Pop-up arts gallery, BlowCreates, is due to open in the Custard Factory’s Zellig building on 25 January. This newly established PR and marketing venture had been set up by two Birmingham City University students. Follow their progress on Facebook and Tumblr, where they’ve been offering sneak peeks into the kind of artists we can expect … [Read more…]
Gareth Weston is a Birmingham based illustrator, specialising in quirky, satirical illustrations. He holds a penchant for typography, flat colour, disproportionate figures, characters, traditional crafts and techniques and the deeply metaphorical. Take a look at his growing portfolio containing both hand drawn and digital work.
Louise Wright is a Birmingham based illustrator, currently in her 3rd year as an illustration student at Birmingham City University. If you like her style keep an eye out for her folksy shop where she’s getting ready to sell some of her prints. For now, she’s on Flickr and Tumblr for you to take a … [Read more…]
A quick message from the folks at We Are Birmingham; Four months after Pete asked Birmingham’s creative communities for help, the We Are Birmingham shop is very nearly ready to open. We start trading on Saturday morning at 10am but before then we want to have a little drinks reception to thank everyone for their help … [Read more…]
Darren John designs these quirky illustrations, and is based in Birmingham. He’s also on Flickr, where you can take a look at some of his more recent work.
Ex-Tak. Current freelance. Dom Murphy has a new portfolio up.
Todd Geary is an Birmingham based illustrator specialising in music, politics, social issues and sport. He works fast and regularly posts topical, vibrant pieces like this one on his blog, take a look at toddgearyonlineportfolio.blogspot.com
Cooler than your average comic book convention, this years British International Comic Show 2010 is being held at Thinktank Millennium Point on 16 & 17 October. So far they have a whole bunch of comic legends announced as guests for the weekend, and are open to submissions for this years Portfolio Review. This is your … [Read more…]