Justin Lee Williams

Justin Lee Williams. A very talented Melbourne Illustrator. He has worked for Ksubi, Insight, Vice Magazine, Mooks, and Design is Kinky.

Jackie Winter group- Motion

Some beautiful, illustrative motion films on The Jackie Winter Group. (An Australian agency for illustrators, they showcase some amazing talent)



JOSH PYKE, Middle of the Hill - by James Gulliver Hancock from Jacky Winter on Vimeo.



SOYA Awards 2005 from Jacky Winter on Vimeo.



Titus / The Hunt from Jacky Winter on Vimeo.

Looking for ideas?

Some great ideas for anyone who's stuck for ideas.

Writer block kit from Elizabeth Dilk



An idea vending machine, a clever concept by Zoomdoggle





The artists survival kit by Keri Smith, a free pdf download, that has fun ways to get you thinking.

Work

Anyone else sometimes feel this way about work?
love this illustration by Alex Noriega lots more cute illustrations on his blog.

Doodlers Anonymous

I just came across this cool site dedicated to doodles. A place for anyone addicted to doodling. They also have a flickr group, so you can add your own doodles.
So if you love to draw, or look at drawings, check out Doodlers Anonymous.

lego

Well it looks like I was right about Lego... back in October 2007, I wrote a blog on Phat! Clothing, suggesting Lego was to be an upcoming trend, well looks like I was on to something, because Lego accessories seem to be popping up about the place. It seems it hit the catwalks last year, and is now filtrating down into street fashion.

It started with Marc Jacobs..

And these Balenciaga shoes.


And now..

(Source: Definitive Touch)

See more examples here


Time to go raid the old lego box!

New forest butttons

To add to my forest collection, I now have a cute new range of buttons/badges in my etsy store.
I'll also be selling them at the finders keepers market in May.

Mushrooms

Owls

(the birds arn't part of the forest range, but they are new too)

JACKSONSWIFT

Just discovered this amazing artist JACKSONSWIFT aka India Richer. Gorgeous delicate watercolours.

Economic design

How do we react to a recession? design of course, I find social design quite interesting, I think it is an important element to design, to look at what is happening in the world today and intepreting that through design.

Here are some examples of how people have responded to the down turn of the economy.

A6 post cards by Because Studio


Empty Magazine had to put the price of their mag up, but they didnt hide the fact, they made a deal of it.


An endearing card from 9SpotMonk




A clever interactive installation from the students of university of washington’s visual communication design program.
They have developed 'want' an interactive retail experience that is about educating college
students on how to become savvier with their money. More here

From todays PostSecret (ok not really design, but I had to throw it in)

Happy easter

Mad tea party by Monjojo

Megan Isabella

Favorite things, by Marmee Craft

Hope everyone is having a happy chocolate over dose Easter. My brother gave me this adorable owl chocolate, how could you eat that sad little face??

Bag love

I went into Utech today and this owl bag caught my eye... its gorgeous! It was $130, hmmm... tempting..

Its actually more impressive in real life. From further investigation, I found it was designed by Amliya, though I can't find much on the brand, as far as I can work out they make a lot of novelty bags.

Cool Typography website

For those of you who love your typography (like me), I came across this site today which might interest you, called GO FONT UR SELF
Its a collection of cool typography, one to check out.

More happenings

Last week was another busy week, a few highlights included;

Well Wednesday night was another Enmore Talks, this time I wan't part of the team organising it, so I got to just chill out and listen to some really interesting speakers. My fav being sixty40. They do really cool animation, and have made ads for Kmart.
There was also provided free pizza at the talk, which was great :)


Then Thursday night I went to the Curvy launch with some of the Leeloo girls, which was lots of fun and the art was amazing!
It was nice to meet some of the other girls who sell there work through Leeloo.
This is us standing with Bec Winnel's art.



Then on Friday I went to Semi-Permanent which was really inspiring. AND... My work was in the Semi- permanent book, which was really exciting to finally see.