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Miss Lotion

Konstnatinos — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:59:32 +0000

Miss Lotion was born with a pen strapped to her hand. Drawing is a part of everyday life for the Danish-born artist who resides in Copenhagen. She draws and paints for recreation and because she simply can’t help herself. Miss Lotion works with illustration and visual art, with clients in the advertising, fashion and editorial world. Originally she is an educated graphic designer, but after graduation she found herself taking direction towards illustration and now mixing the two disciplines to form a clearer language. Her artwork tends to be personal, based on her own reflections of her experiences and surroundings, particular situations and conversations.

She sketches on anything she has to hand, be it napkins, paper or beer mats, usually with a black pen, and her drawings form the beginnings of her illustrative ideas. Some of these ideas progress to paintings on wood or canvas, murals, T-shirts and many other applications.  Collaborations with other artists are a great inspiration and motivation for her. Over the years she has worked on and instigated many group projects such as collaborative drawings, murals, books and exhibitions with like-minded artists.

Miss Lotion

Illustrative Berlin 2011 & Swatch YIA 2010

Konstnatinos — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:40:19 +0000

Be a part of Illustrative in Berlin!

Applications for Illustrative 2011 can now be submitted

In May 2011, the 6th Illustrative- the leading international festival for contemporary illustration and graphic arts, will take place in Berlin again. Artists from all over the world can now apply for the festival: Until October 22nd, 2010 they can submit works in order to be considered for the Swatch Young Illustrators Award. On November 5th, 2010 the nominees will be awarded in advance and invited to the “Illustrators Night”, a celebration at Direktorenhaus in Berlin.

The Swatch Young Illustrators Award is an unique competition awarding creativity and innovation in personal contemporary illustration and graphics. The award encourages and supports designers in their artistic practice and offers an international and worldwide recognized platform for them. In three categories, illustrative art works, art projects with graphic influences, animations, installations and book art objects qualify for submission. A jury, consisting of international art directors, well-known illustrators and publishers, will nominate artists in each category in October 2010. At Direktorenhaus in Berlin, the “Illustrators Night” will take place on November 5th, where the nominations will be celebrated with an exhibition and a party.

The Swatch Young Illustrators Award offers the winners not only the opportunity to be part of Illustrative in May 2011 in Berlin. Also, there are prizes waiting worth 6.000 Euros, publications and agency agreements as well as the one-time opportunity to design a limited edition for Swatch.

Background information

Illustrative is the leading international forum for contemporary illustration and graphic arts. The exhibition displays an inspiring collection of fresh illustration and graphic art showcasing over 600 works from more than 60 artists. Over the course of two weeks, the festival celebrates the illustrative arts, presents new talents and trends, exchanges ideas, marvels at progressive technologies, and rediscovers forgotten styles.

Furthermore Illustrative yearly assigns awards for excellent illustration and animation projects. With international exhibitions in museums and galleries, Illustrative gives visibility to unconventional Direktorenhaus

and innovative art projects that go beyond the mainstream. Illustrative does not only show the latest graphic arts’ quality and imagination, but also how visual influences of graphic arts, illustration, book arts, comic, concept art or animated graphics are breaking into and have an impact on the field of art.

Since its inception in 2006, Illustrative has been taking place once in Paris (2007), once in Zurich (2008), and three times in Berlin (2006/2007/2009). In order to ensure that the exhibition meets the contemporary pulse, all art works are reviewed by a curatorial committee under the direction of Berlin based curator Pascal Johanssen.

As an independent non-profit organization, Illustrative is also the publisher of the art magazine “Objects: Journal of Applied Arts”, which analyzes innovations in the area of applied arts. Since spring 2010, Illustrative has moved to its headquarters in “Direktorenhaus”, a new art space in Berlin.

Illustrative

Chris Wharton

Konstnatinos — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:24:16 +0000

Chris Wharton is an illustrator and Designer living and working in UK.

Chris Wharton

Simon Fernandes

Konstnatinos — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:49:41 +0000

Very nice illustrations from a brazilian illustrator.

Simon Fernandes

Guy Raimes

Konstnatinos — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:10:50 +0000

Guy Raimes

Alex Frew

Konstnatinos — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:46 +0000

Alex Frew

Sawdust for Fabrice Lig

Konstnatinos — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:00:45 +0000

The album “Genesis of a Deep Sound” is heavily focused on the ‘Genesis’ meaning the beginning, birth or creation. As Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan. Many different styles now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built. The venues for this movement were predominantly held in old abandoned warehouses — by capturing those run-down, yet beautiful open spaces, “Sawdust” could visualise the essence of the title “Genesis of a Deep Sound”.

They also produced a custom typeface to reflect the nature of electronic based music — beautiful compositions of sound and layering — to reflect that in the letterforms by adopting those principles and apply them. The result is an interesting composition of form and colour, and by making the circular shapes key lines, it added an ‘imaginary’ third colour tone although still set in black.

The front of the Record has graphic indicators overlaid onto the image that when matched to the back spell the word “Genesis”

Design and art direction by Sawdust
Creative production by Edit
Photography by Andrew Moore

Sawdust

Happy magenta summer holidays

Konstnatinos — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:06:44 +0000