I’ve just brought Machinarium from the Mac App store, and it’s AMAZING. I highly recommend it, the artwork is beautiful, and it’s such a good puzzle game, I’ve been playing for hours and it’s had me stuck so many times. Go buy it.
This fascinating video about English illustrator Jake Banchard is just lovely, it’s really great to see how he performs some of his print making processes.
Dan Beckemeyer, this is just stunning! It’s an illustrated skeleton, with a felted muscle structure placed over the top. So special in the combination of materials, the veins really stand out for me.
Linda Miller, a big thanks to Jan for telling me about her work, I’ve utterly fallen in love with her embroideries, I love the illustrative elements that she manages to include.
Louise Gardiner, some of her large embroidery pieces are so colourful and illustrative, this completely makes me think of the Hypno Toad.
This is one of the most wonderful short animations I’ve seen in a long time, it’s been made by the French animation school students at Gobelins, big thanks to The Fox is Black, the characters are just brilliant and Mr Greedy is actually quite scary!
(Source: vimeo.com)
Christian Jackson has made these lovely minimalist fairytale posters, I love how subtle the wolf’s claws are around the tree.
Julia Rothman over at Book By It’s Cover has posted about this beautiful book made by Beatrice Alemanga, that is all about a story of these bugs that live in a blanket, the fibre nature of how they have been made is brilliant. If I’m not mistaken they’re made from wool fibres that have been felted to the surface of a piece of fabric.
I love the illustrative nature of the characters, the rosy cheeks are so adorable, and the colours on that large bug are so vibrant it’s unreal. I think it’s really wonderful when you find a children’s book that has a really different feel to it rather than the usual digital images, it makes it so much more engaging for the person reading it to see something different, I think I could happily read this to a child and not get bored.
By Sarajo Frieden, lovely illustrative embroideries, the variety of stitches is really something, I want a bigger version of the moustached man in the bottom right.
