ACCORDION FACE

2 people, 2 words: F’ING PROLIFIC. Illustration power couple Biddy Maroney and Sonny Day are WEBUYYOURKIDS. If you’re in Australia, you will pretty likely have seen their work, particularly on festival promo material. They’ve done so much in a huge range of media / various clients. Heaps of bands especially.

WEBUYYOURKIDS are also represented by Jacky Winter.

Head to the WBYK website to see more.

How GOOD is this gigantic (40 sq/ft) mural collaboration by Josh Holinaty (previously blogged) and Luke Ramsey?

Click the image to view it nice and BIG for all the crazy details! And read all about it here.

If you’re in Canada maybe you can see it in person @ John Howard Society Building, south of Jasper Avenue on 105th Street.

Continuing on with the Japan theme, I wanted to blog about Andrea Innocent – an Australian Illustrator who has created work for advertising, editorial, posters, with a style influenced by all things Japan. I love the super clean lines and odd colour palettes (very Japanese) she uses. And the cute but slightly creepy.

Andrea is represented by The Jacky Winter Group.

See more of Andrea Innocent’s work here.

These brutal, bizarre, and (sometimes) hilarious images from 70’s Japanese kids books and magazines (via Pink Tentacle) have been doing the rounds. The illustrator is Tetsuya Ishida. I would have loved this stuff as a kid, whether or not they would have induced future mental health crippling nightmares… I would have lapped it up none-the-less!

I’ve only posted a handful, so head over to the Pink Tentacle post to view all 36 spreads!

This is more on the *fine art* side of things than illustration, but Tetsuya Ishida’s work does have a kind of editorial quality to it. I randomly came across Ishida’s work a week ago while doing some research, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it. It just seems to represent visually, everything I’ve heard or read about the life of Japanese office job workers. And I guess with the speculations of his death being suicide, adds to this. Apparently the character in each painting was himself. A real shame.

Lots more images beyond the cut – 35 in total.

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