I like boring things.

Sketchbook

Eline — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:54:07 +0000

I promised myself to post some work I did every week. I like these diary pages from the past couple of days:

These are more like ideas that I quickly scribbled, but I like them nonetheless. Sorry for the poor scanning job :D

Blade Runner (stills)

Eline — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:50:03 +0000

“All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.”
(Loved the cheesiness of that moment.)

Louis

Eline — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:54:38 +0000

Louis, random silly story I wrote to amuse myself while suffering from hardcore insomnia this summer. Was thinking about illustrating it but I haven’t found the time yet.

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Eline — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:55:47 +0000

Though Middlemarch took me a month and a half to read because of time-consuming school &c. I never lost touch with the story. Every time I opened the book I felt as if I was revisiting old neighbours or dropping by life-long friends. Middlemarch tells the story of an almost entire village, dealing with a myriad of daily issues yet it never got confusing due to the wonderfully clear language by George Elliot. Not only did it deal with amazing story-lines but it also gave intelligent commentary on broad issues varying from the state of medical science to married life all while following the historical and political changes in England during 1830-32. In short, the more words I’m writing, the more I feel as if I’m doing injustice to this book. It’s so vast. Virginia Woolf was quoted as saying “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people” and she couldn’t be more right. From the commentary till the story-lines till the perfectly amazing language used, it’s continually beautiful, entertaining and insightful and holds everything and more a good book needs.

Some bits I loved:

… to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl’s life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her an dany man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful.

‘…To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion – a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.’
‘But you leave out the poems,’ said Dorothea. ‘I think they are wanted to complete the poet. I understand what you mean about knowledge passing into feeling, for that seems to be just what I experience. But I am sure I could never produce a poem.’
‘You are poem – and that is to be the best part of a poet – what makes up the poet consciousness in his best moods,’ said Will, showing such originality as we all share with the morning and the spring-time and other endless renewals.

Alvin Lustig (mostly) bookcovers

Eline — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:18:12 +0000

Alvin Lustig, American typeface and graphic designer.

The one on the right is from a brochure.

www.alvinlustig.com

Shamelessly obsessed with various (vintage) bookcovers right now.

Tadanori Yokoo posters

Eline — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:31:27 +0000

I can’t exactly pinpoint my love for the sometimes crazy designs of Tadanori Yokoo but I can tell you that though I may not always like them, I’m always irrefutably fascinated by them. His use of colour, composition but mainly the strange juxtapositions of the many different elements in his posters compel me because though they can be so strange and contrastive they always seem to work so well together. So here are my favourite posters by him. Some I might like because they’re plain bizarre, some because I truly think they’re uncommonly beautiful, some I might just think cute.

This post is completely overwhelming yet I tried to keep these to the utmost minimum! I collected all the Yokoo posters I could find online (I surfed for hours on end) and put them online in a zip file here. (I’m mainly doing this for myself as I don’t want to loose all of these :D. I hope I’m not breaking any copyright rules?)

Kiyoshi Awazu

Eline — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:34:35 +0000

Kiyoshi Awazu (1929-2009), Japanese graphic artist. I love him for his sometimes psychedelic designs and colours mixed with traditional Japanese influences. I’ve been absolutely crazy about Japanese Edo prints for as long as I can remember (or you knew, since my twelfth) and Japanese graphic artists such as Awazu, Tadanoori and Nagai are beautifully influenced by them, the strict lines, the specific shapes etc. but their works remains remarkably fresh and modern because of the colours and modern influences.

From a Hitchcock still

Eline — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:03:44 +0000

Kazumasa Nagai

Eline — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:04:32 +0000

Kazumasa Nagai is a Japanese graphic designer born in 1929. I think you can immediately tell why I love this man. Bright colours! Animals! Creative links and solutions! I’m also getting increasingly more interested in bold, simplistic shapes and this man’s work fits right in to this new-found obsession.

Raincoat lady

Eline — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:06:07 +0000

I’m guessing sleep deprivation is catching up on me, as I find this lady amusing.