Can You Dig It?
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Got my copy of Benign Kingdom today and it is absolutely gorgeous. All the artwork is beautiful as is the book itself. I’m so in love with it and can’t wait for future volumes. I also got the postcards and poster, but the poster hasn’t arrived yet. Hoping it gets here today or tomorrow but with USPS who knows.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who didn’t get it through the Kickstarter.
These photos look great! The hardcover is gorgeous in person. I did a lot of the production on these and I’m very pleased with how it all turned out.
(via spx)
Take-G Toys by Takegi Nakagawa - Take-G toys are made using an ancient Japanese craft called Yosegi-Mokuzougam or, marquetry. Essentially the artist inlays different textured and coloured wood pieces and other natural materials to create his figures. Takegi uses the highest quality woods such as maple, walnut, cherry and white ash in order to create toys that are not only unique and beautiful, but long lasting.
The cool futuristic robots and children figures featured above are sold only at craft exhibitions, however Takegi Nakagawa also makes a great set of construction and assembly blocks available to the public.
Check out take-g.com to learn more.
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You know what bothers me the most about this? The slideshow shows a pot of (nice quality) sumi brushes that have obviously never seen a drop of ink in their life. Ug, rich people.Last year I read this article in the New York Times and it never left me, but it’s only one of many. Every time I come home there are new mansions. We will all feel differently about them. Themes of Cape Breton, home, culture and rural decline will happen in my comics again and again, that much we do know.
Probably the most important thing I learned while filling in as an art director:
Seeing how desperate you are as an art director, when you put your trust in an illustrator - has really changed my whole perspective. And also I realized that being on time and doing professional work is 98% of what [being an illustrator] is all about.
And every once in a while you do this one great piece where the stars align and maybe it gets into American Illustration or Society of Illustration or CAA but that’s not what makes your career. I was always trying to shoot for these fantastic super-quirky weird concepts and I didn’t realize that so much of it is being professional - about being somebody that an art director can put their trust in.
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