Hi, I’m Tahgasa Bertram aka the Sweaty Eskimo. I’m not a graphic designer, but an illustrator based in the almost sunny city that is Birmingham, UK. I spend my days eating chicken and my nights milking cows. I like udders. I love anything created with a pencil as long as it stays in the CMYK … [Read more…]
As reported by the Outcrowd Collective, Ben Javens now has a tea towel for sale via the rather wonderful To Dry For, a website I only discovered the other week. This is the design: and, if you like, you can buy one here. On a slightly related note, one of the strangest bits of merch … [Read more…]
Daisy Whitehouse is an illustrator. Murray Somerville is also an illustrator. But together they are Daze-Ray and they’re turning 48 Vyse Street in the Jewellery Quarter into an illustration exhibition from 21-28 May. The opening’s tonight – here’s the Facebook event and here’s the flyer:
You may know Dave Gaskarth from his work on the Flatpack Festival and various other such things. He’s just rejigged his portfolio.
There’s a lot of illustrators getting all collaborative at the moment, what with the Not My Type project and this here news about the new thing from the Love to Print collective. Katie from Supercool has explained things better than I would: Patterns contains loads of exquisite illustrations from five fantastically talented screenprint artists, who … [Read more…]
Punch are doing another one of their pop-up shops – the Swifty one was great and this next one looks pretty ace too. For those that don’t know: His work has become synonymous with new music and club culture, working alongside the most prominent musicians of the last decade, includingChase & Status, Amp Fiddler, Bugz in … [Read more…]
Nice profile it is too: Intriguingly, graphic designer and illustrator David Gaskarth does not really practise what he preaches. His mantra is visual clarity, his idols such practitioners of Swiss Modernist typography as Josef Müller-Brockmann. Müller-Brockmann’s socialist ideals also greatly appeal to Gaskarth, who did a BA in illustration at Bristol University, followed by an … [Read more…]
Mark Wilkinson is an artist and illustrator working predominantly with paper collages and marker pen. Here’s one of his slightly surreal graphic works, which I particularly like: You can see more of his collage work on his Tumblr.