Thursday 28 April 2011

In love with..

Garance Dore is a French fashion illustrator, featured in many publications and renowned fashion magazines, she's recognised for her beautiful, effortless illustrations which she posts and updates regularly on her blog.
She describes her blog as recording 'snapshots of her life' 




Click here to read her blog :)

Tuesday 26 April 2011

She was still the point of the turning world, man.

I adore the film The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola, and found some really lovely illustrated film posters by artists on the internet.

The premise of the film is based around a group of teenage boys who become obsessed with the lives of five sisters in suburban america during the mid 70s, sheltered by their overbearing parents and close friendship for one another, a unique backdrop of warm summer nights,  pastel shades, and sumptuous cinematography comes a sense of overwhelming familiarity and nostalgia, a coming of age story which leads to an untimely demise for all five sisters. 
Air and The Hollies among others provide a hypnotic and haunting soundtrack.



Poster design and Illustration by Jaime Anderson




Illustration and poster design by Adam Juresko



LA Graphic Design


I like how these illustrated posters showcase subtle key feature's that are significant within the film, Juresko's poster shows the family homes fence, not only giving a sense of claustrophobia, plays a vital connection with the first and youngest to die of the Lisbon sisters. 

Andersons poster exhibits the Lisbon sisters long blonde hair, one of their discerning and desirable features.

Perhaps the most obvious visual connection between the poster and film is one of the sisters legs suspended mid air, suggests one of the suicides is a hanging.

The poster by LA graphic design is one of my favourites, the choice of colours are muted and subtle and the flower they are 'blooming' from may represent coming of age, vulnerability and their close connection between each other.

Saturday 9 April 2011

Home Sweet Home


Yet some more amazing American musicians. 
Motley Crue. 

If theres one music video that describes the hair raising leather clad eye-wateringly-neon esque epitome of 80's glam rock, this would be it. 

Enjoy

Thursday 7 April 2011

Devendra Banhart

I love this man and his music.


Devendra Banhart performing 'It's a Sight to Behold' on Jools Holland 

Oh and he draws too





"I make very little money doing both things," he says of his songwriting and visual art, "but I make more money doing visual art."
- Devendra Banhart