A beautiful summers day in south London helped play host to the eighteenth live event at Chelsea College of Art. Three students from the college were up against three students from Central Saint Martins in the latest Art of Football event. Check out all the images on the flickr as well as all previous events.

The deadline for entries for the Nike 1/1 campaign is fast approaching, all the details are on their site, www.nike1-1.com.

www.flickr.com/photos/ycn/…
www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk
www.csm.arts.ac.uk

Ryan Todd graduated two years ago and has a good looking portfolio. Pictured is ‘Memory and Image’,

‘This book is a simple investigation into the depiction of words in an unobvious way. The visual approach is purposely strict and clearly demonstrates the fundamental possibilities in the representation of ideas.’

www.ryantodd.co.uk

Chris Thompson graduated from the Glasgow School of Art last year where he studied graphic design. Pictured is the Visual Communication Catalogue from 2007.

The A3 duotone newsprint catalogue was printed in a run of 5000 and available around Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and various other locations around the world. The catalogue accompanies the 2007 degree show for the visual communication department, showcasing the 36 graphic designers, illustrators and photographers graduating that year.

www.withalltenfingers.com

Mr. Bowlegs is the pseudonym of designer / illustrator / all round good guy Jeffery Bowman.

Some fantastic work, with genuine personality – Jeff’s definitely one to keep your eye on. Pictured is a crop of one of his images for an Urban Outfitters wallet which’ll be out soon.

www.mrbowlegs.co.uk

Guest Poster — Silvia Prada

‘Hercules and Love Affair, I love them…they are music with capital letters…they are not ‘Blind’ at all…’

www.herculesandloveaffair.com

When was the last time you thought of Brains form Thunderbirds? When was the last time you heard Rhythm is a Dancer by Snap? When was the the last time you saw an advert this good?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2aRDacKANs

Pointed out to me on the tube sometime last week, it was with great pleasure I stumbled across these yesterday afternoon.

The original animal, the elephant was discovered while Paul Middlewick was staring at the tube map during his daily journey home from work in 1988. Created using the tube lines, stations and junctions of the London Underground map there are now 32 different animals, all featured on the site.

www.animalsontheunderground.com

Andreas Gysin works as a freelancer and teacher in Lugano and Lausanne, Switzerland. Be warned that there are more than enough interactive games to probably last you till the end of the week. Strangely addictive but totally brilliant.

www.ertdfgcvb.ch

This week’s guest poster is Barcelona based artist and illustrator Silvia Prada. Her work incorporates a stong ideology of movement within a broad range of cutting-edge contemporary pop culture including fashion, design, art and illustration. She has contributed to different magazines like The Face, Dazed & Confused and Blackbook. Recently she showcased her work in several museums and galleries including Deitch Projects, Colette and Centro de Arte Santa Monica. She has just published her latest work in a book called The Silvia Prada Art Book.

‘This piece samples some souvenir products from the official ‘Barça Club de Futbol’ store in Barcelona. The final drawing is a football players/postcards trimmed and some items pretty popular in the shop.’

www.silviaprada.com

Jules Le Barazer is a French illustrator with a lot going on. The spread pictured is from ‘Plastic Land’.

‘Nose, and lips, and chin, and neck, and calf or ass muscle prosthesis – nothing will be spared. From now on, aesthetic surgery is commonplace and we are about to imagine that one day, it will be prescribed as easily as homeopathic pills. Our body has become a product of mass consumption we manipulate today like a made-in-Taiwan toy. Silicon, botox, hair implants or artificial erection – PlasticLand is the mirror of a new behaviour. It is an amusement park built on a proper human body whose organism has been modified in order to offer you a new way of entertainment.’

www.juleslebarazer.blogspot.com
www.theplasticland.blogspot.com

Austin Cowdall is an illustrator, designer and art director and one of the founding members of the NEW Studio. Through NEW Austin’s worked on various high profile projects – from music promos, to progressive graphic identities, from magazines to books to wall art projects.

Pictured is his recent limited edition bumper freebie mailer, drop him your postal address and you to might just receive one.

www.new-online.co.uk

After an absolutely fantastic weekend wheather-wise in London I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who spent far too long out in the park doing not very much at all. So, to celebrate here’s a return to my monday morning music video post with a brit-pop classic.

A whimsical video, iconic verses from Phil Daniels and a beautifully delivered chorus as ever from Mr.Albarn make me, and the rest of sweltering London long for Saturday afternoon all over again.

Enjoy your week, lets hope the weather holds out.

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Mattias Lindberg, guest lecturer at Hyper Island and one of the best Flash designers in the world, talks about how he became a good Flash animator, his working process and the future of animation.

‘Hyper Island is one of the most credible Digital Media, Interactive Art Director- and Business Management-school in Sweden. Hyper Island is now recruiting to their Diploma Programs for English speaking people and this video is one of ten videos with the purpose to show what to expect when studying at Hyper. Ten different video clips will be touring exclusively on a few sites as well as on Hyper’s blog.’

www.veoh.com/videos/v70393528n4TbdT6
www.hyperisland.se
www.hyperisland.blogspot.com

I’m very much looking forward to Shearwater‘s upcoming Rook, because if the preview tracks currently available aren’t stunning enough, the artwork (provided by photographers Kahn + Selesnick) is really striking. The rest of their work is just as grand and compelling.

www.kahnselesnick.com

Guest Poster — Ewen Spencer

Being Friday this is my final blog. I hope you’ve enjoyed them. I thought Id sign off with a Sartorial note regarding footwear. I have noticed recently many cheesy hipsters bopping around East London and Brighton rocking the sebago or timberland boater. Well, I can reliably inform you when it comes to a moccasin you should never be without a pair of Bass Weejuns or “Glasweejuns” as my mate Mark Anthony calls them. If you are over a size 5 I would recommend a pair of these in black or wine. You can buy them box fresh from J. Simon in Covent Garden or get on to Ebay for the vintage ones. 1980s were probably the best. A pair of 501xx and some argyles and your dancing like The Beat! “…hands of she’s mine” (the English Beat, to any American readers). BTW I think girls rock ‘em even better!

Not wanting to abuse my ability to plug another project I run, here is a polite note regarding the latest release of If You Could prints from the hugely talented Berlin studio NODE (Just Zang Tuum Tumb It) and the ever prolific Kate Moross (I Would Run Away To New York).

Both prints are available to pre-order for the duration of the month, thus determining the unique edition.

www.ifyoucould.co.uk

What’s that coming over the hill? Is it a monster, is it a monster? Technically and on this occasion it is indeed a monster, the Loch Ness monster but it’s not the monster that we’re interested in.

London based studio ‘Up The Resolution’ has got a lot of work you’ll recognise including commercials, music videos, tv, promos and virals. Good stuff and certainly one for a lazy Friday hour or so (a good behind the scenes section as well).

www.uptheresolution.co.uk

PostlerFerguson is proud to present Paper Wars, an exhibition of the Death Machines series of paper reproductions of classic weapons systems at Portobello Road’s Craze Gallery.

The exhibition features a series of one-off pieces by an international selection of artists and designers. Using PostlerFerguson’s paper AK-47 kit as a starting point, each participant has recorded a personal reaction to the tension between the AK-47’s blend of seductive aesthetics, robust design and murky morality.

Also featured is a new addition to the Death Machines series, the Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun (pictured). Paper Wars will be up at the Craze Gallery from 15-21 May, open from noon until 8pm daily. Craze Gallery is located at 253 Portobello Road. London W11 1LR

www.paper-wars.com

As part of the Brighton Fringe Festival, Show Below returns with fresh prints, t-shirts, photography, original works and cards.

The exhibition, including new work from the winner and runner up of last years visual arts prize, will be on show from May 10th – 18th
At Brighton Media Centre.

The excellent Graham Carter is also showing some new work so if you’re by the seaside check it out.

www.showbelow.co.uk

Guest Poster — Ewen Spencer

Granta books is a smallish publishers based in London. They have a steady flow of remarkable writing coming of the presses. I would advise taking a trip to Borders or Foyles or better still try their website and pick up a couple of their magazines that feature extended excerpts from books that have been or are about to be published. They also run fantastic photographic portfolios amongst their centre pages. Sterling work.

www.granta.com

The weather shows no sign of letting up so here is the ‘start of summer’ image from London based illustrator Jenny Bull. A graduate of Kingston University, this image is taken from the ‘Scrap Happy’ limited edition book.

www.jennybull.co.uk

The Art of Football campaign goes from strength to strength as the thirteenth event shows. This time it was Jeff Bowman and Cristina Guitian creating their football inspired artwork, hosted at Cargo.

www.flickr.com/photos/ycn/…
www.mrbowlegs.co.uk
www.cristinaguitian.com

Guest Poster — Ewen Spencer

I like the work of Michael Schmelling. I discovered his book “Shut Up Truth” in a book store in Amsterdam a few years ago. Michael is an American photographer who makes pictures of America, its people and music primarily. He retains a foreign eye. Its like he’s a visitor in his own back garden capturing whatever delights him. I enjoy that. Making the mundane interesting, giving us (the viewer) fresh eyes.

He fits into the whole look of the Fader magazine very well. That’s something else I like. The Fader magazine, New York.

www.michaelschmelling.com

Ringling School of Art and Design graduate Heidi Rodriguez has got a nice site. Pictured is a project called ‘Dress’, unfortunately I can tell you no more about it.

www.iamher.net

Illustrator Nicola Starr is a recent graduate of London College of Communication. She’s a got a nice portfolio consisting of collage and drawings.

www.nicolastarr.com