I featured the work of the Finnish illustrator and designer Janine Rewell on The Fox Is Black nearly two-years ago. Since then it would seem that her work has only gone from strength-to-strenghth. Jaine studied at both Helsinki’s University of Art and Design, as well the Rhode Island School of Desgin, and she now lives and works in Helsinki where she is represented by the wonderful Agent Pekka.
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April 3, 2013 - See more posts by Philip
Artists James Harvey and Ryan Humphrey have brewed up what just might be one of the coolest art projects I’ve seen in quite a while: Bartkira. The goal of the project is recreate all 6 volumes of Akira using characters from The Simpsons to tell the story, a massive goal. Each participant would have to create 5 pages each, meaning 768 people would need to participate to finish all six volumes. As it turns out, that wasn’t a problem as 768 have already signed up. Pretty cool, right?
(Also, I think it’s important to point out that yes, Ralph is Akira, so why is it called Bartkira? Well, Akiralph doesn’t do a good job of communicating what the project is about. Before you read this post you instantly knew that this was about Bart Simspon and Akira.)
As for the story itself you have Bart as Kaneda, Milhouse as Tetsuo, and of course, Ralph Quimby as Akira. You can click here for a full rundown of all the characters. Under the jump I’ve included some of the art from the project that I really liked. You can also see a bunch of other Bartkira art by checking out the Bartkira tag on Tumblr.
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April 2, 2013 - See more posts by Bobby
Poppy & Red is the collected work of friends Anna Deegan and Paula McGloin. The two joined forced back in 2011 and have been developing some really wonderful pattern-based illustrations ever since.
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April 2, 2013 - See more posts by Philip
With an art name like Cosmic Nuggets you’d probably expect some rather odd work, and that’s definitely what you get from this Scottish illustrator. But his work is also meticulously detailed and impeccably done. It’s hard to pinpoint where his inspiration comes from, but to me his work looks like a mix of folk art and Japanese kaiju, which actually make for an awesome combination.
I’d recommend checking out his Tumblr for a good overview of his work, and if you’re interested in grabbing some of his art you should check out his Etsy page.
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April 1, 2013 - See more posts by Bobby
Illustrator Jay Fleck‘s work is full of childhood ambition: his work illustrates fantasies born while staring at the ceiling on top of bunk bed during summer camp. On a large scale, his work depicts giraffes, whales, rocket ships and other figments of a healthy childhood imagination. The only way I know describe is work is that he pieces are fun–some are clever and others are more cheeky, too. All are full of childish fun pared with aspiration and daydreams.
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March 29, 2013 - See more posts by Alana