Stuff 4 Designers

Susie Wright is an inspired illustrator and printer based in Edinburgh & London, i’d also call her a sculptor, based on her incredible origami deer (see photo above, beautiful!). She also has some fab textile designs that perfectly marry her own unique style to the medium. I love her screenprinting / illustrative style, it’s quite [...]

Bison Art are a design studio based in New Zealand. They have a very strong, painterly illustrative style, I particularly love the “Lost Woman” illustration first here. A lot of the illustrations have an ethnic / African feel, all beautifully textured and layered. Their design work contrasts somewhat with this as quite modernist and minimalist, [...]

Gary Baseman is an incredibly prolific artist with a world-wide cult following. His outputs include his very distinctive paintings, animations, vinyl toys and clothes, plus an ongoing photo documentary of the travels of his creation, Toby. He both exhibits and lectures frequently and there is a huge number of interviews with him online. They are [...]

Timelapse Painting Two from Pat Perry on Vimeo. Pat Perry’s style is very diverse, his paintings and illustrations are quite different, but the underlying feeling of surreality and something slightly twisted and not quite right is present in both. It’s this slightly macabre edge i’m such a fan of, also of his incredibly technical ability. [...]

Mr. Alan Clarke is an Irish illustrator operating with a very distinct style, reflecting 1800′s figures and narratives involving dark and mysterious characters and theatrics. I first became aware of Alan Clarke after a talk he gave in CIT. His process of illustration is very much an iterative one involving traditional, hand drawn / painted [...]

Sol LeWitt!! His work is exciting and innovative and still so fresh! He’s one of my all-time favourite artists, someone I often go to for inspiration. His work explores geometry, colour modularity, repetition and organic shapes, it is deceptively simple looking but it takes a genius to produce work that is so immediately iconic! I [...]

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 [...]

German Artist Clemens Behr is prolific in illustration, installation and sculpture. His installations BLOW MY MIND. They really are incredible, intricate structures, lots of intersecting planes, complex geometry and mind bending gravity, I can’t tell up from down in them and can only imagine how it must feel to actually visit one! He adds another [...]

Miss Van is a widely known, respected and sometimes controversial graffiti artist. She hails from France and enjoys a high profile across Europe owing to both prolific exhibitions and graffiti. I first came across her work in final year of college and loved her curvy, sexy, attitude-laden women and her provocative style of painting. They [...]

I was going to showcase an Irish artist (for the day that’s in it) today, but I changed my original plan for today’s Thursday Talent following the terrifying and heartbreaking events in Japan over the past week. Kenichi Hoshine was born in Japan and now is resident of NYC.  Very selflessly he is auctioning off [...]