Zara Picken

British artist and illustrator  Zara Picken is living in Bristol. She  creates a very beautiful images in  the retro style. Restrained and minimalist they have a lot of details carefully traced. 

Fashion illustration in the Design Museum

Since last week there  is an exhibition in the Design Museum devoted to fashion illustration. It will run until March next year. In a unique collection there are works for Chanel, Dior, Comme des Garçons, Viktor & Rolf, and McQueen. It was very fascinating to look over  how illustrative styles had been changed since 1930. Fashion illustrators in our days really like to use new technologies and illustration made only by using ink, crayons or pencil is very rare in 21st century. Here are some pictures that I've secretly made in the museum and some pictures that I've found in internet.

Old school

Modern illustrators

 Next three works are Antonio's. Illustrator that I liked the most from whole exposition.

Steriotypes

Bulgarian illustrator and graphic designer Yanko Tsvetkov made a series of illustrations of European maps, as it seen for residents of any country. For example, the stereotypical thinking of Germany calls on Russia to "natural gas storage, Sweden - Ikea, Finland - Cell phone manufacturers, while Italy - pizza and museums."

Europe for Yanko

Europe for Russia

Europe for US

Europe for Italy 

Europe for France 

Europe for England

Europe for Germany

Europe for Bulgaria 

Europe for Poland 

Europe for Gay 

Evolution of photoshop

Found an interesting picture here.

Infographic: The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop by Tech King

Sunday early in the morning

Getting up unusual early for sunday (9 a.m.) I decided that this is a very good day for visiting galleries. I've choose the White Chapel Gallery for this sunday. There are several exhibitions running there by this time. First of them is a Walid Raad's Miraculous Beginnings. All the works which are presented there reveals theme of war in Lebanon. 

Cars that were used as a car bombs. With notes which are written in arabic and details date place and time of explosion.    

I was amazed by the contrast of technique simplicity and complexity of the main topic of exhibition. 

The second exhibition that I've liked is Jake's and Dinos's  Chapman: Children's art Commission. It's an illustrations taken from their book "Bedtime tales of sleepless nights" 

Some prints were supported with a short scary story

Also there was a table with some colour pencils and "Jake & Dinos' colouring book". Every visitor could just sit right there on the chair and colour a picture. Back in childhood.