Archive | April, 2011

Thursday Talent: Sougwen

28 Apr

Thursday Talent: Sougwen

  Sepalcure – Every Day of my Life from sougwen on Vimeo. Sougwen Chung is a Brooklyn based illustrator and designer. Her drawing is really delicate and beautiful and somewhat old-school with definite Eastern influences. Many of the drawings in Sougwen’s online portfolio are executed using traditional methods, her drawing style transcends current trends and [...]

Thursday Talent: Hattie Doodles

21 Apr

Thursday Talent: Hattie Doodles

Hattie Doodle’s drawing style is completely demented and chaotic. It’s full of spontaneity, life and exuberance. Given the complexity of her pieces, i’d imagine there’s actually a lot of planning and thought in all of them, but they have an energy that belies any labour in their creation. Although then again, maybe she does just [...]

Thursday Talent: Conor Harrington

14 Apr

Thursday Talent: Conor Harrington

I was trying to decide what artist to feature this week on Thursday Talent when I saw  the above short film online documenting Conor Harrington‘s trip to the Holy Land last year, that pretty much made up my mind for me!  The video shows the amount of planning and thought that go into executing these [...]

Thursday Talent: Qiu Yang

7 Apr

Thursday Talent: Qiu Yang

Qiu Yang is originally from Beijing and is now based in Amsterdam. He has an impressive portfolio of commissioned work and intriguing self-initiated work. I came across his photography recently on It’s Nice That (great resource!). His photographs draw you in instantly, incredible use of colour with a strong vintage / retro feel about them [...]

Finding Free @Font-Face Fonts

4 Apr

Finding Free @Font-Face Fonts

The exciting realm of typography has opened up to web designers in a big way recently with the advent of @font-face support in our browsers. However, there is a slight restraint on the selection of typefaces available for use with @font-face and that’s the tricky subject of licencing. Fortunately, there are quite a few licenced [...]