This blog has now moved!

I've finally got round to migrating some of the posts from this blog over to my website, which I will be updating from now on. Therefore, this blog will no longer be updated. If you want to keep up with my work and any news, please visit my site at tomcolmans.com where you can find all of my work, along with the new blog section.

Update: Clutter City, online shop and new music!

Sorry for my lack of updates recently. Thought I'd just post a quick catch-up of things that has happened/is going to happen.

Clutter City

So, I took part in Clutter City at the Norwich Arts Centre on Saturday. I had a good time, and sold a few pieces of art to follow. I had a quick look at what other people were selling, to get a general idea of what products I should be making, and spoke to some people about their work and stalls. I've still got a fair amount of prints and such left over, which brings me on to my next comment...

Online Shop

Since I've got a nice selection of work to sell, and it's not the digital artwork sold through Society6 and Artflakes, I thought it would be a good idea to set up an online shop to sell some prints. I've not decided on the best way to do this yet (either a self hosted site, Etsy or such) but I'm getting the ball rolling with some photography and preliminary setup work. Once it's all in place, I'll be sure to post some information on it!

Music

And now, as I made the EP for Clutter City, it's time to start pushing my new musical project. It's called Laika Goes to Space and i've already written a few new songs for it. The first EP is out now, and you can find it at laikagoestospace.bandcamp.com. I've attached the artwork below, and it is avaliable as a digital download, or as a limited edition handmade cd. Go and have a listen and let me know what you think (and buy it if you'd like, of course!). I think this will be a bit more of a personal project, as I don't envision getting a band together to perform the material, but you never know what might happen.

Finally

So, that's about it for the moment. I'll start posting more pictures of some of the artwork I will be selling soon, as well as any other updates. I also need to get back into the regular Inspiration Round-up posts, which shall return shortly.

Inspiration roundup #5

So, unfortunately I missed a posting last Friday. Blame going on holiday and having to catch up on a lot of work to do! Hopefully this post will make up for it though, with some treats for the eyes. 

Art by Sam Yong. I like some of his sketchwork in his portfolio, and nice work showing progression via his blog: http://inthewolf.com/

Retro Gals: Mods & Rockers. A series of prints and t-shirts by a few artists. I'm really liking the style!: http://www.familytreedesign.net/

Here's a bit of an oddity: A catalogue from 1890 of designs for what was to be the Great Tower of London (in response to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France). Most are straight rip-offs, but with some insane ideas (think of hanging gardens and the ilk!): http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/07/16/catalogue-of-the-68-competitive-designs-for-the-great-tower-for-london-1890/

Dead Astronaut wallpaper by Smatik: http://www.smatik.de/work_DeadAstronauts.html

Inspiration roundup #4

Wow....i've actually managed to keep this going! It makes a change to be regularly blogging like this, and i'm actually quite enjoying sharing all these little things I find that make me think about doing more creative projects! I'm actually off to Portugal for a week after this post, so it'll be nice to have a short break (but not from finding inspiring things!). Here are the selections for post #4:

Stateside Maps by These Are Things. I love the aesthetic of these, reminds me of classic 1950's/60's advertising posters. Might have to invest in a few of them!: http://shop.thesearethings.com/collections/state-maps

Silence/Shapes by Filippo Minelli. Beautiful series of pictures using smoke bombs linked with architecture/nature. A nice juxtaposition: http://www.filippominelli.com/silenceshapes/

Poisoned Loaf poster by Blackbird. Love this so much, makes me want to get out the pen and ink more: http://playwho.com/shopmark/14366/poisoned-loaf-poster

Eiterquellen by Stefan Fuertbauer. A series of photos about Viennese wurstel diners and the Viennese fast food culture: http://www.fuertbauer.net/projects/eiterquellen/

Inspiration roundup #3

So here we are, post number 3 in the series. There's a couple more things in this post than normal, but there's so many things I want to show that I think it's allowable! Anyway, here's this time's selection:

Analogue Memory Desk by Kirsten Kamara. I could really do with one of these for my incessant drawing: http://www.kcamara.com/ANALOG-MEMORY-DESK

Android Mini Collectables Rainbow set by Dead Zebra. I might have to invest in these, too!: http://www.deadzebra.com/projects/android-mini-collectibles-rainbow-set/

Bisous Les Copains by Guillaume Kurkdjian. Beautiful, subtle animated gifs: http://www.defringe.com/bisous-les-copains/

Ikea Smycke wall clock. Customise the shapes how you want: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80232223/

John Ashcroft's spot illustrations for the Atlantic. Nice, simple design: http://jonashcroft.com/The-Atlantic

Cups with bite from the MoMA store. Love these! Perfect for a party: http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Cups%20With%20Bite_10451_10001_162292_-1_26708_44662_155415

Inspiration roundup #2

So, since part 1 of this blog went quite well, it's time to do part 2! I'll be carrying this on as a fortnightly post for the time being and looking to post around 4 different things at least,but if there's anything that crops up in-between then I may do an irregular post every now and again. So, here's this issue's roundup:

The World of 100 by Tony Ng. Nice set of posters based on if the population of the world were a village of 100 people: http://www.toby-ng.com/graphic-design/the-world-of-100/

Delayed Gratification Magazine, the world's first slow journalism magazine. Looks at events that have happened in the past 3 months, released quarterly. I'll definitely be setting up a subscription!: http://www.dgquarterly.com/

Nahoko Kojima's paper cut sculptures: http://www.solokojima.com/nahoko-kojimas-paper-cut-sculptures/

I am in love with this chandelier by Hilden & Diaz: http://piodiaz.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/forms-in-nature/

Inspiration roundup

Every so often I come across little websites and projects that I keep in a list to look at later. I thought I should probably start utilising them, so now I'm going to do a small entry every so often (probably at least once a month) of the things that I've looked at recently. So, for the inaugural post, here we go!

Zoo Portraits by Yago Partial: http://www.zooportraits.com/

Design and Paper, all about....well...Design and Paper!: http://www.designandpaper.com/

Felt Taxidermy by Kiyoshi Mino: http://www.kiyoshimino.com/

Knitted Animal heads by Jessica Dance: http://www.jessicadance.com/THE-KNIT-HEADS

Artwork now for sale on Artflakes.com

Long time no blog. I'm sorry, I've been neglecting you, but all shall change!

In illustration news, I now have some of my prints up for sale at artflakes.com which you can find at the following link:

http://www.artflakes.com/en/shop/tom-colmans

Have a look around, it's a good website and there's some neat work being posted by other members for sale there!

I'll have some more work for upload soon, and will be doing a few more music related posts in a short while, so look out for those!

New Society6 Print

I decided to put all my alcoholic euphemisms together in one print so that you could see them all together.

Available to purchase here: http://www.society6.com/studio/tomcolmans/store

Creative Boom & Illustration Rally

Illustration Rally has been featured on Creative Boom, and the image they're using is mine! Go check it out!

http://www.creativeboom.co.uk/lookbook/illustration-rally-is-like-a-b-c/

http://www.creativeboom.co.uk

http://www.illustrationrally.blogspot.com/

Modite

Got a link from the site www.modite.com to my Giggle juice print on Society6

http://modite.com/blog/2010/03/04/giggle-juice/

It's quite a nice site, have a little explore around it!

Society6

I've just joined a website called Society 6, it's a good place to promote your work and find a lot of other good artists.

I've also got some prints for sale on there. Feel free to have a look

http://www.society6.com/studio/tomcolmans/store

As Seen on Creative Boom

So I've just been featured on the creative boom lookbook!

http://www.creativeboom.co.uk/lookbook/designer-tom-colemans/

Yes, a slight spelling mistake in the title, but it's still awesome!

The rest of the website is good, take a browse around and have a look at all the interesting stuff they've got on there!

Website now up & more news

My website is now up and running at a level i'm happy with for the time being.

Visit it here: www.tomcolmans.com or click the website link in the sidebar.

I've received my results from university, and i've passed the year with a 2.2 average. Graduation is soon, then into the real world as they say!

My end of year show is currently almost finished, the private view being on the 24th of june, and the show is open until the 2nd of July. If you're in the area, or wish to see some of the work my university is producing, feel free to come along. It's held at the Norwich University College of the Arts, and is open to the public from the 25th of June.

So that's about it for this update. I'm working on some downloads for my website, including some interesting comic/narrative/downloadable portfolio ideas, so once they're up I will divulge some more infromation.

Until then, check out some of my work on Flickr, and some new work on my website (links in the sidebar respectively.