GopherIllustrated / more than a magazine – a collectible in motion.

_on top of this words a detail from the Visual Communication of Ecological Literacy by the folks of Eco-Labs.

_here’s something we love: creative publishing that is handmade and has numbered small print-runs. Duke Press, marry us?

_the weekend is always a good time for freebies, this saturday: Quicksand, a free sans serif typeface by Andrew Paglinawan [ via Typophile ], enjoy!

_we seem to have a bit of a Brazil fixation as of late: here’s André Azevedo

_our dear friend Juan Pablo Garza has a new website, go check his amazing portfolio NOW! go! go!

_Federico Jordán! Federico Jordán! If you don’t know him, meet him now,

_colors and doodles, the wonderful world of Celyn Brazier.

_artist and designer Bruno Kurru’s work isn’t “born from certainties, but from questions about what to do and how it should be done”

_words by Seek and Peak: “I’m Brandon Schaefer, a 25 year old graphic designer. I make things, and am available for freelance and commissions. Please, no crimefighting requests”.

_going down the rabbit hole is easy with Talita Hoffmann.

_something in the way between UFO’s and Szymon Roginski.

_Jessica Walsh is a Scorpio, likes sushi and is a multidisciplinary designer. We dig.

_we’ve never featured a booking agency, but we just felt for the name of this one: Approaching Serpents, hey the even book Eliot Lipp!

_color coding meets AWESOME, courtesy of Michael Johansson.

_this is Good William and the Eye of the Dead by Andy Kehoe [ makes us think in some bearded Bowie lurking in a wood ] [ can Bowie grow a beard? ].

_Dave Miko is privy to buzz. He is not, however, the proud owner of a website. Hello there!

_today we’ve got a bad case of the nerds: we’re effing loving the obssesive Photographic Periodic Table of Elements.

_Jesse Corinella is a dynamo. Check out his illustration/ design/ photography/ retouching work HERE.

_looking trough the window, enjoying vodka with some friends and wondering how Sauerbruch Hutton’s building of the Hamburg’s Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt is going? this is the last thing we heard about it.

Freddie Stevenson will make your heart explode. I usually can’t get through the day without a fix. Don’t tell him I said that.

Stream his music on MySpace, or alternatively, listen and download here.

_Karel Martens creates layouts, we think. Do you know where we can find her?

_today, a detail from the painting Blood Oranges and Apple Cores by Max Key.

_don’t know much about Choi Nam Yang other than she’s Korean and she has some pretty good work to her name.

_present and correct we like.

_we’re almost sure this is an indexing website by someone named Harsh Patel. Or whatever, we’re uncool, but his “drawer” is not.

_Scott Jarvie “believes that the solution to any design problem can be assimilated by creative interrogation, research and thought.” Take, for instance, this chair made of straws.

Did you know we tweet? Well we do! twitter.com/gophermagazine

_how is it possible that we spent the whole 2009 without making a single post about Pietari Posti’s work?

_we thought that Barry Anderson was a sculptor but he’s actually a photographer.

_where is Gastón Caba? in Asia or in South America?

_Antje Herzog loves to draw in the Zoo. And she’s awfully good at drawing other things too. Also, adorable website.

_what type are you? video test made by the people of Pentagram, apparently we are Universal [ via Gopher friend Siera ].

_continuing with this bookish theme we seem to have going, Andersen M studios makes fantastic paper stop motion animation. Also check out this work for the New Zealand Book Council,

_cutest.ameisenbär.ever! by Stephan Lomp.

_some of you have asked about Matt Kish’s inspiration. Here it is: Zak Smith’s illustrations for Gravity’s Rainbow.

_that thing about following blogs in languages we don’t understand, this week: Janine Viveka does photographs and general linkage.

_inspired by a similar project on Gravity’s Rainboy, Matt Kish set out to illustrate every page of Moby Dick.

_we begin the year with a nod to our beloved [ and snowy ] London: the creative agency Airside is one of our favorites out there.

_peruvian born, Oregon dwelling Santiago Uceda is a lot friendlier than he appears on his bio picture. He also makes beautiful posters.

_this nice Line_A font (and a couple of other fonts) are available for free at Rodrigo Fuenzalida’s website! Also: Today is Gopher Editor Lope’s Birthday. Be sure to drop him some birthday love.

_Tabitha Gwyn Osler lives in Halifax, but used to live in Vancouver. She takes pictures, draws, makes sculptures and jewelry, and we hope everyone in Vancouver is that cool.

_we discovered Alex Wright’s a.k.a. MODO inspiration for the early Gopher logos. It was a hamster.

_Michael Latimer’s words: “I am a freelance artist and designer, I have worked as a creative director for many years for various companies, if you give me some pounds then i can do the same for you too.”

_speaking of residencies, have you heard about Tokyo Wonder Site before?

_the name is Houston. This is the website. We want to know more.

_the fellas from hangar.org in Barcelona just released an online magazine featuring their resident artists.

_no gifts under that tree? Fret not. Tao Lin is the author of Shoplifting From American Apparel. He also has a blog that is very funny. Go buy his book or read his blog.

_for those of you looking for an agent, 2agenten is s nice German agency. They even represent our beloved Mario Wagner [ check out their store! ].

_We Are The Friction is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators, published by Sing Statistics.

_tuesday, drooling, Jason Karolak.

_Spencer Charles lives in Salt Lake City. He created the packaging for his band on his kitchen table. Look at some more of his work here.

_the posters that Paul Rogers has been doing for the Los Angeles Metro are so nice that they keep getting stolen out of the train cars. Also, check out his “name that movie” series.

_Christina Ung retroactively affirms she left her native Bangkok for the Barbie Doll rich lands of Canadia. Her images are geared “towards young adults”

_”your mind, a wild monkey” the website of Ommwriter told us. Oh yeah? well, your mind a bunch of 00101010110111’s, you, dumb website.

“ZineWiki is an open source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media.” We’re sold.

_Pat Pat Robat: thousands upon thousands of little colorful triangles together.

_wow! the Gopher is featured on Kickstarter!!! we’re making our first edition and you can be part of it! go! go! go!

_we may be a bit late in catching this, but Brock Davis makes something new and different every day.

_the answer to a question we had for months [ and keeping the Dutch theme in this little blackboard ]: the wonderfull Jazz-a-Palooza Festival @ Utrecht artwork is put together by the people at Autobahn studio.

_Yusuf Sevincli is a photographer living in Istanbul.

_hey! 2009 was Underware’s 10 year anniversay! you go, Dutch kids!

_nerdy fan confession time: one day we would love to work with “Studio on Fire” design and letterpress studio. For now, drooling over BeastPieces will have to do.

_for some weird reason we keep callin Karen Mrisk by the name “Fernando”.

_we are loving Mike Davis’ blog “So Much Pileup” and its “Philately Fridays”

_it’s tuesday and we’re listening to Jenny Lewis with the Watson twins, and by “we” we mean Lope, ‘cuz Michu doesn’t like Jenny Lewis even a little bit.

_what you see here is part of a campaign for MAMBO by the Australian art and design collective Rinzen. They have offices in Berlin, Brisbane, Melbourne and New York.

_is Yesayer’s Ambling Alp video a rip-off reference to Jodorowsky’s movie The Holy Mountain?

_Greer Honeywill is an artist, photographer and sometime educator living in Melbourne, Autralia. We also like her work with birdcages.

_woke up and felt like practicing  Portuguese: María Valentina.

_ this series by Artist Julie Rrap reminds us a bit of our friend Lucia Pizz’s work.

_Carolina Raquel Antich is an Argentinean currently based in Venice, she won the Italian Youth Art Prize in 2005, and exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale. In recent years she has held solo shows in New York, London, Rome, and Art-U-Room @ Tokyo.

_Scott Campbell is a printmaker, illustrator and musician and one of the founders of the Young Monster collective in Tennessee.

_hey! Print Magazine is following us on Twitter, we just found out today, we looove Print Magazine and especially their index of competitions.

_Leif Low-Beer is the art page of Young-Gunner Leif Parsons and it is very cool.

_Jonas Bergstrand is “no lone wolf” – and neither are his illustrations. Very I Dream of Jeannie at times. (via GrainEdit)

_Shigeru Ito is a Japanese-born designer who moved to Bangkok to be with his wife. Romantic, yes, but also very talented.

_as soon as you enter the website you read: we have decided not to die. Bold statements in the Arakawa + Gins website.

_from WIRED’s GeekDad blog, a cute little list: Top 10 Bad Messages from Good Movies. Oh stop it, you know I’m a sucker for lists.

_we had no idea that the people of Lineto were behind the amazing typo, graphic identity and signage of the Köln-Bonn airport in Germany that we visited in April, thanks to Billy Ben for the link!

_San Francisco Illustrator and Artist Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch has a show at Fecal Face Gallery righthisminute. We wish we could go.

_Tohyto is a good old friend, and his work gets more amazing each day. You should check out the Wall of Light visuals he made @ York with the people of Wassergate, go! go!

_Gavin Potenza makes amazing infographics. We want to be his friends.

_we thought that video might work on this little blackboard, but hey, it doesn’t.

_Diana Marie Behl’s work references “memory and narrative… metaphor and humor” She lives in South Dakota.

_we want to have a freebies section soon, just like the people of the Subtype Foundry or Font Shop or even Toyota.

_ Affex Ventura is a Danish artist, photographer and designer living in Copenhagen.

_wood that melts in your mouth, not your hands: Marteen Baas.

_Insecurity Envelopes are a series of laser-cut envelopes developed by artist JK Keller.

_not everyday you bump into a “wearable textile sculpture”, so kudos to Nadine Byrne for surprising us, even deep into the XXI century.

_In her website’s own words: Emily L. Eibel wants a cabin in the woods, but for now, she lives in Brooklyn.

_last night we were remembering a Pipilotti Rist exhibition while stuck in traffic.

_Michael Paulkner works around “information technology and new media as it relates to branding, communications and design.” We basically think he’s awesome

_this is a painting by Jean-Marc Bustamante. [ via Xavier Hufkens ].

_Miss Lotion is a Danish-born artist who resides in Copenhagen. Apparently she has some sort helpless compulsion to draw?

_”and from that moment every time I hear the words funiculi funicula I remember Asako Narahashi“  said Mike over some wine this week.

_ Lumadessa is Josh Brill’s art and design label, where he aims to construct ‘visual reinterpretations of life’. We like his birds.

_Typedia is a community-based resource website created to help educate people about typefaces [ so far it is not very good - we still like Typophile ].

_Mikey Burton is a midwestern designer living in Philadelphia who “still wants to make beautiful things for awesome people.” This is his dissertation project: New covers for required reading. Double nerd joy!

_we can’t believe we have forgotten to feature our friends of La Más Bella experimental magazine until today. Sorry Diego & Pepe !

_Agan Harahap is a self-taught photographer and illustrator in Indonesia. He plays around with photos.

_finally we know who took this photo: Irina Rozovsky as a part of her series “One to Nothing“.

_it only says: nate paints.

_”Ji Lee is a polymath of all sorts of creative pursuits” says a 99 Percent interview, check her work at pleaseenjoy [ be sure to check the New Museum campaign ].

_if haunting is the word, Todd Hido is the photographer.

_The folks at Methane Studios make incredible posters.

_with Sunday,  some retro-motion: a dollar dreadful.

_About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. This website works to create web patterns for the colorblind.

_week’s ending and Victor Cobo blatantly asks: do you remember when you loved me?

_RISD graduate Jon Blank is a painter in Brooklyn. We don’t know much else.

_we just looooove the series of sketches that Lehel Kovacks put together using the street view from Google Maps, check’em here and his portfolio here.

_Upon seeing Ty Wilkins’ work, we realized Kansas is no longer just Dorothy’s home.

_does anybody know who made the art for this Cupp Cave album ?

_My Cardboard Life: Web Comics made out of cardboard, courtesy of Phillipa Rice.

_A Little Encouragement by Leah Tinari.

_Matt Mignanelli’s paintings are cartoonish, bright and wonderful.

_installation by Ulla von Brandenburg [ and drawing, painting, film, video  and performance too ].

_We love Cody Hudson and his Struggle Inc.

_her exhibition at ZingerPresents might be about to end, but we’re sure that Marijn van Kreij is up to something already.

_VADS just digitized the Design Council’s slide collection. Nerdgasm much?

_Karin Brunnermeier was born in Buchloe [ Germany ], but guess what? she now lives in Berlin.

_“I can Read” is a picture blog with a simple concept: posting images with words in them. Kind of like PostSecret, but without all the guilt.

_our moratorium on Anita Brunnauer’s website ended today.

_ Mauro Gatti’s website exclaims “Welcome, Stranger. While you are in my territory, no boring thoughts will fill your head.” We believe him.

_amazingly, the sculptures that Jessica Fortner builds are even more complex than her illustration work.

_Kim Sooja is a Korean-born installation/performance/video/everything-else artist living in New York City. Check out her work here.

_some rare honesty in MMRB’s website : “some are good. some are bad. some are just okkk.”

_All we know about George Myers is that he is a freelance illustrator and that he’s somewhere in the UK.

_falling asleep ?

_This grid-bubblegum dream is from the Melbourne Series by Shiau-Peng Chen.

_if you went to NYC recently and attended some undergound-ish concert, chances are that NYC Taper recorded it [ in the image, a set by Blood Warriors ].

_Bennett Holzworth teaches graphic design and lives in Nebraska and makes posters like these.

_on top of these words is “Parallel Universe” by Diana Copperwhite [ or is it "Copper White" ? ].

_Today (and tomorrow and forevermore) we bring you Julius Von Bismarck and his Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus.

_the folks at NowNow [ Melbourne ] continue their series on studio visits, this time checking Dylan Martorell’s place.

_We love type and Canada. We couldn’t just keep this to ourselves.

_is the Designers Mixtape project still up? [ damn, even Mike Cina has a mixtape there ]

_ We were saddened to learn that San Francisco bookshop Babylon Falling closed shop. They kept their website as an archive

_oh come on! How are supposed to become anything BUT an artist if your name is Stephanie Wunderlich ?

_Central Office & Co. is in Portland, Oregon. We like their webpage, and we think you’ll like it too.

_we found Jayne Helliwell thanks to the people of Gentle Friendly.

_Marc Alcock’s website tells us he is a graphic designer who believes “design begins with ideas.”  This is the result.

_ just thinking that it would be so amusing to find a website that draws inspiration / makes fun of the head of Monocle Magazine, and bam! Being Tyler Brûlé.

_Julia Pott is an illustrator. She takes comissions, apparently.

_today the Gopher is divided, [ divided ! ] in civil strife: those who like the work of Norwegian artist Kristian Hammerstad and those who… well.

_We got this 1958 illustration for Canada Dry from the amazing canadiandesignresource.ca / you must go there immediately.

_we know she’s quite famous already, but today we just feel like posting some Yuko Nasu.

_by pure chance: Luann Jennings of Comment Magazine asks “Does America need a ministry of culture?”

_google a phrase you hear on the street and in most cases some artsy art appears! . This week: “were never married” heard on the subway / photographs by Jackson Eaton.

_British artist Bruce Munro makes pretty fields of light.

_so, the website says: Recovering Lazyholic: Photography & Stuff by Erin Hanson.

_ Today we have Valerie Pensworth’s midthought-retro illustrations. She also has a video. Enjoy!

_Grady O’Connor inspired by the novel White Noise.

_This from a LiveJournal (remember those?) with a gallery called Faceless. Or something.

_click here and you’ll get a more exact idea of how Matt Lipps’ work is.

_Philadelphia based artist AJ Fosik makes bears out of paper. They kind of make me feel like i’m in a very cool NatScience museum.

_what’s the idea behind the Complete Publications in PDF Format collection ? some of the books don’t even make sense at all.

_The Guardian’s Sam Leith, inspired by Dash Snow, asks why art can’t simply shock

_special promo Thursdays ! this week: Ryan de la Hoz.

_Michael Clinard takes some very cool portraits.

_Tuesday morning, beginning of September, and some Eduardo Recife.

_Check out this article by Michael Bierut, a Critic in Graphic Design, titled 26 Years, 85 Notebooks. Also, the Gopher wishes Lili a happy birthday.

_if you ever drop by Cheltenham don’t forget to visit the Meantime Project + Space. On top of this words some work by Freya Gabie [ no link for her because we just can't find anything on the interwebs ].

_Sarah Cain is an American artist living in Los Angeles. Her work incorporates doilies, sometimes. via ArtNet

_hahahaahahahaha : Sounds of Silence by Anton Krueger.

_Blighia Sapida is the title given to this painting by Hurvin Anderson, a London Based artist.

_we had no idea that Sanna Annuka was half Finnish and half English, although we did figure out that the Kalevala had some sort of influence in her work.

_Jill Lin made the scratch-n-sniff version of everyflavor beans, and in gorgeous tiny card form. See more of her work here

_wonder if our dear friend Mario Wagner knows about Mark Wagner and his currency collages.

_This photo we got from Sea Shanty’s Flickr whose name appears to be Lola and has a blog.

_not only do we enjoy how Steve Raura’s website behaves [ all smooth movements and stuff ], but we certainly like his illustration work as well.

_Sandra Juto’s written the book on having fun. Enough said.

_Mark Silipo from Magic Sweater has a zine well worth a check if you’re into illustration: Teen Vomit [ and yes, we're not that much into the mag name ].

_Tara Donne takes the kinds of pictures we wish our mothers took. Lovely indeed.

_ok, ok, we swear is the last time we feature somebody from the Stephen Wirtz Gallery, but truth is that we saw the work of Alec Soth also at the CCCB [ Barcelona ] website. Some saliency syndrome happening around here, sorry folks.

_Independent book publisher Lines&Shapes has just launched OtherBooks, which “originated for the sole purpose of publishing more ambitious book projects…” We like the sound of that. via randominspiration

_since we’re still checking the Stephen Wirtz Gallery from two posts ago, we’ll like to feature some Deborah Oropallo today; also, her book Pomp was just released so you might want to check that too.

_Cardon Webb brings his design skills to the aid of missing cats and babysitter services in New York City. Sharpies, beware. For his complete portfolio go here.

_in Raymond Saunder’s work graffiti meets botanical meets chalk meets blackboard meets stencil, more images at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery.

_check out Romeo’s work here! We are particularly obsessed with “The Evolution of Despair.” Expect to see him and his work featured next month, and in many of our issues. Check out more of his work here. The Gopher loooves you.

_Dirk Fowler’s work profile describes him as an old man stuck inside a young man’s body – who is not that young anymore. But look at these posters! via random inspiration

_we just have the feeling that this is going to be a really short post: drawing by Tilman Faelker.

_in the style of American paper-boys, rolled art pieces are distributed by bicycles in the streets to random passers-by, says the website of Papergirl, an art project that takes place once a year in Berlin since 2006.

_just wondering how many anarchist / zine / activist shops like Irregular Rhythm Asylum are up and running in Tokyo.

_ A few artists collaborated with cloudycollection to make a limited edition print set that reminds us of out parent’s childhoods. This one by Stephan Britt.

_does anybody know what happened to the Canadian magazine Pyramid Power ? is it still around?

_check out the Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists – because you don’t have a reason not to. This one by Leo Morey.

_From the rare trove of unintelligible sources in the internets: the nonsense infographic here is credited to Viget via makenosound

_ok, ok, we know we just posted an entry about a website, but design studio Number 17 just got a major redesign on their internets ! [ and they're still producing their comics! ]

_We’re suckers for catalog-work, so we were thrilled to find the Museum of Flight’s airline logo archive. In other news of vintage interest, it’s Michu’s father’s birthday today!

_if you drop by Morld’s website don’t forget to check the Human’s Favorite Color [ 人間の好みの色 ] project.

_we know this should be in the Sound part of the website, but what the hell, we’re really enjoying Minger Records music these days.

_Mary Thompson likes to draw. She also makes jewellery.

_according to her website: Johanna Dery not only illustrates but also makes short films, drawings, prints, little books, and occasionally music & papier-mache creatures; multi-tasking, Rhode Island-style.

_this photo is titled Motorista and it was taken by Gorka Gondra, a Portugal-based photographer.

_Rip: a Remix Manifesto is a documentary about copyright and the current generation done by Canadian activist Brett Gaylor. Another example of his position about copyright is the project Open Source Cinema.

_this is Low Rise by Peter Root. Frankly, we wish we’d thought this up.

_we had some fun watching Shapemaker’s video at YouTube but found their website quite annoying.

_the Tour De France wouldn’t have struck us as particularly artsy, but photographer Brent Humphrey has made its sights his muse.

_nothing visual today, just Daniel W. Drazer’s column at Foreign Policy and Tyler Brûlé’s one at the Financial Times. Airport reading you may say.

_Lisa Hanawalt lives in L.A. and has a dog named Indiana Jones. She also makes these drawings.

_yesterday’s Jared was 21 years old and from Boone, USA. Today some Pekka Niittyvirta, 35, and from Helsinki. That thing about taking photos of people from behind them.

_if the title is to be taken literally, the guy bending in the photo is a priest. More info at Jared Boger’s website [ can you believe that Boger is just 21 years old ? ].

_ Shocked Images II is the title of this collage by Berlin-based artist Kirstine Roepstorf

_ These seats are a part of Charlott Markus’ “Cinema de Erotique“. We guess these are shot in Amsterdam, where she lives.

_the new week gets us thinking about color and gradient. Fitting our mood -  Jordi Ferreiro [ Barça ].

_this is the second time we tip music on this little blackboard. This time a singer-songwriter from Australia? Sarah Blasko is the name and she just released a new album. Here you can see a [ bike ] [ as in bicycle ] video, and here you can listen to some tunes. Saturday night for all.

_Tom Gallo’s website  doesn’t say much about the guy, just these words: Tom Gallo – musician turned self-taught designer.

_thursday night and some Jake Longstreth before going home.

_the Design Has No Name studio is from Argentina but their clients are spread all around the world.

_we’re still wondering if the some of the portraits and landscapes by Lane Coder are shot in Polaroid.

_and now that we’re talking about blogs: Boicozine was a project from Press Publish that we still miss, their new blog -just called Press Publish- is excelent, but has quite a different interface and feeling [ in the image some work by Beci Orpin featured on the PP blog ].

_we found out about Oum Koulsoum via the Awesome Tapes From Africa blog.

_John Delk does installations like the one above, but he’s also into video and photographs.

_things we’re suckers for 001: websites that look like old computer desktops.

_we had no idea that Adam Scott [ the painter not the golf player ] had showcased his work at Kavi Gupta Gallery.

_so what is Michael Hall up to?

_handmade in french is fait à la main,  for more info, ask Jean Jullien.

_Nathanael Rich of Slate asks why Scandinavians write such great crime fiction. RedRum in Oslo? (that legendary home of the accords) Click on the link for the story.

_Here at the Gopher we love lists. Lists make up the geography of our minds. So when we found Webdesigner Depot’s list of 100 extraordinary paper designs we had to post it.

_This is not a portfolio, but it is free content in easily digestible meta-format. Check out Chris Anderson’s Wired piece on why freebies are the future of business.

_some Kropilak for a belated monday.

_long time without checking the Ourcommon website, but they’re still as cool as ever.

_apparently, Ryan McGinley knows where the summer goes.

_two words: Pinoy Biswalstyle.

_as if proof was needed that the editors of The Gopher [ Illustrated! ] spend a lot of time online [ particularly editors of the male gender who will will not <LOPE> name that tend to scan the interwebs for pretty tchatchkes all day long ] here’s a link to byAMT design, home of the Incredible Key-Shaped USB device. We were tempted to put a tiny picture of the I.K.S.U.S.B.D. here but decided to create an image instead, their [...]

_Roger Kelly is from london and you can find his work at the Halles Gallery.

_last time we checked Richard Hogg he was not into making movies. Now he is. And yes, we still prefer his illustration work.

_our designer Alex Wright a.k.a Modo,  sent some logos for the gopher that didn’t made the cut, here is one of them, for those of you into history and stuff.

_we have a new website! hello to all the people out there and welcome to this tiny blackboard of links, images and events; for more in-depth articles go to your left to the features section of just wander around the site. monday and everything fine over here at briefly.

_it keeps happening: we choose a photo and after choosing it we find a thousand we like even more. Exhibit number n, the work of Luke Gregory.