Here’s some ridiculously good illustration work by a bloke called Loopy Dave.

There’s a great selection of his work over on Abduzeedo, but you can also check out his portfolio here.

Combining two of my favourite things; printmaking and cake.

I must admit that I do have a sweet tooth. When I was a little robot, I was quite partial to an after-school treat and sometimes used to come home, whip up some butter icing to spread onto Rich Tea biscuits and then sneakily eat them all up while snuggled next to the radiator behind the sofa. Once I got a little too confident and attempted to make some flap-jack but it went horrendously wrong and I had to chip it out of the saucepan with a hammer and screwdriver before my Mum could find out! I now know that a little hot water and fairy liquid would have done the trick, but I was only about 10 so give me a break!

Anyway…

This delightful dessert from Ashley Brown is just genius. You can find out more here. It’s probably worth mentioning that if you are tempted to have a crack at one of these print-inspired cakes, then please do remember to use edible food colouring rather than lithographic ink. Although printing ink stuff does look like treacle, it really doesn’t taste quite so good.

Got some printed loveliness from the folks at Bermondsey based design agency HudsonFuggle over Christmas for their street art themed calendar. Loving the bright orange printed on card.

‘Making of’ videos will appear on their blog at the beginning of the month to accompany the printed calendar, check it out.

See more of what they do here.

Before moving to Nottingham, I had my studio there and still do all my screen printing and etching work in the printmakers’ workshop. It’s always nice to see what other people get up to in the treasure trove that is HBP, so here’s a great piece of creative print from Daylight; an award winning, independent, creative moving image company based in the northern quarter of Manchester.

To celebrate their 7th birthday, Daylight hand printed a limited edition of posters at Hot Bed Press and sent them out to friends, neighbours and clients. The posters are screen printed with a Phosphorescent paint which charges up in the light so it glows in the dark. Thankfully, Daylight documented the process behind the posters and created a little video. Enjoy…

WOW! Just WOW!

Followers of Behance my have already seen this as they recently threw it onto their twitter feed, but I just had to post it here. Here we have a series of abstract complex illustrations called Structures 2 by Atelier Olchinsky.

I love the industrial feel to the images, giving a sense of organised chaos (yes, I know that’s an oxymoron). On first sight, the images seem chaotic and messy, but on further inspection, you can see that the structures are actually highly ordered. The variety of textures and materials used in the images are incredible and the level of detail is simply amazing.

What I can’t tell is if they are based on photography, 3D rendering, or a mix of the two. Either way, they are an outstanding set images. Expect a full post very soon based on more of Atelier’s work, but in the meantime, if you’re looking to buy a stunning piece of artwork, then you could do far far worse than visiting Atelier’s shop! You can also view the full Structures 2 series here.