Arkitip geometric cover

This cover of the Los Angeles-based art magazine Arkitip pleases me so much. Once I have saved up for the postage or a flight to LA I am definitely going to pick up one of these for myself, even if it is for the cover alone.

A mini-photo essay: wrapping paper, from conception to completion

As a way to get more inspiration, I spent a couple of days doing a two minute drawing exercise. I set myself a couple of basic rules (two minutes, each drawing unique and no more than two colours) and each hour I did a drawing. The picture above is some pages from my sketchbook.

From my sketchbook I drew the pattern out onto graph paper.

I used graphite paper to transfer the image from the graph paper to the lino block

The cut block.

Laid out materials: brown paper, rollers, lino block, ink, plastic thing for spreading out ink

Printing in progress

The finished sheet

Close up of the finished design

MWM Graphics

Came across Matt W. Moore through Twitter. His work is amazing and very inspirational. A hypnotic combination of bright colours and geometrics designs is good in my book. I particularly like the Analog & Digital - Sacred Geometry Series, shown above. Check out his website, you won't regret it: www.mwmgraphics.com

Geometrics

The result of my adventures into patterns have been some geometric patterns which I have converted to cards and gift wrap to sell on my Etsy. Need some slight tweaking but I like them. Going to try making some large scale prints over the next few weeks.

James Brown

I helped out bhmakes at the Designers/Makers market in Hackney yesterday. One of the other stalls was a printmaker, James Brown, who had some really good linocut posters which I felt evoked propaganda posters with the colours and styles used. I checked out his website today and I absolutely love his geometric linocuts - so inspiring. You should check him out: http://generalpattern.blogspot.com/