Category Archives: Illustration

Right Brain Terrain

“The world’s first alternative motivational posters” by Right Brain Terrain out of Orlando. Adorable? Yes. Am I motivated to plaster my walls with them? Also, yes. I especially love “ego” (above) and “relax” (below).

All of their posters are printed on 100% recycled paper with vegetable-based inks, so you can feel even better about dressing up [...]

Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand

Yes, this is definitely old news as the exhibit opened at the ICA back in February and was surrounded by some drama in the news, and a possible publicity stunt/arrest here in Boston. However, I waited until this week to actually go out and see the installation in person. A trip to the ICA is [...]

Matters of the Heart

A little Wednesday eye candy – two new heart prints from Chicago-based designer Jenny Beorkrem aka Ork Posters. I love her city posters, and am so glad she is exploring new subjects in the same theme. This print really fuses two subjects that evidently were made for one another: anatomy and typography. Separate each is [...]

Diana Sudyka on Making It.

We’ve posted before on the illustrator who worked with Andrew Bird to bring an additional layer of meaning to the new-ish deluxe album, Noble Beast. Following Bird’s storm of a show in Toronto a couple weeks ago (flabbergasting foot-tapping gramophone-spinning orchestrally amazing show) we bring Diana Sudyka back to Black Kettles for some insight into not only how [...]

New Brainstorm prints

It has been the usual springtime dreary mess up here in New England for the past couple days. And there’s no better cure for the rainy Monday blues that some beautiful print work. Jason Snyder and Briana Feola at Brainstorm Print and Design just released six new prints to their shop, and its really brightened [...]