Soupa illustrator Clare Loveday has been getting creative making handmade products and started up her own online shop selling tote bags, hair bands and cards. Check out her new collection, which is being added to on a regular basis here. My favorite has got to be the silk screen printed orange branch tote bag, which reminds me of a pair of trousers I owned (and wore) in the 90's! www.clareloveday.com www.folksy.com/shops/ClareLoveday www.etsy.com/shop/ClareLoveday
Soupa has moved over from a 'Group' to a 'Page' now on facebook to check us out and 'like' us to keep up to date with our comings and goings! Enough quote marks now. :) http://www.facebook.com/pages/Soupa-Creative-Network/203934166305433
Illustrator and fellow Soupa creative Jason Lear is working all night tonight on a 12 hour sketching session, he will be posting every hour with updated work so check it out here: http://jasonlearillustration.blogspot.com/ Jason's Soupa profile
Here is the first sketch of the night.
Today Soupa has been nominated a winner for the CSS design awards. The CSS for our site was developed by Eurico Sá Fernandes with creative direction by myself representing Ok-Jo Studio. Exciting stuff!
Thank you to Jamie Littler for making this beautiful new banner for May!
Come one, come all and gather round the virtual campfire for thrilling tales, stupendous stories, riveting rhymes and adventurous activities - all illustrated in eye-popping 2D by some of the finest illustrators and animators around!
Today was the launch of 'Paper Cub'; an online magazine for children of all ages. The magazine boasts fresh and regularly updated illustrated stories and poems of all shapes and sizes, all by various talented creatives from around the world. The magazine can be found over here:
http://www.paperfoxpress.com/papercub/
Soupa illustrator Jamie Littler also happens to be one of the contributors, and was brought on-board by fellow YARNfest competitor Robin Boyden. He has created an illustration for Robin's poem '(Too Much) Space' for the launch, alongside some other genuinely beautiful artwork and poetry.
If you went along to Dazed Live earlier this month, you might well have seen some copies of our latest Soupa Zine. Wonder how they got there? Well, we sent over a few copies over to Jotta a couple of weeks back who were curating the zine part of the festival.
The focus of the zine exhibition was to chart the history of London's self publishing scene – so early 70s punk zines to contemporary fanzines sat side by side.
Unfortunately we didn't get down to the actual event, however the guys over at Fever zine have some great pics of the event here. Fever zine's flickr stream. Can you spot our Zine? We can!
Soupa has been working behind the scenes to make an easier to use and better looking site. We have now incorporated the blog within the main site and will be running everything from here. We have added new members and a brand new links page which will be growing as we do. Eurico Sá Fernandes has been working on the web development with design direction from me (Jo at Ok-Jo Studio) and we couldn’t be more pleased with the result. We are still refining a few elements – so if you do notice any broken links or weirdness let us know.
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Last month illustrator and Soupa member Madi opened up her own online store on Etsy. Here you can check out some of her prints, mirrors and cards and find the perfect present!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/MadiIllustration
This month we welcome two new exciting illustrators to Soupa and we're pretty chuffed about it! Spiros Halaris is a graphic design graduate from Middlesex University – although illustration has since won his heart! He is currently working on various projects while continuing his studies in fashion illustration at the London College of Fashion.
He incorporates a range of techniques including collages, hand drawn as well as digital elements. His imagery embraces emotions, human elements and fashion.
Next we have Joshua Marshall who was born in St Albans. He graduated from Kingston Upon Thames in 2008 and began freelance Illustration. He is currently based in London and pursues his interest with the imagery of ‘the abnormal day to day’ that surfaces in a diverse range of commissions for t-shirts, posters, magazine and book illustrations.
A big thank you to Carlos for designing the first banner for Soupa's new look. Here's what he had to say about it:
The idea for the banner originated from some recent research I was doing on the English language. I was thinking about how confusing it must be for foreigners because so many of our words sound the same. For example words like gorilla and guerilla, or sweet and suite both sound the same but have totally different connotations. These same sounding words I later found out are referred to as 'Homophones'. The concept of fusing these two words together was really intriguing, and some really amusing images resulted from it.
If you would like to submit a banner design for May get going and send it over to jo@soupa.co.uk when your done. The dimensions are: 940px x 143px - and remember to leave a space for the Soupa logo as it sits over the top.
Well, Jason Lear has been a busy man recently with his fabulous illustrations being featured on clothing for Your Eyes Lie and he has launched his own online shop selling a collection of his beautiful digital prints. He has also been featured in DE Magazine and published in Zeixs - New Textile Design. Good going Jason – keep up the stellar work!
Check out Soupa's hub site at www.soupa.co.uk - you can find the portfolios of creatives here along with the look book and promo book. The blog will also be situated in the main site shortly, so we will be all in one place.
Soupa member Luke Waller has a shiny new site up and running at http://www.lukewaller.co.uk/ and it looks great! Go check it out to see his new work along side his Fred Bear apparel label.
Christie Podioti has just produced a series of new screen prints featuring geometric patterns and bold colours - see a selection on her Soupa page and check out her portfolio site for the full series. You can also buy t-shirts and tote bags featuring similar geometric patterns on the Soupa Emporium.
Soupa member, journalist Clare Kelly has launched a new blog focusing on her love of textiles.
With a banner designed by Ok-Jo, she's only just launched and is already busy posting about a diverse range of products, illustration and news – all related to knitting and sewing.
One of her latest posts talks of an upcoming feature on knitting for film and TV and features quotes from Janie Bryant – costume designer for Mad Men.
Let her know if you're up to anything that might fit the bill.
http://passthepattern.tumblr.com/
Follow Clare on Twitter @SoManyNicknames
Carlos Garde-Martin's - new business card illustration has found it's way on to Creative Review's website click here to have a looksy.
The original home of Soupa - www.Soupa.co.uk has now been updated to come in line with the up and coming shop featuring a design incorporating all of the designers.
