Neil Stevens - Crayons on Fire

The above images are a selection of work by the talented illustrator Neil Stevens a.k.a Crayons on Fire. Any work with birds on is an automatic love in my eyes but to discover he did a cover for Seabear (a band which I really like) was bit of an unexpected bonus. 

Claire Nicholson

A super project by Claire Nicholson! It would be really lovely to see something like this in Homebase.

'Homebase-Grow Your Own: A range of gardening product packaging aimed at 18-30 year old gardening novices. The idea was to create simple, easy to follow packaging to encourage a younger audience to take an interest in growing their own produce. I introduced a step by step approach to the range, created a new logo and developed a series of illustrated instructions. The ‘steps’ featured in the instructions correlate with product packs containing the necessary equipment for each growing stage. The instructions consisted of easy to understand language, free of jargon and unnecessary information.'

Linzie Hunter

'Originally from Scotland, Linzie now lives in North London. A graduate of Glasgow University, she
was a theatre stage manager before studying illustration at Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Her freelance illustration work is created digitally but when away from the computer she enjoys
traditional print-making and book-binding.'

Kate McLelland

Hoot hoot! Kate McLelland has some beautiful bird, owl and animal illustrations. Visit her web site and more importantly her society6 page for even more delights that you can even have printed on various objects!

Gizem Vural

Beautiful illustrations over here by 23 year old dreamer and graphic designer Gizem Vural who is living in Istanbul, Turkey :)

Piktorama

Pio Pio! According to Piktorama that is how birds sing in Spanish! How sweet! For more lovely illustrations and prints visit Piktorama's etsy shop :)

Lesley Barnes

 Another visual feast for this evening! The beautiful work of Lesley Barnes! It was so hard to choose what I put here. If you have a few spare minutes pop over to Lesleys website and be sure to also check the piece entitled 'Little White Lies - WTWTA'. Lovely lovely :)

The Hungry Workshop

I've spent the last 10 minutes or so drooling over the work of The Hungry Workshop. Not only do they create gorgeous letterpress prints they also show you the presses used and the process. <3

'We love all things sweet for Valentine’s Day (almost as much as a fat kid loves cake). The floral woodcut illustration and vintage styled sans serif typography is offset by your sweet, silly or serious handwritten message. Our favourite combinations: peanut butter loves jelly, cheese loves macaroni, a bee loves honey, meat pie loves sauce, a monkey loves bananas, Mario loves Luigi (though apparently this is incorrect, according to our resident video game nerd) and the list goes on.'

Rich Gemmell

This lovely piece of work by Rich Gemmell is part of series of images based on the Scottish Landscape. The 'character' on top of the mountain sort of reminds me of the statue of Christ over looking Rio De Janeiro. Pop over to his web site to view the others and in more detail.

Matt Saunders - Rabbit Portal

I am so jealous of Matt Saunders (Rabbit Portal) work. It is so simple, beautiful, and an illustration style I am yet to figure out. If you love this illustration as much as I do visit his web site for more visual eye candy!

Ben Steers

I discovered this beautiful wallpaper over on the web site of Bristol based Illustrator Ben Steers. He has a whole heap of other lovely work over on his site :)

Good Fucking Design Advice

I discovered this little web site (good fucking design advice) over on twitter this afternoon and it made me chuckle but it actually has some good advice despite the over use of the word 'fucking'.

The Republic Tigers EP

This is the work of Tad Carpenter. This Ep of The Republic Tigers and has a 3 color silkscreen on each side, includes a polaroid of each band member and only 1200 were made. I love the fact that most of Tad Carpenters work carries a screen printed feel or is actually screen printed. Something I really want to learn but I have no idea where to start at the moment. Anyway, pop over to Tad's web site and check out the rest of the work!

Are you a comic sans criminal?

Comic sans criminal, the internet sensation by Matt Dempsey. Although this was back in december I have only just managed to get through my blog list to reach it. Even though its a few months late its most 

definitely still worth talking about. Its a fab website be sure to spare a few minutes to check it out.

'Comic Sans Criminal is a personal project spawned from my annoyance at society's inability to use the font Comic Sans appropriately. The website was designed to be educational and convince a select few to reconsider their use of the font.'

'However, within 48 hours of the site launching over a quarter of a million people had visited. Comic Sans became a 36 hour Twitter trending topic, and it was 'liked' on Facebook over 25 thousand times. Amongst numerous articles and blog posts it was most notably featured on The Huffington Post, Daring Fireball, and was Yahoo's website of the day.'

Paris!

I'm baaaaaack! If you're wondering why Origami Chicken hasn't been updated in the last couple of days its because my lovely boyfriend treated me to a weekend in the beautiful city of Paris! So it was only right that I featured some work on this theme. Therefore I have chosen the work of artsharkdesigns, visit their etsy shop by clicking the name :)

Gemma Randall

This is probably my favourite piece of work by Gemma Randall. A beautifully illustrated map of the British Isles. I'd quite happily put this on my wall :)

LouLou and Tummie

I struggled so hard to choose the images for this post as the work of LouLou and Tummie is just so cute! I wanted to feature it all but I couldn't :( There are also a range of fabulous paper toys to download and make so be sure to have a look. I know what I'll be doing later!

Crowed Teeth

Crowded Teeth (Michelle Romo) creates these gorgeous little characters and many others. She has also got a book on paper toys! I'm only just getting into paper toys so this book is currently on my to buy list :)

Tara McPherson

The above images are from a lovely collection of mesmerising work by Tara McPherson. Her web site is definitely worth a visit so be sure to spare at least 5 minutes to check it out!

Ben The Illustrator

I recently discovered the work of Ben The Illustrator. This is the beautiful work he did for 1973 Ltd.

'I spent a good amount of 2010 relishing the opportunity to create 16 beautiful illustrations for 1973ltd to make into a set of greetings cards entitled 'Natural' by Ben the Illustrator. I worked very closely with the client on the creative process, developing a set of cards that would work well all together while each standing alone perfectly.'

Laura Callaghan

I love these illustrations by Laura Callaghan, her characters are so sweet. I wish I could draw people like this or at all really.

Valentines

I was supposed to be keeping these designs as a secret until valentines day but I can't because I'm too impatient/excited which also means my lovely boyfriend will see them before the day :( But thats kinda my fault for setting his homepage as my blog... Maybe I'll make another before then so it is a surprise :)

Paul Ferrell

Animal alphabet cards by Paul Ferrell. Each A6 card is a two colour hand silk screened print. It is blank inside for your message and is each supplied with a white envelope. Visit his web site for more beautiful work :)

Color Collective

I pulled these images from a blog named Color Collective created by Lauren Willhite. She takes images from artists, designers and photographers that inspires her and creates color palettes from them.

Emma Fitzgerald

The Doctor
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Emma Fitzgerald: 'Music Video created entirely by me for single 'The Doctor' by The Loyal Trooper, out now. The song and video are about a sad tale of a difficult friendship. Created with hand drawings, some Stop Motion and After Effects.'

Hazel Castle

Above are some simply coloured yet slightly raw illustrations by student, Hazel Castle. You can view more over on her blog :)