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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Patterns: Call for entries

My side project Patterns for Colouring has started to feature patterns from specially invited illustrators and designers. So far Ben the Illustrator, Matt Lyon and David Lyttleton have been added to the library, with more to come. I think the concept is working really well and would like to extend the invitation to the wider creative community. If you feel you'd like to produce colouring pages for children then please check out the sites submission page.

Labels: art, blog, craft, design, illustration, pattern, personal

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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Patterns: Call for entries

The word is getting around about Patterns for Colouring and its getting featured on other sites like Creative Boom (pictured), Parent Dish (which is where I found the link to Marshall Alexander, below) and even Holy Moly - quite a broad audience footprint there! I've also seen it mentioned on a few parenting forums and moneysavingexpert.com. Design sites that have featured it include ColourLovers and Ideafixa. If you have any ideas of what sites I should target please let me know.
I'm currently planning to add guest-generated patterns by leading designers/illustrators to the growing library. I've had some excellent feedback so far. If you are a talented creative and think you should be included in this project, get in touch and I'll give you more details.

Labels: art, blog, craft, design, illustration, pattern, personal

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Marshall Alexander - Paper Engineer

I found this little gem of a site on a blog that also mentioned my pattern site (more of that in the next post...). Tying in nicely with the Speakerdog post this is another papercraft site and what a lovely piece of work it is too. With all of these treats you'll be spoiling us (ambassador). I especially like the one pictured, "Ape, not a monkey".

Labels: craft, design, illustration

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Speakerdog series 6

I'm loving what Ben the Illustrator has done with his speakerdog creation. I've been spotting it appear in all sorts of places over the last few years. Its a great little brand he has created, but I was unaware that he was allowing other creatives to have fun with it too. Its now a paper toy and series 6 has a whole host of talent customising the little fella. So get your PVA and scissors ready and get busy. The 'dog shown is by Jamie Smart.

Labels: blog, craft, design, illustration

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Monday, June 01, 2009

Twitter profile

I've been on twitter for a while now but I've only just updated the sidebar to show the link. If you'd like to see my arts, illustration, design and general nonsense tweets go ahead and follow me...

Labels: art, blog, design, illustration, personal

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100+ free colouring patterns

Its update time in the land of patterns. My free CC pattern site now has over 100 high resolution images. I'm getting some great feedback from sites like Geekdad, Colourlovers, and Ideafixa who have all linked to the pattern blog recently. It would be great to spread the word even further so that children and adults can all get experimenting and learning about colour.

Labels: art, blog, design, illustration, pattern, personal

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

75 patterns and counting

My pattern blog is building up quite a collection of downloadable images. I've just uploaded the 75th pattern. They are all free for you to use (as long as you abide by the Creative Commons license on the site). All of the patterns are A4 in size and are aimed at kids to print out and colour in. I'm aiming to hit the 100 image mark soon.

Labels: design, illustration, pattern, personal

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Monday, March 02, 2009

Sketching

Design Week has a fascinating article about how creatives use their sketchbooks. I tend to use scraps of paper whenever the urge to doodle or think hits me. I do have sketchbooks but they tend to be where I store these odds and ends. The books do get quite padded by this extra paper. I have a more formal leather pocket sketchbook, but its just a little bit too posh and small to do any really messy rumination.
Its great to see other peoples thinkpads though as its fascinating to see mostly private thoughts on paper. Some peoples are just a mess whereas some could easily sell them as works of art so detailed are they.
The article is a review of this book: Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators and Creatives

Labels: art, books, design, illustration

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Friday, January 23, 2009

David Lyttleton's Website!

The most eagerly awaited website launch of them all... Welcome to David Lyttleton's Website! David has been a longstanding contributor to the various mags I've produced. An excellent illustrator bursting with ideas. Let the stampede begin.

Labels: design, illustration

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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

40 free patterns

I've just uploaded the fortieth free pattern to my other blog. All of the patterns on that site are for downloading, printing out and colouring in. I'm aiming to have 100 patterns uploaded soon, I just have to get around to creating them! The patterns are mostly based on simple geometric shapes but I may branch out into more figurative areas at some point. Remember all of the patterns are protected by a Creative Customs license. Patterns for colouring...

Labels: art, blog, design, illustration, pattern, personal

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Truly hypnotic paper cuts

Designing a pop-up book kraken...

Labels: books, design, illustration, YouTube

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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Carlton Hibbert's pattern blog

I've posted the twentieth free pattern design to my pattern blog. There'll be lots more to come. Get over there and download them all. Grab your pencils and crayons and get busy with your kids.

Labels: art, blog, design, illustration, news, pattern, personal

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Becks Canvas competition

As detailed in my earlier post the brewers of Becks beer held an art competition. In the above image the winners are: (left to right) Charlotte Bracegirdle, Simon Cunningham, Tom Price and Riita Ikonen. Tasty, I particularly like Riita's "Let's Stick Together" label best. The bottles are on sale from the 1 August.

Labels: art, design, photography

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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Beck's Canvas

This award looks pretty interesting - Beck's Canvas. They are giving four artists the chance to put their artwork on Beck's bottle labels in August. They've helped the careers of Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin (more's the pity) and Jake & Dinos Chapman in the past. Having your work appear on 27 million bottles of beer can't be too shabby!

Labels: art, design

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Monday, June 23, 2008

New look mag, brand new website

The last few months have been very busy for me. Firstly I had to do a redesign of my magazine, WPT Poker. My colleagues and I have produced a more focussed product aimed at the established poker playing community. We've added far more input from professional players, giving the reader far more chance to immerse themselves in the practice and atmosphere of cardroom mentality.
The look of the magazine is now more sophisticated, with a whole raft of new features. We've given the cover a matt finish which make the whole package very tactile. New articles include: Action, our front news/analysis section; New regular columnists, Doyle Brunson, Antonio Esfandiairi and Jim Mcshane; Floor, tales from tournament directors; Every Question Answered, your chance to put your questions to a poker pro; Real Life, a stars chance to share a life changing event; and many more.
The cover star this issue is Neil Channing, telling us about his big win in the Irish Open and his preparation for the World Series.
Illustrators in this issue are new contributors Chris Keegan and Tim Marrs.
If you want pick up a copy of the No.1 resource for serious players click here! On sale now.
The other project that has kept me up late is a new pattern site. Its for all those (kids through to pensioners!) who love to colour in abstract patterns. I used to love spending hours as a young'un filling in bookloads of these kind of designs. I did a websearch but found nothing beyond a few ancient sites with awful images on them. So I decided to create my own patterns for an eager audience to download, print and start colouring in. Its a great activity for when the weather is chucking stair-rods at the world.
Check out the blog for the full list of patterns you can download. More to be added regularly.

Labels: art, blog, design, illustration, magazine, poker

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Saturday, December 15, 2007

"What is Vector?"

Well it could be a Kirkism or it could be this. But then, maybe it has something to do with this instead. Hmm?

Labels: design, funny, illustration

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Introducing Cormac Jordan

In the blog post below you'll notice a reference to Cormac as a contributor to the latest issue. Well he's an old friend from way back. He also happens to be a fine arts trained designer who can turn his hand to using the old crayons. The thumbnail shown here is just a taster of the finished artwork that appeared in the mag, in all he put together two images for me. This link sends you to his design portfolio on Flickr, but if I nag him enough I'm sure he'll put together a folder of his illustrations up there too. Apart from these contributions Cormac is my resident freelance designer, putting his Indesign skillz to good use on WPT every month - I think I'll have to let him break out the crayons more regularly.

Labels: design, illustration, magazine

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

So long Pixelsurgeon

Pixelsurgeon is being closed down, as the founders can no longer devote the necessary time to keep it viable. I'm sad to see it go, but can understand that with other projects they can no longer maintain the site. I've found a lot of very interesting links and leads there over the years. So to all who sailed in her/it - many thanks and good luck!

Labels: blog, design, illustration

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Friday, November 02, 2007

Smoke and mirrors

Well, just smoke actually. Here's a neat little tutorial for those stumped on how to generate a wispy smoke effect using Illustrator and Photoshop from PSDTuts.

Labels: blog, design, illustration, photoshop

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Thursday, September 06, 2007

Design portfolio

My design portfolio has finally launched. It will work as a sister site to this one and will contain a good healthy chunk of all of my design work from the last 13 years. There's quite a lot of stuff in there at the moment but I'm working on even more. Head over to the design galleries to see more. I have also started a new design blog which will run in tandem to this one, so bookmark both blogs to get the full picture.

Labels: blog, design, 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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Sunday, July 08, 2007

Veerle's blog 2.0

This site is a great resource for any screen jockey. Veerle Pieter is mainly a web designer with a background in graphic design and illustration. I'm linking to her Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials as they are a great resource, but you should make time to browse the other topics available.

Labels: design, illustration

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

James May - Autocar

When you've been working in publishing as long as I have you get to hear about a lot of stories about disgruntled employees getting their own back. The best is the "hidden message using the first letter of each story". Its one of those stories that you think are great but never actually get the chance of seeing. Well here's what Top Gear presenter James May did whilst working for Autocar magazine quite a few years ago. Absolute class. You'd never get me doing anything like this - oh no!

Labels: design, funny, magazine

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Monday, June 04, 2007

iPhone Commercial

I can't wait to try out the sideburn feature...

Labels: design, funny

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London 2012

Today has seen a fairly large backlash about the launch of the new London 2012 brand identity, reputed to have cost GBP400,000. To me it looks like an old Ivan Lendl Adidas shirt gone wrong. It would also be a good design if we ever won and had to host the eurovision song contest. Don't even get me started on the typography! *rant* See it in all its glory here. The best bit of today was witnessing Dame Kelly Holmes trying unsuccessfully to keep a straight face on the BBC Breakfast show whilst attempting to describe the logo as dynamic and aspirational.
[edit] It looks like the blog at London 2012 isn't accepting any comments. I wonder why? Hmm. Design bible Creative Review has its say on the design instead, and you can comment there. I like their list of Pros and Cons. One of the cons being, "It looks a bit like something Neil Buchanan might have put together on Art Attack." However, I reckon that's doing Neil a bit of a disservice.

Labels: design

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Friday, February 23, 2007

My designs

I've started to populate my Flickr account with some design work from the last decade. Its mainly from my work on Future magazines. I have added descriptions to all of them just yet - that takes an age. Anyway, feel free to have a nose through them all. There's quite a few layouts that feature some images from top class illustrators - Insect, Twelveten, Richard May, Identikal to name but a few.

Labels: design, illustration, magazine, personal

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