Carlton Hibbert's Illustration blog 2.0: August 2007

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

20th century illustration

David Apatoff is obviously someone with a great wealth of knowledge about illustration in the previous century. Luckily he has gifting an awful lot of that knowledge to us through his blog. It has been picked up as one of Blogger's 'Blogs of Note' and is undoubtedly enjoying a peak in traffic. It's great to see the skills of latter day artists - they leave a lot of todays illustrators in the dust. It's much in the same vein as Today's Inspiration and is a welcome addition to my blogroll.

Labels: blog, comics, illustration

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WPT Poker mag: Issue 20

Go head to head with Katya Thater (our coverstar) as we cover the Heads-up Championship at the World Series 2007. Katya features as our main profile after winning a bracelet in the $1,500 Razz event, the first woman to win one in three years. Other features to look out for...

Take chances to make your own 'luck'

Become a legend - how to be the best poker player

Pub poker: the government has changed the law relaxing playing down your local

GUKPT Newcastle tournament report

How to handle yourself the first time you walk into a pokerroom

Get your issue here...
Illustrators in this issue are Kev Speck and new recruit John Bradley.

Labels: illustration, magazine, poker

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Friday, August 24, 2007

Rants

In my old blog I used to put all of my thoughts in amongst the illustration posts. If you feel the need to see more of this kind of random rantage then go and visit my other blog...

Labels: blog, geek, news, personal, rant

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minkee

Just found this blog of minkee's work. Troble is there's no "about me..." info in there, so I've no idea who or what Minkee is! There are a lot of great images on there - mainly sketches, roughs and experiments. This is one blog to keep an eye on. If you're watching Minkee - post a bio.

Labels: illustration

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

This is a great resource if you are in the field of book publishing. I tend to cover editorial illustrators on this blog, mainly due to my being involved in editorial design, but this is great for more general illustration browsing. Lots of great artists on there. I'll have to try and take some time to pick out some highlights for you.

Labels: illustration

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Magic wand

Heh. French politics gets a bit of the old photoshop treatment...

Labels: funny, photoshop

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Monday, August 20, 2007

TBFH t-shirt

Ta-Dah! - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

This t-shirt design gets a five in my books! Get over to threadless and add your vote pronto - this needs to be a winner. Click the thumbnail for a bigger view.

Labels: funny, illustration, t-shirt

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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Need an illustrator?

Then you need to visit this illustration portfolio...

Labels: art, illustration, news, personal

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Type the Sky

Not knowing much about German, I'm taking a bit of a stab at understanding this page on Slanted. Type the sky is a university project by Lisa Reinerman. It involves a photography/typography project where she's basically looked up and shot the skyline to make out letterforms. I've had to rely on a babelfish translation to understand the text, but I think that photoshop hasn't played too big a part in forming these. It's very effective and the packaging she's produced for the piece looks great.

Labels: design, photography, typography

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Gavin Strange

It's great to see someone you've commissioned in the past going on to great things. Gavin is a guy who always seems so enthusiastic about being creative - puts an old cynic like me to shame. You only have to dip in to his blog for a short time to see how much energy/projects/geekery he possesses. Well the news that he couldn't quite keep to himself is that he landed himself a spot on the Apple Pro site. Here's to the unstoppable conveyorbelt of ideas that is Jam Factory! Well done Gavin. Previously...

Labels: design, geek, illustration

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