Karoline Rerrie is an illustrator who makes art like this: She did the album covers for Matthew Herbert’s ‘Doctor Rockit’ project and has also developed a comic called ‘X-Rated Animal Hospital’ at nursepussy.com, a website which I imagine gets a lot of accidental visitors.
I mentioned Winnie O’Brien back in May thanks to a tip off from Supercool but bemoaned a lack of information. I’m pleased to say Winnie’s website is now up and running, from which we learn that she produces animation, design and illustration for an impressive, international client list. What’s more: Her work has received many … [Read more…]
Dave Gaskarth, or Gas, is a Birmingham-based illustrator and designer and part of the Cyrk collective and he’s just put up a new portfolio website. Over the past couple of years he’s amassed an impressive client list that includes 7 Inch Cinema, Flat Pack Festival, Supersonic, Birmingham Uni, Jibbering, Moseley Folk Festival, New Art Gallery … [Read more…]
Flicking through the flyers in The Kitchen the other day I happened upon a pile of business cards featuring one of these little chaps: The card belonged to Antony Collins who does graphic design and illustration, presumably on a freelance basis. His email address, if you want to get in touch, is on his Deviant … [Read more…]
After many years of a lovely but slightly out of date website, Hunt Emerson has relaunched Large Cow where he’s selling artwork and archiving cool stuff from the past. Of particular note are pieces from the Birmingham Arts Lab which he was heavily involved with in the 1970’s such as this print: There’s shockingly little … [Read more…]
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More great photos from the Outcrowd Collective’s archives, this time from their installation for the Flatpack Festival in the back room of the Jug of Ale (commissioned, as noted in the comments, by Capsule). Apparently it might still be there.
Paul Geary introduces King Alfred Promotions, a new-ish outfit run by David Bunn and Anthony Harper for whom he did the following: They launched last April and are apparently working on establishing themselves a bit more in the city. The MySpace, it be here.