Hennie Haworth

Illustrations by Hennie Haworth! Her work has been published for example in Time Out, Bulb, Cent and Plan B magazines. She has also done work for Waitrose and Urban Fresh Fruit. She is probably not one of my favourite illustrators but I really like her sketchy, colourful style - even the type is always hand drawn. I also like the humour in her work. 

Check out her pen project! 

Mark Jenkins' human sculptures

 Washington DC  6/06

São Paulo 2007

New York 8/06

I would love to see how people have reacted when they have walked past these human sculptures! Street artist Mark Jenkins makes them out of tape and then dresses them and puts in public places. Sometimes you can tell or guess that it's not a real person.. for example the one with the man's face inside a wall! but these are all very clever!

He placed a sculpture that looked like a human in a horse costume in an area in Barcelona where there are a lot of street artists. Everyone assumed it was a performer staying very very still! And he was just sitting somewhere near it watching people give money to the 'performer'. Like he said, 'It's much easier to make pretend people than to pretend to be a sculpture all day.'

UNICEF well

I came across this brilliant campaign by UNICEF! In order to raise money for the kids in Vietnam who don't have access to clean water UNICEF placed these containers around shops, restaurants and clubs in the wealthier parts of Vietnam. When you drop coins into the container the water level rises closer to the boy trying to get water from the well! The container is visually connected to the cause of the campaign. I think it's a very clever and creative idea!

Laura Laine illustration

Illustrator Laura Laine has an amazing way of drawing clothes and hair. She has recently done illustrations for example for the NY Times, Zara and Escada. A lot of her illustrations are of women with long flowing hair and interesting clothes and most of them are black and white. The women are very feminine. I love the contrast between the skinny and long legs and arms and big hair and clothes! 

Sacre Blö!

100% Finlande en France was an event that introduced the best new Finnish design, art, architecture, fashion, music and literature in the heart of Paris. There was a Helsinki Market at the Place de Saint Sulpice. A group of young Finnish architects called PARASIT3 was invited to take part in the project. They formed an ensemble called Sacre Blö with graphic designers, architects, painters, photographers and dancers to do installations in different locations in Paris.

Photos and videos etc - www.sacreblo.com

They've also got a blog - scrblo.blogspot.com

www.helsinkiasaintsulpice.fi

www.100pour100finlande.fr

Leverty statue

'the entrepreneur's statue' or 'Leverty', Helsinki

This statue has been in Helsinki city centre for about two years now. There was a competition to design a statue for this city square and this one won! I've never really liked it but I think it's interesting how it was made attaching simple squares together and now I've read that it's based on a penrose tiling.. which I guess we all should have known! At night there's a light inside the statue and the shadow looks really nice.

Jen Gotch photography!

'she was completely exhausted'

'honey, drink this!'

'me & my shoes'

'the candles blew out, the party ended and she couldn't help but cry'

Here's a website of lovely photography by Jen Gotch : www.jengotch.com(where you can also play hopscotch!)

I absolutely adore her style! Most of her photos are polaroids. I love the way she uses colour and light and how sometimes the photos look quite misty and mysterious. Somehow she manages to make a simple photo of a kitchen counter look interesting. She also has two blogs; polaroid blog and becoming a foodie (more polaroids + drink recipes!)