Design Federation

Pictured here is Bloc Party by illustrator Eamo. More work by Eamo can be found on The Jacky Winter Group website.

Named after a native Australian Robin that shares its initials with its founder, The Jacky Winter Group connects Australian illustration talent with an international client base. [...] Comprised of a select group of professionals from all corners of Australia, each artist represented has been selected for their inimitable style and vision which fall somewhere between fine art and traditional illustration.

Check out the Jacky Winter website.

Followers of the Perry Bible Fellowship will be pleased to hear that The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories is now available to pre order on Amazon.com.

The award-winning Perry Bible Fellowship has achieved a cult following both online and in its weekly appearances in newspapers and magazines around the world. Now, for the first time, the hilarious cartoons of Nicholas Gurewitch are being collected in this handsome hardcover edition.

I’ve pre ordered my copy!

Kris Lewis lives and works in New Jersey. He studied Illustration at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he excelled in figurative painting. His major influences include Bougereau, the Pre- Raphaelites, Mucha, early Italian Renaissance painters, and the folklore of his Latvian heritage. Lewis’ most recent works are of a surrealist quality, replete with historical and biblical references and psychological undertones. He also has a MySpace.

Who is Mario Sughi?

Mario Sughi is an Italian artist/illustrator living and working in Dublin, and is an associate member of the Illustrators Guild of Ireland. His Style is a “Bit minimalist in style, colorful and elegant with some reminiscent of the English Pop Art of David Hokney”.

He would love you to check out his site, so get clicking.

www.nerosunero.org

The fourth issue of Illegal Fame has finally dropped! You can pick it up at your favourite Australian Hip-Hop store in the next day or so. (WA heads early next week).
56 Pages, Full Colour Magazine. Australian Graffiti Mag.

Lewps was nice enough to send me the last issue of illegal fame and I have to say it really looks hot, the colours are sharp and so is the artwork in it, so go pick up your copy today!

click here for more info

I’m in love with the painted illustrations of Brazil’s João Ruas.

The illustrative work of Josh Cochran is stunning. His client list is a testament to his success and talent, including big names such as the Discovery Channel, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire and The New Yorker. His website also features a blog which is worth browsing through the archives - it’s full of insights into the process behind his work. Top marks!

sex sex, drugs, rock & roll, ben folds into five, four, three, two, one, blast off on your face, porn porn, pop pop goes the weazel, because the weazel goes, he goes and goes and goes POP!

check out Simon Lovelace hotness here http://www.simonlovelace.com

and here  http://www.crack.com.au/duh.htm

to buy his work click here http://www.blankspace.com.au/art4sale/blank_gen/SL/SL.html

Illustrators who are fans of James Jean (name me an illustrator who isn’t) will be delighted with Process Recess 2. It’s 15 by 10 inches and full of twenty-two prints and their associated thumbs, sketches etc.