Design Styles

Victorian
Arts and Crafts
Art Nouveau
Early Modern
Art Deco
American Kitsch
Late Modern
Swiss
Psychedelia
Contemporary
Post modern
Digital

Shaun Tan

Shaun tan is an was born in 1974 and grew up in perth. In school he was known as the "good drawer"
Shaun began drawing and painting images for science fiction and horror stories in small-press magazines as a teenager. He is written books such as The Rabbits, The Red Tree,The Lost Thing and the acclaimed wordless novel The Arrival have been widely translated throughout Europe, Asia and South America, and enjoyed by readers of all ages.
His website is www.shauntan.net

Design Studio

Cronulla Design studio Percept are "a bunch of everyday folk who enjoy creating great design work for good people." Every client they work with , they treat like their only client. This gives them the feeling and motivation to achieve an above standard of work. They dont have their own style, but instead, customize there image to suit the clients needs. They have set out their extensive portfolio on their website which can be viewed at www. percept.com.au
If your looking to get any work done, these guys will do the job and then some.

DESKTOP MAGAZINE

Desktop is a fantastic magazine covering everything from design to the latest technological trends associated in the industry.

I read an interesting artical about a well named brand "playstation" who specialise in entertainment systems and video games, has gone and jumped on the smartphone bandwagon. I find this a bit "sheepish" of sony as i think they should pride themselves in to making something new and unique rather then have a competeting piece of technology which will probably fail to win 1st place.

THE DESIGN BLOG

This blog gives the viewer vast knowledge of what is going on in the world of design. The blog has been going on for nearly 5 years and is showing no signs of slowing down. The blog seems to be a constant flow of new projects and art/design exhibitions. This is a great source for any designer out there.

Here is a link to their blog: http://www.thedesignblog.org/

I made a shirt!

Screen printed my first design onto a test shirt. Turned out quite well for a first go i think.
Feel free to buy one :)

The biennale

Not long ago I took a train ride to sydney then caught the ferry to cockatoo island. The art was scattered all over this small eerie island. While walking around the island i noticed some of the video artwork was a bit messed up. Especially a quite disturbing piece where a quite strong man was drowning this poor girl in a 44 gallon drum full of water over and over. A few massive pieces of work were quite well done. One artwork in particular consisted of bout 6 or 7 life sized cars hanging from the roof with multiple rods coming out each one with a light at each tip. The scale of this artwork is what made it so spectacular to view.

Graphic Course book review

Character Design for Graphic Novels, written by Steven Withrow and Alexander Danner is an instructional book designed to give you hints and tips to cover all the areas in the creation of a decent graphic novel.

Covering areas from design style, to knowing your audience, this book introduces a number of characters and character styles to suit anyone interested in areas such as sketching and digital artistry.
While this book is accompanied by a large number of detailed and instructional sketches, they are mostly examples and snippets of finished products. This annoyed me a little bit seeing as i love to draw from looking at step by step pictures rather then having to read how to make the picture work, then looking at a finished product. I like having it broken down in front of me.
All in all i think this is a semi decent read if some one is very interested in graphic novel designs and layouts. How ever if your looking for inspiration on creating a nice looking character i recommend looking else where.
 3/5 stars
Mitch.