www.emmaliles.co.uk

Just started making my website and got the Home page complete, here's a little preview.

The big ISSUU

For the past week I have been working on a project to create 4 magazine spreads using different column widths. Once finished I had to publish them on ISSUu
 And let me say its a great site. Its completely free and you can make anything with turning pages. Give it a go ISSUU

Open publication - Free publishing - More columns

Open publication - Free publishing - More emma liles

Open publication - Free publishing - More columns

Open publication - Free publishing - More columns

Hours of Entertainment

I picked this up at a second hand book shop for £5 and I have to say its a bargain, couldn't walk away without it.

Modern art

You can take it seriously

Or you can have a bit of a laugh at it

This week I went to the Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) Gallery in Wakefield and not being a huge fan of modern art I did rather enjoy it. It was interesting to look at the work she produced as well as how she made them.

Although there were a few pieces I thought would look better in my garden..

And some others I just thought were ridiculous.

But all in all it was a good experience and I highly recommend it. Also has the bonus of a great adventure play ground.

Paper toy promotion

Well After making the paper toys the next step is promoting them. And i must say this has been rather fun as well as creating a web site we have also created a blog
http://www.pocopapertoys.blogspot.co.uk/

we also created a twitter account https://twitter.com/#!/PocoPapertoys

Paper Toys

These are the five paper toys I created, they Are the Food Fighters, masked wrestling food.

Paper toys out and about.

Sophie Griotto

A great French illustrator who dose some really nice illustrations of people.
Also has a great web site and blog. Be warned it is all in French so have a translator handy.




She also created the story board for the new Dior adverthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXrWiJcmvBI

CONTATO

During a research session for one project where we had to make our own paper toys I found this guy.
He has an interesting array of work both 2D and 3D. Some of them are commissions and some of them personal. But definitely worth a look if you like 3D models

The average teen bedroom

This is a piece of work I did based on Teen Rebellion. I took the angle of the average teenagers bedroom and how progressively messy it gets.

ShaunTan

Real interesting work. Great abstract paintings as well as interesting illustrations full of a mixture of stuff. It can all be seen on his website.

"All of my work as an illustrator is based either directly or indirectly upon direct observation from life. I spend as much time as I can producing singular paintings, often semi-abstracted, but almost always drawn from things I know well; familiar landscapes, objects and people."

the king of visual communication Peter Grundy

He has a unique way of presenting information, simply yet informative. His web sit Grundini holds a whole host of interesting visual work that I seriously recommend looking at.

Sam Green

Whilst looking at my book shelf i decided to look up one of the illustrators that designed some great  covers for one of my favorite books. So I typed the name that was on the back of the book into google. Found his home page and wow. I was amazed at the variety of his work. He uses traditional materials to produce a unique style. Here a small video from his blog.http  ://vimeo.com/29730791
And here's some of his work.

Medium - Pencil and ink on paper

Album cover / Concept work for Breakbeat Chaos label

project: cd cases

My latest project is to design a CD case for the song This Tornado Loves you by Neko Case
And so i have occasionally been trawling thought the Internet to see if anything interesting popped up. And whilst I didn't find much there were a couple of interesting things.

This CD packaging whilst quite pink has a theme about is and I like the way it has two sections to case. 

This one is made from recycled cardboard and is quite compact

I also had a quick look at album art and and i think this is one of my favourites for knights of cydonia by muse.
I think it fits the song beautifully.

Kerning

After two weeks of typography this amused me

the weekend

These are two interesting designs I saw this weekend whilst i was out with my parents. The first is thought provoking and the second it...well scary.

A poster for Cancer Research

DINE and hughes

These are two designers that i was shown today that i really like.

David hughes

Jim Dine

First project back after Christmas Holidays

This new project is about identical twins so I've started a looking at different artists and their techniques.
These are two that caught my eye.

First thing to do when you get a new project hit the books

These are three books i got for christmas which are incredibly usefull and i highley recomend them