Watch out for the Barry’s Tea Party travelling around festivals this summer.

In a collaboration between Barry’s Tea and Candy Collective, 12 artists were commisioned to bring alive their idea of ‘Golden Moments’ on a dozen large blank teapots.

The pot above is by Colm Mac Athlaoich, and the following are by Una Gildea, BRENB, Margaret Anne Suggs, Brian Coldrick, Chris Judge, Joven Kerekes, Gisele Scanlon, Alan Clarke, John O’Rielly, Gaetan Billault and Phil Dunne respectively. (more…)

Illustrator Brian Fitzgerald is the latest IGI member to take us through a typical illustration process:
I had a illustration on personal debt to do for the Sunday Business Post. It was an open brief and I went for the sinking in debt approach with a variety of helping hands ready to hoist them out to a more manageable loan repayment. I might have been inspired by the recent Indiana Jones movie.
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Deeplinking has an interesting article collecting the paper scamped origins of many well known websites like Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo. Check them out here.

Agence Eureka blog has posted a wonderful collection of early French papercraft. You can see more on Flickr. The craft is still as popular as ever it seems; see the likes of Paper Foldables, Cubeecraft, or the realistic paper portraits of Bert Simons.

These stunning posters by illustrator James Jean recently won a Bronze Lion at Cannes. You can check out the development process of the final images on his blog here.

Thursday the 19th of June saw the official launch of the Carlsberg Comedy Carnival which will take place from Thursday the 24th- sunday the 27th of July in the Iveagh Gardens in Dublin. More than 65 Irish and International comedy talents will perform at the festival in 4 fully seated marquees. IGI illustrator Eoin Coveney was commissioned to produce an illustration of each performer.
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IGI illustrator PJ Lynch takes us step-by-step through the creation of the cover of his latest book, The Gift of The Magi.
For the cover of The Gift of The Magi, the well known Christmas story by O.Henry, I knew I had to include the two main protagonists of the story, Della and Jim, and a visual reference to the Gift suggested in the title.
It had to take place in the $8 dollar apartment where they live, and I somehow had to give it a Christmasy flavour.
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In a time where digital music sales have outstripped physical formats like cd or vinyl, thereby shifting the focus from browsing cover art in your local record shop to high budget videos and clever marketing, CandyCollective wanted to celebrate the ever declining art of sleeve art.

‘CandyKaraoke’ sees us collaborate for the first, of hopefully many, times with Monster Truck Gallery on Francis Street and RHA to invite over 70 of Ireland’s leading designers, artists, photographers, illustrators, musicians and original creative minds to reimagine their favourite album covers. All artworks produced will be original 1-off 12” square works which will be sold for only 300 euro each. (more…)

Ok so this is vaguely illustrational, but the good news from Wired Magazine is that the Tutorial/Comedy series ‘You Suck at Photoshop’ is set to return June 27th. Above is the last episode for your viewing pleasure. If you’re new to the series you can check out episode one here.

The excellent Fecal Face has a recent interview with Gary Baseman, A ‘pervasive artist’ / illustrator. When you’ve had enough of that, the same website has a great feature on the work of Eric White.