Useful Websites

The Wallpaper Graduate Directory 2009
http://www.wallpaper.com/content/feature/graduate-directory-2009/
On this website you will find up and coming architects, designers, illustrators, photographers and more, fresh from university.

The Wallpaper Architects Directory 2008
http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/architects-directory-2008/2474
Here you’ll find well known architects from all over the world.
 
The Architects Website
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/
Building design is a website where you’ll find up to date news from the architecture world.
 
Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/
A video sharing website.
 
blogcatalog
http://www.blogcatalog.com/
Network [...]

Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I am …

 
Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I am … by Sara Fanelli, published by the Tate. They were awarded the 2008 Design & Art Direction award for outstanding achievement in illustration and book design for the book. At the awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, the judges described the book as ‘visually exciting and magical’.
‘Fanelli’s originality has [...]

Jill Murphy

Jill Murphy is an English children’s author, best known for The Worst Witch series and the Large Family picture books. She has been described as “one of the most engaging writers and illustrators for children in the land”.

Shirley Hughes

Shirley Hughes is one of the best-loved and most innovative creators of books for young children. She has written and illustrated over 50 books, sold more than eight million copies, won major awards and created some of the most enduring characters in children’s literature, including Lucy and Tom.
 
Shirley’s professional and private life came together as [...]

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser is a Graphic Designer, best known for the ‘I love New York’ logo and his Bob Dylan poster, the “DC bullet” logo used by DC comics from 1977 to 2005. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Flecker in 1968.
His style ranges wildly from simple to avant garde in his countless book jackets, album covers, advertisements and direct mail [...]

Coca Cola Website

While  looking for my favourite websites I came across this …
http://www.coca-cola.com/template1/index.jsp?locale=en_US&site=../happiness_factory/index.html

It is the American Coca Cola website. It is interactive and tells a story about characters (as shown above) working in the Happiness Factory. It is an animated television commercial demonstrating the joys of life behind the scenes in a Coke vending machine. The animation was designed by Psyop [...]

Janet & Allan Ahlberg.

My first book was ‘Bye Bye Baby’ by Janet & Allan Ahlberg. I loved it. Now that I look at the husband and wife duo they did a few books that I enjoyed as a child. They worked together for over 20 years and created over 30 books, Allan wrote the books, and Janet illustrated them. [...]

Winnie-the-Pooh

My first love was always Winnie the Pooh. My mother is a huge fan and didn’t waste any time sharing the joy with me and my sister. We were brought up on the stories about a bear who loved honey and are still fans today.
As you probably know Ernest Howard Shepard was the illustrator of the ‘Winnie [...]

Punch Magazine.

‘Punch’ was a British weekly humor magazine, published from the 1840’s to the 1990’s. It was well known at its time and gave a few major illustrators their big break. Here is a few you may recognise…

Edward Ardizzone – ‘The Stig of the Dump’.
Quentin Blake – many Roald Dahl books… (see other post for more [...]

Beatrix Potter.

An illustrator who also had a big impact on my childhood was Beatrix Potter. She was also an English author and was best known for charters such as Peter Rabbit.

Helen Beatrix Potter published 23 children’s books in total, the first being ‘The tale of Peter Rabbit‘, in her thirty’s. Although she was born in London, her inspiration came [...]