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The Drawing Machine

You know how sometimes drawing can be totally random? Well it can’t get any more random than the ones created by The Drawing Machine – a contraption designed by designers Ed Ward and Carl Clerkin...

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Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) 2013

For those who are interested in writing and or illustrating for children and young adults, you need to get yourself over to Singapore for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) that’s...

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Mozi X Laura McKellar

Happy Monday folks! Today I’ve got Laura McKellar’s illustrations for Mozi – a prominent homewares company from Melbourne, Australia – brightening up my day. Her illustrations coupled with Mozi’s...

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Mab Graves (Indianapolis, USA), makes some of the most wonderful paintings. I first became aware of her work when my girlfriend bought me some of her prints and paper dolls as a birthday gift a few...

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New project: 1000 things to draw

One of my resolutions this year was to come up with projects that would further help to challenge creatives out there to have fun. You may also remember that I put up a list of 100 things to draw...

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Dear students: what to do after school? (hint: the answer is not going back to school.)

Dear students, I need to stress this: the learning does not stop when you graduate. In fact, learning is a life-long affair – one that never really ends, especially not if you breathe in the...

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Google Doodle: Malaysia’s 13th General Election

Went out to vote today, and it feels great! Happy Sunday folks! [Image: Google Doodle / Malaysia / 5th May 2013] You just finished reading Google Doodle: Malaysia's 13th General Election! Consider...

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Creative Commons Licensing flowchart

A really great flowchart for determining which Creative Commons (CC) License you should use when you share your art with the world. From Creative Commons Australia who created the flowchart: A...

1.5.2013 Like 3 people like this

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Yao Xiao

I’m enjoying the work of New York based illustrator Yao Xiao today. She emailed me about her work and what really piqued my curiosity was her personal illustrations, where they’re done beautifully...

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Philographics

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery I discovered the work of Genis Carreras...

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A Rabbit Fable

I’ve spoken of my love of point-and-click adventure games before – you know, the VGA graphics and the DOS command line of days gone by that made 756-colors look ultra trendy. Where game developers...

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Sponsor giveaway: Draw your own alphabets!

I love drawing alphabets. I don’t think I’m very good at it, but I try anyway. So when there’s a book out that tells me that there’s a way to draw different types of fonts – I’m sold. I mean, why...

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Dear students: Getting emotional vs getting things done

Dear students, Sometimes, I get emotional. I can get emotional about people that I care about or the situations that I’ve been in, but mostly, I’ve also learned how to remove myself emotionally...

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How about some finger painting?

The beauty in Judith Braun’s work is that she uses her fingers to paint beautifully. I thought her symmetrical pieces are the most beautiful, and hardest to create. I can only imagine the...

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The best antidote to a boring commute…

…is play. I’m not sure how those commuters feel about it though! [Images via the Daily Mail] You just finished reading The best antidote to a boring commute...! Consider leaving a comment! Have you...

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How we see ourselves

Watch how women describe themselves to FBI trained sketch artist Gil Zamora, and then watch how others describe them. And it’s true – we need to be kinder to ourselves. How we see ourselves may not...

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Breathe Out

I was directed to Derek Sivers’ article about seeking inspiration this morning. It’s about taking in inspiration, and the fact that we’re taking in inspiration everyday. He likens it to breathing...

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Eley Kishimoto Toy Town Eden

While I always try to find ways to incorporate patterns into my wardrobe, it’s a little difficult when I don’t read fashion magazines! But I stumbled onto a few pieces from Eley Kishimoto’s...

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Picasso paintings reinterpreted

I love re-interpretations of art. Especially when it moves beyond the 2D – like these fashion photographs done by Eugenio Recuenco who created a new spin on Picasso’s paintings. Imagine what you...

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Why I blog

I’ve realized that I’ve been blogging for 5 years – with a total of about 1,300 1800 posts, and counting. When I started the blog in 2008, it was because there wasn’t anyone out there who...

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Re Jin Lee: Miniseries

I’ve been a long time fan of Re Jin Lee of Bailey Doesn’t Bark, who creates these amazing ceramic pieces – some of which have illustrations on them. I saw her story on Erin’s blog about hitting a...

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Eyra

Sara of Brwn Paper Bag has been curating a new online gallery called eyra that not only features illustrators and artists, but also each theme strives to add to a greater cultural dialogue. Each...

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Tiny Wee Fiction

Richard Sutherland (that’s the man himself, in the first photograph) is a professional copywriter who started Tiny Wee Fiction to share his love for prose. And what’s tiny about them is that he...

1.4.2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Asking and getting

There’s so much things I’m taking away from Amanda Palmer’s TED talk about asking. About how artists should be able to give and receive fearlessly. While I’m not a fan of her music, I am a fan of...

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Marimekko – Spring 2013

Marimekko’s patterns never fail to make me smile – and they do so again in their Spring 2013 collection. Lots of fun colors, abstract prints and simple shapes. When juxtaposed with each other, and...

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Stefan Zsaitsits

Happy Monday folks! I’ve been seeing the works of Austria-born artist Stefan Zsaitsits floating around Pinterest lately, but was frustrated that some of them weren’t attributed properly to the...

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Final call: Pikaland Artist Bootcamp

Cat-loving artist Jamie Shelman and I have been running a series of online classes since 2010 called the Pikaland Artist Bootcamp, offering feedback and thoughts as we follow along with our...

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Hannah Warren

Discovered lovely illustrations from Hannah Warren today. She’s an artist based in the UK who has put out quite a bit of her work out there, and she has lots of personal projects too (something...

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Pikaland x Light Grey Art Lab = an exhibition!

Ever since I’ve started the blog, I’ve had this tiny little secret wish that I could curate a real live art show. It could be anywhere at all in the world – I don’t mind one bit. I have to say that...

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The Drawing Machine

Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) 2013

Mozi X Laura McKellar

Artist interview: Mab Graves

New project: 1000 things to draw

Dear students: what to do after school? (hint: the answer is not going back to school.)

Google Doodle: Malaysia’s 13th General Election

Creative Commons Licensing flowchart

Yao Xiao

Philographics

A Rabbit Fable

Sponsor giveaway: Draw your own alphabets!

Dear students: Getting emotional vs getting things done

How about some finger painting?

The best antidote to a boring commute…

How we see ourselves

Breathe Out

Eley Kishimoto Toy Town Eden

Picasso paintings reinterpreted

Why I blog

Re Jin Lee: Miniseries

Eyra

Tiny Wee Fiction

Asking and getting

Marimekko – Spring 2013

Stefan Zsaitsits

Final call: Pikaland Artist Bootcamp

Hannah Warren

Pikaland x Light Grey Art Lab = an exhibition!

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