Paperman

Exquisite!
I have to admit to getting slightly teary eyed watching this....! Beautifully crafted and styled, with a perfect example of how you don't always need dialogue! Old school Disney illustration perfectly done. Short and most definitely sweet :)

Yeah Just There

Yeah Just There from Grant Orchard on Vimeo.

A little disturbing the first couple of seconds, but once I relaxed into it..! Imaginative little animation.

Feelin' fruity.

Not been very busy in work today so did a couple of doodles. Watch this space, a few more to come...

Pick Me Up 2012

Little bit late with this post, but getting there in the end. Had to queue up for around 90 minutes to get into the blasted thing as I chose to go on the last late-night Thursday viewing before it finished. I don't remember it being as popular the year before?? Its popularity must be coming on in leaps and bounds. There were a few stand-out pieces for me this year, those are the ones I'll post now...

MIMI LEUNG
www.mimileung.co.uk
Really playful, love this style of illustration. And amazing dynamism and movement caught in the last few... Love it.

SARAH MAYCOCK
sarahmaycock.co.uk
These loose prints are rather nice...

AND...A BOOBY ALPHABET
I love this! But forgot to take down who it was by! DRAT. If anyone can fill me in I'd be totes grateful!

David Shrigley at The Hayward.

On the hottest day of the year so far I ventured to the Southbank ... to go and wander around INDOORS at the Hayward Gallery and see the David Shrigley exhibition. Even though it was inside, I thoroughly enjoyed it and even tret myself to a 99er! (Though it set me back a whopping £3!! I can hear myself coming out with, "In my day...").

Shrigley takes a sideways look on life with an incredibly irreverent sense of humour that comes out in his loose and crudely drawn illustrations – they are all the more charming because of this scribbled look and feel. I read recently that he does at least 30 sketches a day, which perhaps explains the vast number of sketches. His animations were great too, and his sculptures, very interesting.

Here are some photos from my trusty iPhone, with a few 'borrowed' from this blog: http://lovingmyjetlag.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/recommendation-of-week-david-shrigley.html

ps: The insecty sculptures remind of a couple of scenes in Beetlejuic :)
























































































































I also wandered into Jeremy Deller's exhibition and went back in time to the 90s. Despite going to see Shriggers, the only souvenirs me and the fella picked up were from Jeremy's exhibition. He tret himself to a tshirt, and I splashed out on a postcard.

David Sparshott

Like this loose/linear style for one of the projects rattling around in my brain box at the moment...







http://www.davidsparshott.com/

The best a man can get...

Michael Gillette.

Love these Penguin Book Covers for the James Bond series. Lovely concept of the Bond girls as the base for the great type and imagery combination, and lovely overall style harkin' back to the 60s/70s style.

Olly Moss

www.ollymoss.com

Ingenious visual cunning & wit.

This guy's got a stylistic similarity to Saul Bass, particularly when it comes to the simple and perfectly executed film posters. He also reminds me of Bob Gill, in his understanding of the visual language and an ingenuity, that makes you go, "why didn't I think of that?!"

Here's some from his website that I ruh-huh-heally love.