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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.

Sage Sohier interview on FeatureShoot.com

FeatureShoot: Your Perfectible Worlds series (and monograph) features people with odd jobs, hobbies, and preoccupations. How did you go about finding and photographing the subjects for this series and how long do you spend with your subjects before pulling out the camera?

Sage Sohier: For “Perfectible Worlds,” I found my subjects mainly through word-of-mouth. I told all my friends, acquaintances, and people I met what I was working on. I also researched online – looking up hobby clubs, and e-mailing people about what I was doing. Many of the people I photographed knew other people, and so a network evolved. I usually spent half an hour to an hour talking to people and looking at their creations before beginning to photograph. Sometimes more than half my time was spent in this way’.

Read more here

Happy Halloween from the Pocko Family!

A very scary interview with monster creator Ben Newman

Think of the scariest monster possible.... What does it look like?

I decided to talk to my friend and Bento Bestiary collaborator, Scott James Donaldson, about just how scary the scariest monster would be and this is the most terrifying thing we could think of. Seasoned with a healthy dose of Scott’s wizardry words and starting from the feet up this hideous beast looks as follows;

A foot comes into focus. But something is wrong. The toes are backward. Twisted. Dirty. Try the other foot. This is worse. A pigeon’s stub-leg replaces a conventional human foot. Urgh.

Above, skin-slit legs expose shiny shins, leading upward, to a pair of incredibly overdeveloped thighs. These behemoths collide betwixt a miniscule pair of damp, flannel swimming under-trunks.

The flaccid upper torso is comprised solely of reclaimed cows udders, stitched together with bass-guitar strings and rosebushes. Flanking this nightmare, a pair of Tyrannosaurus Rex arms, incapable of a firm handshake.

Perching astride two rugged shoulders, we are greeted with a terrible visage. Twin crystal meth diamonds scowl in our direction. An enormous, warty beak honks at us, revealing a lone, rotten peg-tooth.

This unlucky dip of features nestles beneath a blanketed veil of silken, wonderful, candyfloss hair. Its crowning glory: a 1980’s vintage black and white yin/yang bandana, blazing proudly across its clammy forehead. He has, on several occasions, been mistaken for acting powerhouse, Steven Segal.

Monsters seem to be a running theme in your work, is there a reason for this?

Since I was a child, I’ve found monsters to be endlessly fascinating and I think this because of the unhealthy amount of cartoons and comic books I watched/read. I’ve always found myself more aesthetically drawn to the villains because they appear as an imperfection of the hero, similar to looking in a circus mirror. You can cover them in hair, enlarge their brains, sharpen their claws, cross their eyes and I don’t think I could get bored of making them look as stupid or as terrifying as possible.

Tell us something scary

When I was nine, I was told that someone once went to eat a Topic chocolate bar and when they took the first bite it was really crunchy. Curiously, they looked down and saw a bloody, severed mouse’s head nested in the chocolaty fruit and nut centre. I believed this story for so long that I didn’t eat a Topic bar until my twenties, turns out their pretty good and now I buy them when I’m feeling dangerous.

What are you dressing up as this Halloween?

I own an all in one Spiderman suit from Hong Kong so it acts as my default fancy dress costume when I don’t have time to be very imaginative at Halloween. The problem I have with the costume is that once zipped up it pulls the lycra very tightly over the crotch, leaving very little to the imagination. The sight of my shiny, vacuum packed, lycra covered nether regions offend my Dad so much that he draped an apron over my neck to cover up my indecency. As you can tell it’s a very scary costume so I’ll probably be dressing up in that again this year, if not then I’ll dress up as the monster described above.

Trick or Treat?

I’d have to go for trick as I’ve usually eaten all the sweets by the time someone knocks at the door.

See more of Ben's work, here.

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.

Judith Erwes and Paul Bower for CAPRICIOUS Magazine

Friends With You

New Friends with You products, including keychains, CD's and so many others, available on their website, and while your there play some fun games. (You could play the Hide-n-Find game for hours) Check out their website here.

New Work by Lesjeanclode

Check out the rest of their new work here.

Mike x VIPP Artist Series Trash Can

Mike Perry was commissioned to create this cool trash can!!!

Xavier Veilhan Exhibition at Versailles

Until December 13th, the main courtyard at Versailles, Artist Xavie Veilhan has taken over! Check it out here.

Upcoming Art Fair

The Frieze Art Fair coming to Regent's Park. 15-18 of October. An impressive list of Exhibitors that includes some familiar faces as well as many new ones. Check there site out here.

Norman Rockwells "Stolen" Painting

Norman Rockwells "Russian School Room" has two apparent owners, one of which is Steven Spielberg. The paintings history could easily be a hollywood movie. Read the whole article here.

Buy Back Your Garbage

Artist creates new way to give back by convincing consumers to buy back their rubbish. Check it out here.

James Dawe Interview

James Dawe, Pocko Illustrator, revealed that he used to be a pretty good guitarist and his favorite sense is taste in this in depth article you can find here.

Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland, March 5th

Tim Burton's version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland comes out in March. Johnny Depp as Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice. The costumes are amazing and sets look like as if they are straight from Lewis Carroll's imagination. March 5th could not come soon enough. Watch the movie trailer here.

Attention Monty Python Fans! Reunion planned in New York

The Five remaining Pythons are reuniting in New York on 15th of October at Ziegfeld Theater, followed by a week of Python, Flying Circus, and movies on the Independent film channel. After all of that, if you still have not had enough, a six hour documentary will also be airing. Check out the article giving full description of what each Python is still up too these days here!

DE LA BOMBE BAYBE !

Tabas realised a 4 visuals serie on spaycans geometric theme.

The titles are french playwords.

La bombe s'écoule / ça fait bling bling / Le mur ses frites / Le graffiti c'est mon rayon.

This is lambda photo numeric print and handmade paint & varnish Format 120x120 cm

Le graffiti s'écoule

Le graffiti c'est mon rayon

Le mur, ses frites

La bombe, c'est blingbling

Forget about your iPhone! Work from Mars.

The Communication Link enables
two users to swap minds from across great
distances (think light years, not miles). It’s the
next best thing to physical travel and takes
mere seconds. Want to chat with old friends?
Switch minds with their neighbors. Car broken
down in the middle of nowhere? Let a mechanic
get in your head. The fidelity is pristine, the
visuals unmatched, and best of all, there’s no
monthly fee.

Digital 3D illustration for Syfy channel and Wired Magazine by Pocko artist Coherent Images.

Incredible Origami Creatures

Sipho Mabona makes amazingly intricate origami creatures from single sheet of paper. He also has beautiful installations and lighting. Check out his website here!

Ben Newman on Creative Review Website

Video clip of Ben Newman illustrations being made into silk screen book covers for Nobrow Press. Take a look here!

Adam Hayes' online shop!

Adam Hayes just opened his very own online print shop. Order your favorite images screen printed by the artist himself exclusively in various special editions!

Mike Perry's Spacetime Collection

Pocko's Mike Perry was one of four artists to contribute to POKETO's new SPACETIME COLLECTION - a stellar new series of wall art decals, signature wallets, and t-shirts.

More info & images here!

POCKOSHKO

Pocko, in collaboration with Magma has initiated an exciting new project involving 20 international, award-winning Pocko artists.
Artists including Tabas, Ben Newman, Kinpro and James Braithwaite have each customised a series of wooden Matryoshka dolls, using a variety of techniques, from oil painting, ink and watecolour to collage and soldering. Pocko photographer Judith Erwes and animation studio Captive have both produced bodies of work inspired by Pocko Matryoshkas which will be exhibited alongside the dolls.
POCKOSHOKO will have the chance to be appreciated by many starting with an exhibition in the 3 Magma stores as part of the London Design Festival which begins this Saturday 17th September, and will continue their journey, passing by NYC, Madrid and Milan, to a special final auction, 2 RUSSIA WITH LOVE, in aid of a Russian childrens charity.

New work by Judith Erwes in collaboration with Paul Bower

Hi guys!!!! x

Olaf Hajek's new work

Amazing as always!