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)

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Posted by Bibi on January 25, 2008 05:15 PM in Illustration, Vintage ||

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)

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Posted by Bibi on January 25, 2008 02:52 PM in Animation, Illustration ||

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)

Posted by Bibi on January 24, 2008 07:24 PM in Art, Illustration, Painting, Pin-ups ||

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.

Posted by Bibi on January 23, 2008 06:44 PM in Design, Illustration ||

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)

Posted by Bibi on January 23, 2008 12:45 PM in Games, Illustration, Vintage ||

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".

Posted by Bibi on January 21, 2008 10:50 PM in Animation, Illustration, Pin-ups ||

The Russian LiveJournal community Kidpix published some illustrations with part of the text (in Russian) from the book "Ёжик в тумане", 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:

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Posted by Bibi on January 20, 2008 03:29 PM in Animals, Animation, Illustration ||

This Russian Livejournal page has a serious of beautiful illustrations from the book "Circus", published in 1966 and illustrated by the soviet painter Valery Alffevsky. Alffevsky studied in Vkhutemas, a famous school of Russian Avant-garde. I don't know much about painting styles, but I liked the fluid style, using only ink and watercolour, like sketches.

Posted by Bibi on January 17, 2008 02:48 PM in Books, Illustration, Vintage ||

Kokomoo presents the great work of the Chinese artist Yan Wei. Graduated in Graphic Design at Tsing Hua University in Beijing, she worked with illustration, storyboarding, drawing and painting of cartoon characters, and now working as a freelancer. Among her influences there are Japanese manga, anime, comics, street art, flat paintings and 80's Chinese pop style. On her blog, in Chinese, you can check her new creations and news, with several images. (via Estampes japonaises)

Posted by Bibi on January 16, 2008 02:18 PM in Illustration ||

Those who live in Los Angeles can enjoy the exhibition "Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee" on the Gallery 1988, until February 1. The other mere mortals, like me, can enjoy the neat art homages presented on this exhibition on its page Stan Lee Tribute Artwork. The works include paintings, collages, illustrations, watercolours, cute plush toys, sculptures and other mixed media creations. (via a sampler of things)

Posted by Bibi on January 16, 2008 01:37 PM in Art, Comics, Illustration ||

The Bristol based illustrator Ben Newman makes cheerful illustrations, which he describes as "radically fuzzy felt bauhaus-folk illustration". His childhood was heavily influenced by superheroes, the Beano and rope swings. By the way, from 15th September to October 14th 2007 happens his Debut Solo exhibition of prints at Soma Gallery, in Bristol.

Posted by Bibi on October 2, 2007 12:47 AM in Illustration ||

The Spanish illustrator Macus Romero has a charming portfolio illustrations and characters design. Her digital images, watercolours and sketches of girls and cats are lovely. There are many much of her illustrations to appreciate on Flickr and on her blog.

Posted by Bibi on September 29, 2007 01:37 AM in Illustration ||

Mercedes Helnwein was born in Vienna Austria, first daughter to renowned painter, and art provocateur Gottfried Helnwein. Her dark detailed drawings resemble pictures of dramatic events, like shots from a film noir or the illustrated version of the characters from a vintage pulp book. She's also a writer with influences of southern blues, turn of the century Russian literature, and sixties comic book artists. (via la main gauche)

Posted by Bibi on September 28, 2007 10:21 PM in Art, Illustration ||

Garfield is damn cool. I always loved this Jim Davis comic, since I was a child. Probably because I always had lived with cats. Cats can be very affectionate in one moment, and totally selfish two minutes after. Seriously? I don't care, they still much better than human beings. If you are not cat lover, the chances of you like and understand Garfiled are low. And ask to somebody else to explain why it's funny won't convince you.

The Garfield Variations presents works of anonymous "artist" who enjoy this character and pay a homage sending images of Garfield variations. Don't expect find some ouvres d'art, just go to have fun. If you think you can make a better Garfield, submit your own creation to the site. (via Yahoo! Picks)

Posted by Bibi on September 28, 2007 11:52 AM in Cats, Curious things, Illustration ||

The image above is one of the wonderful hand drawn illustrations made by Si Scott . The art director and designer creates beautiful ads with using lines and typography. That illustration was made for Resonate series, a new monthly music collective which is going to be released every month in a poster packaging format with a different animal each time. There are more two images of those series at Type for you and an Interview from a year ago. The short video bellow (30 seconds) shows his drawing process.

Posted by Bibi on September 25, 2007 11:35 PM in Design, Illustration ||

This is one of the three ads created by Ogilvy & Mather India for MPH, which slogan is If children don't read, they'll never know. Classic fairy tales available at MPH. The pretty ad illustrations with modern versions of classic fairy tale characters were made by Jimbo. He shared the final, and many other previous images, of that work on his blog. Don't forget to check his other works on his blog and his Flickr. (via Ads of the World)

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Posted by Bibi on September 24, 2007 01:19 PM in Books, Illustration ||

On Tummie-Design you will find the super cute portfolio of Tummie with illustrations, toys and animations, her shop with lovely bags and wallets with monsters (cute monsters I may say), and some very pretty things she made to download, including icons, wallpaper and the adorable papermodel "mover" (bellow). (via Paper Forest)

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Posted by Bibi on September 24, 2007 11:25 AM in Craft, Illustration, Toys ||

The title says everything: The book of clones and possessed children. The book is part of the portfolio of the Canadian artist Nocturnal-Devil. It presents adorable dark humour and politically incorrect illustrations of children (not for children!), and alternative versions of fairy tales. Some of them are quite disturbing.

His portfolio on deviantART has those and more macabre illustrations, photo manipulations, short animations, clay sculptures and more. (via Hugo Strikes Back)

Posted by Bibi on September 20, 2007 07:52 PM in Illustration ||

There are some crazy users on Flickr, and crazy means crazy in the best possible way, who like to share vintage images. Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy likes to share "some" stuff: almost six thousand of images divided in 90 sets and counting. It's a paradise of 1940s and 1950s pictures, navy images from around the world, WWII images, pulp book covers, posters and more memorabilia. Among all those cool stuff, here are a list of suggestions (according to the posts of this blog). (via PCL LinkDump)

- British Posters from the Second World War: A selection of posters issued by various Government and non-Government bodies during the Second World War.

- Der Landser: with four hundred pictures taking during the WWII. Der Landser" was the name given to the ordinary German soldier in the Wehrmacht, and was used during both World Wars. The term is no longer used for German soldiers.

- Fruit & Vegetable Crate Labels: more than three hundred Examples of classic designs from the USA, Canada, Spain and Australia. I love this ad.

- Now read on . . . : Book jacket art. A hilarious collection with several pulp book covers.

- Posters from Occupied Netherlands - World War II. A selection mainly of Nazi and pro-German posters.

- Robert Doisneau: 65 pictures of this master of photography. He dismiss presentations, but just in case Robert Doisneau was a French photographer noted for his frank and often humorous depictions of Parisian street life.

- The Accordion and its role in world peace: 51 pictures of accordion players. Probably just for enthusiasts.

- The Saturday Evening Post: 18 beautiful covers of that classic American magazine.

- Transport & Travel Posters: 259 images of ads, pamphlets and posters.

- US Navy posters: mainly recruiting posters from World Wars I and II.

- Variety, Vaudeville & Circus Acts: Vintage photographs of performers and acts - from variety shows, vaudeville and burlesque shows, and circuses.

- Vintage Advertisements: 149 images of vintage magazine ads, from costumes to food.

- Vintage Advertising Posters: with 72 very pretty images, many of them are also on the "Transport and Travel Posters" set. The collection contains one of those vintage disturbing ads.

- Waves & Navy Nurse Corps Recruiting Posters - World War II, with fourteen posters.

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Posted by Bibi on September 20, 2007 06:16 PM in Design, Illustration, Photography, Photography, Posters, Pulp, Vintage ||

The French illustrator Yannick Thomé has an adorable illustration blog. The blog isn't frequently updated, but the archive with cute illustrations worth a visit. The kids will love the his blog, specially the category Pour les petits with illustration for children's books. C'est mignon!

Posted by Bibi on September 18, 2007 02:49 PM in Blogs, Illustration ||