Pomegranates and Bananas by Glasgow-based textile designer, researcher and practitioner, Jeni Allison. These images are from a series of illustrations using Sergei Parajanov’s film The Colour of Pomegranates as inspiration. Allison makes work for, and about the the relationships between dance, ritual, performance and textile.

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What:
Questioning Creatives is a website created to offer a better idea of a creative career path. It was originally setup by a graphic designer when his daughter was considering a career as an illustrator. After trying to explain that an illustrator’s life isn’t as simple as sitting at a desk all day, drawing nice pictures, he decided that it would be good to setup a website with interviews and career stories. This site is not just for prospective illustrators, but for anyone involved in the creative industry.

Why we like it:
Professional illustrators and recent graduates explain how they got to where they are now, the best and worst things about their jobs and what they wish they’d known at the beginning. This site provides a clearer idea of what a creative’s life is really like, alongside some words of wisdom. If you’re struggling to decide if a creative path is really for you, then these stories, tips and ideas might make that decision a little easier. We just wish it was around ten years ago…

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Who:
Step into the Parlour is a blog by Graphic Designer Melanie Smith.

Why we like it:
Melanie posts finished designs as well as her work in progress, which lets her followers clearly see her development.

Hidden treasure:
We uncovered Melanie’s postage stamp design below celebrating the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth with elements relating to secrets and code-breaking.

Alan Turing Postage Stamp Design, 2011.

Where to find out more:
Blog | Facebook | Pinterest

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Top 20 Typefaces by Jimmy Edmondson – a Graphic Designer based in Manchester.

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Mathematics Killed the Romance is by Kathryn Ho, an illustrator and designer currently based in Edinburgh.

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Nick Cocozza is an illustration graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee who is now based in Berlin.

We noticed this work by Nick on our Behance community and thought it should be shared.

Here is what Nick has to say about it:
“This pop-up book was a piece that i produced in response to a live brief from the German Embassy in London as part of a design competition for DAAD.

Following the brief to create a modern day fairytale, i chose to put a modern twist on my favourite childhood fairytale; ‘Hansel and Gretel’.”

See the full book here.

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