How cool is this? Colour Lovers, a site all about trends, palettes, and any other information you’d like to research about colour! Even rating colour palettes! The above palette is called ‘midnight salad’. Reading the titles makes me think about what it would be like to have the job to name colours.
I also love [...]

I’m not a fan of the board game, ‘Risk’. I think it might be a boy thing? I’ve seen that twinkle in my husband’s eye when he calls his pals together to play. He very excited to ‘1919′, a risk board redone by Raymond Biesinger. (larger version here)
Raymond’s work always has a strong concept, often [...]

The Illustrated Voice by Craig Frazier is one of my most favourite ’step into the artist brain’ type books. His career, body of work and conceptual process is humbling. I’m constantly drawn to illustrators with a strong design background, probably because I play that balancing act in my own career.
Enough of my swooning,…see a more [...]

Design Sessions: Notes on Design has asked me to be a guest blogger on their site this week. Their audience is mainly design students and those just entering the field, so I thought it would be fun and relevant to walk them through how the illustration processs works… from project beginning to final art. And [...]

Just a quick note to let you know about LCS’s interview with Tommy Kane, Art Director for Samsung (among other brands) and illustrator too. Busy guy. Cool work. You can see more of Tommy’s stuff here.

i don’t know about you but my mouth waters when i visit the book store. i roam the shop making a mental checklist of the beautiful tomes that will decorate my mansion when i finally win the super lotto.
julia rothman takes my daydream a dozen steps further: book-by-its-cover.com is a collection of books that caught [...]