Fine Tuning Your Portfolio

A series of articles on Escape from Illustration Island - this seems very relevant right now!

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Luke Best

Luke Best's blog is great - it shows a lot of his working process. He's an illustrator based in London, you might have seen his work on the Heart Agency website.

Visual Ping-Pong

This is a crackin' wee project that is going on from London to Berlin, which eye magazine has written about. I was thinking of trying to start something like it for my final project if anyone is interested in a bit of visual table tennis??

Lorraine Fox

via Today's Inspiration. Lorraine Fox was an illustrator working in the 1950s and her work still looks amazingly fresh today.

Josh Cochran illustrations for Dubai Metro

This is a quite awe-inspiring example of illustration being used on a massive scale!

lizzie ridout / welcome

Thought I'd chuck in abit of typography - I really like Lizzie Ridout's style and ideas for projects.

Kelly Sears

Kelly Sears has an lovely collage style of film making.

PBS biographies

This is a fantastic series of biographies by PBS which gives you an interesting insight into the ideas and work of a vast range of artists and designers, and gives you a great excuse to procrastinate "productively".

Scissors

Set your gazers on this

Good Advice from Keri Smith

From the Wish Jar, the blog of artist Keri Smith.

Baysan Yuksel

Baysan Yuksel is an artist and illustrator based in Istanbul. See more of her work at her website.

Wieght Watchers cards 1974

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Tara Cooper

Just came across these images by Ms Tara Cooper who was my screen printing tutor in Toronto. Here is a wee bit about the work found on the ever interesting Mocoloco Web site:

Off-Season is an homage by Tara Cooper to Panama City Beach, Florida and the migratory habits of the retired. Cooper's 95-year-old grandmother is a snowbird who has made the annual journey to the south an important part of her life for many years. But as time rolls by, many friends are no longer present and the shine is wearing off the area. The clubby atmosphere is fading, along with the energies, but the temperate climate is still a draw. The cyclical nature of a resort town past its prime is reflected in this bittersweet work.

Margaret Kilgallen

There is a great wee bio film of her and her friend Barry McGee along with some other artists (including a personal favourite Richard Serra) here.