Author Archives: rachealanilyse

Lee Crutchley of 20sk is a graphic designer from England. I’ve fallen in love with his Quoteskine blog where he combines poetry, quotes, and lyrics into beautiful pieces of hand drawn visual art.

The illustrated life is a wonderful place to explore these days! We too can play in the gallery world. This is why I am discussing one of my favorite tea spilling, pen wielding artists: Stella Im Hultberg. Is her artwork illustration, or is it fine art? Maybe it is fine art-illustration?

Her recent work for Thinkspace Gallery in L.A. uses less realism and more beautiful abstract shapes and organic forms. Illustrators can be fine artists and fine artists can be illustrators. We are abstracting the label, one gallery at a time.

I’ve spoken my piece, but what do you guys think about the current world of illustration? Are we fine artists? Where do we belong?

Two cool dudes, one sweet love. Her name: Print Brigade. Hand drawn typography is a beautiful thing and Chris Piascik and Vaughn Fender celebrate it in their joint company Print Brigade. PRBR makes tees, totes, and prints for women and men.

I went to art school with these two. Their screen printed and lino cut posters could be found in the class and on dorm room walls. So it’s nice to see that what they loved back then, they are still making now.

The point: all you need is one art friend, encourage each other to create, stick with it, and allow yourself to be wooed by typography from time to time!