Tasty and Delicious

So as I said the other day, I'm getting uber behind with my posting. Mainly due to the fact that I'm loving my placement so don't get in every evening until 8.30ish, and I then eat/chill/sleep/repeat. Weekends I'm getting drunk and catching up with mates. Internet has fallen by the wayside.

So until I sort myself out and get organised, I thought I should post my Delicious feed. I still bookmark stuff aaaall the time so it's the best (and laziest way for me) for people to see what I'm loving on the internet without actually posting about it. Haha.

So, subscribe to my Delicious feed or add me to your network and you can see all the lovely things I'm discovering. RacheLewis is my name.

It's a bank holiday this weekend so hopefully I'll find time to post! I won't leave you, don't worry my pretties.

Yeehaaaa

The devil makes work for idle blogs..

Apologies for the lack of posts recently. I'm busy and tired mostly... I've had lots of things to post about but never get round to it. Then I forget. I need to start writing down random thoughts a lot more.

Hopefully I'll post something awesome soon. Stay tuned. In the meantime, here's something lovely from Gemma Correll:

Because it's happy and I'm feeling sad.

xx

Climate campaign banner now live on ActionAid's website!

I mentioned in a previous post about an illustration that I did for a banner for ActionAid's website. Well...


If you go to ActionAid's Bollocks to Poverty minisite you will now see mine and 5 other illustrator's work up there, as a random scrolling banner; keep refreshing and they'll rotate round. The screengrab above is the page that tells you a bit of background about each of the banners, go have a little read. There I am with my banner ^^. All neon and smiley. Hehe.

Pretty sweeeet eh. Have a read of the site while you're there eh, it's a pretty important cause.

Retro is definitely the way forward!

Just seen this on my RSS feed from Swissmiss - iPod cassette tape holder! So awesome.



Readers of my blog will know that I love a bit of cassette-ness, and I recently did an illustration project based on the idea of using retro/vintage imagery to encourage people to hold on to their mobile phones instead of upgrading. One of the posters is below, I love drawing cassettes, that project was ace. Retro is definitely the way forward!

Now I really want to fish out my old cassettes and do this for my iPod. It won't fit though, I have a ig ol' 80gb video ne, not a nano. Aw.

Neuarmy - Creative from Nom de Guerre, Germany

I need to take my mind off some non-work-related things which are driving me crazy this lunchtime so here is some lovely eye candy. Stumbled upon Neuarmy the other day and love the stuff on there. Neuarmy is a 'multidisciplinary creative working in print, interactive, illustration, screen printing, painting, graffiti, photography, typography, and identity' who goes by the real name of Ryan Katrina:


Letterpress and handdrawn type it would seem, nice combo. Diggin' the colour scheme too. Yum yum yum.



Some really great uses of typography and media, seems to effortlessly work between platforms and styles while still retaining a 'feel'. Fresh and bold, love it.

Got lots of interesting stuff to post so hopefully I can do a post here and there for the next few days. Busy busy busy.

I tried, but it rang and rang, I called all night.

Woke up today with a mad desire to draw something, which was nice. Been listening to Jimmy Eat World a lot recently, this is a lyric from Dizzy.

So I drew a telephone box.


The y has just come out of my keyboard. What the hell. I can't get it back in. y has it done that. Stupid thing. Need. Mac. Now.

David Fullarton - Illustrator from San Francisco

I found David Fullarton's work a while ago now (I've completely forgotten how I came across it, possibly just from my own mintynet meanderings, possibly from another blog) and I'm finally getting round to posting about it.

I absolutely love it. It's got all the factors that make me take notice of another illustrator's work - collage (graph paper mwahaha), hand rendered type, mix media, amazing drawing skills, wit and a touch of melancholy. I can't stop looking through his Behance portfolio - definitely check it out.

I love this one. Made me giggle.

He's also done a series for the Sisyphus Office Exhibition, Houston 2009. - "The artists involved in the project are collaborating with businesses and offices in and around Houston in order to highlight art as an integral and necessary distraction in our day to day life."

Heh. I think we've all felt like this at some point.

I just really love his entire visual language, and the fact that it's entirely handmade is always a winner for me - digital is great but I love the feeling of having something finished (or not) in your hands.

It just reminds me that I really need to keep drawing - I've basically stopped at the moment, haven't done a collage or anything for bloody ages. That makes me sad. Time is so precious these days though, I get home from work every night at about 7.30-8 and end up going to bed at 10 at the latest cos I get up so early... so any creativity (outside of placement - I'm being creative all day there) has to be done at weekends really. And I haven't had a spare weekend for weeeeks so I'm feeling really antsy at the moment because I have a massive to do list. Some of which includes redoing the header for this blog, redoing my website (I don't like it anymore ha), and making my twitter page and avatar pretty. And those are the easy things.

All of which I could do right now if I had a mac! I was bought the entire CS4 suite for a graduation present which is so ace and I can't wait to use it... just need something to install it on :P Cos I bloody hate windows and photoshop. Eugh. Worst combo ever.

Anyway, my placement is going really well, despite the fact I was ill (swine flu? hmmm) last week so missed a day and a half. Including being deathly ill on my birthday. Which was so crap. But I'm all good now and getting proper stuck in, I'm really loving it there. Worcester is so nice as well, really pretty town. (city?)

Enough rambling. I could ramble all day. But apparently I'm going for a run in 20 minutes and I semi don't want to. But fatness has occurred and I must. Sigh. Turrah.