biroRobot

Lisa Stubbs - 'Free Spirit'

2012-02-22T12:53:00.000Z

This gorgeous 'Free Spirit' screen print is by the wonderful illustrator and printmaker Lisa Stubbs. I came across it on Pinterest this morning, instantly fell in love with it and bought one. Afterwards I found there is a story behind this print and read how Lisa is embarking into fund raising for cancer through the sales of 'Free Spirit', and a three Volcano's Trek Challenge - Vesuvius, Stromboli and Mount Etna no less !

As you can see it's in a limited edition of 30, so be quick if you want one and be sure to visit Lisa's inspiring blog for more fab illustrations and updates on volcanos. We have the pom poms out - 'Go Lisa ! GO!'

Lisa's Etsy & Folksy Shops.

TrackTuesday - Gotye

2012-02-21T15:52:00.000Z

"Somebody That I Used to Know" is a song byBelgian-Australian singer -songwriter Gotye, fromhis third studio album Making Mirrors.Thesong (lyrically about his relationship experiences) was written, produced andrecorded by Gotye in his parent’s barn on the Mornington Peninsula.

The trackwas released on 6 July 2011 as the second and lead single off the album and features New Zealand singer Kimbra.

The King of Legoland

2012-02-18T16:26:00.001Z

French web designer Micael Reynaud's stop-motion video The King of Legoland - A nostalgic cool rush of 80s toys proving, once again, that less is more. We simply love it !

MOTM - February

2012-02-14T09:30:00.000Z

Mug of the Month - 'Heart Mugs', an original design from 1974, from clothkits, £12.00.

Other favourites from left to right - 'Pantone Mugs' by Whitbread Wilkinson mug from Heals, £9.50, 'Heart Bunting Mug' by Gabrielle Treanor from The Green Gables, £9.50 and 'Red Pears Mug' by Lotta Kuhlhorn for Koloni Stockholm from North Rock Gallery, £8.15.

'Mostly Print' Exhibition

2012-02-13T23:57:00.000Z

biroRobot 'March'

We're a part of a selection of Ochre Print Studio contemporary printmakers in the 'Mostly Print' exhibition at the Cranleigh Arts Centre. The exhibition runs throughout February and is well worth a visit if you are in the Surrey area. Here's a handful of the thirty two other artists that we are so pleased to be sharing the show with.

James Thompson 'Towards a Liking of Ladies' Shoes'

Annee Robson 'Spring into Summer'

Christine Hopkins 'Warehouses, Wapping'

Mary Branson 'New Ideas'

Many thanks to Julie Hoyle, Annee Robson, Christine Hopkins & Melanie Gairns from Ochre Print Studio, and to all at the Cranleigh Arts Centre.

MOTM - January

2012-01-19T18:19:00.000Z

Mug of the Month - 'Owl Beaker' by Donna Wilson from Donna Wilson's Shop, £14.00.

Other favourites from left to right - 'Marimekko Siirtolapuutarha Blue Dinnerware' mug from Heals, 'Ania' mug by Monika Lubkowska-Jonas from LSA International, £9.00 and 'Green Patterned Mug' by Maria Dahlgren from the Tate Online Shop, £12.95.

Hudson - Against The Grain

2012-01-05T21:45:00.000Z

We're starting the year with a nice tune and coloured pencils. Hudson's 'Against The Grain' music video, produced by film maker/animator VJ Dropbear (aka Jonathan Chong), has had a million plays in the two months it has been on Vimeo. A simple and memorising artist's dancing sweet shop.

WARNING: This video may contain pencils, which can cause a reaction, even pencil envy.

Tea Time !

2011-12-21T13:57:00.000Z

These (I want them all !) teapots are all from Couch. From the top - Blossom Teapot by Swedish designer Camilla Engdah, Marimekko Tea Pot by Marimekko & Retro Teapot designed by Lotta Odelius for Sagaform - Sweden.

Sleeps till Christmas

2011-12-16T14:45:00.002Z

Nine sleeps till Christmas ! And, and, and, the last Christmas First Class UK posting date is Tuesday 20th ! Demonstrating the countdown (till the big guy in red, with white fluffy trimmings, appears) is our 'Magic Number' print. The fab white star came from Ragology's stall at a recent Vintage Pixie Fair. More to come on that in another post.

I'll now be going to the Post Office, Forest Gump style. '...........if I was going somewhere, I was running!'

MOTM - December

2011-12-15T13:46:00.000Z

Mug of the Month - 'Tunnocks Teacake Mug' by Illustrator Gillian Kyle from North Rock Gallery, £8.15.

Other favourites from left to right - 'Taika Mug' in black by Klaus Haapaniemi from Iittala, 'Winter Stripe Chevron Mug' by Alice Potter from Alice's Etsy Shop, £10.00 and 'Bone China Mug' by Chocolate Teapot Ceramics from Not On The High Street. Com, £10.00.

Habitat Star

2011-12-14T16:22:00.000Z

We've been busy here at biroRobot HQ putting up our Christmas decoration. Rocking Christmas to the max and cluttering up our shelf is our beloved vintage Habitat star. It's somewhere between ten and fifteen years old which, in a day and age where anything making it to the January sales is vintage, makes it almost antique. The Antiques Roadshow 2015 stand by

Oh and, we hope you like our hand printed Christmas card? It's titled 'Ding ! Ding !'

Owl

2011-12-12T16:59:00.002Z

'Owl' is a new hand pulled, limited edition print that looks set to be popular. He's a brilliantly bright orange, brighter, lighter and sunnier than we could capture here !

Of the small batch we printed of 'Owl' we only have five left in stock. Looks like we'll be printing more in this edition first thing next year. Another one for the 'To Do' list, with a smile !

You can find 'Owl' in our on line shop. - There's one more week for hand pulled print Christmas orders with in the UK.

MOTM - November

2011-11-17T13:16:00.001Z

Mug of the Month - 'Flowery Mug' by Petra Boase, from her Petra Boase shop, £9.00.

Other favourites from left to right - Floral stackable mug from Paperchase, £10.00 for two, 'Polynesia Flower China Mug' by Catherine Nice for her company Kitty McCall, £11.95 and 'Round Birds Mug' by Sam Harris for Howkapow.

Outside Royalty 'Ohio' - Yankee Peddler

2011-10-30T14:20:00.000Z

Los Angeles based, motion graphics/animation house, Yankee Peddler recently put their work on Vimeo, includig this animated music video, for the London-based band, Outside Royalty's 'Ohio'. We also like their animated ad, for Saatchi & Saatchi LA, Toyota - Jimmy Hinton. Great stuff !

Battersea

2011-10-21T13:33:00.000+01:00

This next print in progress, 'Battersea', is closer to home. We just love, love, love, Battersea Power Station. Oh it's just great, and not just great in a great big up-side-down table way!

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott designed the building's 1930s exterior and then later, Bankside, which is now the Tate Modern art gallery. He also designed the red telephone box - what a cool customer!

Google Doodle - Mary Blair

2011-10-21T12:16:00.000+01:00

A fab Google Doodle today celebrating, the late American artist, Mary Blair's 100th birthday. Mary was famous for her concept art work and distinctive artistic style on many of Walt Disney's productions, including Dumbo, Lady and the Tramp and Fantasia. Here's a few more of her gorgeous illustrations.

To see more Google logos visit the Google Doodle blog. Images were sourced from the following groovy blogs and sites : SteamSters, Eye-Likey, Drawn, Jonathan E & Magic Jelly.

Central Park

2011-10-19T23:16:00.000+01:00

Here's a new design we've been working on for a Central Park print. We've taken the colours from the park in winter - we just love the way it looks at that time of year! Here's a few close-ups.

A huge thank you to Craig McCann for featuring us on his fantastic Fishink blog this week. More about Fishink to come, but for now we'd like to wish 'Craig and Tone' a very successful Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair ! (Manchester. Friday 21st til - Sunday 23rd October. Tone Von Krogh’s stand)

Design Supremo

2011-10-17T09:08:00.000+01:00

Patrick Edgeley 'Kitchen Utensils'

Design Supremo has a very nice selection of prints and does exactly what it says on the tin - "Design Supremo is an online art print and poster emporium showcasing outstanding modern wall art from leading international artists. This remarkable creative forum celebrates graphic design and illustration as a truly contemporary art form, expressed in a uniquely accessible and democratic medium. The limited edition giclee prints, screen prints and poster art lithographs available from Design Supremo represent an eclectic range of visual styles, each with individual appeal and each destined to become a modern design classic."

Dee Beale 'Scandinavian Red Hare'

Anthony Peters 'Leaf Me Alone' & Gill McColl 'An Apple A Day Keeps Windows Away'

Kate Mclelland 'Edinburgh Skyline'

HelloMarine 'Rochefort' & Graham Carter 'Panda Crossing'

Patrick Thomas 'Signs #09'

EXIT This way!

Buses

2011-10-14T14:42:00.000+01:00

Our hand pulled screen print 'Buses' is finally available from our Big Cartel shop. Here it's trimmed down and put it in a wonky old frame. Below is it's actual size.........

Enormous! (Chuckle) I couldn't resist it. It's 50 cm x 35 cm - no crane necessary.

Printed on lovely thick white, 300 gsm Fabriano 5 paper. Signed, numbered and dated, in a limited edition of 85.

Buses, buses - you wait for an age and then they all arrive at once!

Amongst Giants - Turn

2011-10-09T15:20:00.001+01:00

The wonderful and mighty 'Turn' music video for Amongst Giants. Design & Direction: Markus Wagner
Animation: Stefan Salcher, Martin Lorenz & Markus Wagner - http://www.wearelwz.com/

MOTM - October

2011-10-06T18:11:00.000+01:00

Mug of the Month - Alphabet Graphic Mug by Fee, £12 from Papa Stour

Other favourites from left to right - Little Anchors Mug, £9.50 from TeaAndCeremony, Mr Teacup's Hand Drawn Fox Mug, £8.62 / $12.98 from MrTeacup and Coffeepot Cafe Mug, by Silvia Portella, $15.00 from Poketo

Mug Shot

2011-10-05T22:47:00.000+01:00

biroRobot has a permanent mug bug. Here are a few of many, and we just keep buying them. Will we ever stop? Noooo!! We love a mug!

It's about time we put this habit to good use - 'Mug of the Month', mug love every month, coming after the tea break (milk, no sugar, and a biscuit. Nice!). Stand by.......

Ethel & Maud

2011-09-28T20:34:00.000+01:00

'Ethel was a creature 'bout as lovely as can be. Ethel was an island in the sea......' Mr Billy Mowbray, from ManOrMouse?, sings. He was kind enough to let us interpret 'Ethel and Maud' as we liked. Here's how it turned out, with black waves, for the single and print. There are also two smaller variations on grey and white, with blue waves. We hope you like them!

Make sure you stop by at ManOrMouse?'s bandcamp to hear more of 'The Learning Curve' album. You won't regret it! This would make biroRobot's Desert Island Album Discs - no word of a lie!

Click that subtle little black triangle below to listen to 'Ethel and Maud' (First time blogging with a small black triangle - if it works, I'll be jumping up and down. If it doesn't work, I'll be jumping up and down.)

Eran Hilleli - Between Bears

2011-09-25T11:59:00.001+01:00

Eran Hilleli's graduation film 'Between Bears' won the Vimeo Film Festival 2010 'Best Animation Award'. It's simply beautiful. Enjoy!

Between Bears - Eran Hilleli

New York Big Apple

2011-09-22T19:55:00.001+01:00

Here's our New York Apple giclee print being nicely modeled by a couple of mugs. We've noticed that it is one of the favourites among our first range of prints, thanks to the lovely community that is Etsy.

A big biroRobot thank you to Print & Pattern and Old Try for featuring us - having been open for just two weeks it's a real boost. We feel like a legend in our own lunchtime!

Inaluxe

2011-09-19T15:09:00.000+01:00

Inaluxe are Australian super-duper duo Kristina Sostarko and Jason Odd. Not only do these two produce paintings, prints and textiles for Inaluxe but they also independently freelance. Part of their philosophy is 'make it beautiful', and they certainly do! Here's some more images. Enjoy!

Visit Inaluxe's gorgeous blog http://inaluxe.blogspot.com/ and shop http://inaluxe.bigcartel.com/.

Old Try

2011-09-15T18:14:00.000+01:00

Old Try are a couple from Alabama and North Carolina who moved to Boston a few years ago and found an old letterpress shop run by locals in Massachusetts. They now make Southern related letterpress posters, printed on old machines with moveable type and wood blocks.

We stumbled across Old Try whilst on Big Cartel setting up our shop recently. They too were in the midst of setting up online. It's great to see they are now also up and running. Wonderful stuff Old Try, wishing you a world of success! We will be buying from you.

Old Try

Eric Carle

2011-09-13T00:30:00.000+01:00

In June, the ever inspiring, Eric Carle blogged about the 'Architektur' and 'Violinkonzert' posters he designed before he started to illustrate picture books.

At 20 years old he worked at the Amerika Haus U.S. Information Center in Germany as a poster designer.

I don't know which to be more impressed with, designing these posters at 20 or blogging at over 80? Regardless his blog is well worth a visit, if you haven't already.

Here's hoping Eric posts more of his poster designs. I think I could eat through one on a Monday, two on a Tuesday, three on a Wednesday................. Oh yes!

www.ericcarleblog.blogspot.com/
www.eric-carle.com/home.html

Follow my blog with Bloglovin

The biroRobot Shop is Open!

2011-09-09T10:22:00.001+01:00

Our biroRobot online shop, selling hand pulled and gilcee prints, is now open. Postage is free within the UK and the packaging is free worldwide. Ta-darr! - http://birorobot.bigcartel.com/

Ben Howard - The Wolves

2011-09-08T19:39:00.000+01:00

Ben Howard is a singer-songwriter from Totnes, South Devon.

At only 22 he already has a huge following after releasing the brilliant track 'The Wolves'.

He is characterised by his odd way of guitar playing and recently did a tour with Australian artist Xavier Rudd.

Robot's seen him play twice, is going to another of his gigs in October, is wearing out the CD and will no doubt be buying this fab limited edition screen print very soon - hurry or there'll be nothing left!

benhowardmusic.co.uk/

www.myspace.com/benhoward

Little Details.

2011-09-02T21:46:00.000+01:00

A few details from our first range of prints, which will be available to purchase when our online shop opens in a week's time!

Belle and Sebastian - I Didn't See it Coming

2011-06-20T16:22:00.000+01:00

Music video for Belle and Sebastian (remix Richard X), directed by the brilliant illustrator and animator Lesley Barnes. Animated by the talents that are Lesley Barnes, Bruce Cameron and Matt Saunders. Ooo...we do like!

Summertime, And the livin' is easy,.....

2011-06-09T01:49:00.003+01:00

.....Fish are jumpin',.....For joy, at our 'I Scream' print design, which is part of a range of prints available soon! ...... Down fish! Down!

Apache - Danger Beach

2011-05-08T16:30:00.000+01:00

The amazing 'Apache' music video for the band Danger Beach on Dream Damage Records. Directed by Ned Wenlock and character animation by Rodney Selby. We can watch this animation over and over..... (sigh)...it must be love. Bring on the awards!

Apache from oneedo on Vimeo.

Oooo! We do like.....

2011-04-19T18:52:00.001+01:00

'Raining on my Parade' - Copywriter: Van Horgen & Designer: Anne Ulku. 'Do healthy what you promised sick' - Writer: Mike Derus & Designer: Robert Pflaum. Visit Six Word Story Every Day - It's a real treat! Website: SWSED

MOM? Limited Edition Print

2010-05-26T17:06:00.009+01:00

Here's the design to a ManOrMouse? limited edition silk screen print we are working on called 'Do Or Die'. Available soon!

ManOrMouse? - The Learning Curve

2010-05-08T17:40:00.000+01:00

biroRobot and Billy Mowbray (front man, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist) of ManOrMouse? hand gocco printed all 400 limited edition album covers for 'The Learning Curve' at MouseManor one winter's weekend. For the wonderful hospitality, giggles, acoustic tunes, hot glue gun skills, and tea and cake, BillyMouse, we salute you!

Download The Learning Curve - MOM? on Myspace - The Crypt Sessions (MOM? videos and other great artists) - MOM? on Facebook - The Crypt Sessions on Facebook