I like this

Christopher Lee. He makes pretty illustrations.

Smath — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:13:12 +0000

Have a look at this guy's work - http://www.thebeastisback.com - adorable and with such personality in his characters! I Am Medic is one of my favourites:

There seems to be a trend lately towards having far-apart eyes in illustrations, a la The Simpsons. On that note, I have noticed an interesting thing this week: Jacob Zuma (who is often referred to here by his nickname JZ) has this same feature! Scott and I have been spending a lot of time in the South African Home Affairs offices here (we're applying for a longer-term temporary residence permit for him*) and in each office is a framed picture of the man. For your viewing pleasure I present to you a picture of the man himself. Perhaps the shape or style of his glasses accentuates it.

Anyway, I digress. I found Christopher Lee's website from Smashing Magazine's article Beautiful Illustrator Artworks By Artists Around The World. I follow them on Twitter (http://twitter.com/smashingmag) and suggest that you do too. They post links to their site which is full of useful articles with how-tos, compilations of beautiful graphic art and designs and other nice miscellany.

* This experience actually warrants a post or two of its own. Nothing could have prepared us for what we were in for.

Sugar wisdom

Smath — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:17:47 +0000

Friends, I hope you have a little sick bag handy.

Sometimes I am a sentimental, soppy girl.

Huletts in South Africa produce the little sachets of sugar that just about all restaurants here use. About 4 years back, they started printing inspirational quotes on the back of each sachet.

Here are a few that I scanned. I'd like to collect more of them. It's a really cute idea that Huletts have had and I love the sentiment behind it. Mostly when I read them (and I read them every time) I think to myself, "Y'know, they're right."

Bubblegum photo shoot

Smath — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:11:13 +0000

This was in my RSS feed from Popgloss. The pictures are such fun. They were taken by a photographer by the name of Craig McDean.

Generous - Calm - Selfish - Angry

Smath — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:59:25 +0000

From Seth Godin's blog post, Lonely, scared & bitter.

All that's in the blog post is that image. Seth never seems to fail at making a good point using very few words. For that I admire him.