Paintings made in Japan during the BP Travel Award by Carl Randall. Carl is currently showing some of these paintings at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Regents Park.
Japan
Hannah Waldron
Really like the look of this Japanese wrapping cloth by London and Stockholm based creative Hannah Waldron designed for The Link Collective. You can get it from Hannah’s Big Cartel here, lots more designs on the Link Collective site and more of Hannah Waldron’s work below.
Komura Marefum
Nendo – Bird Apartment / Tree House
A Tree house that’s for the Birds by Japanese design studio Nendo. The tree house is located in a forest in Komoro City in Japan’s mountainous Nagano Prefecture and contains 78 separate spaces for birds to nest while providing accommodation for the ornithological enthusiast to have an auld snoop. There’s a mammoth amount of great furniture and product design from Nendo on their site but do check out the exhibition they did with Philips de Pury in the Saatchi Gallery, London in 2011 entitled ‘Think Black Lines’.
Michael Wolf – Tokyo Compression
Turning Tokyo’s daily commute into Art. Michael Wolf is a German photographer based in Hong Kong, hiswork is influenced by life and architecture of mega cities. “Many of his projects document the architecture and the vernacular culture of metropolises.”You can see a previous post on his series Architecture of Density here. Michael Wolf’s exhibition ‘Paris Street View’ is running until December 15th at Kulturhaus Osterfeld in Pforzheim, Germany.
Anti theft lunch bags – The.
I saw these over on Swiss Miss really great little idea from the clever people at The. loads more things to wish you had bought on there site below.
Shohei Otomo
Amazing ink illustrations by Japanese Artist Shohei Otomo. Watch the video by Carhartt below to see how he makes his really detailed images. Shohei Otomo’s solo exhibition at Lesley Kehoe Galleries in Melbourne opens on the 7th of September and consists of thirty-eight original pieces and several limited edition prints.
Ryan Andrews – Kickstarter
Only 5 days left to get involved in American Illustrator Ryan Andrew’s Kickstarter for his new book ‘Nothing is Forgotten, a collection of short stories’. If he manages to raise $30,000 by the 1st of August he’ll be adding his new short story ‘The Tunnel’, three page preview here. You can see his prints below which he’s made for all the kickstarter supporters and a few images of what the hard back copy will look like. I’ve done my bit now it’s your turn.
Ryan Andrews – Kickstarter
The very talented Ryan Andrews is running a Kickstarter to raise funds for publishing a collection of his illustrated short stories ‘Nothing is Forgotten‘, ‘Sarah and the Seed‘ and ‘Our Blood Stained Roof‘. The images of the book look amazing; with its French Folds and Sewn Binding. I’m really looking forward to getting mine in the post. Ryan has already reached his target amount but if you’re looking to pick up an original drawing or print this is a good way of going about it. You can find our previous post about Ryan Andrews here.
Ryan Andrews
Great illustrations from California and Japan based Artist Ryan Andrews. Ryan Andrews works with ink, watercolour and a bit of Photoshop to create his dark and moody comics and illustrations.
Ryan has a very insightful entry in his blog about the process he uses to create his work here. I really recommend that you check out his comics / graphic silent short-stories ‘Nothing is Forgotten‘ and his new story ‘Sarah and the Seed’. You can find even more work on Ryan’s blog.
Cheers to Feargal for showing me Ryan’s work.