Studio Fludd are artists and designers who are passionate about science and it’s people, especially English physician and all round big-clever-thinker Sir Robert Fludd. Oh and they make great jewellery too! I caught up with Studio Fludd to find out …
Illustrator and cartoonist Jillian Tamaki has a brilliant ‘Sketchblog’ which, amongst other gems, features Jillian’s funny, colourful and surreal experiments in collage. Scroll down for some of my favourites from Jillian’s blog. It’s enough to make you tear up the …
The nice people at fashion brand Ark Clothing sent us some cool clothes to wear and write about. Check out the pics from the first ever Jackie model-style photoshoot! And read our reviews of the outfits we’re sporting.
I am quite a lot in love with the work of Leah Goren- she paints girls, lots of girls, who are well dressed, often sitting and deep thinking in a Sunday-blues sort of way, and sometimes standing, posing, putting on …
Here’s something great that I came across on the web- Adam Hayes’ Make Maps project, in which people design maps (of real or imagined places) and Adam posts them on his blog. I caught up with Adam for the lowdown …
Aino-Maija Metsola’s work is overflowing with colours and shapes so inviting that I wish it would pour out the taps when I run a bath, and I could dive in and have a daydream about magical places where people play …
Ah, the joy of other people’s sketchbooks. The honesty, the sense of experimentation, the shopping lists, the telephone doodles, the big ideas and the ones that didn’t quite make the grade. Laura Heit, an animation artist and self confessed ‘sketchbook …
Debbie Powell is an illustrator whose super fresh style, filled with shapes and colours from nature, is simply joy-giving. Here Debbie tells us about her love for archaeology, what she’s got in her backpack and keeping creative collaborations in the …
I really like the look of Arthouse Meath, a fantastic and much needed initiative that employs adults with severe epilepsy and learning disabilities to create artwork. Projects are led by artist-tutors and the work that’s made is sold by the …
Secret 7″ is the kind of idea you wish you’d thought of yourself, in which 100 creative people (including huuuge names like Ai WeiWei Gilbert & George) have produced album artwork for 7 tracks by 7 well known acts; each …
I love these photographs by Lee Friedlander. He often includes his shadow or reflection in his pictures, which I like a lot- it’s sometimes comforting, sometimes sinister. Take a look.
This Saturday the 6th of April Reetsweet will return to the Corn Exchange in Leeds for the last time until the Autumn. If you’re a fan of handmade wonders (and you live in or near West Yorkshire) make sure you …
Stylist Sarah Bagner (AKA Supermarket Sarah) has a knack for telling engaging visual stories through witty displays of all kinds of stuff on her walls, giving inanimate objects real personality. Read on for chaos-management tips from Sarah’s book Wonder Walls; …
I like this work by Jonny Hannah, which makes me think of homemade signs, outsider art and tattoos from the 1950s. It feels very soulful and wise. And there’s a lot of hand lettering, pictures of food and stuff about …
