Stylus member Lauren Albert, a.k.a. PLSLALA, has been featured on a great little blog called The Tools Artists Use. Go check it out to find out her secrets!
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Stylus on Lettercult
Lettercult’s Best of the First Half of 2009 list includes work by Stylus founder Ray Frenden and member Jon Contino. Right on guys!
Barnaby Ward on Evolve Happy
Stylus member Barnaby Ward has been named Artist of the Week on Evolve Happy.
Bob Staake’s picture book template
Creating a 32-page children’s book dummy can be a frustrating experience. Illustrator Bob Staake just made it a bit easier to organize all that content with his Idiot-Proof Picture Book Dummy Template. Just FYI: The link to the full size template may be easily missed; it’s on the word “this” at the end of the [...]
Everybody Dies, illustrated by Michael Cho
In 2008, Jim Munroe of No Media Kings created a text-based interactive fiction game called Everybody Dies. The game is accompanied by some great illustration by Stylus’ own Mike Cho. Mike’s style really suits the game’s bleak tone and ‘blighted suburbia’ setting, which is reminiscent of his 2008 webcomic, Waiting.
Styl.us does Covered
Inspired by Robert Goodin’s blog Covered - which features artists doing their own interpretations of their favorite comic book covers – the gang at Styl.us got together and covered some great drawings themselves. Check them out on our Covered gallery page, and then visit Covered to submit your own!
design by the book
design*sponge has been working with the New York Public Library to create a great video series called Design by the Book. The series follows several New York based artists as they plumb the depths of the library’s collection for inspiration, and create things based on what they find. There are four videos in the series, each [...]
Sketch Theatre
Sketch Theatre features videos of artists such as Gary Baseman (pictured), Travis Louie, Shawn Barber, and many others doing some on-the-spot sketching for the camera. My one gripe is that on the main page, the videos have a “grungy” layer over them which is apparently added for aesthetic value, but really just obscures the drawings. Fortunately, [...]
Netdiver’s 110 best of 2008
The art & design aficionados at Netdiver have announced their best links of 2008.
Daily Type
Daily Type is a creative project run by several russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine. Since 2004, Daily Type has featured a mix of hand lettering and typography in various languages (mostly Russian). The image shown here was created by Vera Evstafieva, who has taught [...]
