Posted by: pa (145 posts)
May 3, 200810:00 PM

Testing out a new Lamy pen.
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Testing out a new Lamy pen.
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I have a fresh new website- go check it owt!www.stuartkolakovic.co.uk There's still a few little extras that need adding- including a microsite containing the whole nine meter plus of "Never Been" that's in the pipeline...
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Poul Henningsen, PH Lamp, 1927

An image for an article about The National Survey of Health and Development that appeared in The Guardian here in the U.K. last week.
Here are some photos of the One Fell Swoop CD I've been posting about (by the Amsterdam based duo Rara Avis). It's nice to see the finished product, and for a change, it's an object people will keep around rather than something someone will throw out after they are done reading the article...Thanks to Terri for bringing me the CD's, and hope you get well soon!
Click to see a larger version.

i hope i'm not cheating by posting this... but i figured since it IS valentines day, it is à propos. there are what my save the dates look like. im getting great feedback on them. now it's on to the invitiations... have a lovely day everyone! :)
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New artwork for a cd +booklet I am working on designing for the band "Smile Pretty Mysery". Check em out. They are really good.
(To get the textures, I gouached some pieces of trace paper, cut them out into fun 'lil shapes, scanned them in and placed them in my friend, illustrator CS3.)
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I recently worked on a project for the Wall Street Journal Online which tracked the rate at which the arctic ice cap has melted over the last quarter of a century. Click here to see the astonishing rate of decrease since 1979 - with the past six years or so of particular worry (you may have to turn your popup blocker off for the link to work... sorry). The magenta line is the median ice extent and is an average of where the ice would normally be on September 1st of each year (around 7.5 million sq miles). As you can see above this summer only reached 4.4 million sq miles. The graphic also covers how arctic tourism industry is booming as visitors want to catch of glimpse of the environment before its gone.
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I just finished creating these designs for the Village Voice media kit (the packet they give out to advertisers and clients and such). It was fun working up this subway tile theme, though I underestimated the amount of effort doing all these little tiles would take. I seriously dreamt in tiles for quite a few nights.

As part of the project I also created this logo which adorns the front of the media kit and various other promotions.

This past spring Salomon Snowboards had an artwork contest for some of their 2008 boards. While I didn't come away with the fame and prize money it was fun working up this illustration as an entry. I had a feeling it might be a bit too messy (and perhaps spooky) for their tastes but its a color palette and style I've dug working in lately.

yes. i'm still here... i've been busy freelancing, teaching and looking for studio space in philly. all quite time consuming. here's an illo i just did for my own homework assignment (from the illustrator class i am teaching). each student got a month to design... and was to be inspired by its birthstone. november is kind of interesting, as it has two. citrine and topaz - depending on if you are modern or traditional... after much internal debate, i decided to go mod. and cute. (see the whole thing here)

so, in prep for a class i am teaching in the fall, i was playing around with the gradient mesh tool today in illustrator... and as i promised, i was... i mean am... going to try and do illustration friday every week from now on. so here is my "killing 2 birds with one stone." (which upon reflection really is a terrible expression!) this weeks topic was "Match."

(crops from the poster - click above to see full image)
i'm back. here's a poster i created at anderson workshop. various (dynamic) flash components were used to create and distribute the top background patterns. i created a ton during this fun/intense week long workshop at anderson ranch.
(the type is backwards as when youre inside the ranch the type is cut out from the entrance sign and you can see the mountains through it. also, those birds are magpies. they're fun looking. kind of like flying penguins.)
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I submitted a tee shirt design called Mountain to Threadless.com to be voted on and hopefully printed. If I get enough high scores the shirt will be printed and sold from the site and I will win some stuff. Take a look at it and if you like it, sign up and give it a score: Mountain Shirt Design -- Thanks!

so i silkscreened some spirographs...
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omg... what happened to barb? oh, she's working on her thesis... which is less than 30 days away. YiKes! anyway, i made this little diagram of my space which i thought was kind of funny. we'll see how it looks in "reality" on april (- gulp- ) 21st... i'll post an invite soon.

* it is so hard to photograph books... but here's my somewhat distorted solution :)
* this is my 30th "official" sketchbook since starting count in 1995. the cover uses imagery inspired by my "5 senses" prints. for this image i just played around with the images on silkscreens and i only "registered" where i wanted to.
* the binding is a coptic binding / single needle link stitch.
* for the inside pages, i used a variety of graph papers as well as some english and japanese alphabet practice paper.
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here are some pictures from "excerpt".
i am waiting to get some better pictures which were taken by my friend olivia, but in the meantime here is a little preview of what was installed. i hope posting them here will inspire me to continue working with the apartment and their contents...
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did i mention i'm in grad school for book arts and printmaking yet i am loving the illustration...
brian biggs is my teacher. check out his site.
this illustration is for a mural in a bookstore...
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list 5 things you believe in. now illustrate one.
i believe in coffee.
yep. i do... feed your brain. milk. 2 sugars.
(PS the picture is 9" x 14")
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