Nascent Ideas


My Tutors
August 10, 2007, 7:19 pm
Filed under: Art, Books, Design, Fashion, Illustration, Inspiration, Magazines, Pop Culture

I’m soon to be starting back at my third year studying illustration at the University of Brighton so I thought i’d post links to the websites of some of the tutors i’ve had and will be having next year and some of the illustrators who’ve been in numerous times to help tutor us. Click the images to view their sites.

First off, Ian Wright

Jasper Goodall

Paul Burgess

Dave Foldvari

Roderick Mills

Jim Stoten



Free Porn!
August 10, 2007, 6:03 pm
Filed under: Inspiration, Pop Culture, Toys, news, porn

“ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday.NAN said its reporter had seen pornographic images stored on several of the children’s laptops.

“Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in Abuja have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with explicit sexual materials,” NAN said.

A representative of the One Laptop Per Child aid group was quoted as saying that the computers, part of a pilot scheme, would now be fitted with filters.” “



Type and Moleskine
August 10, 2007, 4:34 pm
Filed under: Art, Books, Design, Film, Illustration, Inspiration, Music, Pop Culture, Video

From the Pentagram blog via Quipsologies.

“Earlier this summer Paula Scher participated in Detour, an exhibition at the Art Directors Club in New York presented by Moleskine. The exhibition featured 70 Moleskine notebooks filled by various designers, architects, artists and writers. The raison d’être for the exhibition was to introduce the new Moleskine City Notebooks, announce the launch of the accompanying Cityblog and raise money for the non-profit foundation Lettera 27. Now Moleskine has posted video of the participants paging through their books. Paula’s is filled with 14 whimsical fonts she drew while on an airplane and sitting by the sea in Jamaica. Other participants included Dave Eggers, Cynthia Rowley, Lou Reed, Terence Conran, Tom Sachs, Carin Goldberg and Yves Behar. A tour of the notebooks is possibly in the works.”



Modernist Homes
August 10, 2007, 1:42 pm
Filed under: Design, Inspiration, Modernism, Pop Culture, Property

I go here when I want to have a little cry about London property.

The Modern House



Electric Door Magazine
August 10, 2007, 1:36 pm
Filed under: Art, Design, Fashion, Illustration, Inspiration, Magazines, Pop Culture

I art directed and designed a streetwear magazine a few months ago for my girlfriend who did all the writing in it for her final work for her degree. The magazine was graded as a first and we both put a lot of work into it. I can’t post the whole magazine due to copyright issues but here are a couple of features from it. One is a piece on denim and the other is an interview with Rockers NYC. Unfortunately they’re all in seperate jpgs rather than a pdf but click the links below to take a look. And if you enjoy it, email contact@electricdoor.eu and let her know! Illustrations in the first article by Hannah Buck and in the second by myself.



Grand Royal Magazine Pt.2
August 10, 2007, 1:12 pm
Filed under: Art, Design, Illustration, Inspiration, Magazines, Music, Pop Culture

As promised (but slightly late) the cover scans for the final 3 issues of Grand Royal magazine.