Telegramme , lovers of art, music and the receiving of post !
Telegramme is a collaboration that snowballed in to a fully functional studio.
Working via the postal service with Christopher in Bristol and Robert based in Cornwall,
they developed a creative partnership thanks to a mutual love of music,
art and the receiving of post.
Now in London, illustrators/designers Christopher & Robert draw, design, screen print,
make patterns, are computer geeks, obsess over music, drink too much tea, are 1/2 dyslexic,
collect stamps, post letters, raid skips and are mixing ink most of the time.
Blurb Taken from their site here and check out their gig posters here.
Beards Of Manchester photographed by Gill Moore
Yes you read that right, Beards of Manchester is a calendar featuring the city
and some of its hairiest inhabitants. It launches on 21 October with an exhibition
at Common on Edge Street. The top twelve beard wearing entrants have been photographed
by top Manchester photographer Gill Moore, check the site for a low down on the
‘ The Beards ‘ who entered.
All profits of the calendar sales go to the Lifeshare charity in Manchester and here
is a related article from the Manchester Evening News.
Of course some people were edited out quite early on, through lack of beard credentials !
Chris Reccardi
Chris Reccardi is a Cartoonist/Designer for Animated TV and Feature Films,
and fine artist who specializes in mod/psy-fi and “Pop Surreal” art.
Barbarella and Bond girls all in one here with past TV credits including
“Ren & Stimpy”, “Powerpuff Girls”, “Samurai Jack”,and Feature design on “Shrek 3 & 4”,
“Monsters vs. Aliens”, “Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs” and some new stuff too secret to talk about !
He has a retro-style short animation ” The Modifyers ” you can watch here.
Chris has written the score for this too, what a talented man.
Vintage Children’s Books
There are a couple of great sites that I’ve come across where Children’s Vintage Books
are celebrated. The first is a japanese based site called Curio Books where you can purchase
the books that they feature. The second is a site created by a mother Burgin Streetman,
who wanted to share great reading with her son, and with us too, you can find this site here.
The latter also has some great links to more favourite authors and book related sites.
A visual taster of what to find.
Fishink Blog’s Mini Milestone
I have just realised today that I’ve just passed a mini milestone and have written over
100 posts and had over a 100 comments in return. Many thanks for your support.
Please keep the comments coming.
Nowhere Boy, Belated Happy Birthday to John Lennon
Yesterday I watched Nowhere Boy, an excellent film with superb acting from the lead
20 year old actor Aaron Johnson, with Kristin Scott Thomas playing his auntie Mimi
and Anne- Marie Duff playing Julia, his mother. The film follows Lennon’s
teenage years, through the formation of The Quarrymen and his meeting with Paul.
The 2009 film was scheduled to be released in the US two days ago to coincide
with what would have been John Lennons’ 70th Birthday. Great nostalgia.
Mark Hearld
Since his childhood days, Mark Hearld has had a love for nature and animals.
He trained in Illustration at Glasgow School of Art and followed that up with
an M.A. in Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art.
He is now a York based, multi media artist who happily creates oil and watercolours,collages, textiles,
3D pieces, ceramics, posters, book covers, lithographs and linocuts.
All in a wonderfully loose, yet colourfully informative style.
A fellow illustration artist, who is also influenced by the likes of Edward Bawden and
Eric Ravilious, John Piper and Paul Nash is definitely going to be a favourite of mine.
Thanks to World of Interiors Magazine and ALH1 on flickr for the photos of Marks’ eclectic
and beautiful home … couldn’t you just draw in there happily all day long !
You can find more of Marks’ prints and fabrics on the St Judes website.
RAMP Ceramics
R A M P stands for Roop and Al Make Pots, and that is Rupert Johnstone
who throws the ceramics and Alice Hartford who decorates them. Established in 2001,
they make a beautiful range of functional, decorative tableware. Their patterns are taken
from plant life and the natural environment and they follow the form of each piece perfectly,
highlighting their shapes and sweeping curves or bursting into life, like some 50’s painting
depicting a night time scene with fireworks. Rupert works with both earthenware
and porcelain and you can see more of their pieces here.
Mariko Jesse
Mariko Jesse was born in Japan, spent her childhood in Hong Kong and was educated
in the UK, so having a name that translates as ‘ ten thousand mile child ‘ makes sense !
She is now a lecturer at Central St Martins School in London and spends her time living
between Asia and Europe with a love of illustrating travel and food. Her work celebrates
the mix of cultures that she experiences, whilst moving countries constantly to avoid
the worst of the weathers… and who can blame her !
Ellen Giggenbach
Originally from Bavaria, Germany, Ellen Giggenbach now resides in windy Wellington,
New Zealand where she creates amazing designs from cut out painted papers.
Inspired by folk art, mid century design, ceramics and fabrics. In particular,
1950’s childrens’ books. Her home (featured in her blog link above)
is decorated with colourful examples of all.
She is drawn to the work of Orla Keily and Helen Dardik
(whom I blogged about here ) and now has her own collection of cushions and bags
that she is selling on her website here.
There’s more info on Ellen in an interview by Boxbird here. If you’re interested in that personal touch,
she also takes commissions and you can contact her at ellengiggenbach@xtra.co.nz
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