Bloody hell – check out the talent on that!

From time to time, we all need a little inspiration which is why the D&AD New Blood 2009 event is a real source of creativity.Taking place at the National Hall at Olympia in London from 29th June – 1st July, expect raw talent at its finest and you'll also be able to take part in workshops. It's free entry but you need to register to get your ticket. Have a look here: http://newblood.dandad.org/

And if you're a graduate, check out the D&AD Graduate Training and Advice Sessions taking place at Coronet in Notting Hill. There is a small fee but you might just find it's more than worth it! Sessions include: How to Copyright your Work and How to Go Freelance. Details of that can be found here: http://www.dandad.org/education/training-advice.html

If any Soupa members do go, we'd love to know how you get on – so drop us a line and maybe share a few tips!

Print Club presents - Secret Blisters

More info here

Don't Panic + Vitamin Water unique design competition

Win £500 and Sunday Besitval tickets!

Would you like to see your work in print? how about printed at 10m by 13.5m on the front of cordy house, in the heart of Shoreditch, London? and not without some prizes either – £500 cash and 2 vip Bestival passes! not to mention, you’ll have your work printed on the don’t panic poster another 80,000 times.

Okay, so what do you need to do to win the brief? Glacéau vitaminwater is looking for your creative interpretation on the theme of ‘summer of Glacéau vitaminwater’. using their gorgeously stylish packs, create a vision of summer in colour (specifically, the six rainbow colours of the vitaminwater varieties - see entry guidelines)

Your creation can be rendered using graphic design, illustration, photography, or any type of medium you can think of, as long as it can be printed up to a suitably large format.

Click here to find out more and to enter the competition.

New header and Soupa members

Thanks to Harriet for designing the new Soupa Banner and Welcome to Mark Howe and Rhiannon Taylor - 2 new Soupa members!

Photos from China

Thanks very much to Luke for sending over a selection of pictures from the 2000 he took in China. Luke, Harriet, Jason, Alex and Amy all took part in an exhibition for the Yangste River Spring Arts Festival – Wuhan City, China. Here are some pictures from the event!

Alex Dalton

Luke Waller

Luke Waller

Jason Lear

Jason Lear

Amy Palmer

Luke Waller

Luke and Harriet

Alex Dalton

Harriet Gray

Brighton Calling

Brighton Artists Open Houses

The seaside city of Brighton is currently hosting an Open House event, which finishes up this coming weekend (23-24 May). I visited the sunny town last weekend and was very impressed by the warm welcome and amazing standard of work. Some of my favourites were: Our House,  The Butterfly House and Ben Allen Open House. There are lots more to investigate which is why I am heading down again next weekend to seek out some more exciting finds. I think the most interesting part about this event apart from finding out new artists and illustrators is that you can see the works in context of the artist in their own house! Go check them out. http://www.aoh.org.uk/

Our House

Frankie Magazine

Frankie

Check out Frankie Magazine, its full of cool things to buy and interesting features on illustrators, artists and creatives.

This is what they say:

"frankie magazine is a national bi-monthly based in Australia, aimed at women (and men) looking for a magazine that’s as smart, funny, sarcastic, friendly, cute, rude, arty, curious and caring as they are"

Power in Numbers

Power in Numbers Private view at the Bodhi Gallery

Last night saw the opening of Power in Numbers here are some pics! You can also read more about it on the Creative Review blog here.

Photography by Clare Kelly

Jo's work - for sale £20 @ Bodhi Gallery

David's work - for sale £20 @ Bodhi Gallery

David's work - for sale £20 @ Bodhi Gallery

Jo's work - for sale £20 @ Bodhi Gallery

Soupa in the Chinese news

Yangste River Spring Arts Festival - Wuhan City, China

The work of Soupa members Luke Waller, Harriet Gray, Jason Lear, Amy Palmer and Alex Dalton all appeared in the Yangste River Spring Arts Festival in China last month. Here is a clipping from a Chinese newspaper - can anyone translate what it says?

More pictures from the show and information is on its way!

UCA - Beg, Steal or Borrow

Beg, Steal or Borrow Auction

STARTS 21st MARCH

The University for Creative Arts - Graphic Communication 3rd year students have organised an auction to raise money for their final show. Take a look at the goodies in store - there are some beauties in there with prints and books from creative people such as Kate Moross, Rob Ryan and James Joyce.

http://www.graphicsfarnham.org/auction/

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Neal Fox

For our latest Artist Profile, we went to meet Neal Fox of the wonderful Le Gun magazine who took us to his studio to show us his paintings and his grandad. For your viewing pleasure we have also included a music vid Neal did for that band Babyshambles for their song French Dog Blues. Get some more Neal Fox in your life at www.nealfox.co.uk.

Sam Ashton

Our new poster artist is illustrator Sam Ashton from Brighton, chosen by distinguished art freak Job Wouters aka Letmann. Depicting everyday objects in a unique way, his style updates the ancient Japanese method of 'woodblock' drawing.

Rikka Sormunen

Riikka Sormunen's paintings are stylised depictions of fantasy worlds. She also paints novelty figurines to immerse in these beautiful environments. I spoke to Riikka to find out about her career, inspirations and the darkness that seeps into her pieces, lending them unusual and thought-provoking qualities.

Print Club

 

Print Club run by Fred Higginson, Kate Newbold & Rose Stallard is designed to work as a member’s water based screenprinting club for illustrators and designers, to produce posters, t- shirts, all things screenprinted.

Print Club aims to revive screenprinting by providing a laid back yet productive affordable environment, enabling designers to go from laptop to inky hands.

Print Club is once again bringing together a mixture of 35 emerging and established illustrators from pen to mouse to those who cover walls, for another summer bonanza of hand pulled, screen printed posters.

Last years exhibition brought together a mixture of up and coming illustrators and many well known names including Eine, Jody Barton, Pure Evil, Steve Wilson, AustinfromNew... They had over 1000 people through the door and sold out of most artists on the night!

See www.printclublondon.com for more info.

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Jasper Goodall

Jasper Goodall is probably one of the best illustration artists in the UK right now. He's done work with mags including The Face, ID and Dazed & Confused, as well as commercial stuff for BMW, Nike, Gucci and a heap more, so you've almost certainly seen his art before. Click here to read more.

Jennifer Taylor

Jennifer Taylor's most recent sculptures depict chaotic messes of interlinking pipes, chains, and disposable objects coated in white paint and wax. Cancer cells, labyrinths and internal organs, are just some images that spring to mind when looking at these troubled objects. But who is Jennifer Taylor, how were these fantastic sculptures born and why? Click here to read more.

In A Dream

In a Dream is a family film. The director is Jeremiah Zagar. The main character is his father Isaiah Zagar, an eccentric artist who over the past four decades has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. The murals chronicle his love for his wife, Julia, and hint at the darker corners of an outlandish imagination. The film took Jeremiah about seven years to complete. Click here to read more.

Pogostick Pie - Vintage China Sale

South London Craft Market

Come along to Pogostick Pie's (Clare and Jo) first ever table top sale in Crystal Palace. We will be selling vintage china alongside a few limited edition prints from Anna and Jo Spencer and other unusual items.

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Steve Bell

Steve Bell is probably Britain's most recognisable political cartoonist. Over a 28 year career at the Guardian he has terrorized the rich and powerful, often depicting them as animals and monsters. Click here to read more.

Liz Hickok

Liz Hickok is a San Franciscan photographer who creates her own urban scenes. In the studio. Out of jelly. Click here to read more.

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Sarah King

Sarah King is a recent graduate of Brighton University. She has since been working as a freelance illustrator and designer. Inspired by science, space, animals and myths, Sarah's illustrations are intricately beautiful and bursting with words. Click here to read more.

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Chris Bianchi

Chris Bianchi is a freelance illustrator based in London. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2005 he has self published two books, The Spinners 2003 and Box 2005. He is part of the well known illustration magazine Le Gun, and is now teaching and working on his new book. We visited his studio to ask him about his career so far and to demonstrate his drawing skills. Click here to read more.

The Black Heart Gang

The Black Heart Gang are a group of South African artists who have created a fantastic hand drawn animation, visually inspired by eastern art. The Tale of How is a story about a giant octupus whose desire is to consume every dodo resembling bird there is in sight, until Eddy the Engineer (a little white mouse) saves the day... Click here to read more.

Adrian Tomine

Adrian Tomine is widely considered one of the finest cartoonists and illustrators of his generation. His recent work is ranked alongside that of the iconic Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes. While he continues to work on his ongoing series Optic Nerve (currently entering its 15th year of publication), he's also illustrator of choice for the New Yorker and his newest book Shortcomings has generated critical and popular acclaim. For a man who began his career personally Xeroxing copies of his comics for distribution, and who stubbornly chooses to work in a medium as deliberately obscure as Independent Comics, his success is quite astounding. Will Bingley got in touch for a chat. Click here to read more.

Print Club

Print Club fun!

This weekend my Anna and I went to Print Club in Hackney to do some screen printing. We had lots of fun and highly recommend it, it is good to get messy sometimes.

Anna with her squeegee

Inky pink ready to print on my screen

Jo's second layer on

Anna making a beautiful mess

Layer 1 print

And then with the second layer blue speech bubbles

Anna's final 2 layer print of the Feather Duster!

Soupa Animation by Anna Spencer

Something fun to watch

Watch this lovely Soupa promotion stop frame animation made by Anna Spencer back in 2007 - see some more recent work in her page and on her website at www.raspberrykisses.co.uk - remember to put the sound up on your mac or pc as the music makes it even more fun.

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Soupa Doodle

I found this while looking through an old sketchbook, I must have Soupa on the brain... If anyone else has any doodles or anything they want to post on here - like news, events, links - email me. They don't have to be Soupa related...