states

Every American State has an official "state tree". This is a nice poster listing all state trees.
American states also have official state flowers, songs, dishes, songs etc. But that is another topic.
I am also a big fan of Smokey the bear, the character that was brought to life in 1944 to support the campaign against forest fires.

nice blog

acejet170 is a nice blog about found typography, old books, good design and smart observations.

It has a great piece on an appearance of Alan Kitching, a god of typography. Here he is holding the poster for his talk.

calligraphy

fantastic video. This guy can truly draw a letter. The kids's not bad either!

mock ups for a new graphic novel by Seth

Gorgeous pages filled with tiny spaced type, studies and Seth's beautiful illustrations. I'd love to have a closer look.
Thanks to drawn & quarterly, my favorite comic publisher.

hotel labels from all periods

not the prettiest site, but a very nice collection of hotel labels. check!

wendingen

A nice collection of of covers of the magazine "wendingen".

great typography site

nice design, and a truckload of information.
I love typography

the swastika

Interesting article about the design and symbolic value of the swastika.
I came across it searching for the designer of the Nazi symbol (logo?).
It is a frighteningly strong symbol. As graphically beautiful as it is symbol of the power of devastation.

Animals in type

Great project by Jeremey Pettis. Twenty Six types of animals. Great typography. Very imaginitive. This is student work but some "pages" and the concept is pro! It is an idea that could flourish if it is developed further.

 

all about homes

This page contains some fine links to the art of dwelling.

incredible yugop

Came across the Yugop Site and still am amazed at their simple but stunning experiments. This one is from 2002 (!) but still amazes me. Lots of others here.

more Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent - Moby Dick

Rockwell Kent's beautiful illustrations for Moby Dick.

Alexander Deineka

Alexander Deineka (Alexandr Deineka) was a very politically engaged painter/illustrator. He was born in 1899 in Kharkov (Russia). His best work (in my opinion) is his least political (revolutionary) work. Most of all I like his folky, simple drawings (with the slightest touch of goache, or water color). Unfortunately I couldn't find many examples on this website which is
devoted to his work.
In his later paintings there are traces of the work of Alex Katz, Edward Hopper (Deineka being the influencer obviously, if at all). He keeps combining (social) realism and slavic nostalgia

alex nabaum and Tatsuro Kiuchi

These are two of my favorite illustrators.
They work in a similar style (their technique is dominated by the use of the inkroller, which gives their work a silkscreened appearance) Even conceptually their images are related. Both illustrators seem to have the same eye for human behaviour. I can't decide who I find better, I think they are both unique and brilliant.
Alex Nabaum and Tatsuro Kiuchi

addictive

linegolfer. Silly but very addictive. Linerider 2.0

friendwheel

the friendwheel is a facebook app that visualizes your networks of "friends" in a graphic and beautiful way. This might be a good app in the real world when you can't decide who to ask for your parties.

vvvv

David Dessens' work. Experiments with software called vvvv (not for the mac, not that I'd know what to do with it :). These images look very organically which I like. There is what seems to be a paper texture in all the parts. Nice.

a favourite: generator x - code generated art and design

This site is one of my favourites. It is a hub for designers, engineers, programmers who are involved in code generated art and design. There are some strinkingly beautiful projects. This site is a window to one of the most fascinating and innovative developments in graphic design, illustration, engineering and information graphics.
Take this example (which the site in its turn picked from the weblog 30gms)
These are images of the geological composition of the surface of the moon. Don't ask me what it is exactly that is represented here. I just look at the images and see beautiful complex, compositions, rendered in fantastic psychedelic colors (see my previous posts on posters from the san fransisco psychedelic period).
Erik Natzke who I mentioned in the previous post is a main contributor (founder?). The links from and to this site are so many, that it will take a good deal of time to follow them up. Like I said: I think this site is the perfect start for a journey into the beautiful (brave new) world of code, art, design and imagery.















Some pictures from flickr logs. See this post for more stunning imagery

gorgeous

Gorgeous an extremely complex modells from Marc Fornes

Erik Natzke, computer generated illustrations

Erik Natzke makes curious and wild images with code. I wish I could explain more about the how, but my lack of technical wisdom prevents that. There's more on his website. I am trying to get just a basic understanding of computer generated images  so I hope in the future I will be able to give more background. Meanwhile I hope those in the know will be kind enough to leave comments.

George Adamson

George Adamson. Beautiful illustrations. Bad looking but very comprise and informative site.

useful links

I copied this list from another brilliant weblog about illustration, cartography, scientific illustration etc. It's called bibliodyssey (which is a well found name, until you have to spell and type it). The author made this list of reference sites (with rss feeds). I just had to take it. Mainly because the main purpose of this log is to have a clever and more visual means of bookmarking (and share that, for those interested).
Most of the sites below are in my bookmarks folder SOMEwhere... here they all are. enjoy and many thanks to "peacay" for compiling it.


∇ library of congress
∇ british library
∇ library france
∇ library holland
∇ library spain
∇ library portugal
∇ european library
∇ library australia
∇ collections canada
∇ digital poland
∇ nypl digital
∇ botanicus digital
∇ rare book room
∇ britmuseum prints
∇ smithsonian galaxy
∇ casglu'r tlysau
∇ rumsey collection
∇ digital scriptorium
∇ cesg manuscripts
∇ digital book index
∇ primary sources
∇ online exhibitions
∇ worldcat search
∇ library directory
∇ digital librarian
∇ intute resources
∇ herder institute
∇ warburg institute
∇ lexilogos links
∇ digiwiki links
∇ archivalia blog
∇ book arts web
∇ arts journal
∇ artcyclopedia
∇ woodblock
∇ coconino
∇ alchemy website
∇ health history links
∇ history network
∇ new advent

intelligent blog

This is an intelligent blog about illustration: illustrationart.
 Not just a collection of pictures and shop-talk (like this blog is). There are some provocative issues on this site that are interesting enough to read and think about.
I like the article about Disney drawings (or the absence of them) and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) the post is called " A Holiday quest for Mitigation). I don not agree with the author because I think he's (deliberately) denying some important differences between animation/illustration and art (or commercial (lowbrow) art and conceptual (high brow) art). However, I do think it is very interesting and necessary to (deliberately) forget about these obvious differences and question the position of both fields.
Another thing that is really good about this blog is that the author has an obvious knowledge of the history of the trade (and of image making in a more general sense of the word). This blogger also uses scientific (or faux-scientific) methods of image analysis and compares genres, artists and (aspects of ) images.

cute dolls from the girls

Very cute dolls. Unfortunately only one seems to be for sale (and even that I can't seem to buy). Cute anyway.
One of the girls, Amanda Visell,  is a very gifted (fifties style) illustrator, the other girl Michelle Valigura, is a gifted toy and doll maker (that is not the right job-description, but anyway). Together they're the girls productions beautiful little logo by the way.

Geert Wilders

I found a nice (very fitting) portrait of Geert Wilders.
This portrait couldn't have been done better by someone who actually wanted to portray Geer Wilders.
For those of you who don't know who Geert Wilders is. Keep it that way. you do not want to know, believe me.
This guy knows his linework (and he knows the work of Charles Burns, but he would be a fool not to know that). Good Job!

origami with the slick of the earth

Found this on a nice blog.
Origama, folding , with currency. It looks fantastic!

fifties style illustration

Actually I think Jonas Bergstrand works in just about every style the fifties had to offer (which I mean as a compliment). I do believe it's copycatting, but I also believe that almost every illustrator (including myself) steals his way trough the rich traditions of the past. The art is doing it in such a way that is the result is self-evident and in a way where the image works for itself rather than being a style pastiche. I can't say that goes for all his work, but the good work does that. And well.

eduard orecife

Beatiful, rich, layered work by Eduard Orefice. Collage, Eclectic, but new and estranging.

Eduard, if you see this post, I hope you don't mind me showing the picture here. It is meant as a sample of your talent.
That goed for all the images on this blog (and on all blogs for that matter

cool illustrators

Some cool illustrators:
Kenneth Lavallee



Irene Schoch


 

Tadahiro Uesugi



Richard Wilkinson




Christian Turdera



Jörn Kaspuhl

good logs

http://wepresentthe0and1.wordpress.com/
http://pruned.blogspot.com