10 January 2012

The gals at Greedy Hen have a way of making paper sing at their fingertips. With this fun fact in mind, we’re not surprised that Wild Life Sydney approached the pair for a bit of paper magic. Instead of sending out a crappy e-invite for the launch of their new bug garden, they asked Greedy Hen to craft hand-made paper insects to send out to a select bunch. The result was a set of invitations destined to be treasured far longer than a bug’s life.

09 January 2012

While word nerds were devouring the Good Weekend’s Summer Fiction by Christos Tsiolkas, Maggie Alderson, Mark Dapin and Cate Kennedy, we were busy getting distracted by the pictures. Before you get all judgemental on us, we’d like to politely inform you that they were crafted by the darlingest of all Jacky Winter darlings, Edwina White. With visual poetry like Edwina’s, you can’t blame us for leaving the stories until last.

20 December 2011

Super sweet Caitlin Shearer has been covering EPs left, right and centre. To the left we have The Grates and Whyte Fang’s ‘The Version Suicides’ and to the right we have the Rainbow Chan’s ‘Sweet Tooth’. It all comes together to make Caitlin the centre of our universe.

19 December 2011

We may be a little biased, but if there were some sort of festival program beauty pageant, we’re pretty sure this dame would come out on top. Once again, Jacky Winter’s Lachlan Conn teamed up with Clemenger BBDO Melbourne to deck out the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. We devoured these illos so quickly we’re not sure there’s room for dessert.

16 December 2011

Kat Macleod’s Page Girls exhibition at Lamington Drive was so nice we’ve mounted it twice. Well, kind of. If you didn’t already know, Lamington Drive are presenting a temporary exhibition space in the mother of all retail spaces, appropriately named The Gallery at Chadstone. The current exhibition is the positively delightful ‘Page Girls 2’ by Kat Macleod, which picks up where the last girls left off. There are a stack of new originals and old favourites ready to be gobbled up by your hungry…

15 December 2011

Naturally sweet Edwina White graced the pages of the Good Weekend Magazine with this lovely little number. This illustration accompanied a story about LTR (long term residents) versus LSBI (latte sipping blow-ins) at the Daylesford annual cake show. Whatever the acronym category, I think we all strive for a pineapple halo.

14 December 2011

Beci Orpin’s mad skills know no bounds, and now they have sidled on over to wine country. Beci’s label design is now gracing Cake Wines' new Sauvignon Blanc. To give everyone a bit more incentive to drink up, each bottle sold kicks in 25 cents to the support of Sydney-based independent radio station FBI. We’ll drink to that.

13 December 2011

Chipper fella Marc Martin was approached by Liquorice Studio to develop an all encompassing map for the Nous Group. The illustration features every sector in the community, with a list that checks off education, transport, finance, health, human services, environment, telecommunications, sports, government and technology. This is the land we dreamt of while playing SimCity.

12 December 2011

Giveaway! Nah, not really. What we DO have is a list that will save your sorry ass from the pre-Christmas panic you’re experiencing right now. Jeremy has put together a gift guide for illustrators – which is pretty sweet because he happens to moonlight as a genius gift-giver. So, if you have a special illustrator in your life, or even a special someone who is mildly creative, feast your eyeballs on the goodness above and below. And yes, you’re welcome.

1. POKETO Desk-its – a hybrid sticky note c…

09 December 2011

Jacky Winter sweetheart Kelly Thompson inked up a body full of tatts for the latest Victorian Aids Council ‘Drama Down Under’ campaign. The campaign aims to promote awareness and provide information about the most common STIs experienced by gay men. In keeping with the campaign tagline, we suggest you take a closer look – this skin has some surprises.

08 December 2011

Supreme wall mural master Rudi De Wet has been at it again, this time around for Ballymore Properties. Rudi worked with Mark Smith to develop this fun and fantastical mural for Wapping in London. It seems not all walls were created equal, especially with Rudi on the case.

07 December 2011

If we were a mandala, we’d want to be drawn by Becky and Louise from Good Wives and Warriors. Why? Because we’d be the coolest mandalas kicking around. That’s right, the coolest. Good Wives are presenting their second solo show, ‘The Squaring of the Circle’, at London’s Space In Between, which features fourteen mind-blowing mandalas and a floor-based painting installation. If you happen to be in that psychedelic neck of the woods, it runs from December 10 to January 14 (with a few cheeky days o…

06 December 2011

A small while ago when the Occupy Wall Street movement was in full swing, recent NY resident Matt Huynh wandered down to Liberty Plaza Park and drew every placard on display. The end result was a poster that has since been published on the Occupy Wall Street Journal and been on display at the JP Morgan Building. If you’re a 99% schmo like us and would like a copy of this piece for yourself, the colour version is still available for download on the Occuprint website.

05 December 2011

Launch! Launch! That’s right, it’s a double launch. Publishers of all things pretty Erm Books are not only hitting us once, but two times, with the launch of Beci Orpin’s Compendium of Me and Marc Martin’s Silent Observer. Here is a quote we ripped about the books: “Playful and personal in equal measure, Compendium of Me is Orpin’s debut book and traces the objects, spaces and foodstuffs that define her colour-drenched creative and domestic life. Silent Observer continues Martin’s vivid…

02 December 2011

The alphabet rocks. Seriously, it’s extremely useful. For example, we totally wouldn’t be able to write this post if we weren’t able to embrace its all encompassing power. The Small Print obviously had the same epiphany and approached 26 of the globe’s most kick-ass artists to create two original illustrations – a letter and an illustration based on that letter. Unsurprisingly, a couple of Jacky Winter darlings were asked to dive into this alphabet soup, including Rilla Alexander with her ’D'

01 December 2011

We’ve been keeping the scrumptious Kelly Thompson all to ourselves for way too long. Seriously, this lady is tops. Hailing from the far lands of Rotorua in New Zealand, Kelly has been crafting the world’s most sultry hyper-babes since the turn of the century. That’s right, Kelly not only makes illustration happen, she actually makes illustration happen. With the ability to execute eyes more soulful than Saturday Night Fish Fry, Kelly’s game is delicate, feminine illustration. Be sure to devour …

30 November 2011

Jacky Winter’s Tom Simpson never fails to seduce us with his heartbreakingly elegant illustrations. Just one quick glance at his latest poster for the New Zealand International Film Festival and we’ve fallen even deeper in love. Tom has been producing the posters for the roving festival for a number of years now, with each one somehow outdoing the last. This is one romance guaranteed to last.

28 November 2011

We have something that will transform you into a gift giving genius this Christmas. Seriously, present recipients will bow down in your presence. We’ve teamed up with Sunday Morning Designs to create a publication of otherworldly proportions. Titled ‘Possible Worlds 2’, this oversized poster book picks up where the original colouring book left off (after five sold-out runs!). Featuring the impossibly magical black and white illustrations of Jacky Winter’s own Dylan Martorell, the book contains …

28 November 2011

When Eleven PR wanted to highlight the number of laptops that are lost, accidentally broken and stolen in NSW every year for NRMA, they enlisted Jacky Winter’s Kate Banazi to pimp up lifestyle journalist Melissa Hoyer’s dream machine. Kate picked out the key elements in Melissa’s crazy schedule, such as invitations, lippy and shoes, plane tickets, a smidge of social media and lego, and transformed Melissa’s laptop with a super sweet screenprint mash-up.

28 November 2011

Type powerhouse Luke Lucas electrified the Washington Post last Sunday with this dazzling illustration. This fully-charged statement accompanied a special report on smart energy, titled ‘Power Up, America’. It’s certainly worthy of a mouthful of puns.

25 November 2011

Paper must cower and coo whenever Stuart McLachlan comes near. The things he can do with a blade are truly phenomenal. That’s pretty much why we wish we could zip over to Adelaide right now. Stuart is exhibiting his perfect paper craft in a show at the University of South Australia’s Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, titled ‘Paper Plains’. Radelaidians – you better get in quick, as ‘Paper Plains’ closes next Wednesday November 30.

23 November 2011

Ah, hump day. It’s the perfect day to dream about the weekend ahead and reminisce about the weekend just past. Last Saturday we opened up the Good Weekend in our crisp copies of The Age (and/or Sydney Morning Herald) and ogled two very fine illustrations by two of our very fine illustrators. One of our latest recruits, Tom Simpson, absolutely blew us away with his vintage style illustration for an article about the seedy Gold Coast. We turned a few pages to find Jacky Winter favourite Ben…

21 November 2011

Hang onto your socks, because this co-lab is guaranteed to blow them off. Jacky Winter sweetheart Beci Orpin recently worked with Sportsgirl to develop a suite of Beci-flavoured products. The range includes a ‘make your own gift card’ set, a ‘make your own embroidered cushion’, a journal, an aluminium drink bottle, and possibly the coolest fold up rain poncho to hit the rainy festival circuit. They’re all available through Sportsgirl stores and at the Sportsgirl online store. You lost your…

18 November 2011

Adorable alert! iPad storybook geniuses Ginger Whale approached Jacky Winter’s Melanie Matthews to illustrate an iPad storybook called ‘Sleepy Mole’s Moving Day’. It features 8 homes, 16 animals, 28 illustrations and 1,000 decibels of niceness. Best of all, it officially hit the iPad App store today – be sure to check out the demo clip here.