Lady Coddington

Ever since "The September Issue" was released I've been waiting to watch it. Now that I've upgraded my Netflix to unlimited streaming I had the movie at my fingertips. It was really interesting to watch, I suppose you have to be into fashion and the on-goings of Vogue and Anna Wintour. There was one person that stood out in the whole film and that was Grace Coddington, the Creative Director at Vogue. Being a former model herself, her career was cut short due to a car accident, but her love of fashion remained. She styles a lot of the photo shoots herself and still has the heart of a romantic.

“I like fairy tales, and I like dreaming. I try to weave the reality into the dream,” she articulates. “When readers pick up Vogue, I want them to smile. Everything should be a little tongue in cheek, a little dare-to-go-there.”

She truly is a fine lady.

Sunny Days

On Saturday, a beautiful Spring day, I decided to ride my bike up to the Central Library in Brooklyn to do some research. I absolutely love that library, not only is it beautiful, but I could sit there all day and look through books. I found several things to inspire me, including a book of Inuit Prints. I wasn't able to take pictures from the book but here are some I found online.

Flying Lessons

Gilbert Ford debuts his first picture book! YAY!

He's doing a reading and signing at Word Bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

This Saturday, March 27th from 3-4:30pm. Come by and join us in the celebration!

making gestural marks

i really like the way megan creates embroidery as paintings and she explains it well in this video. its the way i feel about my work as a paintings and not as crafts.

via the creative lives

Art-a-log

My rep (Frank Sturges Reps), in conjunction with Magnet Reps, has started a new site called The Artalog. Its a site where all of us illustrators, that are represented by these 2 great agencies, can blog about art, life, etc. Take a look!

knit me a fire

Really great stop motion and use of knitting for this Belgian Natural Gas Commerical.





via Wool and The Blog

Zombie-like

this daylight savings makes me feel very zombie-like. what's the deal?! as much as i like the extra day light, i don't like my sleep being messed around with.

speaking of zombies, check out this new print Josh put out (on his brand, spankin' new website) called zombies vs unicorns. all the little details are pretty amazing, my favorite is the little half kiwi/half man, see if you can find him.