Film Winter

By Clare Kelly. Originally posted on her blog: www.passthepattern.tumblr.com

I spotted this poster up at a university inviting creatives to take part in Stuttgarter Filmwinter. Through the powers of Google Translate*, I’ve been conversing with Wand 5 – the group behind the festival and found out that the poster (which doubles as an entry form) was designed by Berlin-based Apfel Zet.

And notably, it was intern Susan Kreher who designed it. I thought it was pretty cool and wanted to share it with you.

If you’d like to find out more about the festival or enter it; visit www.filmwinter.de

*Rely on this at your will. I told them some pretty odd things about myself via the medium of translation!

Paint it make it – Illustration event

Illustration Rally is putting together their first ever event – they are getting together with some great artist to put together a crafty day for all to enjoy. The day will be featuring zine making, live drawing, origami, and you will even be able to buy some lovely cake. All the proceeds will go toward the Japan tsunami appeal on JustGiving.

The day will feature live drawing, origami, cakes and zine making, where you can bind and customise your own zine with the work of some of the hottest illustrators around! Everything we raise from this event will be donated to our Japan tsunami appeal on JustGiving!

Essential links:

Facebook event page | Twitter hash tag: #paintitmakeit | Dave Bain's detailed overview of the day | JustGiving page | Illustration Rally

Details:

When: Saturday the 25th of June \ 10am til 5pm Where: The Book Club, 100-106 Leonard Street, City of London, Greater London EC2A 4XS What: Live drawing, origami, cakes and zine making,

Artists involved:

Uberkraaft, Ben the illustrator, Aaron Miller, Gaia Bordicchia, Yupyland, Andy Coucil, Tom Bagshaw, Bubblefriends, Bubi Au Yeung, Dave Bain, Gemma Correll, Bex Glover, Lou Lou & Tummie, Mr Millerchip, the boy fitz hammond, Toy Factory, Lesley Barnes, Seb Burnett, Jonathan Edwards, Fon The Pern, Ruben Ireland, Thereza Rowe, Robert Shadbolt, The Tree House Press, Carlton Hibbert, Erica Sharp, Lea Wade, Natsuki Otani, Stephen Chan

To the pointe

Post by Clare Kelly Curated by graphic designer and illustrator Claire Hartley, Pointe Blank is a collaboration between Birmingham Royal Ballet and 27 artists across the UK. Claire invited Soupa members Jo, Harriet and Jamie to take part and they were delighted to oblige.

Themed around the story of Coppelia, each artist was asked to represent the story any way they wanted to; and here are some of my favourites. Of course, all the Soupa ones are my faves!

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Jo Spencer’s lino print which has been digitally offset.

Harriet Gray’s figurative portrayal.

The Hidden Dingbat Collective’s beautiful paper cut.

Claire Hartley’s heart-shaped offering.

And Jamie Littler’s somewhat dark illustration.

See the full collection of artists’ work, here http://www.pointeblank.co.uk/

Pointe Blank project

Soupa creatives Harriet Gray, Jamie Littler and Jo Spencer were invited and are taking part in Point Blank which is an exhibition of original images inspired by the story of Coppélia. In a first-of-its-kind project for Birmingham Royal Ballet, a selection of artists and designers have been invited to produce a single piece of artwork which envisages the plot of the classical masterpiece as told in a manner of their choosing. You can see the full brief here.

The collection will be seen for the first time at a live launch event in Birmingham, scheduled for 13 June 2011, with the work being made available online on the same evening.

The show is being curated by Claire Hartley with Rob Lindsay from the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Here are some previews of the work from Jamie (left) and Jo (right) – but go and check out the tumblr blog for teasers from all the other amazing illustrators!

Keep updated with the progress on twitter #PointeBlank @clairehartley @robintheoffice

New banner for June by Spiros Halaris

We are lucky to have the brilliant fashion illustrator Spiros Halaris on our showcase section of Soupa. His work is now heading up the June banner in style.

Clerkenwell Design Week – starts tomorrow!