Canaerial links – October 20th to October 24th

Links:

• Mail Me Art: The Book, HAI Promo » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – MAiLmeART project which invited illustrators to send him decorated parcels and postcards as works of art has been turned into a book, which is available on Amazon for pre-orders.
• Laura Plansker » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – Creepy-cute photo-dioramas from artist Laura Plankser. I love this kind of thing, and it has me itching to create my own little characters and worlds.
• Linzie Hunter’s spam one-liners as postcards » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – A shining example of how personal creative exercises — in this case, illustrating e-mail spam messages — can turn into something incredibly rewarding. Postcards seem to be the perfect canvas for these typographic non sequiturs
• Jillian Tamaki Sketchbook: Idea Generation – Following this guide will not guarantee you success, conceptually, professionally, or otherwise. It’s just my way of working and I know for a fact it will not work for everyone.
• Typocalypse: what your fonts say about you » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – I enjoyed this somewhat snarky Flickr set of the messages your typeface choices are sending about you: Typocalypse.
• 700 Mole-Men Begin Surfacing on Flickr » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – The instructions, should you choose to play along, are simple: Find and consider the list of 700 Mole-Men and their occupations. Create an image depicting one (or more) of the Mole-Men. Post it to flickr and add it to this group.
• Adele Lack’s micropaintings – Boing Boing – Berlin-based artist Adele Lack has a show of her micro paintings.
• Atom Bomb Bikini: Happy Halloween! – I compromised, and came up with something totally gross yet pretty funny. I used the cover of an oft-seen collection of pin-up paintings by the great Gil Elvgren as a starting point, and did my own little homage to this familiar image.
• Tamagotchi Life Clocks – The Jinsei Tokei Alarm (GALLERY) – The Jinsei Tokei or Life Clock is an alarm clock that contains an animated avatar inside that mimics your real-life events in Tamagotchi-like fashion.

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