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Pikaland

Amy Ng

Amy has a dream…

Pikaland is a blog about living the illustrated life — an art and illustration blog that’s a collection of beautiful things and inspirations that I stumble upon on the internet that’s made/designed by illustrators and artists, and is updated almost daily.

I also love thinking of new ways and projects where I can connect illustrators + artists with their audience, so the first one that I’m organising is the PikaPackage project. There are more in the works! ;)

Pikland is such a wonderfully written blog, head over to Amy’s about page for the full picture.

Enjoy…

Art Farm: Judith Hunt

When are designers, photographers and illustrators ever only designers, photographers and illustrators? Pretty much never, and that’s why I’m chuffed to share Judith Hunt’s Art Farm.

About: Illustrator & cartoonist, horticulture consultant, novice cook, herbalist, and farmer.

A blog about our herb, flower, and vegetable farm, the studio’s design and illustration work, thoughts on publishing and photography, cooking with the harvests from the farm, creative medicinal cures, and my “once in a blue moon” alternative creative jobs.

One of my favourite posts is A Whale of a Week. Could it be because I’ve had a whale of a week of my own?

Enjoy…

Tim Foley

If you look in the Illustrator section of DWB’s Blog Roll, you’ll find a lot of Illustrators. And for good reason. They hold a soft spot in my heart.

Tim Foley uses Illustratorium as a running portfolio, featuring work as it rolls in.

If you are a fledgling Illustrator, or even settled into your illustrating skin, you wouldn’t go wrong keeping an eye on what Tim is up to. For sure.

Chris Gregori

I’ll bet you all thought I dropped off the face of the earth. Well, not quite. I’m still suffering from a lovely Thai stomach bug (or some such). So life has not exactly been a whole lot of fun this past month. But I’m still here. Just moving sloooooooooow.

So to rev up the fun a wee bit, I give you c. gregori dot com blog. Enjoy.

c. gregori dot com blog

And if you don’t see me again for another week, feel free to come looking. Or send flowers. Or both.

Nate Williams

IllustrationMundo.com

Nate writes a beaut of a blog at IllustrationMundo.com.

If you are in the business of illustration, then I’ll bet IM already feeds direct to your door.

And if you are in the market for illustrations, Nate’s Illustrators section is prime a hunting grounds for new talent.

Glancing through the stable of Illustrators, a few of my top choices are:

• Brian Despain Art
• Ray Jones illustration
• Arnold Roth
• Mundo Mágico

And with hundreds upon hundreds of Illustrators listed, I could browse all day!

Steve Augarde

I’m going to ask you to ignore something. I’m going to ask you to ignore Steve’s blogger theme and go straight to his copy. Trust me on this. His copy is totally great. You can read and read and read and keep on reading. And keep on being entertained.

I’m a children’s author/illustrator/paper engineer. Also a musician. Nowadays I concentrate more on writing than design work, but I still illustrate my own books – when they let me.

I blog about stupid things – things that interest me, things that make me laugh. Amuse yourself and you might amuse others, I say.

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Michael Wandelmaier

Michael Wandelmaier is a special treat for all those illustrator lovers out there. Like me.

Illustration and Design

He’s also a perfect treat for one who is under the weather on a day when even the weather is under the weather. Luckily, I love rain and thunder and nature putting on a show.

And I hope you do too.

WeeWillDoodle

Monday morning. YAWN! After staying up late last night, I turned on the news (finally) this morning (late morning) and watched WeeWillDoodle on the BBC. And since WeeWillDoodle also has a blog, here they are on DWB.

WeeWillDoodle is a group of artists deeply in love with the power of the doodle. This artist collective believes in, respects, and plans to harness the raw power of our spontaneous ideas and capture them in different mediums—on paper, on plastic, on walls, on your bare ass–you name it and we’ll draw on it. Give us a blank room and we’ll charge in with multi-colored markers blazing! We draw now and ask questions later.

So it’s similar to doodlage, only they get out and doodle all over the place. Well, all over the place out here anyway, in SE Asia. To be more precise, Manila.

If you are interested, the BBC snibbet I watched is on YouTube: Nassive Doodle art in Manila (Nassive?)

Now I’ve SERIOUSLY got to go out and doodle. But, not on my butt. No. Never.

Stefan G. Bucher’s DAILY MONSTER

Back in 2006 DWB was listed amongst Communication Arts 50 Essential Bookmarks, published in their November Design Annual. You can still see it in full at san miguel de allende arts + kulture.

Under the Design Community heading, DWB is right there amongst the big hitters: AIGA and News Today (yes, I was surprised). With DWB it was a community of three.

And it was back then that I found Stefan. Stefan first commenting on Russell Davies at Comm arts. Then Russell Davis commenting on Stefan at Russell Davies. It was a time of finds.

So it was back in 2006 where I first featured Stefan on DWB. I just love his banner photo, don’t you? Just like his tagline – “344 LOVES YOU” – it makes me smile. Stefan makes me smile. [... Continue reading ... Stefan G. Bucher’s 200th Daily Monster

Book By Its Cover

The Books By Its Cover blog is gifted to us by illustrator and pattern designer Julia Rothman. Also of Also (Design, Illustration, Animation, Video). [... Continue reading ... Book By Its Cover