David Downtown

Fashion illustrator David Dowtown was commissioned by Vogue Australia to design four different cover portraits of Cate Blanchett in celebration of their 50th anniversary. Downtown's techniques include watercolour, gouche and black ink line drawing.

Kate Moross

Artist Kate Moross works with isometric patterns, shapes and freeform lettering to create graphic psychedlic artwork. Moross is an established graphic designer in the music and fashion industry and has produced work for Nike, Pepsi, Virgin and Glastonbury and various record labels.

D&AD New Blood 2009 Winners

Here is a selection of D&AD's Best New Blood Winners...

Matthew Forrester


Alan Clarke



Jess Douglas



Ricky Diaghe


Mark Boardman


Darienne Tosh


Alida Rosie Sayer




Martin Senyszak

Junichi Ito

These 'miniature' images are by still life photographer Junichi Ito. Ito has created playful scenes with large scale cosmetics and fashion accessories.

Thomas C Card

These beautiful bird images remind me of a similar project by Solve Sundsbo. Card's softer use of colour and more delicate movement of the birds gives his images an ethereal quality to them on the contrary to Solve's, which are more vibrant and dramatic.

Thomas Card



Solve Sundsbo

Glitz and Bling of 'The Simple Things'

This sculpture was created by artist Takashi Murakami, musician Pharrell Williams and jeweler Jacob & Co for the Art Basel fair this year. Jacob recreated a selection of everyday objects chosen by Pharrell in premium metals and glitzy jewels. The jewel encrusted products including Pharrell's Ice Cream sneakers, a Pepsi can and a condom are placed in the mouth of Murakami's sculpture forming this wacky installation.

Peter Funch - Babel tales

Babel Tales is project of captured moments from different street corners in New York where Funch has identified commonalities and seamlessly pieced them together. Repetitve actions like smoking, taking a picture, or yawning have been used as themes to create 28 extraordinarily energetic scenes.

Pen-Paper-Scissors

In celebration of the V&A Illustration Awards 2009, this Friday is dedicated to Illustration, Graphic Design and Animation. Artists including Craig Ward, Kustaa Saksi and Noma Bar, will be drawing and painting live in the John Madejski garden. There will be a drawing workshop in the garden and all the best pieces will be exhibited and judged on the night. Plus, talks by Graham Rawle and the fabulous art and fashion designer, Julie Verhoeven, as well as a live animation workshop with Peepshow.


Kustaa Saksi


Noma Bar

The Print Club

The Print Club is a club of illustrators and designers who produce posters, prints, t-shirts, record covers, flyers through the process of screen printing. Emerged and established artists are invited to exhibit their work at this year's summer show, 'Secret Blisters'. Steve Wilson, Jody Barton, Anthony Burill, Rose Stallard, Masa and Miles Donovan are amongst the contributers, but the final selection of chosen artists will not be revealed until the opening night. Plus, a high profile secretive street artist will be submitting artwork! There will be 35 illustrators, 35 edition and hand signed prints. 35 pounds each!

Shepard Fairey - Design Museum Award 2009

This is the iconic graphic illustration of Obama won Fairey the Brit Insurance Design of the Year.
Here is a clip of his acceptance speech and the idea behind what started as a self-initiated fund raising campaign and evolved into a global phenomenon.