The illustrator Juan Carlos Federico has a brilliant portfolio, filled with very cute children’s books illustrations, editorial, monsters, and his very creative series Restatos and Sumanes. The series, which look like collages, always make me smile. And if that wasn’t enough the Argentine artist has also a blog with a funny name masporquerias (something like “more rubbishy”) with new works and a design portfolio. Check his interview published by Trendsetter Magazine.

There was a very nice with vintage ads and images of Vespa, so much loved by the Italian, but the site disappeared. Then I found a gallery at flickr, that is blocked now. That’s why I’m glad for Found in Mom’s Basement had found a delightful new Vintage Vespa Images set on Flickr. There are vintage ads, photos, illustrations, posters, pin-ups images -of course, and other ephemera images collected by Huro Kitty.

Chéri Hérouard was a French illustrator who was most famously known for his forty-five year work for French society magazine, La Vie Parisienne, which was (is?) a French humoristic and erotic weekly magazine, published in Paris since 1863.

‘La Vie Parisienne‘ was one of the more famous and well-known of specifically Parisienne magazines. Originally intended as a guide to the privileged social and artistic life in the French capital, it soon evolved into a mildly risqué publication in which illustrations of scantily clad damsels abounded. It was all done in very good taste though it had more than its fair share of detractors. General Pershing for one is said to have personally warned American servicemen against purchasing the magazine – for little good that would have done. ‘La Vie Parisienne’ was also banned in certain countries such as neighboring Belgium for instance, though in war-time it appeared that such silly regulations were not always adhered to.

The marvellous art work of Chéri Herouard is very well presented by this photoset with 197 images, many of them covers of La Vie Parisienne. The set was created by asoftblackstar and contains some NSFW illustrations. For more images and covers visit this, this,this and this page. (via Hugo Strikes Back)

Takorantis is the site of the Japanese studio Takorasu, “Las octopus” according to a weird on-line translation. On the Takorasu portfolio you will find their work of wonderful illustrations and animations with robot-like giant animals, which transport tiny whimsical steam worlds; midis from their animations, images of character design, and images (reload the page) of a web comic (now closed). Those steam worlds are inspired on the 19th century machinery and the middle ages European cities. For more information about it, watch the short video bellow by Diginfonew. (via armchair aquarium)

Miss Tigri is a talented French painter, illustrator and designer. Her fabulous paintings of languid women have influences of Art Nouveau artists, like Alfons Mucha and Gustav Klimt, expressionist painter Egon Schiele, French comics illustrators, Milo Manara, stylists, Tim Burton and Hayao Miyazaki. (via the NSFW Erotismo Gráfico)

Joy Ang is a Canadian multi-artist: illustrator, photographer and designer. On her portfolio there are few, but lovely, whimsical illustrations, sketchbook images, design projects, and photos. She also started a blog with craft projects, the crafty joy, with images of her amiguri creations.

The pretty humorous cards above are part of the deck of the French card game “La Grivoise” (The Spicy). That page contains all 32 cards and the box of the game released by Grimaud in the 1960’s. According to the box, it’s a funny game, for laugh and amuse yourself, with 16 blue cards for women, with answers, and 16 red cards for men, with questions. (via PCL)

The London based animation director and illustrator Steve Scott has a marvellous work. He started directing animated promos in the late 90s, creating clips for many bands, including Silverchair, New Zealand’s Salmonella Dub and his own band, Telemetry Orchestra. His cheerful and colourful portfolio of illustrations, some with a retro style, includes magazine covers, ads, CDs illustration, character design and pin-ups.
His animation portfolio is also great, with commercials and music videos. Don’t miss Telemetry Orchestra’s Suburban Harmony, with a style very similar to The Beatle’s “Yellow Submarine“.

The Periodic Table Printmaking Project was a project started and coordinated by Jennifer Schmitt, aka AzureGrackle.

Ninety-six printmakers of all experience levels, have joined together to produce 118 prints in any medium; woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, or any combination. The end result is a periodic table of elements intended to promote both science and the arts.

This very cool project, finished for now, received the works of printmakers from eight different countries: Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Scotland and United States. The project has a blog and a Flickr group. (via IWR Art Links and MetaFilter)
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The Russian LiveJournal community Kidpix published some illustrations with part of the text (in Russian) from the book “???? ? ??????“, known as “Hedgehog in the Fog“. “Hedgehog in the Fog” was at first a Soviet animated film directed by Yuriy Norshteyn, produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. This classic animation was released in 1975, based on Sergei Grigoryevich Kozlov’s script. However, in 2006 Norshteyn published the book under the same name, listing himself as an author along with Kozlov.
The film won the Teheran’s Children’s and Youth Film Festival of 1976 as “best animated film”, and Frunze’s All-Union Film Festival in the category “best animated film” in the same year. In 2003 the film was voted as “?1 Animated film of all the time” at “All time animation best 150 in Japan and Worldwide” contest in Tokyo. If you don’t know this wonderful animation, watch it on YouTube or bellow (10min) with English subtitles: