Mind your manners when checking out these plates by Pen and the Pixel! London-based illustrator and designer Emma Houlston created these plates as an homage to scenes from the Harrow Ladies Luncheon Club from John Betjemen’s 1973 documentary Metro-Land. While I don’t quite grasp all of the references, I do adore the sentiments on each plate. After all, how many times have you been chastised by your horn-rim bespectacled grandma about your elbows?
{images via Pen and the Pixel}
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With a hint of nostalgia and plenty of whimsy, the designs by Ben the Illustrator bring to mind happy days full of child-like glee and open-eyed wonder. The patterns achieve the perfect balance of playfulness and modernity.
Each print features a saturated color palette rooted in primaries. And that eggy yellow might just be my favorite color in the world, especially when paired with a tomato-red and stark white!
Ben’s work shows a great range of techniques: crisply drawn shapes mix with painterly brushstroked abstractions; thin linework stands in contrast against solid colored grounds. Each print creates a small world with lots to explore.
{Images via Ben the Illustrator}
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For a number of years now, my calendar of choice has been Noa Bembibre’s annual creations. The 12 pages of the ”Cats Let Nothing Darken Their Roar” calendar each feature a phrase, with the name of the month included in the phrase. (I like buying the largest size available so that I can re-use the pages as wrapping paper later on.)
I admit, I was a bit giddy when I received an email earlier this week announcing that Bembibre has expanded the collection to now include prints (from the calendar archives), cards, and custom work for special events. I may have to purchase the February and July designs for that empty spot on my bedroom wall. Although the “Love” card is pretty sweet, too.
{ All images from Cats Let Nothing Darken Their Roar }
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{ “Flying Geese” by Sharon Montrose }
Meg and I were just reminiscing yesterday about Issue No. 1. One of the articles in our inaugural issue featured The Working Proof, and I realized that it had been far too long since I had checked in on the purveyor of art prints. A portion of all sales goes to a charity, and a new work is released every Tuesday.
Those looking for a specific type of piece will be pleased to know that the site allows browsing by color, size, medium, and category. These are some of the prints that I currently have my eye on. There’s such a great range of works, that it’s hard to narrow it down to just a few favorites!
{ “Dreaming About Shoes” by Sol Linero }
{ “Four Cups” by Anne Smith }
{ “Zebra Bandits” by Andrea Wan }
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Are you as obsessed with Instagram as I am? No matter what I’m doing, the Internet needs to know about it. Out to brunch? Use the Rise filter. Having a good hair day? The X-pro filter will totally make you look tan. But what I love most about Instagram is the rise of artists using this media. Artist and architect Hong Yi, known as Red, is a perfect example of this. For the month of March, she vowed to play with her food daily and photograph it. What’s the twist? Each of her hilarious photographs are created using food to construct a scene!
Ranging from animal portraits to landscapes to Munch’s The Scream, Red inventively pushed herself to scale down her intensive work process and live in the moment more. Because the food would invariably wilt or brown, she had to work quickly to create the scene and then shoot it. You can read more about her 31-day food adventure here on her blog.
I love seeing the scraps in contrast with the actual artwork!
{Images via Yong Hi’s Instagram. Be sure to follow Anthology on Instagram and my personal Instagram feed here!}
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