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Moving stills

Loving the new series by PBS called Off Book – now in it’s second season, you can watch reels of creatives talk about innovative processes in their work. I particularly enjoy the below episode that talks about using animated GIFs to bring artworks and photography alive.

Here’s more from the popular blog by Jamie Becks who animates her shoots.

Creative Director Simon Kneen of Banana Republic

Here’s an interview with Jamie and Kevin, explaining their work process.

And Tony Johnson sent me a link to his new animated illustration (shown above) – if you know a tune that would match his character’s stoned stance, give him a shout, will you?

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Have a great week ahead folks and coming up shortly is a tutorial for invitations that I made for World Party Day!

Links for the weekend

Anna Raff (previously ) has completed over 500 bird drawings already, hurrah!

Love the new Forest Fables wallet collection over at Poketo.

An illustrated journey of Louis Vuitton’s luggage line from iconic steamer-trunk to the portable carry-case it is today.

Infographic: Have you had enough sleep yet? Better clock up or you might just die.

Watch Sarah Dennis’ Tales in a Pea Green Boat (love the papercuts and the shadow puppetry!)

Now you can send art via your phone with the Artogram app – there’s some lovely artist’s work on there already, like Katie Daisy and Kristiana Pärn among others.

Knitted superhero outfits – I’ll let that one sink in for a moment.

Print out your very own motivational Girls with a Message – a project started by Linda Tieu which I can see being hung in little girls’ rooms everywhere.

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Have a great weekend folks!

A pick at André da Loba’s studio

Today we have a guest blogger (yes, it’s been a busy week here on Pikaland!) who is going to report on what’s happening from New York; all with fresh eyes!

Deborah is the lady behind Tartaruga Feliz, and she’s from Brazil. She’s in New York for a few months where she’ll no doubt unearth some lovely happenings, and she’ll also cover topics that revolve around the culmination of art and technology in our guest blogger column!

Hi! I’m Deborah and while traveling the world, sometimes I get the chance to know some illustrators that really inspires me.

André da Loba gave me some tips of places to study printmaking and in the meantime invited me to visit his studio in New York. It was really cool and interesting to be immersed in someone’s work.

His studio is covered with his drawings and these characters that seem to be alive on the walls and hanging from the roof.

What I like the most about this illustrator is the simplicity and how he reminds me of Pablo Picasso’s work.

If you are in Portugal you can visit an exhibition he’s participating right now, its called DRS LOVE and it will be there until April 5th. Send me some pictures if you go!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deborah is known in Brazil as Tartaruga Feliz (Happy Turtle). She’s a self-taught illustrator and animator who is born in Brazil. She travels the world while working, and attributes it to the best experience she has had in her life so far. You can see more of her work on her website, and follow her on her blog where she draws a friend a day.