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On the 11th Day of Christmas

G2 Christmas cover done by Adam Hayes. For more Adam Hayes click here.

On the 12th Day of Christmas

Ben Newman is helping raise money for Young Bristol youth charity by selling packs of All I Want For Christmas cards. A pack of 20 limited edition festive cards designed by 20 different illustrators and designers for only £15. So click here to help or visit Ben's Blog for more details.

New work Igor Omulecki

New work for Jacek Lachowicz Band.

Christmas Shoping with Pocko

We have updated our Pocko Shop and their are loads of new affordable products just in time for Christmas so click here and fill your basket with creative goodies!

Patricia Niven Golden Oldies Exhibition

Exhibtion follows 9 residents of Golden Lane, most of whom have lived on the estate since its advent after the Second World War.

Exhibtion at Golden Lane Estate CIC at Art. Design. People
20 Goswell Road, London EC 1

Runs 9 Dec 2009 through 16 Jan 2010

Les Jeans Clode exhibit in Luxembourg

The collective Jeanspezial present their exhibition “Les redoublants” at Extrabold from 17 october to 21 november 2009.

Maud, Matthieu I and II, Sébastien, Nicolas, Greg, Joris, Mickael and Jean-Michel are the nine graphic designers and illustrators who make up the group. Working together for almost four years, they have collaborated and jointly created a single and coherent graphic identity: the fictitious person Jean Spezial.

In this exhibition, they will present their holiday workbooks to include beautiful canvases, drawings, and books…

Kyoko Hamada shoots Place Sofa by Jasper Morrison for VITRA

Vitra has manufactured furniture designs by Charles & Ray Eames and George Nelson since 1957. Building on this foundation over the years, the company has developed a wide range of furnishings for the office, for the home and for public spaces in collaboration with progressive designers.

To see more of Kyoko's beautiful work, click here.

Stephen Shore shoots Bergman for W magazine

Read the whole story here.

Hennie Haworth's beautiful new work...

This piece was commissioned by Bergen airport in Norway, and is a huge poster showing all the places you can travel to from there.

The above is for New Statesman magazine, to accompany the below extract from "Confessions of a Book Reviewer" by George Orwell.

In a cold but stuffy bed-sitting room littered with cigarette ends and half-empty cups of tea, a man in a moth-eaten dressing-gown sits at a rickety table, trying to find room for his typewriter among the piles of dusty papers that surround it.

He cannot throw the papers away because the wastepaper basket is already overflowing, and besides, somewhere among the unanswered letters and unpaid bills it is possible that there is a cheque for two guineas which he is nearly certain he forgot to pay into the bank. There are also letters with addresses which ought to be entered in his address book. He has lost his address book, and the thought of looking for it, or indeed of looking for anything, afflicts him with acute suicidal impulses.

Kinpro Illustrates BBC Online Story Book and Games

Sabrina's Mountain Adventure Story




Read the story and play the game here!

Pocko People welcomes Serial Cut

Serial Cut is a Madrid based studio, established in 1999 by Sergio del Puerto, working on a wide variety of worldwide projects, and working alongside an ever-growing team of professionals, who specialize in different areas such as photography, design, motion-graphics and 3D design. Depending on the nature of a given project, different collaborators are chosen to give each piece a new dimension.

Serial Cut aims to go beyond what's in their minds and clients' minds when they start a project, taking the challenge a little further both in terms of technique and of concept, and to always end up with a contemporary and fresh result.

James Braithwaite Animation, I Met the Walrus

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrator James Braithwaite have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Shor. Watch the whole animation here.

Adam Hayes in Sierra Leone

In June this year, Pocko artist Adam Hayes worked with Christian Aid in Sierra Leone to help design a billboard that provides more accurate and clear health advice for the prevention of AIDS and HIV in the country. The billboard above will appear on billboard sites across Sierra Leone.
Working with communities in Freetown and Jendema, Adam created a billboard design which highlighted the many health issues associated with the virus and making it understood by a large illiterate population.

Ben Newman's hand-printed book

Pocko illustrator Ben Newman worked with talented writer Scott James Donaldson to produce The Bento Bestiary. They wanted to take the ancient Japanese Yokai and re-interpret them in a whole new light but still stay true to their origins. The result is this very sexy hand-printed book which was screen-printed in 3 colours by the very talented chaps at Nobrow and is limited to just 100 copies.