Tag: Inspiration
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.
Acrylic on flesh: the magic world of Alexa Meade
Alexa Meade is an incredibile 23-year-old artist who has invented a painting technique that “makes 3 dimensional space look flat, blurring the lines between illusion and reality“.
The photos after the “jump” are really fantastic…trust me.
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.
Christian Ward, Illustrator
Christian Ward, if you still does not know him ( OMG, it is almost imposible), is a UK based illustrator. According to the Christian Ward website: “…was born 30 years ago and has been pretty much drawing ever since. Along the way, he has developed a fetish for drawing mysterious femme fatales, psychedelic mind clouds and men in capes trying to look dangerous”
