François Schuiten <3

I found the poster I was talking about, the one I spent hours staring at in some waiting room, and it's by François Schuiten not Luc Schuiten, they're brothers, and both amazing, hence the confusion. If I got it right, François Schuiten is the illustrator and Luc the architect, and they collaborated on a comic book series Terres Creuses (Hollow Lands).

La Cité des Livres

Luc Schuiten <3

Thinking about our "draw your land of illustration inspiration" brief, Schuiten just popped into my mind, I went to see his Vegetal City exhibition last year in brussels and it was PURE AWSOMENESS I loved it, after staying a while in there though you kind of get this uneasy feeling that there's no life but.. that's where the rest of my inspirations come in, Claude Ponti, Anthony Browne etc. Just been listing all the things I'd put in my "illustration eyesland" and I'm getting really excited about this project now :)

So I'm couldn't decide which Schuiten images to show, I love them all, and this was done super quick because I could spend hours searching for the ones I like most and I wouldn't be done.

Though there was this poster I kept seeing in some waiting room when I was small(er), I'm sure it was by him...

The last two aren't from his Vegetal City work (http://vegetalcity.net/) but he's done TONS of things so it's just a tiny preview. Wait no, the last one is from François Schuiten? I need to read more into this.

And I'll try to find that poster.

The Circus of Light

I should have posted this before because it went under the source research category, but we stumbled upon a little gallery near Goodge street the other day which displayed Charlotte Cory's "Cabinet of Curiosities". It's the Rebecca Hossack Gallery and the exhibition ends on the 31st of October, quick!
Charlotte Cory's website: http://www.charlottecory.com
Rebecca Hossack Gallery: http://www.r-h-g.co.uk/

The Happy Boatman

Koala

Wall 1 Installation

Sign 2 research - creative mapping 2

From the Creative Mapping blog again, this is William Kentridge's Budapest/Soweto, juxtaposing an image and a map this time instead of mingling the two.

This is the first one I saw from Josh Dorman, still from the same blog, this time involving more tangible details in the map

Then I looked at his website (http://www.joshdorman.net/gallery.html) and saw that his work relates a lot more to the actual "illustration land" inner world etc theme where this project is leading.

Matthew Cusick

Matthew Cusick (http://www.mattcusick.com/) is an amazing artist found on a very convenient blog: http://creativemapping.blogspot.com/. His collages are stunning:

Fiona's Wave, 2006

Course of Empire (Mixmaster II),
2006

Empire Revisited, 2009.

Sign 2 research - creative mapping 1

Haven't really used this blog at all yet, realized just now as I was about to waste quite a bit of ink printing out images to stick them in my sketchbook that I was being stupid. So here's my first bit of research for the Sign 1 project, the aim is to do draw a map of our.. "mind and illustrative vision"/"land of Illustration" so I've been looking at creative mapping and such:"Walk" by Olly Moss (http://www.ollymoss.com/) design made for Theadless apparently.

Here's another one by Olly Moss:

"Buying furniture in Europe" -for The Independent.

Poster map by Steve Lawler, "designed to represent religious demographics of Singapore. It was displayed as part of Dual Cities sessions at DesignTide Tokyo" (source: Zeegen, Lawrence. What is Illustration? Essential Design Handbooks. RotoVision 2009)

Cabaret Project

post coming --> as soon as our video gets put on youtube I'll put a link here and do the whole evaluation thing. Fun project indeed ;)