Illustration, Publications
The Wizard’s Hat
Alakazam! We are here! The Wizard’s Hat issue 01 is unleashed into the public domain for you all to get your fill of magic and mystic!
The Wizard’s Hat is a 20 page bi-monthly zine created by Jeffrey Bowman and Andrew J.Miller to celebrate their love of illustration, design, art and mindless doodling. Its a platform for something new, fresh and inspiring, to showcase work’s from the art, design and illustration world including the un-known’s and known’s.
So don your hat and cape, cast a spell and head this way!
Jobs, Multimedia
Creative Sync
Here’s a good new site we got wind of this week. Creative Sync is a new, independent, online creative magazine/network focused on celebrating industry excellence and advertising job vacancies.
Book, Design
Design and Design
Marc Praquin informed us about a nice book he has actively been working on with his design team. The 730 designs awarded each year are published for free in the design and design book of the year released every January. He says, “Our goal has not changed (despite the pressure of a few brands…): to give the worldwide community of designers a powerfull tool to promote themselves!”
The Design and Design adventure is a success that goes on :
-a non-profit project unsponsored and totally independent,
-all year round, free subscriptions and free submissions, no dead lines,
-each day an homepage entirely dedicated to two new designers,
-two separate communities of designers reunified for the first time,
-a unique platform of expression, a great tool for inspiration,
-fresh news, premium ads and selected links (new features)
Event, Illustration
Illustrative Zurich 2008
René Faßbender dropped us a line to tell us about the upcoming Illustrative exhibition this October in Zurich. René says, “The Illustrative is an art festival for illustrative art, originally from Berlin (last year Paris), it will be now realised with some partners in zurich and Switzerland.”
This is from the official site… “From October 17th to October 26th ILLUSTRATIVE’s 4th forum of illustrative an graphic arts will take place in the Zurich Messehallen. Conceived in 2006 by Pascal Johanssen and Katja Kleiss in Berlin, ILLUSTRATIVE is an annual forum, and the only one of it’s kind worldwide that presents the latest inclinations which run the gamut of illustrative and graphic art in one exhibition.
Illustrative art is fresh, humorous, and easily accessible: the scope of work displayed in ILLUSTRATIVE ranges from psychedelic wall paintings, to erotic neon pop art, while presenting monumental town views, as well as quasi photo-realistic drawings. The special sensitivity to artistic quality and a mix of analogue and digital techniques give a special progressiveness to the illustrative arts. This has decisively influenced the development of contemporary art for some time now.
The latest ILLUSTRATIVE has expanded in comparison to previous years. It now includes a central exhibition, section exhibitions, temporary workshops, and a forum for presentations and conferences.”
Photography
Picture Shop
This curious link dropped in my inbox with no explanation - just a link to some interesting urban landscape shots.
Design, Publications
A5 Magazine: No.6: Sex
We’ve had news that the A5 SEX ISSUE IS OUT. Presenting 68 works + a special poster with 30 amazing sex facts and a special new double sex mixtape to download from their site.
To buy and order it please visit: www.thea5magazine.com
Full list of participants: www.flickr.com/photos/a5magazine/2851499312/
For those of you looking for a back issue, A5 FUTURE ISSUE is now online. Visit the site: www.thea5magazine.com
Dirty Mouse // Food for Designers’ Dirty Mice
Dirty Mouse is an inspirational design blog, updated several times a day. Dirty Mouse aims to provide designers' mice with enough visual food from the worlds of graphic design, web design, illustration, photography, interior and product design in order to get their creative juices flowing.
