Both Underground Art School's Issue 4: Simplicity and Context Zine are available to buy now! So go on! Do it! BUY IT NOW!!
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Put It In Context
Our friend Racheal from Underground Art School recently released issue 4: The Simplicity Issue, which includes a resource zine called 'Context.' We are both very honoured to have our artwork (a collaborative piece we called 'Learning Your ABCs') shown in Context Zine. Check out our promotional video to find out more:
Both Underground Art School's Issue 4: Simplicity and Context Zine are available to buy now! So go on! Do it! BUY IT NOW!!
Both Underground Art School's Issue 4: Simplicity and Context Zine are available to buy now! So go on! Do it! BUY IT NOW!!
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
The Pikaland Community
As a follow-up to our last post, we're really pleased to hear that our friend Amy from Pikaland (a blog about living the illustrated life) has just launched The Pikaland Community! It's a really cool place to make new friends, chat about all things creative and collaborate. The PikaPackage Project is organised there too :D
Go check it out, get signed up and get stuck in!
Go check it out, get signed up and get stuck in!
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Stop Thief!
A little while ago I spotted this post about plagiarism on a really cool illustration site called Pikaland. As any creative knows plagiarism and copyright theft of any kind is really serious and something we all think about and often take great steps to prevent. The blog post really got us thinking and so we ended up writing a very long (eek!) reply about a horrible case of plagiarism we came up against last year. After posting our reply I re-read the post and realised it was going to be published in a really cool zine called the 'Good to Know Project.' What's that I hear our readers cry!? Well, "The Good to Know Project is full of advice + inspiration from artists/illustrators/designers on creativity, business and life."
It's great that something so positive came from something so negative, not only did we get our post published in the zine along with a couple of doodles, we got chatting with the creator of Pikaland, Amy Ng, and were so inspired by her work and creativity that we added her as one of our Kooji buddies in the collective.
'Stop Thief!' © Katherine Moss
'A Precious Burden' © Johnathan Gallagher
It's hard to believe that there are people actually out there willing to steal other's people's hard work and worse yet when you discover it's someone you know. Fortunately one of the great things about the internet and social networking in particular is that the culprit can quickly be spotted and have their shame publicly blasted about on the net.
Good to Know #7: Plagiarism
The full copy of the Good to Know Zine issue #7: Plagiarism is available to read online on Issuu here. Better yet, go grab yourselves a paper copy of of the issue here and read it in it's full physicality!
Check out past issues of the zine here.
It's great that something so positive came from something so negative, not only did we get our post published in the zine along with a couple of doodles, we got chatting with the creator of Pikaland, Amy Ng, and were so inspired by her work and creativity that we added her as one of our Kooji buddies in the collective.
'Stop Thief!' © Katherine Moss
'A Precious Burden' © Johnathan Gallagher
It's hard to believe that there are people actually out there willing to steal other's people's hard work and worse yet when you discover it's someone you know. Fortunately one of the great things about the internet and social networking in particular is that the culprit can quickly be spotted and have their shame publicly blasted about on the net.
Good to Know #7: Plagiarism
The full copy of the Good to Know Zine issue #7: Plagiarism is available to read online on Issuu here. Better yet, go grab yourselves a paper copy of of the issue here and read it in it's full physicality!
Check out past issues of the zine here.
Monday, 19 April 2010
Bounty Huntress
Today sees the release of collective member, Ste O'Brien's online comic, Bounty Huntress! We've been looking forward to seeing it hit the shelves (web) and now the wait is over. Check it out yourself here.
Bounty Huntress follows the exploits of Seisha Djynn, a deadly bounty hunter with her own ideas of justice (as long as there's a fat pay check at the end). Make sure you click on the TWC link to help support what's sure to be an epic series!
You can keep up to date with Bounty Huntress news on the BulletDollar blog here.
Bounty Huntress follows the exploits of Seisha Djynn, a deadly bounty hunter with her own ideas of justice (as long as there's a fat pay check at the end). Make sure you click on the TWC link to help support what's sure to be an epic series!You can keep up to date with Bounty Huntress news on the BulletDollar blog here.
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
An audience with Sir John Hegarty
Creative Networks had a fantastic talk last month by Sir John Hegarty, advertising legend and guru extraordinaire, so I thought I'd share a few snippets from the evening. According to our host, Steve Smith, Yorkshire is expanding faster than any other creative region in the UK. The future really is creative!
Here are some fantastic advertising campaigns Sir John's been involved in over the years. These videos were posted on YouTube as a test-bed for market research - they got millions of hits!
Part-way through his talk Sir John made this statement:
"Technology has always been a spur to Creativity. Now more than ever."
Mixing Traditional Arts with Digital Technologies has been one of my obsessions for a long time now and I was so pleased when he said this. I wrote my last dissertation on this subject: 'The Fine Art of Multimedia Technology' and so I'm always fascinated to hear anything that uses the words 'Technology' and 'Creativity' in the same sentence. Creative peeps are so lucky to be living in a time when when we have these tools at our finger-tips. The computer has really transformed the way I work. All hail Creative Technology! :D
...and just to finish this post off with a few giggles here's a link to a cool flash website that Sir John's company worked on and was also featured on FWA.
MySpace Fan Video
Here are some fantastic advertising campaigns Sir John's been involved in over the years. These videos were posted on YouTube as a test-bed for market research - they got millions of hits!
Smirnoff Raw Tea Party Commercial (I really fancy a cuppa now;))
Part-way through his talk Sir John made this statement:
"Technology has always been a spur to Creativity. Now more than ever."
Mixing Traditional Arts with Digital Technologies has been one of my obsessions for a long time now and I was so pleased when he said this. I wrote my last dissertation on this subject: 'The Fine Art of Multimedia Technology' and so I'm always fascinated to hear anything that uses the words 'Technology' and 'Creativity' in the same sentence. Creative peeps are so lucky to be living in a time when when we have these tools at our finger-tips. The computer has really transformed the way I work. All hail Creative Technology! :D
...and just to finish this post off with a few giggles here's a link to a cool flash website that Sir John's company worked on and was also featured on FWA.
MySpace Fan Video
Sunday, 4 April 2010
Happy Easter and Flowery Fun from Kooji!
Spring is definitely upon us once more and with the new season comes lots of pretty flowers and hope for a nice warm, sunny Summer. Happy Easter everyone :)
Check out previous Kooji Cards from Katherine & Johnny here
Check out previous Kooji Cards from Katherine & Johnny here
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