Artists: Miles Davis
Album: Kind of Blue
Artist: Hot Chip
Album: Boy From School
Artist: Wild Beasts
Album: Two Dancers
Artist: Radiohead
Title: Myxomatosis
By Tobias Hall
14 Jun 2012
Album Cover Rally No.13
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Labels:
Air,
Album Cover Rally,
Dorka,
Moon Safari,
music,
Music From Big Pink,
The Band
13 Jun 2012
News: DOOOOOGS !! Nanae Kawahara's first solo exhibition
From Thurday 14 June to Sunday 15 July
Private View: On Thursday 14 June 7pm to 9pm
Venue: The Haberdashery
22Middle Lane, Crouch End, London N8 8PL
020 8342 8098
22Middle Lane, Crouch End, London N8 8PL
020 8342 8098
A Japanese illustrator Nanae Kawahara who currently lives in London, she has her first solo exhibition is coming up on Thursday 14th June at The Haberdashery in Crouch End. She has been inspired by dogs which she also has one in Japan, she often feels miss and recalls all of dogs from her hometown Yokohama. At this exhibition, she illustrated them with her funny imagination. Those works express their each characters including Nanae's strong vivid colouring and abstructed forms. There are two types of illustration which are
dogs' portraits and their life's pictures. Nanae hopes it took a lot of people feel fun and remember their pets (of course, only dogs. cats, hamsters, turtles..etc) with family and friends to live.
dogs' portraits and their life's pictures. Nanae hopes it took a lot of people feel fun and remember their pets (of course, only dogs. cats, hamsters, turtles..etc) with family and friends to live.
Labels:
DOOOOOGS,
exhibition,
Nanae Kawahara,
News,
The Haberdashery
11 Jun 2012
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1 Jun 2012
Special Interview: Alex Mathers
A special interview now with Illustrator Alex Mathers, founder of the amazing Red Lemon Club and Ape on the Moon. He juggles this with a ferocious creativity that drives his illustration and his many epic side projects. Alex has a cool clean style which makes use of strong colour control whilst giving a free and delicate hand drawn style, his lines are smooth and flowing and his semi naive characters have a distinctive charm that is hard to match. Alex developed Red Lemon Club which delivers hot tips of the trade and is a great way of finding out how to make your way in the world of illustration. With Ape on the Moon he expresses his love of contemporary visuals in a super slick site which has to be one of the sweets spots on the web to reside. We have a great interview with Alex here so please check it out.
I'm a Tokyo-based illustrator from London, currently here to absorb Japan and learn the language.
2. What do you do?
I'm primarily a freelance illustrator, but I also write for, and run websites.
3. How did you start Red Lemon Club and Ape on the Moon?
Ape on the Moon started as a means to share my own work in early 2009, which grew into a site sharing the work and work processes of quality artists from around the world. Red Lemon Club is a place to share useful information for creative people.
4. You live in Tokyo now, how's life there as a creative?
I really like it here. Tokyo is a very inspiring place, especially for the kind of work I do, and I'm learning and seeing so much every day. There are plenty of events and things for creatives so it's great.
5. What is the plan for the future?
I plan to get vaguely fluent in Japanese, and keep growing my two sites. I'm also planning on creating electronic music as soon as I find a little more time...
6. Any messages for our readers?
Hi readers, keep doing what you're doing, and stick with it if you enjoy what you're making. You will reap many rewards if you stay with it.
For some core ideas on how to win more projects as a creative, have a read of Red Lemon Club's free guide here.
Links:
Alex's portfolio
Red Lemon Club
Ape On the Moon
@moonape
@redlemonclub
Special feature: Untold Method
It's time for a special feature now on Felice and Daisy from the fantastic Untold Method which has a new issue out tomorrow. Untold Method is a really sweet gathering of creativity, prose and imagery that gives the reader something fun and inspirational. Untold Method has a real quality and some great contributors. So please take a look at the forces behind this wonderful project and make sure to check out the fabulous Untold Method.
1. Who are you?
Daisy: I am a slowly
introverting snail who writes too much.
Felice: Don't really
know how to follow that…. I'm an artist and the co-editor of Untold
Method (with a certain snail as my co-pilot).
2. What brought you
together?
Felice: Unfortunately
we're related, by blood, and have known each other for far too long
(we're sisters).
Daisy: Mutual obsessive
qualities tend to rub off on someone when you share a room with them
for seventeen years.
Felice: And during that
period we shared and sought out new art to impress and inspire each
other. As we got older, separated and began our voyages into
adulthood, it became clear that despite there being a large distance
between us, we needed to collaborate on something creative together.
Daisy: And so, on
Felice's wedding (29th June 2011) a big group of people, including
ourselves, started to talk about putting together a magazine. At the
time it was sketchy at best but it took shape very quickly.
Felice: We had a lot of
big idea's to start off (Music/Art /Gaming/Prose blogs with content
updated daily across each platform, interviews, tutorials and even
more) but as time went on and our separate careers started demanding
more time we realised we needed to whittle it down to something
simple and close to our hearts. So we cut out most of the content and
decided to keep it to a small themed series of free PDF magazines
focusing solely on art, prose and comics.
3. What's your
favourite thing about Untold Method?
Daisy: From a writing
point of view I love being pushed to find new writers and explore
different areas I didn't think would yield them, like blogs for
instance. There are a whole load of amazing blogs out there with
juicy posts ready for the picking.
Felice: Our graphic
novel, written by Michael Cooper and drawn by some incredible
artists, plus the fact that the magazine is a massive source of
inspiration for me.
4. What is your
manifesto?
Felice: Real art, no
bullshit. That means art that we feel has been made from the heart
and conveys some sort of message or idea. We also want to promote
things that we find beautiful whether or not it fits with what’s
fashionable at the time.
Daisy: We want
something that we can look at or read and feel inspired by, that
sounds a little vague I know, but we want it to work against trends,
taking risks and mixing different media’s or genres. We like to be
surprised.
5. What does the future
hold?
Daisy: Apart from world
domination? Just messing. We're already forming
ideas for our next project. After the last issue of Untold Method
(Issue 6, December 1st 2012), we want to continue publishing
Philistone on its own website and collaborating our own writing and
art to make something fun.
Felice: And of course
we have our own separate careers as well, Daisy has just finished the
first draft of her first novel and will begin perfecting it soon.
While I'm preparing for my first solo show in East London next year
so we've got plenty to keep us busy!
Untold Method Issue 3 WAR is out today!
Links
Untold Method
facebook
@UntoldMethod
Untold Method Issue 3 WAR is out today!
Links
Untold Method
@UntoldMethod
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