No place else - Illustration exhibition

Birdwatching - women in graphic design

BirdWatching website launch party!

Friday 16th of July 2010

BirdWatching is a socially driven, young organisation that connects, shares and recognises the work of female graphic designers.

They are ruffling their feathers for the launch of the new website and will be hosting a celebratory event on Friday, 16 July in the heart of London’s creative nest.

Second Floor - Netil House 1 Westgate Street E8 3RL London

The event on Facebook

The Doodlecar at the Doodlebar - tonight!

Tatty Devine - Covent Garden boutique mini instore festival!

If you are in Bristol this week - check out Snap Minis

If you are in Bristol this week - then head down to Snap studio to their preview of Snap Minis - an edition of small prints from illustrators such as Lucie Sheridan and Alice Melvin. I have been a big fan of Lucie Sheridan for a good few years now after commissioning her back when I worked at Time Out. I commissioned this illustration, which we were very pleased with indeed: Eating out. And Snap is a great place to visit if you've not been there before! Go check it out.

The artists have donated their work for free in return for a box set that includes all the other participating artists work. The remaining prints will be sold at Snap, and the profits will go toward improvements to the print facilities and the characterful but slightly crumbly Snap interior. The prints are for sale at the very reasonable price of £25 each, or £60 for three.

The show runs from 8th July until 31st August.

Opening Times Tues to Sat, 10am to 6pm. Monday by appointment only.

SNAP, 20-21 Lower Park Row, Bristol, BS1 5B

www.snapstudio.org.uk

Inkygoodness exhibition: 4: PLAY:

Artists confirmed: Hannah Baber/Steph Baxter/Dave Bain/Camelia Dobrin/Colourbox/ Docvek/Marcus Butt/Stephen Chan/DBO/Christiane Engel/Good Wives & Warriors/Lisa Hassell/Kate Hindley/ Mister Millerchip/Inkymole/Simon David Mills/George Mitchell/Moot/Olive47/Tom J. Newell/Vicky Newman/Steve Rack/Steven Silverwood/Log Roper/Juan Salas/Matt Saunders/Leila Shetty/Marcroy Smith/McBess/Ben Steers/Jonathan Thomas/Michelle Turton/Toy Factory/Simon Wild/ Mark Wilkinson & Gizem Vural.

OFFSIDE - Good affordable art from Print Club and Artswipe

Designers North Alliance

LCC FdA Design for Graphic Communication Show

I say hello, Steph Says Hello

Soupa is a bit of fan of illustrator and designer Steph Says Hello (AKA. Steph Baxter), who's based in Leeds.

Steph's work is a colourful, happy mixture of hand drawn characters and digital colouring. She is heavily influenced by Japanese cute culture and small baby animals (kittens, rabbits and red pandas are her favourite) Stephs typography work was recently part of the Lyrics & Type: Verse 2 exhibition in London alongside awesome artists such as ilovedust, Allan Sanders & Drew Millward. She will also be exhibiting at Inkygoodness London in September.

When Steph isn't doodling for other people she can usually be found chatting to her cat, Tibby, drinking ginger tea and watching Nickelodeon.

See more of her work at: www.stephsayshello.co.uk

Cockpit Arts - open studios

Project10 – June (graduate) edition

Steve Price (Plan-B Studio) has set himself a rather intriguing challenge; 10 projects in 10 months with 10 NFP/NGO organisations or projects that are 'fun'.

When he first began in January he thought Project10 would be ten projects for ten charities. But Project10 has become much more than trying to create ten projects in ten months. As ever it is about quality, not quantity. It’s also about something fundamentally more important; collaboration.

Rather than send out press releases to promote his endeavor, he had the bright idea of using the Newspaper Club to create a limited-edition mail-out to 100 industry leaders and press people. The content is contributed to by writers, designers, artists, illustrators and other generous people, who often team up and work collaboratively on the content itself.

Steve’s dedicating June’s issue to the newest graduates. Not all 16,000+ of them; Steve’s picking ten for a carefully created issue that celebrates the best of the design industries newbies.

Applicants will not just be selected on their work, though. Oh no. In order to get yourself and your work in to the paper you must (off your own back) source, organise and interview your design industry hero/heroine for the paper SPECIFICALLY about the notion of collaboration in today’s industry (N.B. Steve might be able to help you get the interviews).

Applicants need to contact Steve with their plan and then supply up to 500 words of interview, images to support the interview and/or examples of your own work. Deadline is Tuesday 8th June 2010.

For more information contact: project10@plan-bstudio.com