand online, concepting a marketing campaign, or locking himself away to code an admin tool are all passions of him.
Although he was professionally trained as a graphic designer, programming has always been a very important part of his life.
He is currently working at Kurt Noble Interactive since 2007. Before that, he was an Interactive Art Director for Bernstein-Rein Advertising."Ken Wong
Ken Wong is a freelance artist/illustrator/designer from Australia. Currently working as Art Director of Spicy Horse Games, in Shanghai.
He's done visualisation and art direction work for computer games, comics, films and toys, for clients including Nival Interactive, Enlight Software, American McGee, Cosmos Magazine Australia, Art Asylum, Waxploitation Records and KingsIsle Entertainment. His works have appeared in the Spectrum and Exposé art annuals and a handful of magazines.
Influences: Gustav Klimt, Alphonse Mucha, Mike Mignola, Ashley Wood, Moebius, the Smashing Pumpkins, Pixar, and Star Wars.
Henry Moore at Kew Gardens, London
http://www.kew.org/henry-moore/
i've been there and you have one more week or so to check it out.
it's fantastic.
Birdcage addiction
Seen in The Guardian last weekend.
Recently I have fallen in love with designer bird cages.
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