Graham Rawle's Oz

For his soon-to-be-released illustrated book of The Wizard of Oz, collage artist Graham Rawle created and photographed elaborate sets and characters as 1:6 scale 3-D models. True to the original book, the scenes include many not depicted in the famous 1939 movie. And, of course, the slippers are not ruby. Like the movie, however, there's an otherworldly feel to these images. Fun, imaginative, and just a little bit creepy. Check out more of Rawle's pictures, including some "making of" shots, here.

Baileys Home & Garden

Baileys makes simple home and gardening products. The packaged products highlight their simple approach to everything they do with sketchy hand-drawn illustrations and lettering that simply and clearly tell you what the product is. I think their packaging is the perfect definition of 'less is more'.

The above image is taken in a Terrain store - check out some other products found there including a shelving display. You can also see more images of product in the Terrain store after the jump, and on Flickr.

Hellovon

By the looks of things Von has been a busy man! A beautiful Creative Review Monograph to his name this month that’s well worth a buy if you’re into his work. The London based illustrator has also recently completed this piece, Migration.

‘Migration will take place in two parts, in two cities, in two months. A flock of abstracted birds will be seen first at the Truman Brewery, London in late August. In September the birds will reappear in New York flocking towards the billboard on the side of the Espeis Gallery in Willamsburg — the project inheriting the migrational nature of it’s content.’

www.hellovon.com/migration

A Map of Olympic Medals

Nice visual by Lee Byron, Amanda Cox and Matthew Ericson of The New York Times.
Visit this link and click on a country on the map for more info.

The Heads of State: Ohio State Magazine

"Jason Kernevich and Dustin Summers have been working together since 2002. The graphic and conceptual simplicity of their collaborations made an immediate impact on the burgeoning poster revival in North America. They've won awards from Communication Arts, American Illustration, Print Magazine, Graphis, and the Society of Illustrators."

Illustration: The Future of the Lecture. Ohio State explores integrating new technology into the classroom and lecture halls.

The Heads Of State

Gray318

This week I've, once again, been on the trail for book cover designers for the dissertation. Jonathan Gray works in East London, and has produced many impressive cover designs, a few of which are pictured above.
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The Daily Figure

The Daily Figure "A series of daily figurative doodles from my imagination." by Kyle T.Webster. This was yesterdays. I really like his technique; so simple. He also has a store.

JuJu's Delivery

JuJu started drawing album covers and posters for her musician friends. Her work has since graced T-shirts, walls, cars, skateboards and she’s worked for clients such as MTV, pictoplasma and Rojo. Her picures have a great, simple, clarity of line that marks them out from much of todays computer manipulated illustration. She lives and works in Berlin. I really like her work, as her style is not like anything I've seen before. T-shirts, books etc. from concrete hermit or http://www.jujus-delivery.com/

Kate McMorrine

Kate McMorrine is an artist from the Isle of Skye, a tiny island just off the coast of Scotland where she “learned to play magical instruments and see colors no other can ever see”. She now lives in London. Kate’s practice is grounded in the discipline of drawing and deals with narratives found in misheard conversations and the story-telling tradition. Activating the visual with the use of such things as automatic drawing, old photographs and cut outs she forms characters and narratives which inhabit a personal world.

Mathilde Aubier

Illustration, web design and animation by french designer Mathilde Aubier, based in Paris. More work at: http://www.mathildeaubier.com

Samuel Green

I miss seeing work like this, everything is so digitally enhanced nowadays and these amazing pencil drawings by Samuel Green is illustration at its greatest.

Red n'Black Journal

By Kate Moross
"A lined book that I take everywhere. Notes, drawings, anything you can think of. Some of my original master copies of flyers were drawn on these pages, and some have been printed in Graphik"

Kate Beaton comic strips

This morning I was feeling a bit down in the dumps, and these comic strips by Kate Beaton who is based in Nova Scotia, really made me smile. There's lots more to see at: http://www.katebeaton.com