Style Crush: Norwegian Edition

Bjorn Rune Lie is my new favorite illustrator.

You Saw

A gift for a friend and mentor, Whitney Sherman. Micron pen and white Jelly roll pen on toned paper.

Also, guess who is a proud owner of a Bachelor of Fine Arts? Stefan Sagmeister was my class's commencement speaker and I got the chance to meet him in the morning. I know, right?!

He was surprisingly huggable.
Next step: design and create an awesome self promotional mailer that will make art directors everywhere want to know and hire me!

Screen Printed Business Cards

So I caved and went with GotPrint. After much pressure from my peers I left my tried and true overnightprints.com. I have no idea how these cards will turn out, though, so I decided to do a run of handmade cards. I found a whole ton of scraps in the print shop (someone had cut off the bottom two inches of some forty pieces of paper) with a deckled edge so I designed the card to that. The paper is cut to 4.25" wide, so they are .75" longer than standard cards. The fancy run has five colors on the front and one color on the back, the more basic run has two colors on the front and one color on the back in two version (silver/black and teal/black).



I love how these turned out! I had to print these ONE BY ONE. Next time I'm definitely pulling a whole sheet of cards and THEN cutting them!

Lust and Chastity

These guys are a final for Dan Krall's class. I still feel like I haven't figured out how I want to draw the figure and faces, but I feel like with these I'm getting closer. I wish I had more time to focus on the lettering, but I've been trying to work faster/looser with my lettering so maybe it's successful in that sense!
Ladies are wearing Martin Maison Margiela's amazingly weird wig coats and sitting on Eames molded plywood and Barnes&Barnes chairs.

CD Designs!

Here are two potential CD designs for a digital portfolio. Seniors in the Illustration department are designing these for a Skype chat we're doing with art directors at the Society of Illustrators in NYC. Which do you like best?

UPDATE: I ended up getting the first one printed as it was the obvious favorite! Thanks for the input, guys!

Business Time

It's business time in the Illustration department and seniors are going nuts all over the studios about self promotion. It must be every few hours that I hear someone ask "Where did you get these printed?" or "You know how to letterpress?" Many seniors have already gotten their cards made and have a finished portfolio, but since my deadline to have these things isn't until the end of the month I get to spend some time with the design. I've settled with overnightprints.com before and I was more than prepared to do it again. But today I did a little flickr browsing to get inspiration and remembered how great the business card can be as an object in itself. Now I'm thinking that handmade and hand printed may be the way to go this time.

Check out some of the great cards I saw today and also be sure to click through to the artist's webpage!

Ada Mayer

Davison Blackheart

Design Friendship

Enormous Champion

Fortress

Kali Meadows

King Muck Shanty

kpucu

Everyone's favorite print tech, Kyle Van Horn

Moker Ontwerp

Pattern People

Sassen Design

Thomas Christensen

Sid Skull

Papa Music

Toile!!!

I've always had this unabashedly tacky attraction to toile patterning, which may or may not have something to do with my childhood obsession with being a British colonist. So when Babs gave me the prompt to create a 3-part illustration incorporating photographs of accessories I first tried to fight off the urge to go this route. In the end, the toile always wins.

The pink shoes are by Harumi Muto, the necklace by Shourouk, and the silver shoes are by Christian Louboutin. Photos from Luisaviaroma.com.

Heather saw me working on this and showed me this awesome Threadless tee. Totally want it!

Native Appropriations

My drawing (above) has made its rounds around the interwebs for various bizarre reasons. But really, who doesn't love making fun of hipsters? It's also been featured on the very cool blog, Native Appropriations, in a post hilariously titled The Strange Case of the Hipster Headdress. Adrienne makes a great point of showing hipsters who wear the fashions almost accidentally, on purpose but with no reason, and then also with feminist purposes. My big problem with the whole thing is that dressing like a "native" is as much as a novelty as wearing those Kanye "sun"glasses. Go irony?

Feel Good

A little drawing for Heather! That's Indy on the left and Macy Gray on the right.

Runaways final

Here's the final for my Runaways editorial! She's wearing Rodarte boots.