This just in: James Jarvis [jamesjarvis.blogspot.com] gives animation a go, collaborating with Richard Kenworthy from Shynola [thedirectorsbureau.com] who worked with David Shrigley on Blur’s video for Good Song [via Vimeo] and heres’ the result… More please! (Maybe a Vortigern [amostoys.com] cartoon? How ace would that be?)

To help relaunch Bearded, Kevin has commissioned Kenn Goodall [bykenn.com] to produce this striking illustration of the band, Animal Collective, to adorn the cover. Kevin and Kenn have collaborated on a number of projects together before — Kevin’s cards for Kenn are particularly ace and they have recently produced a full colour zine-style affair known as Trouvé available via Kenn’s blog [bykenn.blogspot.com/trouv].

You can’t talk about design and illustration studio House of Kids [houseofkids.fr] without mentioning French record label, institubes [institubes.com]. The two are intrinsically linked through House of Kids members Jean-René Etienne and Lola Raban-Oliva, although each has their own outstanding bodies of work and institubes continues to team up with some of the more interesting Parisienne pop-’artists’ such as Akroe [akroe.net] and Gaspirator [myspace.com/gaspirator].

It’s taken me a while to track down the name of illustrator Tristan Galdos Del Carpio [via philippearnaud.com]. His portraits of various fashion aficionados commissioned by Self Service magazine [selfservicemagazine.com] ‘back in the day’ have been etched into my memory. It wasn’t until acquiring Ezra Petronio and Suzanne Koller’s [petronioassociates.com] recent tome (I say ‘tome’ not cause of weight but because of the hefty price tag) [jrp-ringier.com], that I could finally look it up (I think my old issues of Self Service are still in my Mum’s garage in Australia). His recent work does not disappoint either. There’s a nervous energy in his linework that makes anything pop… even dower old fashion bods.

Mehmet Ulusahin [mehmetulusahin.com] isn’t waiting around for commissions, he’s been setting his own briefs and producing unique publications filled with his lush, hand-drawn illustrations, which he then exhibits at various zine and self-publishing fairs such as London’s excellent Publish and Be Damned [publishandbedamned.org] (photos of which, we’ll be posting on Flickr real soon) and the Zigzag ‘Independent Drawing Gig’ in Istanbul [idgnr4.blogspot.com].