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Back to the 60’s with Zeloot, the illustrator
This week we have The Netherlands as guest, with Eline van Dam, a.k.a. Zeloot, illustrator from The Hague.
Attempts at classifying her work has included language like Gaudy Colored Psychedelics; Hybrid Polychromatic Creatures and Amorphous Hallucinatory Monsters. But two words come to my mind when I am facing her work: Doodles and Psychedelics. Her drawings remembers me the magazines my aunt used to read in the 70′s, which clearly had the design remains of the 60′s.
JAW Cooper, about sketching a wicked world
This week we are featuring an illustrator from USA, Jaw Cooper.
I contacted her early this morning and she was very kind to introduce herself with a small bio, you are going to see at the end of the article.
What can I say about JAW?
She is undoubtly talented. There is something very close to anime in her artwork and a mix with the detailed nature drawings we used to see in dictionaries. I can read some influence from the Art Decó style. As well as a resemblence to Egon Schele sketches for the girls and some influences of the animals in the paintings of the Renaissance, like you see for example with the hares or rabbits.
The naive and surreal art of the brazilian illustrator Anna Anjos
This week, we have Brazil as a guest: the talented Anna Anjos.
Anna Anjos was born in march 1985, in São Paulo, capital.
The exquisite and hellish artwork of Peter Diamond
Peter Diamond is a Canadian illustrator living and working in Vienna, Austria. You can easily recognize the japanese art influences, some sort of punk art and even mythology. I discovered him and I felt in love with the devils on his blog. If you have seen some anime, like Fullmetal Alchemist, or if you are a fan of the terror movies, like Hellraiser, you are going to understand his sthetic. But there is something intelligent behind his drawings. He explains easily how he can get his inspiration through the observation of exhibitions in museums or investigating a topic. There is nothing about shallow inspiration in the work of Peter. You can read the intelligence in some artworks and this is exactly the case.
Robert Lindström: Illustrator, art director and designer.
Robert started his career as an Art Director at Paregos in 1998. He quickly created himself a name as a talented designer by winning the Prix D’Italia award in 1999 for Best innovative solution with the website of the Swedish TV-show Mosquito . Since then he founded his own interactive agency, North Kingdom, together with Roger Stighäll in 2003 and he has become one of the world’s most awarded Interactive Designer/ Art Directors with six golds and one Grand Prix in Cannes, two One Show golds naming a few. Robert lives up north in Sweden in a small town called Skellefteå where he lives and breaths design in all forms that it may come. He always works with personal design project besides his professional ones and some of these can be found in his personal online portfolio Designchapel.
And the Children’s Laureate for 2009-2011 goes to the illustrator Anthony Browne
He is British man born in Sheffield. He is 63 and his books have been translated to 25 languages. He writes and illustrates children books. He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1985. In 2000 he became the first British illustrator ever to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award, for his services to children’s literature. On 9 June 2009 he was appointed the new Children’s Laureate for 2009 to 2011. Some of their books are: Gorilla, Into the Forest, Little Beauty, My Dad, My Mum, Silly Billy, Voices in the Park, A Walk in the Park, and Willy the Wimp.
He is the famous Anthony Browne.
