_{A Proper Turkey by powerpig}

Some of us are already waking up to face the onslaught of food and festivities, while others are arranging the cookies and milk and checking Santa’s whereabouts on Google. Wherever you are in the world, we hope you’ll have the opportunity to spend some well earned downtime with friends and family over the next few days – and that you find a few tasty morsels of inspiration under the tree. Thanks for making another year on RB rather awesome.

Have a safe and happy holidays,
From all of us at Redbubble
 

PS: We’d love to see how you’re spending the holidays in your part of the world. If you have a spare moment during the festive madness, please do share your pics in the comments below.

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on Redbubble. This week we’ve spotted journals chock full of helpful tips, some interesting projects and a bunch of achievements we’re really quite impressed by. Plus many bubblers offering a ton of support and encouragement for each other’s efforts. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

_{Works by Adka}

• Mrs. Mel Brackstone has shared some excellent workshops led by Del Outteridge and Wim De Vos happening in Brisbane, on printmaking, book arts, drawing and painting. Find more details here.
• Redbubble had another artist meetup in Los Angeles last week. LA1: A Redbubble & American Apparel event. Read our exciting wrap-up here.
• North Carolina artist Adka managed the impressive fe

_{Tree Tent by Luke Pearson}

Our holiday season wouldn’t be complete without a selection of festive-themed art and design on the RB blog so we’ve whipped up a small collection of some of the finest festive works by RB artists. Does the silly season inspire you to produce new work? Are you a little more grinch-like when it comes to tinsel and fairy lights? Do you have any festive themed works of your own? We’d love to hear from you in the comments below.

If you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page. And if you’€™d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages.

_{Lapland Reindeer} …

^{Image Credit: Photographer Carsten Peters for National Geographic December 2010}

The Krampus has its origins in Germanic folklore and has traditionally been seen as a mythological ‘anti-santa’ – part goat, part devil creature with cloven hooves and a demonic, terrifying tongue. The popularity of the Krampus flourished in the 18th and 19th Century in Bavaria and Austria, with Krampus Christmas Cards becoming a popular illustrative choice. Their unique style became known as Krampuskarten Cards.

The myth goes that children who disobey their parents will be scared by the Krampus with rusty bells and chains. While this threat is fairly tame compared to some European fairy tales, there’s no denying that depictions of the Krampus can be pretty darn terrifying. In recent y…

There’€™s no such thing as a quiet week on RB and you’€™ve certainly been keeping busy. We enjoy reading through journals where artists have shared their achievements, news, tips and tricks and we’€™re always equally impressed by the support and encouragement offered in the comments. So without further ado, here’€™s just some of the action we spotted in the past seven days.

_{Works by Candy Gemmill}

1. Candy Gemmill shared her giddy joy with us over having her very first art show.
2. Redbubble had it’s very first Denver Meetup at a local Art & Tattoo Gallery.
3. Heather King was interviewed on a radio talk show near Boston, Massachusetts.
4. Tom Migot has released a new series Behind the Scenes with Tom Migot. Check out the first episode and learn about “The Po

_{The Milky Way by Greg Clifford}

When a friend who works alongside some of the best Astrophysicists in the world told us that we could take photographs of the night sky with any ‘pretty standard’ digital camera, we thought there must be a catch. We had seen her cameras attached to telescope lenses and knew that this involved “serious business” (and serious money).

Thankfully, we ignored our inner cynics and decided to give this a go and we’re pleased to report she wasn’t wrong. The following tutorial explains how to create stunning images of the stars above using only Photoshop and a digital SLR. We know RB is home to some seriously talented Astrophotography buffs, so we’ll stress that this is a first attempt. If you have done this before, please sh…

_{Day 309 – 14th May 2012 by petegrev}
 

The following collection of photography features images that use light, either consciously or unintentionally, in a unique or striking way. Anyone who spends a decent amount of time browsing the art on Redbubble can probably appreciate that narrowing down this collection was a little difficult! There’s no shortage of great examples that fit this theme so we’d like this to serve as an intro. Please do let us know about your favorites in the comments below.

If you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page. And if you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual image…

This week the National Gallery of Victoria (located opposite our very own Melbourne RBHQ) will play host to TEES: Exposing Melbourne’™s T-shirt Culture – an exhibition that catalogues a rich history of t-shirt design in the city.

Eddie Zammit – t-shirt obsessive and editor of the world’s only t-shirt journal, T-World – has pulled together an incredible collection of tees, showcasing designs from some of Melbourne’s most talented labels and independent designers. It’s an exhibition we’re very proud to have helped sponsor and we’re enormously excited to see a number of RB artists featured amongst the designs.

Join Us For The Launch
 

If you’re a Melbourne tee designer or a lover of the cotton canvas, don your favourite threa…

We’re just one day away from our LA1 meet up at American Apparel’s showroom in downtown Los Angeles, and we couldn’t be more excited. We’ll be showing t-shirt designs from 25 Los Angeles area Redbubble artists, and of course the Top 2 winning designs from our LA1 T-shirt Design Challenge will be featured front and center at the event. Entrants were challenged to create designs that captured the style and spirit of Los Angeles in the ’80s, in all its glam and gritty glory.

American Apparel staff served as judges for the contest winners, and without further ado…here were their picks:

In first place: Triangles by The Space Monkey

In second place: LA STYLE-1980s by Otis Porritt

In addition to their designs holding places of honor at the LA1 meet up, our 2…

_{Midnight under my toes}

Coming of age seems to be a process by which a person is torn untimely from naive beliefs, like fairies, magic and human understanding. Some call it the school of hard knocks. But, what if the lessons were wrong? Imagine that, born out of sheer survival instinct, this veneer of ruthless competition and self-preservation merely shrouds the fact that beneath, we are all creatures of harmony and love. Armed only her camera, our featured artist, Alexandra Sophie, seeks to peel back the disguise and reveal the magic underneath.

The young photographer left school early due to health issues and, with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, sought to understand the world around her through books, photographs and observation. Her photographic style, however, she discovered from…

‘Tis the season for giving so we’re marking the occasion with 12 Days of Giveaways over on our Facebook page. Each day we’ll be giving away a slice of awesomeness including Tattly Temporary Tattoo Packs, RB Tees, Wacom CS100W Bamboo Styluses fo iPad, RB Stickers, Kola Color Filters, Field Notes Notebooks and loads more. And there will be a bonus challenge each day for those who are keen to flex their creative muscles. The giveaways have already started so get your skates on.

Head over to the Redbubble Facebook page to enter.
 
 
 

10% off Joby GorillaPods and Other Gear
 

The wonderful folks at Joby have kindly offered us a GorillaPod and a Micro Stand as part of the prize haul but their generosity doesn’t end there. If your Christmas wish list …

It’€™s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on Redbubble. This week we’€™ve spotted insightful discussions, some interesting projects and a bunch of achievements we’€™re really quite impressed by. Plus many bubblers offering a ton of support and encouragement for each other’€™s efforts. Here’€™s just some of the action we spotted this week.

^{works by Michael Alesich}

1. Michael Alesich packed us up in his virtual suitcase and took us on a stroll through Budapest.

1. Jens Helmstedt announced the launch of his new book Cappadocia.

1. Philip Johnson celebrated the double bonus of news that his images have been picked up by a large shopping chain to be sold as jigsaws, and a whopping 2 million views on Redbubble and with a some wonderful reflective

_{Bonnet Waves by Nicole Gesmondi}

Cross Processing (also known as xpro) is the process of developing film in the wrong chemicals. There are a number of ways to cross process film but one of the most common techniques is to develop slide film in chemicals used for regular film processing or regular color film in slide film chemicals. It’s a fairly experimental process (you don’t quite know how things will turn out) but it often results in vibrant colors, high levels of contrast and unusual color shifts.

The popularity of Lomography has lead to a new audience discovering this technique and as a result we’ve seen it appearing all over the place, from fashion shoots to album covers. Digital photographers have also been inspired to develop their own techniques to replicate the …

There’€™s no such thing as a quiet week on RB and you’€™ve certainly been keeping busy. We enjoy reading through journals where artists have shared their achievements, news, tips and tricks and we’€™re always equally impressed by the support and encouragement offered in the comments. So without further ado, here’€™s just some of the action we spotted in the past seven days.

^{works by Idgara}  

Lots of our members have been busy with Exhibitions!

1. Panda And Polar Bear followed up last week’s announcement of their Camden exhibition with some photos of the event in London.

1. Anita Kovacevic’s work Doll was presented at the International exhibition of photography in Belgrade.

1. Idgara was invited to participate in his first Invitational Co-Exhibition to b

Kinetic typography is just a fancy way of saying ‘moving words’ or animated words that illustrate. Ever since legendary designer Oliver Harrison stepped out with his beautifully inventive kinetic typography work in 1988, the worlds of design and animation have fallen in love with this ingenious and playful medium. We’ve searched high and low to find the best animations – ones designed specifically to inspire and delight. And if you’re feeling particularly swept up by all the movement, click on the last image in this post to be teleported through to a kinetic typography tutorial.

1. The First Kinetic Typography film: Oliver Harrison 1988

2. Typography from Ronnie Bruce, poem by Taylor Mali

3. ALPHABETIC made by Ariel Costa with sound by Marcelo Baldin

4. …

_{Walking the Dog – South Johnstone}

A popular internet meme describes Australia as a land of milk and honey… Well, free public healthcare and a liberal approach to differing viewpoints, at least. Long has it been known as “€˜the lucky country”€™. So, what is life like for the inhabitants of this veritable wonderland?

The work of Cary McAulay is a good starting point for curious types who have never been so “€˜lucky” as to visit and find out. McAulay’€™s work depicts life particularly in rural and coastal Australia: The iconic beaches, informal cricket games on dusty red streets of country towns, surf and fishing culture. (Actually, to a population which is largely urbanised, the images are, for most, more accurate depictions of aspirations for the w…

Following in our own footsteps of SF1, we’€™re continuing the fun and bringing another artist meetup, art show, and a challenge your way! Whether you live anywhere near The City of Angels or not, there’€™s a way for you to get involved and bring more totally awesome design to the Redbubble t-shirt collection.

So, here’€™s the details: Coming this December 13th, 2012, we’€™ll be partnering with American Apparel to hold an artist meetup and t-shirt design display at their headquarters and showroom in Los Angeles, CA. The LA Art Walk will be happening the same night, so it will be a big bonanza of all types of art on display at a variety of galleries on Spring and Main streets in downtown Los Angeles. The American Apparel headquarters is just a stone’s throw fr…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on Redbubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted over the past couple of weeks.

^{Works by Linda Callaghan and Saren Dobkins}

• The very cutely named Panda And Polar Bear are new to Redbubble (welcome!), have a very cute style AND happen to be exhibiting in London’s Camden Town right now at My Village Cafe, starting November 24th and going for 4 weeks. Congrats!
• Painter Linda Callaghan racked up both awards and sales in her local Artfest show at Wentworth Falls. Congrats…and check out her iPad case designs too!
• Sarah Dobkins is having a pop-up exhibition right here near Redbubble HQ: Dench Bakery in North Fitzroy, Melbourne. If you live near Redbubbleland, go show her some love!
• Speaking of exhib

A fuller, in the Roman times, was a person who cleansed wool of impurities, often using urine (a taxable commodity back then). In 15th and 16th Century England, whipping boys had an even worse job; bearing the punishments deserving of ill-behaved princes. Befuddling? Well, if you were to travel back in time to meet one, they would doubtless be equally flummoxed by your description of professions like social media marketer, used SIM-card salesperson or graphic designer.

While it is certainly one of the coolest jobs to which one might reserve bragging rights, Graphic Design actually has a relatively short history – Well, under it’€™s current name, at least. ‘Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers’ by David Jury (Thames and Hudson, 2012) brings us a detailed pre-…

We’ve mentioned before that many visitors to Redbubble land deep within the site, often on one of your works. So we’ve been working on ways to encourage visitors and shoppers to browse more of your artwork. In the last iteration of work pages, we introduced an easier way to navigate between works and collections with a small carousel or slide show. This resulted in a significant increase the amount of people who stayed and browsed within a portfolio. So today we’ve released an update to make this feature work even better.

Carousels are a method for displaying more of your work to visitors who are here to browse and buy. When someone lands on one of your works, they’ll see a Carousel with larger thumbnails of other work from your Portfolio directly below the artwork…

_{le temps / son mouvement}
 

‘€œI believe in everything and its opposite.’€

Linda Vachon, of St Louis De Blandford, Canada, provides a rare glimpse into the mind that creates these highly appealing abstract pieces. Linda works with photography, Photoshop, paint, paper and glue to bring us these beautiful montages. At times, making use of boldly contrasting tones, at others deferring to a beautifully understated palette, she guides the viewer through a dreamlike sequence of her musings.

Linda is inspired by poetry, old books, words, junk and cats. She also seems to reserve a special place in her heart for cows, as evidenced by her series ‘ah la vache!’€, including some sweet images of beloved bovines, gracefully presented in her montage style.

In her ’€œty…

^{Image credit: The Australian}

On the 9th of November 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell and East Germans crossed the border, the first thing they saw on the other side was a wall completely covered in bright bubble lettering graffiti – the concrete was packed with slogans like God Ble$$, Concrete Makes You Happy and Death to Tyrants. The artworks that expressed what often could not be said lined the wall as they were helped over. To mark the anniversary of the fall of the wall and the end of the division of the German Democratic Republic (the East) and Federal Republic of Germany (the West), we’ve compiled the following collection of striking photography.

By the end of March, 1945 there had been 314 air raids on Berlin. After the war, the city was slowly reconstructed from rubble i…

_{Leo by Losenko Mila}

Watercolors have been a popular, portable choice of artisans as far back as Paleolithic Europe when they were used to record on cave walls. Later adopted as the medium of choice for Renaissance botanical artists, they’re as fantastically malleable as they are expressive. The following collection highlights just a few of the beautiful watercolor works from artists on Redbubble.

If you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page. And if you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages.

_{Honeysuckle by OlgaNoes}

_{The Armada Portrait by marksatchwillart}

_{Mercedes W25C Monaco G}…

It’€™s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on Redbubble. This week we’€™ve spotted insightful discussions, some interesting projects and a bunch of achievements we’€™re really quite impressed by. Plus many bubblers offering a ton of support and encouragement for each other’€™s efforts. Here’€™s just some of the action we spotted this week.

_{Image Source: xiaobaosg’s Facebook Page}

1. If you’re passing through Singapore’s Changi Airport anytime soon, keep an eye out for xiaobaosg’s Panda which features as part of an ad campaign for Chengdu .
2. Stephen Wildish was recently featured on Flowing Data.
3. Brian Belanger discovered first hand the power of Facebook sharing.
4. A group of talented bubblers and international artists have

Ahoy! We bring exciting communications about a brand new product. Say hello to iPad Cases! From this day forth, a smorgasboard of stunning, original artwork will be available on deflector cases for iPad 2 and iPad 3rd gen. So now your iPad can look smashing while being protected from being smashed.

As is the case with their iPhone cousins, our iPad Cases come to you courtesy of the good folks at Uncommon. Uncommon pride themselves on excellent quality just as much as we do, which means iPad Cases are as sturdy as a Boeing 747 and as durable as something made when your Grandfather was a boy. Uncommon print the design directly into the product using their permanent printing process. This means the design is embedded into the case itself so it stays as brilliant as the day it was printed.

iP…

_{We Can’t Stop Here: Homage to Hunter Thompson by jimiyo}

Listen up wordsmiths! The RB Community Team have launched themselves headlong into National Novel Writing Month – otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. If you’re keen for a challenge, they have some tasks to get the cogs a-turning and the words flowing, plus a few prizes to give away over the coming weeks. Grab your writing weapons and head on over here to find out more.
 

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Last week we stumbled upon the excellent Gallery of Mo and noticed some familiar faces. Hanna Viktorsson, Scarlett Veith, Hammo and Uberkraaft are just a few of the artists lending their skills to support Movember by signing up to create commissioned portraits via the site. Punters simply make a donation to have their portrait drawn (with a mustache added for good measure) and every penny raised from the portraits goes towards the cause.

For the uninitiated, Movember is a month long charity event designed to raise awareness of prostate and testicular cancer. Most participants raise funds by growing a mustache and encouraging friends and family to sponsor their efforts but, as the Gallery of Mo demonstrates, there are plenty of other ways you can support the cause – Good news if you&…

_{Grunge Dead Girl by prettygore}

Today is Dia de los Muertos or the Day of the Dead, a celebration so rich in imagery, it’s little wonder it inspires so many artists and designers.

The Day of the Dead is marked in Mexico and a number of other cultures to remember and honor loved ones who have passed away, but celebrations are far from sombre. You’re probably familiar with the most recognizable imagery associated with the Day of the Dead like the decorative Sugar Skulls or La Calavera Catrina (the elegant skull) but dig a little deeper and you’ll find that the day is laden with symbolism, right down to the colors. Below are just a few Day of the Dead inspired artworks on Redbubble. If you’re fascinated by the kind of art then it’s well worth reading up on relate…

_{Cover Image: Forgotten Coffee by Stephen Thomas}

If you’re after some great tools to help you more easily manage freelance work, collaborate with others or speed up your workflow, we’ve found the apps for you. Great for both professional and personal projects, these clever and intuitive apps make it easier to track time, share content and work with others.
 

1. ProofHQ (Website, iPhone & iPad)
 

This is the perfect app for collaborative photo editing. Your group can upload, share, and use this app as a communal workspace on one image. It’s perks include commenting (for notes, tweaks and suggested changes) and real time discussion threads, plus seriously cool share-editing for perfectionists.

Impressive because: It can preview very large files (up to 2GB) in a…

There’€™s no such thing as a quiet week on RB and you’€™ve certainly been keeping busy this week. We enjoy reading through journals where artists have shared their achievements, news, tips and tricks and we’€™re always equally impressed by the support and encouragement offered in the comments. So without further ado, here’€™s just some of the action we spotted this week.
 

_{Works by Cameron Hampton}

• Cameron Hampton has had her works included in a directional book on how to draw. See if you can find her image on the front cover!
• In an amazing coincidence Loui Jover’s works have also been included in the same book.
• Janine Paris’s daughter, Tessa, chosen work can be found on display at the South Australian Museum.
• Donald Cameron’s work has bee

Brace yourself, we have splendid news for two types of people. iPhone 5 cases are now available for sale on RB. So people who own an iPhone 5 and people who want to make lovely cases for an iPhone 5 should both get excited. Some of you will fall into both categories and may be overcome by so much splendid news all at once. Find your neutral space, it will pass.

_{White Whale by Terry Fan}

If you already have iPhone & iPod cases offered for sale then iPhone 5 cases will automatically be available so you don’t need to do anything. However there are two things we’d recommend you do:

Check your designs still work – While the overall template hasn’t changed, the new iPhone is ever so slightly taller. Make sure everything still looks good, if you notice something strang…

Sad news has come to us via the RB messenger pigeon this week. It appears that after 63 years, Volkswagen will soon cease production of a design classic. As of December 2013, the VW Transporter, Microbus or Kombi Van (known informally as the Bus in the US and Camper in the UK) will no longer be rolling off the production lines in Brazil, the only country still manufacturing the iconic vehicle. To mark the end of an era for a wonderful piece of design, we’ve decided to take a look back at some equally wonderful advertising.

The original Volkswagen ads from the 50s are recognised as some of the best ads of the 20th Century. Ad agency DDB (Doyle Dane Bernbach) managed to achieve a number of things no ad agency had previously attempted. They gave a big hunk of shiny metal a loveable pe…

_{Nr. 5.}

Hailing from Lokeren, Belgium, Aleci (Filip Van Der Cruyssen) just loves packing a photo full of emotion. His portraits always seem to hit the mark in terms of engaging photos that depict the human experience beautifully. Click through his portfolio and you will become familiar with the pattern: Your gaze is drawn firstly to the eyes before moving slowly outwards like pancake mix spreading in concentric circles over a hot surface. The eyes are always striking and speak volumes of the emotion behind them – sadness, bewilderment, weariness, fascination – and this is just what Aleci sets out to achieve.

In addition to clean, contrasting, emotive shots, the artist has a wonderful eye for composition – at times following classical lines, at others crowding the frame ex…

It’™s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on Redbubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted over the past couple of weeks.

_{Works by nanaellis}

• nanaellis just had her first showcase and lived to tell about it. She shares her newfound wisdom and learnings here
• Ever wondered how to use the ND400 for daytime long exposure photography? Wonder no more, Jim Worrall explains it all
• Citizen has gone and published more of her haunting book covers
• The Ballarat International Foto Biennale is holding a performance photo competition called Take a Bow which culminates in a 9 day exhibition of the finalist images at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute from October 20th – October 29th. Thanks to shanghaiwu for alerting us to this contest and her entry.
• Damie

Greetings from Redbubble party headquarters, US edition! Last Thursday, we hosted our first ever artist mixer, gallery show and US relaunch party in San Francisco at the 111 Minna Gallery.

A lively mix of Redbubble staff, consultants, media/press people and of course, locally-based artists, got together to drink, dance, look at a wide variety of inspiring art and soon-to-be-released new Redbubble products, eat from food trucks (a very San Francisco thing to do), and meet new friends.

The amazing muralist and artist Ian Ross was on hand to create several spontaneous paintings during the course of the event. One of those pieces will soon hang on the walls of our Bay Area office, along with copies of the winning posters from the SF1 poster challenge. These were also on display at the event,…

_{a flock of chairs by Roberts Birze}

German born, American architect Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe said, ‘A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.’ Since the 1960s the humble chair has been used to replace the ‘body’ in fine art galleries. And every Architecture or Industrial Design student ever knows the challenge of designing a good chair. We’ve compiled a collection of artworks that pay tribute to this essential and sometimes inspiring piece of furniture.

If you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page. And if you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just cl…

_{Cover Image: The thankful end of 1337 speak by Flibble. Not the actual Colour Clock screensaver. That’s below.}
 

Attention colour/color lovers (depending on where you hail from). Earlier in the year we shared a bunch of tips for Spring Cleaning Your Workspace here on the RB blog. The post included a retro flip clock screen saver from Fliqlo that quite a few of you gushed over and downloaded immediately so when we discovered The Colour Clock, we knew we had to share it.

London designer Jack Hughes has come up with a clever idea for a minimal screen saver and one we think colour geeks will appreciate. The Colour Clock represents the current time as a hexadecimal colour value. The result is the minimal, ever changing coloured background you see below. You can view it in action here…

_{Bare necessity by radiomode}

This collection of childhood illustration, poster art and story telling needs little introduction. The timeless art of incorporating wit, humour, fragility and unease has been a consistent theme in poster art and illustration amongst designers for decades. We invite you to relive, re-negotiate and become inspired by the very best our community has to offer on the incredibly exciting and awfully wondrous world of children’s poster art.

If you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page. And if you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages.

_{Gathering Planets b}…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on Redbubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted over the past couple of weeks.

_{Work by Peter Maudsley}

• Peter Maudsley is showing his work at Brumfield’s winery in the Yarra Valley in November and would love to see you there.

• Trish Loader will be demonstrating her hand painted pillows at the Little Treasures Christmas Exhibition. You’ll find her at Pepper Street Art Gallery, Magill from the 25th of November.

• Winston D. Munnings was featured in the September 2012 Issue of ArtFlow Magazine.

• A number of our members have had written works published :
• Laura Redmond is selling her childrens book “Santa’s Last House”.
• David Clarke’s first novel has been published as an Amazon e

_Yokoo

Ask ten people to define femininity and you will doubtless have ten different definitions. Ask Brett Manning (brettisagirl), however, and you will at least have one that is the result of years of reflection. Manning’€™s musings appear in the forms of photography, drawing and painting. Take a look at Living Doll’€ for a glimpse into just one of Manning’€™s intriguing interpretations of femininity. The shot is one of a highly engaging series.

In her drawings and paintings, Manning has an enormous patience (a preoccupation, in fact) for the creation of textures, including hair, wool, fur and cloth. In the artist’s own words, ‘Layers of fabric, masks, knitted patterns and veils tend to be draped around my subjects implying warmth, comfort, and the anxiety …

_{Image Credit: Pictoplasma – Cover of The Character Compendium}

The Berlin based Pictoplasma project is acclaimed for its unique focus on contemporary character design and art. Their annual festivals in Berlin and NYC include performances, workshops, talks, exhibitions and character walks, showcasing the work of a global scene of illustrators, graphic designers and animation filmmakers. Their latest conference kicks off in early November in New York so Beth Douglas cornered cofounder Lars Denicke for a quick chat about the evolution of Pictoplasma and what makes great character design.
 

How did Pictoplasma start and can you describe the evolution of Pictoplasma?

Pictoplasma is a huge network of artists around the world. We call it a global niche phenomena. It’s very speci…

New York Comic Con has landed with a rubber-masked, plastic-sworded, black-caped, green-haired, ivy-covered bang. And we’re here to soak up every second of it with a plethora of your splendid designs. It’s hardly even started and we’ve met so many fans and members already. It’s tricky to describe how it feels to watch real live people display real live excitement over your work but it’s quite incredibly overwhelming. In fact ‘overwhelming’ pretty well sums up day one of NYCC 2012 so you’ll excuse us as we describe today pictorially while we mentally prepare ourselves for the the real action this weekend.

9.30am, doors open….

^ The winning design by Headless from our spectacular NYCC poster contest.

If you’re coming to the show…

The good people of the Railroad Revival Tour have finished stroking their chins and picked the winners of our most recent design contest extravaganza. Despite the fact Willie Nelson won’t be crooning to a New Orleans crowd we’re not going to let that stop us having a right old celebration here, so without further ado…

First Place

With some marvellous minimalist linework, stunningly subtle symbolism and geometric madness it’s everyone’s favourite graphic design nerd geekchic.
 

Second Place

Extraordinary type work, cunningly woven and apt imagery and the delicate inclusion of tour stops from the mighty Stephan Parylak.
 

Third Place

A powerfully minimal slice of deco design with a great sense of movement and a really striking pose from Clay Crenshaw.…

Physicists tell us that one can travel immeasurable distances by folding three-dimensional space in half so that the start and end points of the journey meet at a single position. Evidently, trends can do the same over vast amounts of time, since balloon skirts are everywhere, teenagers know what grunge is and Helvetica is back.

Of course, some would say it never left, but in their latest project, New Modernist Type, authors Steven Heller and Gail Anderson begin with a reminder of the artistic argy-bargy of the eighties and nineties when young designers summarily and all too hastily rejected modernist type in favour of post-modern design, much of which was a cluttered, unintelligible mess. For the client, having visual communication produced by especially overzealous graphic designers …

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. This week we’€™ve spotted insightful discussions, some interesting projects and a bunch of achievements we’€™re really quite impressed by. Plus many bubblers offering a ton of support and encouragement for each other’€™s efforts. Here’€™s just some of the action we spotted this week.

^{works by Louise Cook}

1. Big congratulations to Louise Cook who won the prestigious Fremantle Portrait Prize this past week with her image Ideas Man. A very well deserved win there Louise!
2. msdebbie presented a wonderful opportunity for writers via The Red Room Company
3. Liz Golding was excited to invite us to her upcoming solo exhibition A Touch of Vincent
4. Anita Inverarity has put together a wonderful news

_{Everything is Still}
 

Ever looked at an artwork and applied your own interpretation to it, only to find out that was not the idea at all? Climbing the ladder of inference is something we all do naturally; with art perhaps especially so. Take a browse through Greg Orfanos’€™ portfolio and you could be making up all kinds of stories. Or, like one admirer, you may be so deeply inspired that you turn your life around and complete a Masters in Engineering. True story.

Just between you and me, the artist/illustrator loves creating false narratives and seeing people come up with their own slant on his work. In truth, each piece is infused with number of stories that are pieced together to form the final product.

Even as a child, Orfanos knew he wanted to be an artist and we hear school…

_{The beauty in motion by Mushda}

The self-portrait, or representation of the artist saw a flourish in popularity of this timeless expression during the 15th century as the cost of mirrors plummeted. Centuries later, the art of depicting oneself as the main subject continues to intrigue and inspire. Psychological and confessional, we compiled a mammoth collection to appreciate the talents and emotive expressions our community have created. Please enjoy this rare insight into how we see ourselves and others in the Redbubble community.

If you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page. And if you’’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on t…

_Freedom
 

In one of the many cartoons published on RB by Loui Jover, a dog wearing shorts boasts unprecedented internet success, while an artist bares his soul only to be all but completely ignored. Fortunately, this week’s feature artist is certainly not ignored (most definitely not by his fan base on Redbubble), but he does indeed engage in some regular soul-bearing. One of the most delightful aspects of this portfolio is the artist’€™s honesty. It takes a great deal of skill to produce ink drawings of this calibre, but to reach beyond a single medium and branch into comics and even some short films speaks of a candidness not many artists are willing to display.

Jover’s family migrated to Australia from Europe where his father restored religious icons and, thankful…

Our first big San Francisco meetup is just two weeks away and Redbubble’s US office looks like an art store exploded and then a party store came by to toss confetti on top of the debris. Thankfully, we’ve been able to crawl out from underneath the piles of amazing art that’s temporarily decorating our office to choose the winners of our SF1 Poster Challenge.

So without further ado, here they are!
 

In first place: a brilliant, reversible design by iamsla
 

_{SF1 meetup poster by iamsla}

Congratulations, iamsla! We were really taken by the 70s look and feel, great use of color and the subtlety of the San Francisco scenes in the background. It really has the style of a classic old concert poster and we know it’€™s going to look brilliant on display at 111 Minna …

There’s no such thing as a quiet week on the bubble and you’ve certainly been keeping busy this week. We enjoy reading through journals where artists have shared their achievements, news, tips and tricks and we’re always equally impressed by the support and encouragement offered in the comments. So without further ado, here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.
 

_{Artworks by members of the Art Universe group}

1. The Art Universe Group is celebrating World Animal Day with a great collection of work
2. Linda Lees fired off 6 qUiRkY Questions to Ainsley Kellar
3. Ethna Gillespie had an image selected to be a part of the It’s a Sign Exhibition
4. Sorina Williams is getting excited for the upcoming Dirtying the Paper exhibition
5. Donna Harle is taking part is some Halloween Madness in London
6. P

_{Rock your Soul by Sirenized}

Most of us have techniques for increasing productivity, overcoming creative blocks or just coming up with more awesome ideas. Some incredibly creative and innovative people swear by meditation as their tool of choice. The list of famous meditators includes names like Steve Jobs, David Lynch, George Lucas and Albert Einstein. Today’s guest post is by Dr Ian Gawler, one of Australia’s most experienced and respected authorities on Mind-Body Medicine and meditation. He has also produced an online, meditation based mind training program called Mindbody Mastery. Here he offers his thoughts on how meditation can enhance creativity.
 

Jackson Pollock was the archetypal boozing, tortured artist. Would he have painted anything worthwhile if he…

_{Mothership by metronomad}

For fans of beer and bratwurst, Oktoberfest provides a pretty good excuse to celebrate the finest flavors Bavaria has to offer. October 3rd is also German Unity Day, a day that marks the nation’s unification in 1990. With all the Germanic celebration occuring at this time of the year we thought we’d whip up our own tribute. The following collection features some amazing German architecture and street photography as captured by RB artists.

The artwork below is available for sale on a range of products from posters and prints to greeting cards. If you’’d like to buy any of these, or see them in more detail, just click on the images to visit the work pages.

Click Here to Browse More German Flavored Art and Desig…

We’re always keen to peer inside the minds of designers to find out more about their processes and how they work. So when Nik Holmes agreed to share some t-shirt design tips with us we were suitably excited. Nik is a British Illustrator based in North Yorkshire. He describes his work as “a combination of flat and chunky retro cartooning, bold, colourful stylings of old school graffiti with a dash of comic book kapow!” Pull up a comfy chair and switch on your right brains as Nik talks us through his design process … with a little help from a Zombie Fighter.
 

I use Adobe Illustrator to create my designs, with a touch of Photoshop magic to get them ready to upload to Redbubble. Here are some of my favourite Illustrator techniques in action.
 

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Next Thursday 4th of October is World Animal Day and to mark the occasion, we’re showing our support for The Nature Conservancy.

Purchase anything from RB using the code ‘wildthings’ between now and October 4th and you’ll not only get 5% off your order, we’ll donate another 5% to support The Nature Conservancy in protecting nature and conserving habitats around the globe. To get you in the mood for World Animal Day, we’ve rounded up some of the larger members of the animal kingdom to bring you a collection with a little bit of an African flavour.

The artwork below is available for sale on a range of products from posters and prints to greeting cards. If you’’d like to see them in more detail, just click on the images to visit the work page…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on Redbubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted over the past couple of weeks.

_{Work by “6th Photograph of the Year Awards” Redbubble Winners}

• RB photographers absolutely KILLED IT in Better Photography Magazine’s 6th Photograph of the Year Awards. Among the winners was Suellen Cook who won the Creative Flair Award, and many more who made the Top 50 in several categories.
• AVS Turner is participating in a giant cave painting at the National History Museum in London’s Science Uncovered exhibit on September 28th.
• DownbyDfault has an art piece in the Peace Project Exhibition, which will be a traveling gallery show until February 13th.
• Karin Taylor shared a lovely video showing her cr

_{Lantern Octopus}

A post-apocalypse war between mechanically-assisted animals and vigilante humans. Dark and hellish? Yes. Good idea for an exhibition? Absolutely. This week’s featured artist recently opened just such a show with colleague and friend, Matthew Dunn, in Melbourne’s Art Boy Gallery. The two dreamed up the idea together while looking at their own unique styles and wondering how they might join forces to create a show that is interesting, engaging and just a bit terrifying.

Whilst Dunn tends to side with the bipedal apes, Firedrake (Kaitlin Beckett in the real world) has been fitting members of the animal kingdom with battle-ready mechanical parts since 2002. On her website, she cites a keen interest in the juxtaposition of elements of nature and the real world with…

It’s just under three weeks until the Comic Con circus rolls into New York City. We’re busy putting the finishing touches on our booth as we prepare to unleash a whole lot of RB on the unsuspecting world, but there are more important matters to address in the meantime. As the title of this post would suggest, it’s time to announce the winners of our NYCC Poster Competition. So without further ado … here they are in all their magnificent splendor.
 

In first place: NYCC by Headless
 

Congratulations Headless! We couldn’t go past the bold color, the lovely gradient on that mask and that vacant stare. It was all sort of hypnotizing so we expect it’ll have the same effect at New York Comic Con. The design will be featured at our NYCC 2012 booth an…

No matter where you are on the planet, you may have picked up on a change in the air. While some of us are preparing for the onslaught of icy windshields, roast dinners and washing that never dries, the other half are stocking up on t-shirts and enjoying increasingly longer, warmer days. We’re marking the change of seasons in both hemispheres with an epic collection of Fall and Spring themed work. Think of it as a battle of the seasons if you will. So your swear your allegiance and arm yourselves with dead twigs or cocktail umbrellas as we present: Fall vs Spring.

The artwork below is available for sale on a range of products from t-shirts and posters to prints and iPhone cases. If you’’d like to see them in more detail, just click on the images to visit the work pages.

&nbs…

_{I am a Dreamer}

For most kids, watching cartoons is an escape from the lifetime of drudgery they foresee upon becoming a so-called ‘€"grown-up"€. For others, it’€™s bona fide, career-building research. Remember the kid who would rock out 200 push-ups and some serious kata during Teenage Mutant Turtles? Or the one who’€™d draw all her favourite characters in a dog-eared sketchbook, then colour them expertly, winning the favor of teachers and tough kids alike? Natalie Smith (RB’s beloved Scarlett Veith) was just such a child. Avidly watching the likes of Disney, the Simpsons and the animated Batman series, Smith learned more than just how to hogtie a villain. Now she produces designs in her own unique style, gaining the attention of Redbubble fans and the p…

_{Day 229 – 24th February 2012 by petegrev}

Today we will be re-introducing Pinterest as one of the social sharing options next to artworks on Redbubble. Pinterest has quickly become the third biggest social network on the web. It’s a beautifully designed site that allows people to express themselves and share their inspiration. Pinterest provides artists with a significant opportunity to gain more exposure as it helps millions of people to discover art and design they love.

We understand not everyone is a fan of the whole “pinning” thing so we’ve made the “Pin It” button on your work optional. Once the changes have been rolled out, you can head to your Account Details and scroll down to Image Settings. Tick “Hide Pin It button and prevent pinn…

Listen up bubblers because we’ve partnered with the good people at Blurb to bring you an offer you can’t refuse. Blurb is a website that helps you make beautiful, bookstore-quality photo books using your own images. Between now and the 26th of September, Redbubble artists can create a free 60 page, 18X18 cm, soft cover mini-portfolio.
 

Make someone a gift, publish your prose, compile your best work into a coffee table tome, collaborate with a bunch of artists, writers or designers or create a portfolio of your work. The options are endless. All that’s called for is a little creativity.

Click Here To Create Your Free Mini Portfolio.

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Comics. Glorious, full-color, sexy, angry comics. Could any other medium in the last hundred years be credited with the spread of art to a larger audience? In their many forms comics amuse and engage us, sometimes so effectively that we soon forget that every line, dot and graduation has been painstakingly put onto paper by an artist somewhere, quiet and shielded from the eyes of the outside world.

‘Comics Sketchbooks: The Unseen World of Today’s Most Creative Talents’™ is not the first book ever to pay tribute to these reclusive heroes. It is, however, a rare glimpse into the background work, ‘˜warts-and-all’, of some of their sketches and doodles.
 

Steven Heller has interviewed more than 80 prolific comic artists and, amazingly, been granted…

_{Muted Ladies by designer-x}

Those of you who read the RB Blog will know we recently held a rather epic Melbourne RB Shindig. Now that the dust has settled we’ve decided we quite like organising these, so we’re doing it all over again. This time we’re planning an October meetup in the fine city of San Francisco, only a stone’s throw from Redbubble’s US HQ. We’ll be posting more details as we get closer to the date but in the meantime, we have an excellent artistic challenge for you.

We’re looking for a limited edition poster, similar in style to a classic concert gig poster, to mark the occasion. The poster can feature illustration, photography, typography or any other ‘ography’ so it’s wide open to artists of all styles. The winni…

_{The Chills by j3concepts: Available as a Print and T-Shirt.}

Organic subject matter, decorative pattern and curved, graceful line work are just a few of the most recognisable characteristics of Art Nouveau. Catapulted straight out of the decadent late 19th century, this movement was generous with color and honored detailed, intricate forms. More recently, Art Nouveau has provided inspiration for a new generation of artists and designers who, inspired by the poster designs and advertisements by artists like Alphonse Mucha, have incorporated this style into their own designs. Here are a just a few examples we’ve hand picked from around the bubble. If you like this sort of thing, you can find plenty more here.

If you enjoy this collection, please share this post using the tweet and li…

Slightly retro and a little quirky, we’ve dug out some art and design inspiration to go with the creamy, pastel, 1950s inspired interiors that seem to be popping up everywhere at the moment. Here’s proof that pale doesn’t need to be boring.

Click on any of the images above to see the originals and browse more work from these artists.

_{Shop these prints and tees: 1. Vintage Camera and Retro Telephone from Andreka 2. Burroughs from OneLittleBird 3. September Sea from Lucy Loomis 4. The Typewriter from Cassia 5. I Got Your Back from thepisforpenis 6. Love Song from soulstream 7. Through the Heart of a Photographer from Raditya Fadilla 8. Retro Rolleiflex from Denis Marsili 9. Bloom from GalaxyEyes 10. Typography from lodesign 11. Friends for life – Elephant}…

Regular Redbubblers will be well accustomed to the experience of clicking onto an artist’s profile to find an entire portfolio of art produced within the last few years. David Malcolmson’s portfolio is unique in many regards, not least of which being that these images were mostly captured 40 to 50 years ago, using a Leica, Pentax and Mamiya. Furthermore, the 200-odd photos on display here are not nearly the full extent of his work: A good deal of it was (tragically, you’ll agree) lost in a move.

To quote the artist himself,

“I may be 66 years old, but time weighs lightly on my shoulders. I have never quite lost that sense of wonder which is the abiding gift of childhood”.

True, that: One of the most refreshing things you may find in artist interviews i…

_{Bubble Beards by Alex Pawlicki on a fancy new Zip Hoodie}

Hello excellent people of planet RB. Some of you have been longing for the ability to zip and unzip your Hoodies. Well today is your lucky day because Zip Hoodies have landed at RB. If your favorite t-shirt design is already available for sale as a Hoodie, it will now automatically be available on one with a zip. All you need to do is pour yourself a cup of tea and contemplate how wonderful it is to have more options when it comes to rocking great designs on your torso.

The Facts:

1. Style: American Apparel California Fleece Zip Hoodie
2. Available in: White, Dark Grey, Black, Green, Brown, Heather Grey and Dark Blue
3. Sizes: S, M, L, XL and 2XL
    

If you’re wondering how designs will look printed over a zip, the answer is “pret…

It’€™s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RB.
Here’€™s just some of the action we spotted over the past seven days.
 

^{Work by matthewdunnart}

• Matthew Dunn is exhibiting work with Kaitlin Beckett at ArtBoy Gallery from Sept 14th
• designingjudy won 1st place in the Urban Contemporary Art contest
• Richard Fay’s poetry and artwork have been published in parABnormal Digest
• artbytaimyia is showcasing her work at ‘The Starving Artists Show’
• Celeste Mookherjee received a special recognition award in an art competition
   

^{Work by sedge808}

• Sedge 808 has been interviewed and published in Refractions
• Philip Johnson is organising a Redbubble Rumble in NSW, Australia
• GWGantt has been published in Wind Magazine
• Matt Penfold is organi

_Dzielic

Aah, the convenience of modern flight. Check your passport, have your boarding pass scanned, and off we go. The ease of it, however, belies the extensive trials that preceded the first successful human attempts to fly. Only the spirit of persistence and willingness towards experimentation could ever have allowed humans to achieve flight. Likewise, no artist finds his or her way to a preferred style without a little experimentation. During her studies at the Faculty of Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland, Katarzyna Wolodkiewicz revelled in this type of research. So much so, in fact, that this caused a rift between her and her painting teacher, who urged her to define a single style and stick to it. The disagreement culminated in a kind of war of si…

This October, several trillion pop culture aficionados will descend upon NYC in a quest to sniff Joss Whedon’s hair, drive the Batmobile up a wall and meet the Doctors. They’ll also be keen to marvel at nice posters, t-shirts and any other items one can adorn with dazzling art and design. Which is precisely why we’ve booked ourselves a booth at New York Comic Con. Again.

_{Seth Green dropping by the 2011 RB booth at NYCC}
 

We’re looking for a superb bit of illustrated poster art to highlight the Redbubble presence at NYCC so we’re running an Official RB NYCC Show Poster Challenge.

The winning design will be beautifully printed and given pride of place in our booth and waved in the general direction of 100,000+ visitors at any given opportunity. All the deta…

It’€™s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RB. Here’€™s just some of the action we spotted over the past 7 days. And this week there’s also some news from our Community Team …
 

^{Work by Solomon Walker}

• Solomon Walker shared information on the Summer Fine Art Exhibitions at MODFA
• Karo Evans was interviewed in ArtFlow Magazine
• Jenifer DeBellis announced the publication of the 17th Issue of Pink Panther Magazine
• Rosalie Dale won awards in the Better Photography Photograph of the Year
• modernlifeform had an art show and talk on Macleay Island
   

^{Work by Citizen}

• Citizen shared her latest published book covers
• ShelleyKay was interviewed on Allure Charm Blog
• Yvonne Less won the Gold Stellar Award at ‘Digital Arts: Californi

_{Prague Towers by Yuriy Shevchuk}

Like great films, or your favorite Where’s Waldo, some images call for more than a fleeting glimpse. They reward the repeat viewer by revealing more and more detail the longer you peer at them. And it seems that some of the best examples of deliciously detailed works feature cities, towns and streets as their subject matter. The following collection pays tribute to artists who keep our eyes busy and encourage our brains to look at the world around us in greater detail.

If you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page. And if you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to vis…

_{Redbubble by Gideon du Preez Swart}

A few weeks ago, we posted an update on the Redbubble rebrand project to let you know we were digesting your feedback and working on some additional tweaks and changes. These changes have now been released so it’s time for an update on our update. Here’s a rundown on the most interesting bits, some of the things you asked us to address and a few added extras.
 

A List of Things We’ve Added and Tweaked:
 

Your homepage now has a memory. The site now remembers whether you were last browsing Found, Following or Activity and returns you to that page when you next click on the RB logo or on your name in the top right-hand navigation when you are logged in. If you spend your life sifting through your Activity feed, you’ll now b…

_{Tropical BloodyHell 2}

Formal art schooling has been the starting block for many of the world’€™s most celebrated artists. Yet often the human brain, left to its devices, is a wonderfully fertile ground for original and remarkable work. Roy Wilkins, one of RB’€™s most prolific expressionists, is largely self-taught and could show us a thing or two about bringing mixed media together to create emotionally-charged artworks.

Wilkins was born in Greenwich, South East London, and moved to Australia in 1999. Not for the Sun, though: the artist chose Melbourne as his settling place. Upon arrival, he began working in the Heide Art Gallery, assisting with the preparation of exhibitions. Call it fate or what you will: Here he caught a glimpse of Albert Tucker’s collection and almo…

_{Crow protector by Robyn Lakeman}

For centuries, birds from the Corvidae family have featured heavily in folklore, art and mythology. Their presence has symbolised everything from death, war and reincarnation to power and kindness. It’s little wonder a creature so strongly associated with symbolism has also intrigued artists and designers and has proven powerful subject matter for all types of creative works. This collection highlights some amazing artwork on RB featuring crows, ravens, jackdaws and their relatives.

If you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages. And if you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like butto…

I love books. They’€™re so functional. There are books to entertain and books to quicken a train journey. Some of the world’s most dependable insomnia cures come not in a capsule, but in print. Occasionally, however, there comes a book that deserves your undivided attention. Women Are Heroes, a collection of images from ‘urban artivist’ and winner of last year’s TED prize, JR, is one text that warrants a thorough bulldozing of your table – and your brain – before you get stuck into it.

Apart from the fact that the sheer size of this volume makes it impossible to just pop into your bag to be whipped out on a work break, Women Are Heroes also bears the weight of dozens of women whose stories would be extraordinary if they weren’t so commonpla…

If Redbubble was a zoo, it would be the most awesome zoo in the universe. Manatees in superhero outfits, gangster pandas, skating monkeys and boozing bears all call this place home. Thanks to the power of art and design adoption, you can take home any one of these fine furry and feathered friends any time you wish. And you get to stare into their lovely faces each day without ever having to reach for the cleaning products. Take a wander through the RB Animal Adoption Center and find yourself a new companion. No litter tray required.
 

We’d like you to hear about your favorite animals on RB. Would you invite any of these characters to take up residence on yo…

It’€™s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on Redbubble. Here’€™s just some of the action we spotted over the past few weeks (sorry folks, we took a little break).
 

^{Work by nouvellegamine}

• nouvellegamine’s ‘Amelie Paper Doll’ has been published in Lone Wolf Magazine
• Richard Fay’s illustration has been published in Plasma Frequency Magazine
• Stephanie Butler has been shortlisted for the Ken Bromley Cover Competition
• Kerry Thompson appeared on the Colour in Your Life show on 4METV
• Angela Bruno has been featured on the i.c.u. creations blog
   

^{Work by Paolo Franco Orlando}

• Paolo Franco Orlando has been published in Get Inspired Magazine
• Kasia Nowak has been shortlisted in the Travel Photographer of the Year Competiti

_{Shivery Whispers}
 

You know that dream where you’ve somehow climbed an impossibly tall tower, which seems certain to topple, sending you screaming towards the ground? Or the one in which you can fly? How about the one where Margaret Thatcher gives you a bale of hay and bids you Godspeed as you saddle it up and ride it towards a chaotic ocean scene where African animals are skipping atop the waves? (Just me?) Well, if you like your nightly visions to be aesthetically pleasing, do as I do and commission some backgrounds from Swin via a perusal of his portfolio right before you put your pajamas on.

Swin is an elusive character. (In fact, we’re not even sure the destination address of our emails is of this world.) We do know, however, that Swin is 25 years old, loves photogra…

Hello everyone. Last Thursday night we hosted a shindig in Melbourne to celebrate Redbubble’s recent rebrand. A rather large group of RB artists braved a cold, wintery Melbourne night to join us for a celebratory beverage or two. Fortunately, Luckyvegetable had her camera at the ready so for those who couldn’t make it, here are some pictures from the night. A huge thanks to everyone who joined us and an even bigger thanks to those who didn’t hold back on the dance floor. You know who you are. An excellent night was had by all so we might just have to plan a few more of these outings …

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Celebrating that level of music geekiness most of us do our best to hide from the general public, the following collection features air guitars, amplifiers, mixtapes, Motown and the obligatory walrus. We hope you enjoy our ultimate cotton mix – a selection of tees that any self respecting music fan would be proud to wear.
 

Once you’ve picked yourself up from that visual assault we want to hear about your favorite music tees. Which RB music tee gets your vote for number one? Have we missed any classics? And while we’re celebrating all things musical and cotton-y, what about the humble band tee? Is there an old favorite you just can’t part with?
 

S…

_{You Can Do It by stibou}
 

David Beckham on a boat dressed like 007, The Queen parachuting into the stadium, Dizzee Rascal, JK Rowling, The NHS, rocket packs, Mr Bean and real live sheep. Blimey. After an epic opening ceremony you could be forgiven if you momentarily forgot that the next two weeks are all about sport. Focus people, FOCUS! The collection of images below reminds us of the years of training, commitment, sweat and tears behind the coming bombardment of athleticism. It’s also designed to honor everyone (professional or not) with a dedication to their chosen sport. So before we all get struck down with Olympic fatigue, sit back and enjoy a collection of images celebrating all things sporting.

If you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your fav…

_{The Periodic Sweetshop}

Congratulations on your acceptance into the Diploma of Hidden Correspondences & Random Trivia. Your instructor, Stephen Wildish, looks forward to providing you with astonishing insights into our bizarre world, such as the lesser known plethora of human senses, the astonishing variety of detective genres produced for TV and film, or the ever-changing hair of Mr Brad Pitt.

If you have difficulty seeing the connection between economic prosperity and the altitude of skirt hemlines over time, Wildish is more than willing to enlighten you. Do you eat ham? Tend to slice it thin enough to pass through a Xerox? This could say one of two things about you, but you won’€™t know until you’€™ve studied Wildish’€™s chart, ‘€˜Ham, Thickness by Social Cla…

On this day, 43 years ago, and some 238,857 miles from Earth, the first humans touched down on the Moon’s surface and along with them a modified Hasselblad camera. As on all manned American space missions since October 1962, the crew used Hasselblad camera equipment for the photographic documentation. To date there are currently 12 abandoned Hasselblad cameras on the moon’s surface.

The space shuttle carried five Hasselblad 553ELS cameras, around fifty Hasselblad 70mm magazines, a variety of Carl Zeiss lenses (50-250 mm). Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took hundreds of images miles above the Earth. NASA selected Hasselblad cameras for their easily interchangeable lenses and film magazines, the 70mm magazine was hurried through production to meet space flight deadlines.

For t…

^{ice cool panda by James Smart}

If you’re somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere and you’ve been lucky enough to feel the sun’s rays of late then this collection might capture a taste of your breezy, holiday mood. For those who are still eagerly waiting for the rain to stop or are living in a place where the sun only appears for four hours a day at the moment, we hope these slices of illustration and design at least warm your cockles. From camping to BBQs, beach trips to a licence to consume your own weight in ice cream, this collection of stickery goodness celebrates everything we love about Summer.

If you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these stickers, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages. …

_{Message in a bottle by David Barneda}

A huge thanks everyone who has submitted feedback since last week’s RB rebrand. We’ve been reading and digesting all of your thoughts and we just wanted to let you know we’re working on a few improvements as we speak. These include:

• Easier access to your Activity and to forum topics you’re following
• Allowing you to see your Followers
• Sorting Groups alphabetically
• Addressing the design of Collections on your profile page

This isn’t the full extent of the list, but as these seem to be some of the most common themes in the feedback, we wanted to let you know they’re in the works and that your feedback is being heard.

If you have questions about anything regarding the launch you may be able to find some answers in our FAQ, a…

Back in October we featured 10 of our favorite free fonts. October was a long time ago so we thought it was high time for some more free font goodness. Here’s 10 more free fonts we’ve been using and abusing recently:
 

Archive
 

Rex
 

ZnikomitNo24
 

Corki
 

Kirimono Swash (Italic)
 

AW Conqueror
 

Quicksand
 

_{(Available in 7 styles but our favorite would have to be Dash)}

 

Tetra
 

Napa
 

Baffled
 

Have you come across any free fonts that have made their way into your work? Have you designed any yourself? We’€™re always keen to find more excellent examples to add to our creative arsenal so please share your tips in the comments below!
 

This collection of free fonts w…

Name: Brian Ritchie
Occupation: Curator (MONA FOMA) and Musician (The Break, Violent Femmes)
Hometown: Milwaukee, North America
Currently lives in: Hobart, Australia

Having something interesting to listen to while sketching, hurtling towards a last minute deadline or making a toasted sandwich can help to keep the creative juices going. We recently had the chance to chat with legendary Violent Femmes guitarist and curator of the MONA FOMA Arts Festival, Brian Ritchie. Rather than whack this in our regular interview format, we thought we’d try something a little different so thanks to the wonders of the internet, you can continue working while you enjoy our chat in podcast form:
 

[Video]
 

A few questions to ponder while listening: Do you think crowdsourced funding is better t…

_{Sea Urchin}

Take a frolic through Susan Sanford’s Portfolio and you’€™ll be captivated by what you find blossoming around the place. Here a flower-breathing dragon. There a wiry ancient mariner. Over there, an homage to Lewis Carroll’s Alice (inspired in part by the Cottingly fairies: arguably one of the world’€™s first convincing photoshop jobs, fashioned by two mischievous English girls in 1917 using a Midg Quarter-plate camera and some hoodwinkingly good illustrations on paper cutouts). Sanford’€™s portfolio is as delightful as it is diverse. In addition to illustration, she boldly steps into the third dimension with her unique and inspired sculptures.

The artist began her journey an undisclosed length of time ago in College, where she majored in printmakin…

_{Beneath the Ice by gingerkelly}

Throughout history, twelve has been the number of wholeness; the twelve months of the year, twelve hours on the clock and the twelve gods of Olympus have complimented the superstitious notion that thirteen is associated with bad luck. From the Last Supper myth that seating thirteen guests at dinner will result in one death of a diner, to the fact that thirteen turns make a traditional hangman’s noose, the number thirteen fills many with fear. When it comes to days of the week, Friday is also shrouded in superstition, so combine the two and it’s not surprising that Friday the 13th is associated with bad luck and all things eerie.

To mark this ominous date we’™ve collected a bunch of the spookiest, creepiest, most unnerving images from around…

_{Image Source: Wim Delvoye}

“I sat on a box in Tasmania, motionless for 500 hours. But it is not performance art because I am no artist. I am an artwork. When I die my skin will be removed, framed and given to the owner at that time.”

The practice of tattooing is more 5000 years old. Google tells us this. Whilst the idea has stayed the same, the motivations of the practice are more varied now than ever. Some willing subscribers will canvas themselves for no other reason than a drunken desire. Others will get inked out of love, fashion or to announce their rebellion – but there are other reasons.

Throughout the 1990s, Belgian neo-conceptual artist Wim Delvoye began a new body of work based around the idea of tattooing pigs and went about setting up a live art farm in Beiji…

It’€™s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on Redbubble. Here’€™s just some of the action we spotted over the past seven days.
 

^{Work by Alvaro Sánchez}

• Alvaro Sánchez designed 4 book covers as part of a poetry collection
• Judith Cahill blogged about meeting up with some Melbourne Bubblers for a photowalk
• sparrowhawk is currently exhibiting work at ‘No Vacancy’ gallery in Melbourne
• flyingpantaloon’s poster designs will be at Ascendio 2012 – a Harry Potter convention
• Maxine Dodd has begun a project to draw the Tour de France
   

^{Work by Tigran Akopyan}

• Tigran Akopyan invites you his solo exhibition in Korea
• Aimee Stewart went to Hollywood to meet about her children’s book project
• Dennis Knecht has some work for sal

_{Better Unborn}

Aah, community atmosphere: Can’€™t you just smell it? From the thumbs-up on social media posts charged with heart-warming conviviality to the all-pervading sense of global cooperation and mutual understanding accompanying the imminent Olympic Games. It’s all so darn positive! But not everyone feels that way all the time. In fact, sometimes one feels downright vexed. Like a scream in a preserving jar. With her wonderfully expressive art, Helena Babic opens the lid to let feelings fly out.

Smacking of irony, €œBetter Unborn€ (acrylic on wood) contrasts the adorable with grotesque self-effacement. And Death Audio€… well, perhaps we’€™ll let this one speak for itself. Babic’s 3D work is often equally macabre. The aptly-dubbed Nefarius comes from …

_{Fleeting moments by Rima Dadenji}
 

This time next week, we’ll be revealing the results of a rather large project we’ve been working on behind the scenes over the past 18 months – a site redesign and rebrand. We just wanted to give you a heads up as we prepare to reveal all. We know from past updates that people are keen to know the whys behind any change, so without giving away too much just yet, here’s some background and a sneak preview of what to expect.
 

Why Are We Making These Changes?
 

The origin of this project was strategy work we began almost 18 months ago when it became clear that we were operating more like a traditional e-commerce site than expected – i.e. a group of artists and designers and a quite separate group of sho…

^{untitled by tony starr}
 

In 1777, Independence Day was celebrated with a thirteen gun salute, we thought we’€™d mark the occasion with some artwork inspired by America. Perhaps recognisable for their cityscapes, cars or the subject’€™s dress, this collection examines the culture and inhabitants of America from East to West. Taken in the subway or out in the desert, we have compiled interesting images influenced by the United States. Candid and subtle, these images are an observant take on the home of the brave.

If you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages. And if you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and lik…

It’€™s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on Redbubble. Here’€™s just some of the action we spotted over the past seven days.
 

^{Work by Ben Clark}

• Ben Clark is designing 31 t-shirts in 31 days
• Mark Richards is exhibiting work as part of the South Australian Living Arts Festival
• LeahHK is a finalist in the Macquarie Photography Competition
• Solomon Walker shared details on the Lumen Prize Exhibition for digital artists
• Justin Minns won a camera from an event with What Digital Camera Magazine & Olympus
   

^{Works by geekchic tees}

• geekchic tees was interviewed on Geek Shirts HQ
• Janine Paris is exhibiting a piece at the Pepper Street Arts Centre
• Alvaro Sanchez’s work has been published in Bastard Magazine
• chrythmnove is exhibiting work as

^{pretty things by bethany helzer}

An Ode To The Camera by Beth Douglas

As early as the 13th century, theological writings have speculated that the Devils magic is used to imitate and insinuate himself, even after the ancient Greeks had been drawing through a lens of visual manipulations for centuries before. The camera has been devilish, tricky and specialised since it’s very humble beginnings and we’d like to give a nod to our divisive, intricate friends. This collection pays homage to the powerful format of photography, from early Italian Camera Obscura to the latest in lense curviture, this collection highlights the best works of art on the faithful camera, and the methods and mechanisms we turn to see ourselves, and the rest of the world, through the lens.

If you enj…

^{Duncan X Tattooist}

UK designer Matt Willey has an impressive resume. He has worked as a designer for The New York Times Magazine, completed a number of typography projects for Wired and has produced work for The Guardian Weekend Magazine. His work has been recognised with awards from the Type Directors Club in New York and D&AD. The Design Director for the New York Times Magazine described him as “one of the most talented and versatile creatives working in the business today”. We recently cornered him for a quick chat about his favorite personal project – A series of photofit self-portraits.
 

Matt’s exploration into facial topography, with photographer Gilves Revell and Philip Oltermann, stemmed from a chat between friends over a pint at the local…

_Paris

Roughly a century and a half ago, the art world in Europe felt the shockwave of impressionism: a wave which tore an entire movement free of the binds of tradition. In the present day, there’s no need to fight stiff-collared traditionalists to get your art accepted. Rather, the problem is often quite the reverse. Stephanie Jung manages to achieve the cut-through she needs with some pretty neat photography.

Just as, through brush strokes and technique, impressionists revealed the characters behind their works, Stephanie Jung puts the artist and the viewer back into the picture. (Not literally – That’€™d be really difficult without some kind of super-special reversey-camera.) Instead, we are presented with scenes that may elicit a range of feelings. The multiple impos…

It’€™s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on Redbubble. Here’€™s just some of the action we spotted over the past seven days.
 

^{Work by Lukas Brezak}

• Lucas Brezak’s work was shown as part of ‘Art Takes Time Square’
• Linda Lees shared an article on how to mingle like a pro at art exhibitions
• Debbie Lee’s poetry has been published in an anthology
• Cynthia Lund Torroll’s work won 1st place at the Anderson Arts Center’s Juried Exhibition
• Ina Mar shared her creative process
   

^{Works from Shot in the Heart of Melbourne}

• The ‘Shot in the Heart of Melbourne’ exhibition featuring art from 26 RB artists is now on
• Steven Mace explained the various plot devices authors use
• Jason Asher is taking part in his f

^{Architecture by Re’em Eyal}

An Introduction To Bauhaus Design by Beth Douglas

Bauhaus, German at the time for literally, ‘School of Building’, was a pre-war art movement that combined architecture, fine art and crafts into one fiercely competitive design philosophy. Minimalist, economical and bound in pre-Nazi anxities, the Bauhaus movement was always doomed for a spectacular and controversial period of design law, and eventuated as a key player in 20th century architecture.

Bauhaus focused on creating art by artists without a class system, free of economical binds, crafstmen in the Bauhaus school could make art for the masses; fine crafted, minimalist design and beautiful technique, this philosophy bread out of the intensely obsessional, dedicated artists that honoured the ‘total …

^{Explorer by anderton}
 

A Collection of Amorphous Creatures by Beth Douglas
 

Few things have been with humankind as long as the somewhat bizarre, imaginative expressions of amorphous creatures; not quite human, not quite monster, they live in the unpredictable realm of non-human hybrids. From their beginnings as cave paintings, to the latest in action-thriller beasts, these creatures have reminded us strongly of what we are, and what we are definitely not.

If you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page. And if you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages.

^{Ladybird by Alex DeSp}…

_{Your silent face}
 

Mitsi (Michelle Kral) is a shy rabbit – the kind you glimpse in the wild and yearn for a second look, but find it gone. …Or was it really there in the first place? You begin to doubt your eyes. Wait! There it goes again, darting between the trees: Perhaps the last peek you’ll have today. Fortunately, her art is a little less elusive. For this reclusive creature leaves behind a trail of brightly colored works for forest-lurking art fanatics to fill their binoculars, and their imaginations.

In many works, Kral’s subjects exhibit a kind of plain innocence. Nothing in the way of naivity – This is more a matter of honesty. It may be all that scurrying away mitsi does that allows her to capture a person’s (or other being’s) essence – that instant r…

A Cinemagram Challenge by Natalie Tyler
 

If you have an iPhone you may like to join us in the newest obsession at RBHQ. Cinemagram is a free app that enables you to make creative moving pictures in the style of Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg’s Cinemagraphs, using the camera on your iPhone. Another hipster time waster you say? Well at least one killjoy in the office also said this and he hasn’t stopped sending through examples for this post since last Tuesday. And he doesn’t even own an iPhone.

It’s easy to dismiss apps like Cinemagram as a distraction from Serious Business™ but never underestimate the power of a little creative playtime. Faffing about with Cinemagram might just spark an idea or dust the cobwebs of a part of your brain that hasn’t had a…

^{Z by Nathan Davis}
 

A Collection of Images Inked by the Humble Ballpoint Pen by Nancy Page
 

Whether you’re doodling as you talk to a friend on the phone, or writing an old fashioned love letter to post across the sea, the humble ballpoint pen is the perfect medium to get your ideas from thought onto paper. On June 10th, 1943 the patent for the ‘Birome’ was filed by brothers Laszlo and Georg Bíró. Since then the biro has gone on to become the tool of choice for writers, artists, professionals and students around the world. In recognition of the mighty, and under celebrated, ballpoint pen we’ve curated a collection of wonderful works inked by your everyday common biro.

If you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and lik…

^{Work by Mike Cressy}

• Mike Cressy shared a video showing how he works
• onetonshadow made himself a ‘Liquid Filled Nonsense Machine’ (as you do)
• Justin Minns’ work was featured in What Digital Camera Magazine
• Glitterfest was interviewed for ‘Inside My Head: Art and Design Discussions’
• Gerijuliaj’s photo of her daughter won the Head On photo competition

_{Works by Melissa Drummond}

1. Melissa Drummond was shortlisted for the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
2. Adam de la Mare was interviewed on T-Shirt Groove
3. Cindy Schnackel explains how she created her work ‘Ovine Joy’
4. Aleksandra Kabakova’s drawing ‘Birds’ was featured in Pocketful Illustration Magazine
5. Tadeusz Ludwiszewski suggests young artists check out YAI – Young A

_{Boy in a Field}
 

Daniyel Lowden doesn’t know where he wants to be in 5 years’ time. Well, who does at 19 years of age? And if you’re surrounded by outrageously photogenic young people and have an eye for the supremely gorgeous and a camera in your hand, who the heck cares? Lowden, or duuucky as we know him, has a lens that just luuuves people. If cosmetics companies could pack their products with as much youth and beauty as duuucky packs into these portraits, there’d be a whole lotta confusion round the old folks’ home.

Each shot depicts a lightness – a kind of airy grace, as if the trials of life weighed nothing. Perhaps the most striking thing about this collection is the youth of the photographer himself. How is it that someone so young manages to capture images of those his…

^{Work by ShellyKay}

• ShellyKay was featured on ARTslant
• Pilgrim shared details from an RB artist dinner in Chicago
• grarbaleg was interviewed on ABC
• Andrew Bradsworth is part of a group exhibition
• Thea (tatefox) created an interesting post about artists using uncommon supports
   

^{Work by Samantha Aplin}

• Samantha Aplin had her first exhibition
• AFirestone won the French Arts Letters & Science Société Académique H. Diploma
• John Douglas was interviewed about his ‘Midnight Gardens’ exhibition
• Keith Reesor announced his first live gallery exhibition
• Hung Lin will be speaking at ‘Meet The Makers/Makers of’ about his new animated film
   

^{Work by Hung Lin}

Congratulations to the artists above. Each week we feature a small selection of news, inspiration and …

1. Brushes

Brushes has managed to chalk up some serious credibility. It’s David Hockney’s painting app of choice and The New Yorker has run two covers featuring art created using the app. Brushes gives you access to a large variety of features without compromising on simplicity. It features all the essentials including layers, a generous undo stack, the ability to record your actions while painting and a hefty zoom function that enables you to get great detail on larger files.

_{Art by Goro Fujita, Xoan Baltar and David Kassan}

2. Paper

The people at FiftyThree introduce Paper with two words: simply beautiful. Watch the video introduction and if you’re not already an iPad owner, you’ll probably want to go out and buy one just to test this app out. Paper is an iPad v…

Jazz Covers: LP Designs from the 1940s to 1990s by Natalie Tyler
 

When the recent reissue of Taschen’s Jazz Covers arrived at RBHQ, we were a little shocked at the size and weight of the collection – so much so that we instantly dropped it. If your arms are weak and feeble from hours behind a monitor stabbing desperately at a keyboard, we urge you to take care. Featuring over 500 album covers, from the classic to the obscure, this is one comprehensive and chunky collection of design.
 

Though the collection features covers designed right up to the 1990s, it celebrates an era in record cover design where, for a brief moment, artists weren’t as heavily involved in decisions about how their album and single artwork would look. Though some labels sti…

_{Image by Lost Type founder Riley Cran – from the FieldTripSF Instagram Feed}
 

Lost Type’s San Francisco Field Trip by Natalie Tyler
 

We’ve blogged about fonts from The Lost Type Co-op before but this news just hit our inbox and we thought it was worth a share. Over the next four days, a group of Lost Type’s designers are gathering together in San Francisco for a field trip. Their aim is to create a font inspired by the city in only four days. They’ll be visiting local talents and wandering the city in search of inspiration and some beautiful found type. And they’ll be live blogging the project as they go.

We assume there will be an impressive new font over on The Lost Type Co-op’s website soon (not that we want to pile the pressure on so …

_{Dragon Breath by MrFoz}

Combining some sweet colour choices with an absolute boatload of detail, James Fosdike (MrFoz) has been churning out works (primarily produced on Mac and his treasured Wacom Tablet) in a sprawling portfolio of lines you’ll just love getting lost in. Fosdike’s elaborate works range from the quirky, like ‘Sharkman’, to the undeniably cool (‘Too Big for This Town’, ‘Mohawk Mandrill’) to the dreamlike (‘My Big Blue Buddy’). Others are journalistic, such as those featuring his favourite bird, the tawny frogmouth owl.

Art is in the illustrator’s veins – first emerging at the age of four in an episode involving a paint set, paper and a model pumpkin. Having studied Applied and Visual Art, as well as Graphic Design and Advertising, the artist is well versed in the co…

_{H.R. Giger’s Alien Monster IV}
 

Alien, Prometheus and the Art of H.R. Giger by Evan Chapman

Childhood fears take many different forms; thunderstorms, bogeymen, or the two impossibly huge dogs next door that were always perilously close to knocking the blasted fence down: Make it stop!!! …Ahem. For H.R. Giger, fear took the form of an apparently bottomless shaft he found in a secret part of his childhood home in Switzerland. Below was a darkness that was to creep out of the shaft and onto the many pages the artist has produced throughout life. Years later, when Ridley Scott was struggling to visualise the somewhat amorphous idea of a butt-scary alien for his second film, it didn’t take long for him to appoint Giger as its creator. In fact, Scott relays the story of visit…

_{Give me a sign somewhere…Crossing the Nullarbor Plains by JuliaWright}
 

A Collection of Images Inspired by the Road by Beth Douglas

The open road, the endless highway and a full tank of gas has been a timeless source of inspiration for some of the greatest artists of our time. Robert Frost, Jack Kerouac, Johnny Cash and Robert Frank all sourced ideas and created work about the transient state of having departed but not yet arrived. The creative freedom that stems from the possibilities travel provides has inspired the following collection of our finest images on the exhilliration, intoxicating trepidation and explorative nature of being on the road.

If you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page.…

^{Work by OlgaNoes}

• OlgaNoes shared a video of the creation of her latest work
• Bev Woodman invites you to exhibit your work at a RedBubble Photographic Exhibition
• Various artists have been featured in Capiusa Magazine ‘Black Edition’ No. 2
• Lenka won first place in photography in SoJie 15
• Geoff Smith has a current exhibition of work

^{Work by bowerbirdblues}

• Helen Hehill’s (bowerbirdblues) work was featured at ‘Penguin Plays Rough gets Graphic’
• Paul Tait is exhibiting work as part of the South Australian Living Arts Festival
• SurrealSander is part of the upcoming ‘Exquisite Corpse Expanded’ exhibition
• Trish Loader received a Special Recognition Award in the Figurative Art Competition
• John Dicandia was featured in Navyaata Magazine

^{Work by Joh}…

We think “ghastly” is a pretty strong adjective, but there is certainly something eerie about the work of 20-year-old Brazilian photographer, Louise Leppard. On RB, Leppard goes by the spooky pseudonym, and enjoys herself most when freaking us out with her unearthly, enchanting and sometimes downright disturbing imagery.

Whereas a B-grade movie maker might choose the blunt instruments of violence or horror to shock viewers, Leppard’s work is somewhat more sublime. Check out ‘Private Prison’, ‘Premonition’ or even ‘blck rck’ for a taste of this feeling. Of course, it’s not all unspoken ghouls. Much of Leppard’s imagery is serene and beautiful, like her ‘Nature’ series, or understated like ‘Fim’.

Ghastly first became interested in photography when she got her first digital camera at the ten…

^{Work Anita Inverarity}

• Anita Inverarity has an exhibition on until the end of June
• EveW’s work was exhibited at the Museum of Digital Fine Art
• msdebbie is participating in a Co’lab: Words and Art group exhibition
• Ina Mar’s work is becoming a tattoo (check out the images!)
• VampVamp is looking for people to collaborate with

^{Work by Ulf Bushmann}

• Ulf Bushmann’s illustrated book Berlin Underground Stations has been published
• Audra Lemke was interviewed for the Alice in Wonderland RedBubble group
• Richard Fay’s artwork will be on the cover of Kids’Magination Issue 11
• Nicole Wells will be on TV on June 14th
• Saren Dobkins is taking part in an exhibition for Reconciliation Week

^{Work by Saren Dobkins}

Congratulations to the artists above. Each week we fe…

_{Farewell to hugging Pandas – Hello to Baseball and Organic Tees on RB (The Rebel Rider by Bamboota)}

Introducing Baseball Tees and Organics

We all know that a less than desirable BMI does not exclude you from enjoying fashion delights borrowed from the more athletic. With this in mind, we’re happy to announce that we’ve added Baseball Tees to the RedBubble product arsenal. Perfect for showing off the tatts you acquired in the Merchant Navy, they’ll also make your favourite designs look killer.

The Nitty Gritty: 50/50 Polyester Cotton Blend Unisex 3/4 Sleeve Baseball T-Shirt made by American Apparel. White body with Red, Green, Heather Blue, Black, Brown or Dark Blue sleeves and Black with White sleeves (as modelled here by some fancy feathered fashionistas).
 …

When Australian band, Rezzalp, created their album ‘In My Dreams’, they knew exactly where to go for a suitable album cover. Catrin Welz-Stein is a master of dreamscapes and expertly brings together images that would reflect the band’s theatrical and rather quirky music. Catrinarno (in Bubblespeak) revels in bringing together images from Picasso, Klimt, Botticelli and Otto Dix among others, using Photoshop to sew the works of these greats into her own surreal quilt.

There is a cool grace in each of her images, thanks in part to the cleverly-selected sources of reference material, but no less the skill that Welz-Stein employs in bringing them together. Characters gaze directly at the viewer with a nonchalance that puts him/her at ease while taking in the otherworldly scene. “Yes, so we ar…

^{Work by Braidy Hughes}

• Braidy Hughes’ work was featured in the Sunday Mail U Mag
• Katie Leonatti’s poetry will be published in BAC Street Journal
• Richie Dean is organising an RB meetup in Wales
• Tine Wiggens’ work will be included in an international trade show for greeting cards
• Tanja Udelhofen shared an interview with surrealist artist Pauline Góra

^{Work by Citizen}

• Citizen shared some new book covers
• Maria Paterson was filmed for an upcoming TV show
• Philip Johnson won the Art Unlimited Photography Prize
• Msdebbie’s poetry will be included in a new app by The Red Room Company
• Various Bubblers will be taking part in The Bad Apple Artist Collective auction

^{Work by Stephanie Allison, BeeG, Laurie McClave & tanyabond}

Congratulations to the artists above. …

Occasionally a telegram will fly across our virtual press desk, enquiring about art and design for an up and coming editorial or blog feature. We’ll snap into gear and push as much awesomeness in their general direction in the hope that we can spread the love for more RB artists. Sometimes we see opportunities on the horizon; things we predict will be covered on blogs, in magazines and other media.

We’ve always been a little reluctant to post about press opportunities or the creation of more commercial work because this kind of thing can get people’s underpants in a twist. But the RB community is a diverse place. As part of this diversity, we’re home to a growing number of illustrators, photographers, designers and artists who do create works that reflect curre…

You may remember a couple of weeks ago we posted about Free Comic Book Day here on the RB Blog. Well we also sent Beth Douglas along to catch up with RB Comic Artist Matt Dunn who was giving away free drawings at Melbourne’s All Star Comics on the day. After some considerable effort actually getting into the store, Beth finally witnessed first hand just how happy comic book fans are at the prospect of free swag. Here are a few shots of Free Comic Book Day in action in Melbourne.

If you missed out this year, make sure Free Comic Book Day is on the calendar for 2013. And if you’re a comic artist, don’t forget this could be a great opportunity to support your local comic book store while gaining some more exposure for your work.
 

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The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes. Narrated by Tom Waits.

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_{discovered via Coudal Partners}
 

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1. A Collection of Hand Cut Collages
2. Artybollocks Generator
3. How to Make a Repeat Pattern in Illustrator
4. Art and Design Heroes: Storm Thorgerson
5. Featured Artist: Chelsgus
    

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_{Life by Susan Ringler}
 

Although we also enjoy the digital versions, there’s a special sort of admiration reserved for artists who like collecting old materials, risking scalpel injuries and getting glue under their fingernails. We have to admit to being just a little envious of artists who have a knack for repurposing old imagery and throwing new light on familiar subject matter. We’ve gathered together a collection of impressive collages created using traditional methods. Subversive, thought provoking, humorous or a little bit absurd, there’s always a place in our favorites for some great collage work.

If you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages…

Do you hate having to write your own artist statement? Let the Artybollocks Generator do all the hard work for you. Also available in concise twitter form – aka short bollocks. We’re off to explore the relationship between the tyranny of ageing and copycat violence.

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Repeat or seamless patterns look great on posters, textiles and iPhone cases. They lend themselves to a number of mediums including printmaking, illustration, graphic design and typography. So in the grand old RB tradition of learning about stuff, we’ve whipped up a tutorial showing you how to create a repeat pattern in Adobe Illustrator.

_{Top: A selection of patterns by artists on RB. Click on the images to see the original works.
Above: iPhone cases by Ekaterina Panova, Kotopes, Socialite and Ella Tjader.}
 

Step One: Setting Up Your Document
 

Open a new document in Illustrator. The size of the document isn’t too important as long as it’s not tiny. We’ve made ours 600 px x 600 px. Go to your view menu and turn on ‘show grid’ …

For those of you who’ve never heard the name, Storm Thorgerson’s art is not the kind that is pressed into vinyl: It’s the stuff that wraps it up – those weird images that are at first bizarre and engrossing, and over years become so familiar that the mere sight of them immediately conjures up the audio which they are commissioned to promote.

Hermit test: Take a look at the collection of album covers below. If nothing rings a bell, there is a good chance you’ve been living under a soundproof rock since some time in the seventies.

Fans of Thorgerson will already know that he is famed as a founding member of Graphic Design collaboration ‘Hipgnosis’ (incidentally, a name plagiarised from an unsuspecting graffiti artist), under which banner, he produced album covers for Led Zeppelin’s…

• Tahnja’s work is going to feature on a TV special and DVD
• Craig Martin is Artist of the Month for June at Retrospect Galleries Byron Bay
• Alice Carroll has started a Kickstarter project called ClassRealm
   

^{Work by Alice Carroll}

• Esther Moliné had an exhibit of her work at the Harold’s Cross Festival
• msdebbie is looking for poets to participate in the 2012 Poetry in Film Festival
• Brett Manning’s work was featured on Lost At E Minor
   

^{Work by brettisagirl}
 

• Kimberly Daigle’s work is on display at the Mashpee Public Library
• KatHarvey will be selling her work at ‘Art in the Open’
• Donna Hutchins and Sergei Rukavishnikov collaborated on a project
   

^{Work by Sergei Rukavishnikov}
 

• Natalie Ord was interviewed for the North East Regional Extra

A few weeks back we asked you to put your creative skills to work, designing a t-shirt in support of Oxfam’s Grow Campaign – calling for urgent action from governments, corporations and communities, encouraging them to collaborate in finding new and sustainable ways of ensuring that everyone has enough to eat. Everyone who entered a design helped to raise awareness for the campaign so we’d like to say a huge thanks to the artists who took part. The winning t-shirt design will help raise funds for Oxfam and RedBubble is also gifting a menagerie of animals on behalf of the winners and runners up.

In true RB style, you created some thoughtful and impressive t-shirt designs. And now the time has come to announce the winners of the Oxfam GROW T-Shirt Design Challenge.
 

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Chelsea Gustafsson (going by the name Chelsgus on RB) has a talent for blending two or more elements in a kind of artistic alchemy that results in some serious eye candy.

The artist lives in beautiful Barwon Heads, Victoria, Australia and has enjoyed creating things as long as she can remember. Her work is as innovative as it is entertaining, colorful and diverse, including a variety of media from photography, typography and painting. The influence of the surrounding ocean is also clear in Chelsgus’ work. In addition to oil paintings featuring whales, swimmers and sharks, you’ll also find some stunning photography, including surfers on some of the world’s most celebrated breaks …Only, thanks to the magic of the tilt shift effect, they appear to be about half an inch tall. (There…

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_{TateShots: Maurice Sendak}

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• Antonello Incagnone had a video published on Art Hub
• Virginian Photography was featured on artimpressionsbysherri.com
• Catherine Walker was mentioned in The Australian
• Ali Gulec was featured on the koikoikoi blog
   

^{Works by Ali Gulec}

• Trish Woodford, Rookwood Studio and Jen Waltmon are part of the ‘Add On’ exhibit
• Pene Stevens is taking part in the ‘Australia in 24 hours project’
• Brett Rogers shared a link to an interview with photographer Mary Ellen Mark
• Aleksandra’s work ‘Birds’ was featured in Pocketful Illustration Magazine
   

^{Work by Aleksandra Kabakova}

• Margo Humphries has an article in Social Life Magazine
• Rosie Appleton is looking for a wildlife photographer in Melbourne
• Ina Mar, mermanda and RC deWinter were published in Pink Panther M

Stanley Donwood gained recognition in 1994 when he began designing album art for the Grammy award winning rock band, Radiohead. His work has since been used for 15 singles, 9 EPs and various studio albums including The Bends, Kid A, OK Computer, and Hail to the Thief. In addition to his work with Radiohead, Donwood has successfully exhibited paintings, etchings, lino prints and screen prints across Europe, Asia and the US. He has published 5 of his own monographs, created a record label (Six Inch Records) and designed all official artwork for the Glastonbury Festival since 2002. Donwood currently lives and works in Essex, England. Thomas Hyland caught up with Stanley Donwood ahead of his exhibition at Subliminal Projects in LA, this month.
 

Firstly, why Los Angeles or why America f…

This Saturday, 5th of May is Free Comic Book Day. One day a year, participating comic book stores around the world open their doors to the masses and offer them free comics. And no, we’re not making this up. The day is designed to encourage more people to frequent their local comic book store, support comic book artists and generally get amongst some amazing comic art. You can find more info and a list of local participating stores on the Free Comic Book Day website.
 

Weekend Project For Free Comic Book Day
 

If you’re looking for a creative exercise to get your teeth into this weekend, and you also happen to love comic books, we’d like to see your tribute to comic book stores and/or comic art. This can be in any form you like but it should be a n…

_{Midnight in the Stone Garden}

If art is truly a reflection of one’s surrounds, then Terry Fan must have one heck of a moon tan. Much of Fan’s art seems so strongly inspired by hazy, moonlit nights that you might wonder if he’s ever up during the day time. This nocturnal ambience is expertly laid over the surreal: a rugged up abominable snowman, glowing jelly bears loitering in the forest or a whale lazily swimming by a cumulonimbus.

Not surprisingly, Fan has been recruited for the illustration of children’s books (a match seemingly made in heaven). He has also extended his creative talents as far as graphic novels, album cover art and even screen writing. Aside from his expertise in lighting the unbelievable with some very believable night lighting, the artistR…

^{Tian An Men Square by Gamal Istiyanto}

If you wandered past someone carrying a taped up biscuit tin or cardboard box last weekend, chances are you may have actually spotted a pinhole photography enthusiast in the wild, capturing an image or two for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. In honour of these patient, inquisitive, and sometimes quite experimental photographers, we’ve filed through the RB archives to bring you a few mesmerizing examples they prepared earlier. These images are all the more inspirational when you take a moment to remember they’re the product of little more than a box with a very tiny hole. Think about that next time you’re browsing the interwebs looking at that expensive piece of equipment!

If you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

^{Work by tank}

• Tank currently has a pop up gallery of his work in Melbourne
• Kimberly Daigle took part in Sotherby’s cultural weekend
• MoniqueGeurts is having her first solo exhibition – ‘Moments in Time’

^{Work by Tanja Udelhofen}

• Tanja Udelhofen shared an interview she did with Italian surrealist artist Luca Rossi
• Rsangsterkelly went on a night photography tour around Big Ben and the London Eye
• Donnahuntriss has an upcoming solo art show – ‘Hoop, Needle & Thread’

^{Work by berndt2}

• Berndt2 waited 11 hours to get shots of the cast of Avengers at the European premiere
• Eon wants to know if anyone in Melbourne is looking for

Last week, Penguin Books UK launched the Penguin English Library classic series. The collection will feature brand new, beautifully designed covers by Coralie Bickford-Smith. To mark this occasion they commissioned Woof Wan-Bau to produce the lovely animated video below.

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If you fancy checking out Coralie Bickford-Smith’s work, you’ll find more information and some beautiful cover designs on the Penguin English Library website.

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More Articles From The RedBubble Blog:
 

1. Beautiful Book Cover Design
2. Photographic Typologies: The Study of Types
3. 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design
4. 30 Examples of Beautiful Typography
5. 10 Websites an

It’s World Graphic Design Day which begs the question – Have you hugged a Graphic Designer recently? Some of them are quite adorable. Here’s a collection that pays tribute to those who are often found slavishly working away until the wee hours by the light of a shiny monitor. For one day only, we’ll refrain from asking if you could make the logo bigger or sending you all the files you need in Microsoft Word format. Our gift to you on World Graphic Design Day is in the form of some excellent art and design dedicated to Graphic Designers and a whole lot of Lorem Ipsum. Enjoy!
 

_{From top to bottom: Lorem Ipsum by Helen Brennan, What are you doing? by Steve Leadbeater, Freelance is NOT free by Ena Bacanovic, Don’t forget to feed the cat by littleart}…

The art of Photographic Typologies has its roots in August Sander’s 1929 series of portraits entitled ‘Face of Our Time’, a collection of works documenting German society between the two World Wars. Sander sought to create a record of social types, classes and the relationships between them, and recognised that the display of his portraits as a collection revealed so much more than the individual images would alone. So powerful was this record, the photographic plates were destroyed and the book was banned soon after the Nazis came into power four years later.
 

_{Above: Images from August Sander’s ‘Face of Our Time’ and Top: Work by Bernd and Hilla Becher}
 
The term ‘Typology’ was first used to describe a style of photography when Bernd and Hilla Becher began…

Photographer Krzysztof Wladyka has managed to spread some amazing contrast throughout his portfolio – not the sort you might be thinking of, though. Rather, the contrast between somber lighting and colors, and the sense of amusement we see in all of his work.

Wladyka seems to play with his subject matter in such a way that it is fascinating to view and quite often genuinely humorous, all the while maintaining a style that is incontrovertibly stunning. As with all things in life, this is the result of plain old elbow grease: Wladyka painstakingly works his shots, moulding subject matter on screen to create the gorgeous, moody images you will encounter throughout this portfolio.

We don’t recommend viewing this collection on a beat-up laptop with low battery power outside on a sunny …

_{Bubbles by Claire McAdams}
 

This Sunday is Earth Day and to mark the occasion, we’ve gathered together 30 works that celebrate our planet. The collection takes in wild weather, starry skies, aerial photography and encounters with wonderful wildlife, and reminds us that we should probably step away from our computers more often and spend a little more time appreciating the world around us. But before you put that wise advice into action, spend a moment appreciating these marvellous artworks.

From now until April 26, enter the code EARTH2012 for 5% off your Redbubble order and we’ll donate another 5% to The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt An Acre program.

If you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individu…

_{Image Credit: Photo: Tom Greenwood/OxfamAUS}

A reminder that you have just over a week to get your entries in for the Oxfam GROW T-Shirt Design Challenge. Oxfam’s GROW campaign calls for urgent action from governments, corporations and communities, encouraging them to collaborate in finding new and sustainable ways of ensuring that everyone has enough to eat – and what better way to raise awareness for this important cause than with some excellent t-shirt design. We’re calling on talented t-shirt designers across the Bubble to create a design in support of the Oxfam GROW campaign.
 

What Sort of Themes Could I Include In My Design?
 

If you’re stuck for ideas, the campaign aims to raise awareness of the problems with the global food system, including climate cha…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

_{Works by Michael Shapcott}

• Michael Shapcott launched a Kickstarter campaign aimed at teaching people to draw
• Hege Nolan completed her 365 photography project and shared her favorites
• LadyAvalon is part of a special spring show at the Memorial Art Gallery
• Midori Furze ran an origami workshop at her studio

^{Work by Karin Taylor}

• Karin Taylor is writing a book
• Benedikt Amrhein has a permanent exhibition in the Museum of Computer Art
• Randy Monteith was published in PhotoShop Creative Magazine
• One of Barbara Caffell’s images has been used as the front cover for a book

_{Work by Valerie Rosen}

• Valerie Rosen has been published in 18% Grey: A Street Photography Magaz

_{Belle-ile, falaise by alecska}

As the world commemorates the 100th anniversary of the sinking of The Titanic this week, we thought we’d take a look at some inspiring nautical, oceanic and seaside inspired artworks on RedBubble.

If you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages. And if you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page.

I do like to be beside the holga seaside by redcow

…a past found by Lauren Hewitt

This storm would pass me by by stibou

Ocean Blue by scottnaismith

Footprints by SylviaCook

Aglow by Lala Mártin

PENARTH PIER IN THE RAIN by kfbphoto

Ocean Meets Sky by Terry Fan…

When you buy one of those books that slyly grabs the alphanumerical marketing advantage by starting with a nice round number, you often end up disappointed. After first slapping yourself for not browsing it more thoroughly in the book shop, you cry: ‘100…?! Why didn’t they just call it, “The 63 Greatest Photos of Cats Attacking Teddy Bears” and drop the 37 page-fillers?’ Fortunately, that’s not the case with the collaborative work of Stephen Heller and Veronique Vienne, 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design. In fact, the writers refer to the difficulty of whittling said ‘ideas’ down to the nice round figure. But you don’t need us to tell you that: Sift through their insightful descriptions of the chosen century, and you’ll find this is quite self-evident.

Don’t expect to find a…

Ever imagined yourself in a video game? “What sort of world would it be?” you ponder. “Would I have any special powers?” Far more importantly; How would you look? Well, if you ever gain the notoriety of the likes of Lady Gaga, Boy George or His Purple Highness, VIPs (aka Very Important Pixels) might just strip away all the wonder and immortalise you in the kind of digital mosaic worthy of an appearance on your old Sega Master System.

The VIPs collection is literally hundreds strong, and no-one is too sacred to be depicted (depix-ted?!). The portfolio includes world leaders, the odd cartoon character and, yes, every James Bond.

Considerable care has been taken with these caricatures, too. For instance, Napoleon is several pixels shorter than his two neighbours, Saddam Hussein and Francisco…

To pay tribute to artists with an eye for great color, we’ve gathered together a selection of some the most impressive bright, bold, vivid and vibrant artworks on RedBubble. We hope you enjoy the following collection.

If you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages. And if you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page.

rain maker by EeVien

TURN.ON.THE.BRIGHT.SENSES by Archan Nair

Flinders Street by StephenJames

Freedom in the Savanna Sun by emxacloud

The Gypsy Skirt by Roz McQuillan

Things will be great by mistermoog

Paris by night by agnès trachet

Bicycle Thief, Hot Summer Street by Tepa Lahti…

_{Image Credit: Clive Arrowsmith}

Critics, journalists and viewers alike have always loved to hate Damien Hirst. If one thing unites contemporary art dialogues, it is the sport-like nature of bashing his artistic and business endeavours. Controversial and deliberately provocative, he is now arguably more recognised for his soundbites and attitude to the relationship between art and commerce than he is for contributions to modern art.

_{Image Credit: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – Saatchi Gallery}

Damien Hirst has spent the last twenty years becoming one very savvy businessman. In 2007, For the Love of God – a skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds – sold for £50 million. And in 2008 Hirst auctioned 223 items of work for a record £111 million. …

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we’ve spotted recently.

^{Work by MoonSpiral}

• MoonSpiral has been featured in Catapult Art Magazine
• Dominika Aniola brings a wildlife photo contest to our attention
• Rookwood Studio will have her art shown in Times Square

^{Work by Richard Yeomans}

• Richard Yeomans has had two paintings selected for an exhibition at Batley Art Gallery
• RedBubble announced a t-shirt design challenge with Oxfam
• Berndt2’s images have been published in International Life Magazine

^{Work by Anthea Piszuk}

• Anthea Piszczuk invites you to her solo exhibition ‘texture’
• Simon Aberle had his first exhibition of work
• Odille Esmonde-Morgan received a Bronze Award in a Better Digital Camera Magazi

Ryan Humphrey has about as much fun with a moleskine sketch pad and a box of Faber-Castells as anyone possibly can. Take a look at his portfolio, but prepare to feel a little funny afterwards: The haunting juxtaposition of surreal images and some pretty sweet tonal work is sure to send your brain on a bit of a bender.

Many of Humphrey’s works depict scenes from fairy tales, myths and movies. Others are portraits, or striking, sometimes amusing, beasts from his own imagination. All works, however, reveal a playfulness that the artist exercises to bring characters to life on the page. This is achieved by building a mental collage of a variety of second-hand images and deciding how these will come together in the final product. Quite a mental feat, really, but Humphrey has the technique…

_{Works by Ania Tomicka and Chris Brett}

The Lowbrow art movement, also known as Pop Surrealism, was born out of Los Angeles’ underground culture in the 1970s. Since its very beginning, Lowbrow has borrowed from the best. Drawing inspiration from street art, skateboarding culture, DIY comics and fanzines, surrealism, cartoons, hot rod culture, and propelled by both the punk and psychedelic rock scenes, Lowbrow has developed into its own unique, unbridled artistic endeavour.

Lowbrow exudes technical strength and remains subversive and unapologetically dark. It is moody and atmospheric, character driven and narrative based. Lowbrow hangs together by its distinct stylistic traits; characterised features on creatures, (think doe eyes and large heads) with heavily stylised, cartoon-i…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

^{Work by Andrew Paranavitana}

• Andrew Paranavitana is part of the Melbourne Independent Photography Festival 2012
• Celeste Mookherjee has had 4 works featured in Digital Photo Magazine
• Les Boucher won a Silver Award from Better Digital Camera Magazine

^{Work by Robin Monroe}

• Robin Monroe shared a new video of her art
• Ruben D Mascaro is showing a work in his first exhibition
• Cade Turner has opened a new studio

^{Work by Polly Greathouse}

• Polly Greathouse’s work ‘Bioenergetics’ will be part of a juried exhibition
• Randy Spout won 2nd prize in an Art Creations Magazine contest
• Douglas Stucky’s work is on display in a local art gallery

^{Work by Ing}…

Great typography – whether hand drawn, discovered in urban environments, or lovingly designed from scratch – can be a work of art in itself. To pay tribute to artists and designers with an eye for great type, we’ve gathered together a collection of some the most impressive typography on RedBubble.

If you enjoy this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page. And if you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages.

You Light Up My Life by ScarlettVeith

The Road Not Taken by JillianAudrey

Ships are safe in harbor! by theseakiwi

Abandoned Restaurant by DaveBowman

All Animals are Equal by thebrink

Tale…

At the risk of the bookshelf collapsing altogether, here’s another fascinating read we’ll almost certainly need to add to our list. There’s plenty of supporting material for Jonah Lehrer’s new book Imagine: How Creativity Works, and the following articles and videos provide some quite inspiring food for thought. According to Lehrer, we spend 50% of our lives daydreaming, so before you start staring wistfully out the window at that pigeon, wrap your synapses around these informative nuggets.
 

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1. How To Be Creative (Wall Street Journal)
2. Groupthink: The Brainstorming Myth (The New Yorker)
3. Cultivating Genius (Wired)

We think Dutch photographer, Farfarm (Michel Verhoef) has an invisibility cloak. Such is his ability to capture human beings doing what they do without even the vaguest sense that they are posing for the camera. This portfolio, an amalgamation of captured moments in human life, is endearing, warm and deeply moving.

Verhoef’s photos are technically masterful; he uses light and contrast beautifully, and the composition is marvellous. No square centimetre is wasted in any shot. If anything, he crowds the frame with his subjects (adding further weight to the invisibility cloak theory), their poses telling us stories that we already know, yet are somehow fascinating when placed in the butterfly case of a photograph.

At times, these moments are left to the viewer to apply his or her own interp…

_{Image credit: Mark Gardner and Imaginary Forces}

We’re interested in hearing about how you take a creative concept through to a finished work. For the Mad Men title sequence, what kind of brief was supplied to you at the very beginning, what were your initial reactions and how did they differ from the finished product?

The first thing to state is the wide variety of different work that I do. I work on almost anything from re-branding companies/networks to creating content for movies/shows as well interactive work. Therefore the briefs vary hugely from project to project. Sometimes the brief is a 20 page document prepared by a marketing department or even 3rd party consultant, or it could literally be simply the pilot for a show and nothing else. I’m guessing you are more inter…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

^{Work by Sandrine Pelissier}

• Sandrine Pelissier invites you into her studio as part of The North Shore Art Crawl
• Valerie Rosen has been interviewed by Trillium Gallery
• Philip Johnson is planning a RedBubble meet up in Sydney on April 7th

^{Work by Natalie Ord}

• Natalie Ord received a special mention in the ABC Open Up Close Photography Competition
• TAPGallery calls artists to enter the Pyrmont Art Prize
• Jewelskings’ picture ‘Dream Big’ has been used as the cover for a book

^{Work by Siegeworks}

• Siegeworks’ design ‘Road Rash’ was featured in Superbike Magazine
• Margo Humphries encourages you to participate in the This is Not Art festi

Each year at South by Southwest, the Flatstock poster expo showcases work from some of the best music poster artists the world has to offer. Dan Kuhlken and Nathan Goldman, aka DKNG Studios, have been resident poster artists for Hollywood’s Troubadour club since 2007. They’ve created posters for Phish, The National, Explosions in the Sky, The Black Keys, Iron & Wine and Flight of the Conchords among others. We caught up with Dan ahead of this year’s Flatstock, to quiz him on making a career in band poster design and his advice to fellow designers.

How did you meet your design partner in crime, Nathan?

We actually met in high school on our track team. He was in the pole vault team, I was in the sprint team. In my college years, I really missed doing any sort of coll…

Painter Glenn Brady’s story is bleak in a way that seems incongruent with his home city of Brisbane. The subtropical city in Queensland, Australia is known for liveability, amiable locals and its proximity to some of the world’s most beautiful coastline. Could this paradise have a flip side carefully tucked away from the tourist trails? Brady brings the grit of a life in the industrial landscape of Brisbane’s less photographed zones to a shimmering reality.

Glenn Brady is an extraordinarily prolific artist, having contributed literally hundreds of his stirring paintings to RedBubble. Echoes of painters like Peter Booth and Albert Tucker sound through his work, which still possess their very own style: Melancholy urban landscapes are often strangely contrast with the vibrant colours of sun…

A fixation with great printing, lovely paper and a slightly unhealthy obsession with stationery and art supplies seem to go hand in hand with holding a security pass to the front doors of RBHQ, so it’s no surprise we’re amassing a bit of a collection of art and design books. We’re always on the lookout for inspiring, art filled tomes to add to the RedBubble office bookshelf, so you can imagine our delight when we came across our latest find.

Bike Art: Bicycles In Art Around The World is a beautifully presented, 256 page homage to the bicycle and a bit of a revelatory read. Its hardback covers are bursting with amazing art and design, and we have to admit we weren’t conscious of just how much inspiration this this two-wheeled mode of transport has provided to artis…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week (and last week too, as we had a little break!).

^{Work by Squirrell}

• Anastasiia Kucherenko shared her interview with fellow bubbler Nic Squirrell
• A selection of Charles Staig’s works are on display at the West Wemyss Walk Inn
• George Lenz has scored a gig as a freelance photographer for a local magazine

^{Work by Michael Alesich}

• Michael Alesich made an elephant out of a ukulele for the Pimp My Ukulele competition
• Woodie’s painting of the HMS Beagle has been published in a book
• Darren Stones reminds Australian photographers that the 2012 Henry Lawson Festival of Arts Photography Awards is open for entry

^{Work by Neville Jones}

• Neville Jones’ image &

Each year at South by Southwest, the Flatstock poster expo showcases work from some of the best music poster artists the world has to offer. Flatstock veteran, Rob Jones has produced posters for bands including The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Band of Horses, Flight of the Conchords, The Raconteurs and The Kills. We tracked Rob down ahead of this year’s Flatstock, to quiz him on the methods behind his own brand of design madness.

If you’re interested in the symbolism in the Raconteurs posters, how Rob ended up with co-writing credits on Jack White’s latest single and his tips for excellent poster design, all is revealed in the following paragraphs.
 

_{Image credit: SXSW Flatstock – Photo courtesy of Merrick Ales}
 

In your biography on Animal Rummy you seem to h…

Now if you chew gum, ride a skateboard, blow off homework to watch South Park, Futurama or Family Guy and don’t give a rat’s about the differences between them, nor their petty inter-network rivalries, then you’re probably 43. Or 35. Okay 30 at the least, but the point is you grew up in the eighties and you’re hooked on that good-ol’ colorful candy for the soul. And it’s no wonder, really, because eighties TV networks served it all.

Even since well before the wondrous eighties, cartoons have inspired generations of children to think outside the box, to invent new characters, to find magic in all they see and to always consider the launch trajectory of an Acme rocket and the proximity of cliff overhangs when blasting themselves towards super-fast, highway-dwelling avian prey. Well, if you …

It’s time to announce the winners of The Big Sleep SXSW T-Shirt Design Challenge. But first, here are the top 20 finalists in no particular order. Congrats to the following artists for making the final cut:
 

And the winner of The Big Sleep SXSW T-Shirt Design Challenge is …
 

Congratulations to the mighty Tom Kurzanski who wowed the guys from The Big Sleep with the fancy number below. 50 t-shirts featuring Tom’s design are winging their way to Austin. And each tee features info about Tom and the competition printed inside the neckline, making them truly limited edition. Tom is also the proud new owner of:

1. The Big Sleep’s debut album ‘Nature Experiments’ on vinyl with bonus 7" + mp3
2. A US$200 RedBubble voucher to buy awesome stuff wit

David Rubinger spent 50 years as a photographer for Time Magazine, covering conflicts in Israel. During this time he photographed 8 wars and documented the struggles of the region and the lives of those on both sides of the conflicts. On a recent trip to Jerusalem, intrepid RB interviewer Beth Douglas tracked David down and quizzed him on his experiences as a war photographer, his advice for young photographers and photojournalists and his thoughts on the future of war photojournalism.

How did you begin taking photographs?

It was the day France celebrated it’s liberation from Nazi occupation in 1945. I was getting on a train after spending time in Paris and meeting a French girl. We were at the train platform and she gave me a camera as I was leaving. It was just a very small, basic 35m…

If you’re in the northern hemisphere there’s a good chance you’re thoroughly sick of having to wear three pairs of socks and scraping ice off your windscreen. The good news is that it’s only a matter of weeks before the new shoots of Spring start to appear and people start getting their pasty legs out all over the place. The beginning of Spring is often associated with a clear out and a de-clutter. While this may conjure up images of alphabetizing your vinyl or polishing the oven, it’s actually a great excuse to take a look at your workspace and to do a little housekeeping to ensure you’re feeling refreshed and inspired. We’ve whipped up a list of 10 simple projects and tasks that, with little effort, will help freshen up your workspace. No matter…

_{Negative Atom and What The Bark Is That?}

Try though we might to grow up, in each of us lives a little Jiminy Cricket: a tiny voice streaming hopelessly optimistic wisdoms like those fed to children since time immemorial. Fear not! US-based artist, BootsBoots, wields a colorful can of bug spray to deal with these chirruping distractions from the grit of real life.

BootsBoots, aka Boots or Jamie Melani Marshall, hails out of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and has a growing portfolio on RedBubble. Never too shy to make the odd pop culture reference, she frequently takes the images that accompany our childish and irrational positivity and to each applies a reality bite worthy of more than just a laugh. Marshall combines tidy design, skillful color arrangements and her sharp wit to bring some im…

Medium format film enjoyed its heyday from the 1890s to the 1950s, outselling other film formats until 35mm began to dominate the market. During the 1990s and 2000s, manufacturers like Hasselblad and Mamiya developed digital medium format cameras but its popularity was still limited by the price of some of these pieces of kit (top of the range medium format digital cameras can cost in the tens of thousands). In recent years, the rise of Lomography, the popularity of low-fi or toy cameras and a fascination with vintage camera equipment has meant many photographers have discovered medium format film for the first time. The following collection of images from RedBubble photographers shows just how versatile the format can be. From architectural wonders to intimate portraits, these works prov…

In these times of austerity, we’re constantly encouraged to recycle, mend and make do. But when it comes to DIY hacks, we believe that although form follows function, we shouldn’t have to compromise on cool. So we set ourselves a challenge to create a simple DIY flash diffuser with a little bit of style.

Perhaps you don’t care if you wander around with a half chewed polystyrene cup jammed on the top of your camera but if you’re constantly hounded by the paparazzi or have neighbors to impress, the following tutorial may prompt you to consider how you can make your own hacks a fraction more awesome. A flash diffuser is designed to scatter or bounce light from the camera’s flash so that it’s much softer. Ideally, the inside of a flash diffuser should be wh…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

^{Work by Sorina Williams}

• Sorina Williams shared an interview on Through The Lens about her work
• Bethany Holland has been placed in the Commended Group of the Sony World Photographic Competition
• Claudia Dingle shared a step-by-step guide to creating a watercolour

^{Work by Geoffrey Dunn}

• Geoffrey Dunn won every class he entered at the Royal Canberra Show
• Anthony Hedger has been approached to write tutorials for Photoshop Creative Magazine
• Linda Sannuti shared the first music video to their original music

^{Work by Aleksandra Kabakova}

• Aleksandra Kabakova has been interviewed on leivos.com
• David Lamb’s work ‘Laugh’ has been selected to be shown at t

Had architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe been a film fan, we imagine he would have approved of the following collection of minimalist movie posters. Great designers are able to successfully communicate a message using only basic shapes or a handful of elements so while these designs may be deceptively simple, they demonstrate impressive design and visual communication skills. Whether you’re a fan of great design or just an avid film buff, we hope you enjoy this collection.

If you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages. And if you love this collection, please feel free to share this post using the tweet and like buttons at the top right of the page!

The Usual Suspec…

Next month, Austin, Texas will become a hive of new bands, new tech offerings and fresh new film releases as the South by Southwest conference rolls into town. Known as a conference where the best new talent is launched and discovered, SXSW is a magnet for tech companies, record labels and film studios with their eyes peeled for and unknown and unsigned gems.

Very awesome Brooklyn band The Big Sleep will be performing at this year’s SXSW conference. So impressed are they by the t-shirt designing talent on RedBubble, they’re giving designers the opportunity to create a limited edition t-shirt for their SXSW gig.

_{Image Credit: The Big Sleep album, single and EP covers}

If you’d like your artistic prowess spread liberally around the greatest music conference in the world, it…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

^{Work by Helena Babic}

• Helena Babic is exhibiting a piece of her work in the upcoming show ‘Little Deities’
• Steven Mace’s story ‘Epiphany’ has been published on the ‘Runaway Writings’ website
• Tomoe Nakamura is part of a group show at the Brick Lane in London

^{Work by Ben Ryan}

• Ben Ryan is looking for interested parties to join a shooting tour of Peru
• Philip Johnson reminds everyone the 2012 Epson International Pano Awards are open for entries
• MarcW’s work was exhibited at a London Fashion Week event

^{Work by Mitch Labuda}

• Mitch Labuda shared information on job opportunities for art instructors and assistants
• Ellybean

Sunday February 26th marks the 84th Oscars ceremony – a night that celebrates the greatest moments in film during the past year. Inspired by the occasion, we’ve put together a collection of images with a cinematic or theatrical theme – and a sprinkling of old fashioned, vintage Hollywood glamour for good measure. Some of these images capture the essence of Hollywood’s great characters, others honor the craft of great acting, while a few just have a certain filmic quality. So grab your popcorn and an extra large cola as you soak up these great works.

If you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages. And if you love this collection, please feel f…

You get the feeling that Gabriel Campanario’s love of urban sketching borders on obsession. That if, confronted with a streetscape featuring some nice contrasts and negative spaces, for want of a note pad, he’d pull out his last hundred Euro note without hesitation. A pen might be fashioned from a soggy chopstick found atop a municipal garbage bin (and it’d be dipped in his own blood if it was the only pigmented substance in reach). Such is the artist’s desire to capture the archways, roads and architraves of cities wherever he goes. And Campanario isn’t alone in his love of translating urban landscapes into little rectangles of eye candy. In his book, The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World, he showcases the work of over a hundred like-minded artists. We’re…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted last week.

^{Work by Randy Monteith}

• Randy Monteith’s work was awarded image of the week by PhotoShop Creative Magazine
• Erica Corr is looking forward to being creative in her first ever studio
• Linda Sannuti’s Komdo dragon eye photo will be published in El Semanal Magazine

^{Work by Richard Young}

• Richard Young will be exhibiting his work in Taipei
• The National Library of New Zealand has purchased all of Kelvin Hayes’ eBooks
• PEZRULEZ was featured on TeeGazette.com

^{Work by Ina Mar}

• Ina Mar’s illustration features on the cover of Joe Riley’s new book
• SilverLilyMoon is participating in her first gallery showing
• Maria Murphy is looking for artists to

Eastman Kodak Company marked the end of an era today with the announcement that they’re phasing out their camera business in order to focus on their brand licensing program. But good news for some – they’ll continue to produce film and photographic paper.

In the late 1800s George Eastman set out “to make the camera as convenient as the pencil” and he succeeded in making photography something we could all try our hand at. At one point in their history, Kodak was responsible for 85% of all camera sales and 90% of all film sales in the U.S. but some argue that the once pioneering company were too slow to act while others adapted to developments in digital photography.

We know RB is home to many Kodak enthusiasts. We’d love to hear your …

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted last week.

^{Work by Sophia Buddenhagen}

• Sophia Buddenhagen’s work can be found at I.O. Metro and Ikea
• Tam Locke has been published in Australian Traveller Magazine
• Barbara Glatzeder’s first solo show opens on February 15

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• Ine Spee has a started a project to post one drawing for every day in February
• brentmail has made his book Essential Photography Skills available as a free eBook for a short time
• rafaelvargas’ work will be part of a group show in a Brooklyn Gallery in Dumbo

^{Work by GloveBox}

• GloveBox has won a commission to create an animation installation for The Edge digital cultural centre
• Celeste Mookherjee won a special recognition award in

What do Jurassic 5, MC5, Ben Folds Five and The Jackson 5 have in common? They all declined an invitation to come to our 5th Birthday party. But we’re not going to let that bother us. We’re far too busy consuming our own body weight in sugar and playing Pin The Tail on the Developer as today marks five years since RedBubble was unleashed upon an unsuspecting internet.

We could mark the occasion with lengthy anecdotes about how our servers once lived in the trunk of a car, how our first office in the Bay Area had no windows or the time the warehouse which stored all our framed prints burnt down at Christmas but these all sound much more interesting when glossed over in one succinct paragraph. Instead, we’re going to celebrate our 5th Birthday by giving some stuff away.

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If you’re a romantic old soul, you’ll be well aware that Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. For some, it’s just a day when you can’t get a decent bunch of flowers at a petrol station for love nor money. For others, it involves days of intense planning and elaborate romantic gestures. And for us, it’s a very good excuse for us to showcase some of the best art and design from RedBubble artists. This collection of works runs the gamut of emotions. Young love, lasting bonds, doomed romances, mixed emotions, sad partings and fond friendships. It’s all here. So silence your inner cynic and think romantic thoughts as you enjoy this love related collection.

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Congratulations to Ina Mar and Jeannine Saylor who are the winners of our Typography Sketchbooks giveaway. A copy of the book will be winding its way to you shortly!

If you’re in search of some inspiration to kick start your week, look no further than Fabrice Wittner’s Enlightened Souls project. Fabrice combines light painting techniques, stencil art and long exposure photography to create these unique and somewhat haunting images. Enlightened Souls began as a series of images created in honour of those affected by the New Zealand earthquake in February 2011. Fabrice’s latest series depicts children from Vietnam’s rural areas placed in city locations.

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You can see more images from the series plus some behind the scenes process shots over on FabriceR…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

_{Works by Matt Chapman}

• Matt Chapman is exhibiting his work at the New Artist Fair in London
• Patjila is holding a solo exhibition in the Netherlands
• Steven Mace finished his third novel

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• Douglas Stucky shot a recent basketball game for The Knoxville Journal
• indigo-song and lightmonger began a photographic collaboration
• Andy Housham was interviewed on interviewfest.com

^{Photos by Jen Waltmon}

• Jen Waltmon is exhibiting work at the Bondi Beach Pavilion Gallery
• Natalie Ord won an award at the Corowa Federation Art & Photographic Exhibition
• Claudia Dingle shared the step by step creation of her work Tiveden Forest

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We invited you to tweet about your creative new year’s resolutions and tweet you did. We’re rather impressed at how many projects are already underway and how much thought you’ve been giving to your creative goals for 2012. Congratulations to the winners of our Creative New Year’s Resolutions Competition – Michael White, Richard Morden and Popephonex – who have now very publicly committed to the following resolutions over the next 12 months. Your bookshelves will soon be looking rather swanky with some new, inspirational additions that we hope will help to inspire you during 2012. We’ll be in touch shortly to arrange the finer details. A big thanks to everyone who took part!
 

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

^{Work by Lloyd Harvey}

• Lloyd Harvey’ released a game that can be played for free on Facebook
• Initially NO is launching a book of poetry in Melbourne
• NSW artists are planning a meet up in Junee in March

^{Work by Anita Inverarity}

• Anita Inverarity shared a work inspired by fellow bubbler Joak
• Claudia Dingle shared a step by step watercolor tutorial
• patjila recommends checking out the David Hockney exhibition if you’re in London

^{Work by A V S Turner}

• A V S Turner’s work will be appearing in the ‘Adventures in Comics II’ exhibition
• Paul Compton shared a stop motion animation he created
• Morgann Gyger has been interviewed on schwind-art.co

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

^{Work by Mike Cressy}

• Mike Cressy has won the Silver Award in the Children’s Book category of the 50th Illustration West Competition
• Peter Stratton shared a beginners tutorial for Flexify2
• Soxy Fleming invites Aussie-bubbler-sketchbookers to a Fed Square meetup

^{Work by Paolo Franco Orlando}

• Paolo Franco Orlando’s work has been published in Bluecanvas Magazine
• msdebbie invites all to the launch of the next issue of Paradise Anthology
• There is an exhibition of David Robinson’s work entitled ‘Enclosures: memories and decay’

^{Work by Alvaro Sánchez}

• Alvaro Sánchez shared snapshots of a collaboration of designs for a book of poetry
• Clair

We’re on a mission to clothe the naked and refresh tired wardrobes with dashing, well designed apparel so we’re giving you the chance to win your favorite RedBubble tees between now and January 31st, in our #Tweets4Tees giveaway. You can get your paws on your design of choice by hopping over to Twitter and telling us your favourite tees on RedBubble. It’s so simple, it’s really quite brilliant.

To be in the running to win your favorite t-shirts:
 

1. Follow us on Twitter @RedBubble
2. Send a tweet with the hashtag #Tweets4Tees and a link to your favourite RedBubble tee
3. Once a day we’ll announce a winner so sit back, relax and wait to see if you’ve won
4. Enter as many times as you like before January 31st
5. For more information, head on over to ou…

The following collection was put together in quiet moments over a number of days and weeks and during this process we noticed something unusual. With each viewing, the feelings conjured up by this collection varied greatly – ranging from solitude, sadness, quiet contemplation or peacefulness to the need to go and put on a nice sensible cardigan. Something about the emptiness of these images seems to prompt us to to project our own moods, emotions and feelings. So what do you see in these moody, minimal, landscape images? How do they make you feel? Are there any in particular that stand out or resonate in some way with you? Let us know in the comments at the bottom of the post.

Pacific by Jeff Masamori

Beach by leeevi

MacKensie District by Ben Rae

The Jury by jone vaitkute

Land…

When Typography Sketchbooks was released back in September 2011 there was more than one RB staffer who hoped that it might make its way into their stocking. Over an inch thick and jam packed with beautifully decorated sketchbook pages courtesy of everyone from Milton Glaser to Erik Spiekermann, it seemed a must have for any self respecting type fan.

Thankfully, it turns out that the portly fellow in the red suit is a type nerd too, so more than one copy eventually made its way into our hands. It’s such a lovely piece of typographic eye candy, we’ve whipped up a bit of a review – and we have a couple of extra copies to give away.

Typography Sketchbooks draws back the curtain to reveal the inner workings of the designer-wizard who lurks within. Curated by Steven Hellar an…

Whether you’re a serial resolution maker or someone who prefers to take things as they come, it’s difficult to avoid the self-reflection that seems to happen at this time of year. For many, a new year is a time to pause and think about what’s been achieved in the past 12 months, and consider the things we’d like to tackle over the next year.

At RedBubble, we love seeing people grow and develop as artists and we’re particularly impressed when someone tackles something they’ve never tried before and learns something valuable in the process. So we’d like to give your creative new year’s resolutions an extra push by offering bubblers the chance to furnish your bookshelves with a little added inspiration.

We’d love to hear about som…

If you cast your mind back a couple of months, you may remember we began the process of enabling artists to add multiple products to the one work. ‘Phase One’ linked clothing and stickers with iPhone cases. After much sweating over hot code it’s time for ‘Phase Two’ which will see prints, cards and posters to the mix. From here on in, when you upload a new work to RedBubble you’ll be able to manage all the product formats from one upload screen and these will be viewable from one page.

As explained when Phase One was launched, the change is designed to help people to more easily browse and shop on RedBubble. When browsers find an artwork they love, they’ll be able to see all the product options for that piece of work, rather than having to dig through your po…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from artists on RedBubble. Here’s just a taste of the recent action we’ve spotted:

^{Work by Jane Linders}

• Jane Linders’ work and techniques were featured in an article in the St. Louise Egotist
• John R Math Photography invites entrants to the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery ‘All Women’ juried art competition
• Lukasdf came second in the Rathlin Island Development & Community Association’s photo competition
• lightsmith was featured in an article in the Geelong Advertiser

^{Work by Byron and Zane Paxton}

• Byron and Zane Paxton shared an Introduction to Portrait Photography
• Ogre received an Honourable Mention in The Illinois Farm Bureau’s 2011 Photo Contest
• João Figueiredo shared a link to the National

We can’t stop staring at photographer Michael Chrisman’s beautiful, dreamy, year long Pinhole exposure of the Toronto Skyline. You can read more about how it was created here.
 

_{Image Credit: Michael Chrisman via the Toronto Star}

Our product range is constantly evolving as we aim to strike the right balance between offering products that make your work look smashing, and that are appreciated by artists, designers and buyers. As part of this evolution, we’ll continue to introduce new products from time to time and occasionally we’ll remove items from the product range if they no longer sell well.

Sadly, there’s one product in RedBubble’s product menagerie that’s been spending an increasing amount of time on the bench. Never the strongest member of the team, Laminated Prints have been spending more Saturdays in, eating microwave meals for one and waiting for the phone to ring.

We’re not great at goodbyes but after careful consideration we’ve decided not to continue to offer …

Sydney based artist and designer, Water has fifteen years under his belt as part of Australia’s street art and graffiti scene. His work has graced walls from Sydney to Berlin but by day he carves out a career in graphic design, creating work for clients including Telstra, Foxtel and Le Coq Sportif. We quizzed him on balancing his passion for street art with a career in graphic design, the importance of collaboration and his thoughts on whether street art really belongs in galleries or behind perspex.

What kind of impact has formal design training had on your street art and graffiti?

I always knew I was going to do something creative. Initially, I was interested in drawing and art but I liked that graphic design covered so many areas and I liked the idea of applying design to differ…