John Malta is currently living and working in New York City where he is completing an MFA at the School of Visual Arts.
He has exhibited his work in Brazil, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, and widely across the Midwest- and has been self-publishing zines of his drawings for as long as he can remember. Malta transforms the simplicities of his daily life and past memories of murky Ohio creeks, house punk shows, and pet lizards into Super Nintendo nightmares: the wildly colorful yet dingy expressions of another reality.
John also curates a bi-annual zine-anthology called "Universal Slime" that showcases a limitless range of picture makers and storytellers working today.
www.j-malta.com
More work from Kilian Eng a freelance artist from Stockholm Sweden.
See more here.
RCA Graduate and illustrator Daniel Frost had a 2-day show last week at SHFT Copenhagen Shop exhibiting his handmade kites, each featuring weird and wonderful characters capable of taking to the skies.
"It's nice that" interview with Daniel Frost
How did the show come about?
It all started with making a kite as a fun experiment for a kite festival that takes place in Copenhagen every year, I wanted to create a character on the kite that look as if it is in the state of flight, my work is very figurative and the characters are quite animated so I wanted to create a character that looks as if he/she is flying, so that when the wind catches the kite the figure flies into the air a becomes literally animated. After this first kite for the festival I made another two for and toy exhibition they were see by the guys at SHFT, Copenhagen and I met up with them, initially we I was just going to make some to sell in the store, but then we thought that it would be amazing to have an exhibition of as many different characters as I could, and then display them all over the store, some hanging on the wall some stuck to the sealing, I really like the idea of art work being hung on the ceiling. Its been such an amazing opportunity to just experiment with this one idea and to see how many directions you can push it in, It has produce some really playful and exciting results.
What have you produced for the show?
I have produced 25 kites, each kite displays a different playful character, leaving the ground by various means, some magical some propelled by springs. These will be displayed along side some original drawings of the kites. Also I have made 100 tiny kites that I will be giving away free at the show.
What made you choose kites in the first place?
I think its is because of their simplicity, not in construction but in aesthetic and the feeling of making some thing fly, its kind of magical and primitive, they are something that everyone can enjoy, children and adults. The playfulness really attracts me to kites.
What’s next?
I would really like to make a work on animation, it’s something which I tried a long time ago and would really like experiment with again, its abit like the kites in a way I would like to see my on drawings move.
See more of Daniel's work here.
The Pace of the Passing from Anna Ginsburg on Vimeo.
A recent film by Anna Ginsburg, a 3rd year Edinburgh College of Art animation student.
Kilian Eng is a 28 year old freelance artist from Stockholm Sweden. In 2010 he graduated from the master program for graphic design & illustration at Konstfack, University of Arts Craft & Design in Stockholm. His main commercial work during the past three years has been commissions for the international music scene designing record covers, logotypes, posters and other kinds of promotional visuals. His style is 80's, dark, neon, and scf-fi inspired creating a retro futuristic feel to it.
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Illustrations by Katie Scott titled Jean Painlevé
Scott's project centred around exploring biological hybridisation. The A2 images will make their way into a large scale book and though inevitably finding themselves processed some way digitally with scanned watercolour swatches etc, the infinitesimal adjustments of hues and tones like a painter mixing colour, means her process could never be repeated twice. And the effect is quite beautiful.
“The foundation for this project came from a recent interest in early science and particularly antiquity’s habit of entirely fabricating the inner workings of the world around them. I like the idea that in an age of such scientific uncertainty, anybody with enough conviction in their theory (and a well drawn diagram) could claim science for themselves, resulting in incredibly strange and peculiar scientific thought. So with this in mind, my aim was to make a book of fantasy science, with a focus on the hybridisation between different categories of nature.”
At the time of making/creating this project, who or what was your biggest influence?
There was one blog that I can’t find now, which had the most amazing Edo-period Japanese medical illustration. They’re not fantasy but the style is beautiful.
What is the most valuable thing you have learnt at university to date?
To work bigger. And use colour. Two things I was terrified of before coming to university.
What are you working on at the moment?
I just finished my exam project: a catalogue of flora and fauna from Jules Verne’s novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Next I’d like to look into the reproduction habits of mythical monsters. But it’s degree show set up in 6 weeks, so soon that will be taking over.
See more of Katie's work here.
Tamsyn Mystkowski a 1ina100 artist has recently been inspired by Luke Best, an illustrator working and living in London.
Luke Best's Website
Tamsyn Mystkowki is inspired by "Le Gun" an art collected magazine established by graduates from Londons Royal College of Arts department of Communication Art and Design. It consists of short stories and illustrations.
Above are examples from Issue Number 1. Other issues available here.
Newest work by Tamsyn Mystkowki.
"Eccentric Vision - Balancing is hard"
www.tamsynmystkowski.co.uk/
Illustration by Eddy Dukkers for the book "Karel en Mienet 1" by Marietje Witteveen.
More information here.
"The Marraige of Figure and Form"
"Dreamer"
Recent work by Tamsyn Mystkowski, a graduate from Edinburgh College of Art and a 1ina100 designer.
www.tamsynmystkowski.co.uk
Peter Crawley creates these illustrations by hand piercing 420gsm watercolour
paper with a pin and then stitching the paper with a needle and cotton thread.
Peter’s work has been featured in leading art and design publications and exhibitions. The illustrations are held in private collections in the UK, Europe and North America
www.petercrawley.co.uk
Bortwein75 (known as Brandon) is an illustrator we found on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17221206@N00/2980355874/in/photostream/
Help Japan by James White.
A print by James White. All the money raised has been donated to charities supporting the recent earthquake in Japan.
Another of Freddy Taylor's influences:
Issue No.4
Issue No.5
No.Zine is an independent arts zine, released in series and featuring a variety of young artists, designers, writers, photographers and illustrators. Each issue is conceptually centered and individually numbered, featuring 32 pages using only two colours.
http://www.nozine.com/
Freddy Taylor, one of our designers has revealed what he is currently looking at;
Grandpeople are a Scandinavian design company specializing in ideas, visual communication, illustration and photography. They have a real eye for colour, typography and art direction.
The New Wine – Waves
Grandpeople have designed this CD cover for the debut album “Waves” by The New Wine. The wood resembles the bands move to a darker more organic sound while the PVC film is representative of the band’s truer catchy pop vibe as well as, of course “Waves”.
A concept incredibly well executed.
TAQ – Light Drawings
The Alexandria Quartet’s new material has taken on a darker edge, coloured by the dark, rainy clouds and the harshness of Norwegian winter. Grandpeople wanted a look that reflected this new musical direction, which led them to use a combination of illustration, handmade textures and photography, shooting the band in a dark studio setting.
http://www.septemberindustry.co.uk/grandpeople/
Born 1957 in Tucson, Arizona. Lives and works in Venice Beach, California.
