Lesley Smitheringale on June 27th, 2008

Stunning attention to detail in these illustrations showing a vivid imagination and lovely sense of colour.
Ronald Kurniawan graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Inspired by ideograms, syllables, letterforms, beasts and heroic landscapes, he slowly but surely continues to create a visual language where the wilderness and civilization could merge [...]

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Lesley Smitheringale on June 26th, 2008

This young Brazilian graphic designer has produced a novel range of design products and I particularly admire his paper animals which are quite stunning.
I like to work with different medias and techniques, mixing them to create new ways to represent ideas and concepts.

“Paper Forest” poster “In nature, everything turns into more nature”
All the animals and [...]

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Lesley Smitheringale on March 24th, 2007

This looks easy but I can assure you that it is extremely difficult to do well as I tried it with a Year 11 Art class.

l to r: Works by Ray Besserdin and Gail Armstrong
Paper cutting is a traditional art that has evolved throughout the course of Chinese cultural development. Its origin is closely [...]

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