City Arts Gallery - Book Fair

For part of the research of my artisit book I took myself to the city art gallery where there was a temporary exhibition of various artists books on display.

The ones that stood out the most for me were the following:

• Sarah Mitchell (leeds based book artist)


• Melanie Bush - 'Abecedarium for Biblioposey'


• Peter Trepanier 'The Role of a Lifestime'


• Philippa Wood - 'She Said I Said'


• Graham Martin - 'The quiet corner of a Book'

Bernie Reid

Fashion Illustrator, general illustrator who uses stencils and spray paint as his main medium.

Found his images in the telegraph magazine and can't say I've seen anything quite the same as his work..yet!

THis guy is called Kelly Hyatt,

An illustrator and graphic designer from Leicester who has done a multitude of work for Habitat and the BBC involving his simple line images.

Dispite his images and works being really 'simple' looking i think his colour and compositions are just so delicious.

http://www.retromummy.co.uk/

http://www.larkmade.com/

Both of these websites have some fabulous fabric and patterns on them for inspiration..thought id share :)

Here's a great website for some pretty funky t shirt designs, good for both inspiration and some shopping ideas!

www.moretvicar.com

Inspiring designers

Natasko Seki is an illustrator who collages together a mix of hand drawn imagery, mixed media and a bit of digital manipulation.

I like her concepts behind er work and the composition she uses: simple and not too over crowded with colour.

I came across her work looking through 'digital illustration' which has given me lots of interesting ideas about ways of drawing and also makine me look at computer work in a more positive way!