Just had to share with you the embroidery work of Argentinian artist Jazmin Berakha.
It just blew my mind with its richness and gentleness and tactility.
I’m kind of jealous, but in a good way, the way that makes me want to work harder :)
You really got to take a look at Jazmin’s Tumblr to see some more work and in more detail.
And it goes on: …That’s how the Light Gets In…
Today is Israel’s independence day. This usually brings up a lot of mixed emotions in my left-winged brain. Here is something my good friend Nir Golan did as a party invitation for yesterday, but I think it’s so thought provoking it exceeds its original purpose…
Other than that – the party was great. I finally saw my friends after a long long time. I’ve been acting like a hermit lately. Not healthy at all. Hope you’re all OK.
Just received this beautiful postcard sent by Lu Jing, all the way from China. My heart still beats a little faster than usual. You can see Lucy the cat is pretty excited too :)
Lu Jing is an illustrator and designer, and she has a gorgeous blog and an active Flickr. I love her work so much. It’s very “feminine”, but doesn’t feel fake or too sweet, just airy…
Oh, and another treat were the stamps on the back (click to see details).
Just a reminder about the Pecha-Kucha night coming in two days.
Yes, I realize it’s so not cool how I only blog about this lately, and that I’m supposed to at least try to keep a cool appearance, but I think all the hard work wore off my nonchalance.
What can I do, I’ve been consumed! Hope you understand my excitement though :)
This beautiful video was made by Jewboy, who will also perform on Wednesday night.
(A frame from our movie. I’m on the left and Kinneret on the right)
Now I can finally tell you what kept me so busy lately: my friend Kinneret, me and our Ruby Wood Project are going to be part of the upcoming Pecha Kucha night in Tel-Aviv. Hooray!
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We’re going to show a movie we made (actually it’s still in the making), where we talk about our work together: how it started, where it’s going and what it means to us. Meanwhile on stage, we plan to do a live-drawing session. In our heads it’s cool, I hope it will be OK.
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Sharing the stage with us on that evening will be comic book artist Rutu Modan, poster and graffiti artists Broken Fingaz and more creative people doing intersting things.
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The event will take place on the evening of February 9th, in Hanger 11 at the Tel-Aviv Port. More details HERE (from experience, the tickets tend to be sold out in 10 minutes or something, so if you’re planning on going you have to be fast).
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But now really, the most important question is: what the #$*% do we wear?
Since I’m too tired to draw today, I’ll leave you with this great video sent to me by Yotam.
It’s a short film made by the people of London-based film magazine Little White Lies. They use tons of illustration in every possible way, and it’s really interesting to see how it’s done.
They also have all of their previous issues online, which is pretty nice of them.
Wishing you all a really nice and restful weekend. Bye for now…
* Stole the title from one of Dana’s genius tags.
Great artist and friend Dana Lev Levnat (aka D.L.L) has a new blog. Exciting!
Her images are weird and touching, but never sentimental. Take a better look here.
A new year’s greeting collage sent by the genius Zeev Engelmeyer.
I wanted to link to his site, but he doesn’t have one – too cool for the internet this guy :) (EDIT: Apparently Zeev does have a blog and my coolness theory goes to waste. Thanks Michal for the correction).
The greeting is hard to explain if you don’t read Hebrew, but generally: it’s a witty comment on the verdict against Israel’s former president, Katsav, who was trialed for sexual harassment (!) and rape (!!!), and was found guilty last week.
When I started working on this drawing I was a little under the influence of French designer / illustrator Antoine cake, but the need to avoid the risk of being too influenced, led me in a weird direction. Anyway, Antoine is quite wonderful, check out his drawings here.
My name is Keren Taggar, an illustrator from Tel Aviv, Israel. This is sort of a sketchbook blog, a place for me to publish things I have nowhere else to show, and also a daily drawn diary.
