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Farmidable features posts about the latest pattern design, illustration and graphic design. We also make our own patterns and offer them for free as desktop wallpapers.
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Chris Greenwood’s Igloo: Album Artwork
I just got my copies of Chris Greenwood’s new album, Igloo, which I laid out and did the illustration for. I’m really happy with how it came out. My favorite part of the design is the disc which has the rough sketches I drew when lay...
Miki Sato Illustration: Textures
Miki Sato is an illustrator living and working from Toronto Canada. She uses layers of textures and fabrics to create her images. They are conceptual, simple and amazing. Her style also has a delicate Asian feel that I’m always drawn too an...
Photostream of iv_orlov
While searching around the interwebs for a nice tut on how to make an iPhone app I came across iv_orlov’s photostream on Flickr. Completely unrelated to what I was looking for yet delightful. I really enjoy the color pallets and texture tha...
Adrià Fruitós Illustrations
I haven’t posted about an illustrator for awhile. Adrià Fruitós has some great work. I thought the apocalyptic image fit well with the post I did for Alex Lukas. I love how Adrià handles color and texture in his work. He currently lives ...
Emmanuelle Walker Short Animation
Amazing design, movement and space in this short animation by Emmanuelle Walker from France. The music/sound is really good too. See more of her work including illustrations on her site. Make sure you click around and look at everything from her stu...
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak
I think a lot of people believe picture book illustrators who create work for children are “child at heart” kind of people who smell daisies and skip down the side walk while wearing bright colors that are only out shined by there smiles...
Jonathan Bartlett Illustration
When I first saw Jonathan Bartlett’s work I was amazed. He seems to have mastered the techniques that I continually struggle and with and envy, not to mention that he’s quite good at portraying a concept. Jonathan uses a lot of different ...
Owen Freeman
I came across Owen Freeman’s work while poking around in Illustration Mundo. Owen Freeman is a an illustrator that currently lives in LA. His work defiantly has a west coast illustrators feel. Many of his images include figures within landscape...
Namit Malavia Drawings
Nimit Malavia has some amazing drawings and paintings. I love the flow and movement of these pieces. The lion’s claw/hand gripping the ground in the second image is incredible. Overall what I like best is that you can tell there’s a love ...
Simon Kim
Sorry the gallery hasn’t been working correctly. I haven’t had time to go in a fix it. In the mean time check out the work of Simon Kim. Simon was born in Korea, grew up in Seoul and moved to Toronto, Canada. He is a graduate of Sheridan...
Valero Doval
I Just came across London based Valero Doval’s work and it is amazing. Doval’s art combines collage and drawings (some pieces seem to just be drawings) with shapes and geometric pattern elements. Color in most pieces is used in a subtle w...
Yuta Onoda
Originally from Japan, Yuta Onoda has been working on his Bachelor of Applied Arts at Sheridan College, Canada. Yuta combines digital and traditional techniques to create his masterfully colored, flowing paintings. See more of his work in his portfol...
Richard Wilkinson
It’s hard to believe we haven’t posted about Richard Wilkinson’s amazing work before. His illustration work includes both cute and serious content, creating an amazing reflection of the human condition in soft color and smooth line ...
Matt Taylor and Animal Parts
What I like most about Matt Taylor’s work is his intelligent inclusion of animals and or animal parts. His work has a dream like feel, much like his influence James Jean, but with harder shapes and lines. His clients include Penguin Books, Burt...
ISO50
My good friend Justin pointed out the work of ISO50 a.k.a. Scott Hansen and I was intantly amazed. Not only is Scott a great pattern designer but he’s got some great retro, for lack of a better word, posters too. Check out his site here, blog h...
Flickr Friday: Bahaosorg
I don’t know anything about Bahaosorg but I like the images in his/her photostream. Most of the photo stream consists of what looks like album art and includes both illustration and design. Check it out and if you know more please let us know. ...
Flickr Friday: Christina Ung
Late again, we’d call it Flickr Saturday but it doesn’t sound as good. Christina Ung is a Canadian Illustrator with a great style, humor and wit. Her influences come from vintage western prints/posters and graffiti street arts. You can al...
Michael Wandermaier Illustration
Michael Wandelmaier is an illustrator currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. He was formally trained as a civil engineer and geologist but chose to pursue a career in the arts. His work incorporates sophisticated line work, a warm color p...
Terry Posters
In keeping with the theme of archives, to go along side my last post about Book Cover Archive, Terry Posters shop is run by a group of people who also manage two biggest art cinemas in Prague. They are the largest film posters dealer and have a...
Flickr Saturday: Betsy.’s Photostream
Sorry about missing the Flickr Friday deadline. Betsy Walton has some amazing drawings, paintings and pattern studies in her photostream. She’s from Kansas but now lives in Portland Oregon, has a shop on etsy and a website where you can see m...
Beard Buddies Sketch
I’m posting my sketch for this upcoming pattern to force myself to spend more time on it. I’ve been working on the concept since Kitsune Nior had his beard themed wallpaper contest a few months ago. I didn’t finish it in time but ...
Dugald Stewart Walker
“The Girl Who Sat By The Ashes” is a Irish story written by Padraic Colum and illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker in the 1920’s. The story is the telling of adventures by which Girl-go-with-the-Goats (poor farmers daughter) wh...
Sally Cruikshank
Sally Cruikshank began her career as an independent animator while a college student in the 1970s. In 1975, while working in San Francisco for Snazelle Films, she wrote, designed, directed, and animated (with only minimal assistance) tons surreal ...
Greenwood, Mississippi
For the last month I have been filming a documentary in the South. Made some friends, ate alot of catfish and fried pickles. Listened to Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters. Made a deal with the devil down by the crossroads….Now Im back up north...
Flickr Friday: sebográficos
Check out sebográficos for this week’s Flickr Friday. I especially like the samurai! Related posts:Flickr Friday: Azul dc I know we’re not the only Flickr Friday in...Flickr Friday: David Rubin For Flickr Friday this week, we’...
Russian Group Show @ Rotopol
I just info about this Russian Group show posted on Little Chimp Society. Having read many Russian Novels I’m a huge fan the motherland. These posters are amazing. I wish I could see the show. You can learn more at Roropolpress. My favorite ...
1200 Questions
In my previous post I posted a bunch of how-to handbooks that my wife found in our grandmother’s basement. Being my favorite I saved this booklet for it’s own post. When I first held it in my hands I was amazed by the simplicity of the...
How-To Books from the 1950’s
My wife’s grandmother’s basement flooded about a month ago and boy were there some great old finds down there. Among them were these two-color self cover how-to handbooks from the 1950’s. The type and illustrations in all of these a...
Guillaume Ninove
Drawn turned me onto Guillaume Ninove. He’s a French artist that creates these beautiful pieces that are somewhere between sculpture and collage. Lately, he’s been making stop-motion pieces that use his scale models as set pieces. An...
Aleks Sennwald Illustration
Aleks Sennwald has some great work. I really like the free flowing line quality and movement of each illustration. The colors are great too. Mostly neutral with some saturated areas here and there. The bottom image is of Marvel Comics’s Galat...
