This week we bring you a little interview with Sven Palmowski aka a.mar.illo, our three time winner and a regular contributor to Allmightys' blog with his Weekly Badge Review.



What inspires you Sven?
Many, many things, can be a medieval print or some industrial ruins, whatever...

Who are you favourite artists and why?
There are really many of them, so these are just a few from the illustration sector:
Camilla Engman from Sweden, Jeffrey Decoster and John Casey both from California I think...Erkut Terliksiz from Turkey, Pietari Posti, finnish illustrator based in Barcelona... and, and, and...and why? They are cool, that's why;)

How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?
I always start with a pencil sketch, convert it into a clean pen drawing using a selfmade "lightbox" sometimes, I scan it and add colours, corrections or effects in Photoshop, connected to a simple and small wacom pad (the cheapest on the market because I use it as mouse so it has to be renewable without great expenses;)



What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your inspiration?
Just a few examples:
http://www.hoboeye.com/
http://www.blanketmagazine.com/
http://www.skineart.com/
http://www.designboom.com/eng/
http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
FAESTHETIC run a nice blog, but they are currently down:(

What do you do when you are not designing?
Go to the playground or to the beach with my son:)






Do you think Allmightys has helped you become a better designer and how?
It even made my a better person, haha... No, seriously, it is just a very cosy place to be for a designer. It's like family: At Allmightys a design doesn't get lost in a huge mass of designs, that´s a good thing.

Anything else you would like to add?
Thanks for asking me all that, now I'm hungry.

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To read more about a.mar.illo, visit his profile here.
You can also see a lot more of a.mar.illo's work on his website here.

PURCHASE:

We have just added new designer profile: Rayi Christian Wicaksono aka mumolabs

Rayi is our recent Pattern Battle Special Selection with his Little Town. The t-shirt is currently in print and should be available in store within few weeks.
In the meantime, make sure you check out Rayi's profile and more of his work available on deviantart.

The weekly badge review's theme of the week: Faces 

A UK based artist working with typography, animation, vectors and web application. A small but exuisite portfolio of work. Well worth checking out.

Welcome to Allmightys Rob!

www.robmccarthy.co.uk

Brooklyn-based artist Leon Reid IV, also known as Darius Jones of the street-art team Darius and Downey will be making a special presentation at the ATM Gallery in Berlin this thursday, 24th july at 4.30pm.
Leon will be speaking about his 13 years of work on the street in places such as New York City, London and Berlin while addressing his involvement in the genres of pure graffiti, street-art and legal urban art. The presentation will include over 60 projected images. Signed copies of the new book "The Adventures Of Darius and Downey" will be sold after the presentation.
The entrance is free and the lecture takes place tomorrow, 24th July, at 4.30 pm at the ATM Gallery, Brunnenstr.24 in Berlin Mitte.

If you're around, have a look...

Giovanni Donadini, one of the designers here at Allmightys has recently updated his website with some fresh new content. Make sure you check it out:

www.haveyouever.it

Gionanni is our silver prize winner with his Heart Monsters design from Monsters & Mayhem Competition.

The weekly badge review's theme of the week: Typography 

This week we bring you Miroslav Kostic. An artist and a "UFO freak" from Novi Sad, Serbia. Miroslav is out Silver Prize winner from our Mech Tech Competition with his White Robot.

We asked Miroslav few questions...read on. Enjoy..



What inspires you Miroslav?
I’m an internet addict so because off that I’m often inspired by the things I read or see on the web. When I was younger I watched too much cartoons, now I’m watching just a few but I’m still inspired by them and a memory of old ones that I kept in my brain still does a thing. I was never inspired by historically famous artist, I really appreciate them but not in the way to be truly touched by their art. I’m more like renaissance artist, trying to be better then others before me by using their knowledge and bringing it to a next level.

Who are you favorite artists and why?
My favorite artist is Gennady Tartakovsky, a guy who created cartoons like Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack and Clone Wars. I’m truly inspired by his art and ideas, he is the only artist I will like to meet. His style and stylizations are by my opinion best thing in animation that happend today. I’m really sorry because he has only few projects going on, he should be more appreciated and pushed forward.

How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?
I produce most of my artwork for clients now, but I always have time to do something for myself. Currently I’m trying to bring to an end a long time struggle with my 27 minutes long animated movie. One night I came up with an idea for an animated film, that was four years ago and today I’m harassing guys that are doing music and sound effect to finish their job so we can make a premiere of the film. I did the rest of it from storyboard to editing and marketing, but I’m a real anti talent for music that part I left to them. My motto is: If you want something to be done, do it yourself.



What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your 
inspiration?
Deviantart.com is my regular place, I also upload every single thing worth uploading to Coroflot.com. Deviantart is my prime inspiration place, this is a place where supertalented people upload their art, if you want to know what is going on in art today, this is the place. It is also full of wanabe artist and that is great because all of them are watching TV and searching trough web and living their lives in different places of the world and after all of that they sit and do a drawing or take a photo or make a collage or write a poem and they all upload it to a same place which became something like a vortex of ideas. I think that is amazing. I’m not working for Deviantart.com!

What do you do when you are not designing?
When I’m not designing I work on my UFO website. UFO’s are always been my passion. I’m not a UFO freak, I like to think of myself as of UFO investigator (that is pathetic!). No it is not, there is a phenomenon that exists and it is not fully investigated. I started a website that is a collection of UFO sightings over Serbia, so the people who had a real experience can share it with others. Beside of being Fox Mulder I like to go to the concerts, drink with friends, roller-skating and making barbeque.



Do you think Allmightys has helped you become a better designer and how?
Yes, I think it did. I gained more self confidence after wining a contest at Allmightys. I figured out that there are people all over the world that appreciate my art, and if you look on Google Earth, well that place is pretty big. So it is cool to be introduced to audience that big.

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You can find Miroslav on these sites:
www.coroflot.com/mickeykostic/
mickeyns.deviantart.com/
mickeykostic.carbonmade.com/

Purchase:

Here is some very nice work by our member Thomas Dang. Great designs for google and addidas as well as a collection of some really interesting identity work and illustrations.

More: mydangwork.com

The weekly badge review's theme of the week: The Sea