So its still winter, but whats to stop a little summer dreaming? Ashley sent us this vibrant mind-map Illustration and we couldn’t help but feature it on the blog.. Spring IS round the corner after all.

We just got back from Berlin and had a fantastic show this season

Met up with a lot of old faces and many new brands who loved what Six for Gold had to offer. We are loving the look of 2011 so far and cant wait to get the ball rolling on some really creative briefs. Bring it on we say!

Creative Marketing is what we possibly love the most. Nowadays Illustration isn’t always kept hidden in books. Its loud, its proud, and we love the whole process from conception all the way through to design and build. We love Ashleighs 3D wall mounted Illustration ‘Between Dreams’. Its life size, in your face and most of all fun.

Heres one of the gems we found at New Designers this year! A joint project by two creatives Ian and Alison who handmade this fabulous, oversized pop up book used to market a well known travel company on the web. We are massive fans of bringing back the old school hand crafted techniques and this is an amazing example of how well it works in modern day creative marketing!… Loving your work guys. We hope to work with Ian and Alison soon on something just as amazing!

We think Internships are essential to getting that step on the ladder. Here’s one working for our friends at Aitor Throup.

Read on for all the nitty gritty stuff, and good luck!

Website: www.aitorthroup.com This placement will focus on the development of Aitor Throup product line and collaborations. The roll will include sourcing materials and fabrics, pattern cutting and copying of archive patterns along with the research and development of studio samples. The successful candidate will also be involved in the preparation/installation of presentations for both Aitor Throup product line and collaborations. These will be displayed at Paris fashion week and other major cities. Candidates must be confident and have a good understanding of pattern cutting. They will need to show an ability to be extremely accurate as the samples they are in involved in are sometimes immensely complex. Length of placement: 3 months (full time Monday – Friday, 9 a.m – 6 p.m). Location: Aitor Throup studio (North London) Experience gained: This is a great opportunity to experience the process of building a collection side by side with our creative and unique design studio. Expenses: Travel expenses only (London) Supervision: This placement will be managed by Chris Taylor (design assistant) and Jake Farey (studio manager). To apply: Please e-mail your portfolio (PDF) and CV along with cover letter to studio@aitorthroup.com Start date: ASAP

Creative photographers are hard to come by. Thats why we like Max. Yeah he does all the fashion photography you can shake a stick at (with a twist!), but we like what he does in his spare time… like photographing underneath his seat whilst flying through international air space!. Were feeling a whole new realm of trend research!

Were sure we will be working with Max very soon.

(ps clothing by Marie Elise Llagas and Joanna Mateo Lopez)

Another new talent direct from Graduate Fashion Week 2010!, we love Hannahs whimsical style of illustration. Contact us for more information on Hannah or to work with her on your brief

Ryan is so god damn good at what he does- hes already been tutoring at a top name University. We love his style, and will be blogging lots more about him so watch this space. This piece is all about social oddity.

Tim was commissioned to illustrate directly into a Clients home! The result was original artworks hand drawn in hidden places to cheer up your daily routine. Were loving the hip-hop mouse in the shoe cupboard. Genius!.

We are all feeling the world cup fever right now, so in support of England were blogging our new Illustrator Ashleys English Postbox repeat artwork. We love how everyday objects we pass in the street can become something beautiful! Come on England!

Post boxes aside- Ash can pretty much illustrate anything.. A good old ghetto-box never goes a miss. We are loving his style.

We are loving what our new guy David is doing right now. His creative flair ranges from 3D paper sculptures to large scale illustrations- pretty much anywhere, and on any-thing!

Check out Davids recent work right here – were so excited about working with him on up and coming briefs. (oh and David- thanks for the origami magpies- pure genius! )

One of our favourite Illustrators Arron was spotted on this very blog! The result was an amazing pencil illustration on a massive white wall at Lacoste h.q. in London. Here Arron is in action!
Check out the stop motion animation here

Thanks to creative people always jetting off around the world, we can rely on some creative photos coming in to us to share. We love this.

Light and shade!

Fashion Illustration- Mixed Media.

‘Take flight’ sketchbook work.

Pencil Footwear Illustration

‘Tom’ Figurative Illustration- Mixed Media.

Pen and Ink. Litho printed onto recycled card.

Design and Illustration.

Textile Design.

Footwear Illustration. Mixed Media.

Marrakech backstreet. Artist Unknown.

Digital printed textile design.

C.A.D design and illustration. Adobe Illustrator.

Print design. Mixed Media.

Embroidered textile design.

Photographic Styling.

Ducks swimming in public pool. Random.

Design and Illustration. Mixed Media.