Sanna Annukka...

Sanna Annukka is a half English half Finnish illustrator. After graduating in 2005, she was selling a range of prints in a shop in Islington London and by luck she landed the commission for the cover art for Keane's second album. Since then she has set up her own company and produces designs for a wide range of products. I really like the aesthetic of her work because it is so simple and clean, but beautifully decorative. I am also impressed by the versatility of her designs; though she specialises in screen printing her designs work so well across almost any media or product. I have picked out a few here to demonstrate this:

YSP and Rob Ryan...

I visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park today - due to the recent adverse weather, the majority of the park was like a bog, thankfully I wore my wellies, but it did make it rather difficult to walk around and look at all the sculptures. Luckily, there was a Rob Ryan exhibit on as well, which definitely made the trip worthwhile! I'd never really looked at his work in much depth before, just odd pieces that other people had shown me in their research. I was really impressed with his work - it is so delicate and intricate, and must take forever to produce; i think what was most apparent for me was the way he incorporates text into his images in a way that makes you feel they are a whole, rather than words and a picture.

I picked up a couple of his cards, and bought a book called 'This Is For You' - which contains beautiful full page examples of his paper cuts.