It’s been a long time since the last post (sorry), however as a parting gift of 2009 go a have a look at Norwich illustrator, Fay Elizabeth Heffer’s nice website with some wonderful work. Head over to www.fehillustration.com and have a look, also worth a look are her flickr and also her blog too.

Happy New Year for tomorrow, hopefully 2010 will bring more regular updates.

After trawling through the Grain Edit website I stumbled upon friend of a friend Stuart Kolkaovic’s work on there. Which jogged my memory into checking his website out as I hadn’t for a while. I thought I’d share his work with you so head over to his site or his blog for more of his lively work.

Some of you may recognise his work from Document’s Big Push DVD sleeve from a couple of year’s ago, which has just undergone a revival under the Sidewalk brand.

The Birdcage on Pottergate, Norwich gave some local artists a task of creating an A3 piece based on the theme of Birds and Cages (slightly unoriginal). The artists involved have delivered some great results with a great variety of styles. The pieces are on display on the stairs between the front and back rooms for the next two weeks, so go have a look for yourselves.

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Joel Benjamin has just finished his rather impressive bird mural over at the new Smash Skates shop, on the changing room doors. Check out his sketch blog for some behind the scenes photos of the work in progress. Click the above image for a larger view.

Paul Rand was one of the 20th Century’s great graphic designers, having produced some of the most iconic logos of the last century including IBM, UPS, ABC and Enron.  Now he has an entire website dedicated to him and his work including posters, advertising, packaging and more, put together by Daniel Lewandowski. Head on over to the website and have a look through some wonderful galleries of his work.

Smash Skates are currently running a Design a T-Shirt competition, with the chance to get your design printed and sold in-store (along with a cut of the profits) plus a bunch other free goodies. So get the crayons (or Illustrator) out and draw something cool then check out the smash website or facebook group for details of how to enter.

This is hopefully going to turn into a monthly piece, with a selection of wallpapers for your computer or jazzy iphone/ipod touch. This month’s wallpapers include the little fella above courtesy of Joel Benjamin, read his interview here if you haven’t already, alongside a couple I’ve put together. If you have any ideas for one don’t hesitate to let me know.

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How/when did you first take an interest in drawing? 

I’ve drawn for as long as I can remember. Looking back, my earliest memories of drawing involve me sitting at the coffee table for hours on end drawing Transformers or superhoeroes fighting, and doing all the sound effects as I drew them. There is a primary school teacher who still knows me from when I was in her class, she asks if im still drawing whenever we bump into each other. So to me its something I’ve always done. I was really into comics when I was little, so I think those where what fuelled my interest.

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