What’s Up #53: Teenage Engineering
I have to admit being slightly baffled by Teenage Engineering [teenageengineering.com] at first. For a start they’re Swedish. In fact Teenage Engineering design and build all their products in Sweden. Not Japan or China. Secondly, their Operator-1 synthesiser looks too slick to be real (turns out it’s beta-real, ie they’re ‘beta testing’ it as we [...]
What’s Up #52: Andrew Holder
More heart-felt and wholesome goodness purloined from the RRR Zine project [standingthought.com] in the shape of Andrew Holder‘s ace illustration work [andrewholder.net]. Andrew is currently exhibiting at the Subtext gallery in San Diego [subtextstore.com] until April 26 (BTW um, that’s like in a few days time).
What’s Up #51: Carlo van de Roer
By now Jonathan Sandridge‘s RRR Zine [jonathansandridge.com] project should be chugging it’s way through the blogosphere [standingthought.com]. This is no bad thing because it’s brings together a whole heaps of ace image makers in one of the most joyous and lush compilations linefeed has seen in a while. Image makers such as Carlo van de [...]
What’s Up #50: Joe McLaren
Hitting the mid-century mark, this ‘What’s Up’ peeks behind the studio curtain of prolific illustrator Joe McLaren [joemclaren.com]. Joe has been beavering away on behalf of the Financial Times and The Times, creating ace illustative bits and btyes for various columns and articles like the image above entitled ‘appearnce effects voters’. It’s worth stopping by [...]
Reading List April 2009
Ignoring my grotty carpet here’s this month’s reading list. The more time I spend in Australia the more I am convinced that there is a bright and shiny future for magazines especially independently published mags like the one’s features here (apart from Australian Creative, but more about that one later). Makes me wonder how long [...]