hey mister! have you ever seen the fantastic photos of yeondoo jung? in my favorite series, wonderland, the photographer uses film, fashion, and some clever set design to recreate children’s drawings. holy smokes!
thanks to typefiend for the heads up!

I’ve been eyeballing this book, The Artist Within, for several months. It is a collection of photographs of animators and comic book artists in their studios. I didn’t know if it would be ho-hum or super-awesome but I found a copy at the library yesterday. It is dynamite. Short biographies proceed each photograph and the [...]

Lisa Solomon’s colour palettes help me dream for spring time! Her polaroids are great, too.

Polaroid instant film will be history by next year according to this article from the Washington Post.
Photograph by Brooke Mackay.

While perusing magazines in the bookstore, I stumbled upon Selvedge — and instantly fell in love. I know nothing of fabric or textile design. But the patterns and photos and textures are sublime. I ordered a subscription and every time it comes in the mail, I get my notebook out while I read it because [...]

Yes, Shawn Roche is a photographer (and this is Illustration Friday). But this blog is about what/who inspires us, so I’m blogging about him. I met Shawn, oh, six years ago or so (?). I was an art director at the time and he was this photographer in town who rode around in a beat-up [...]

Our focus here on IF Blog is of course, illustration. And I would have it no other way. But one of my primary sources of inspiration is photography and there is no photographer I find more inspirational, more “jinky” (whatever that means… must be an Aussie thing) than Barb “Jinky” Uil. Her photographs of children [...]

You know, kids, there’s a lot to be said about making a living from art… and even more to be said about the art of living. I try my best to do both, with fluctuating success. Too often the making a living from art part supersedes the artful living part and everything comes unhinged and [...]