
I’ve blogged about Lee Crutchley before and now, it’s very necessary to do so again. Lee has created a limited edition of Moleskine Cahier Sketchbooks with fantastic Regina Spektor lyrics on the front cover. Check it out via his Quoteskine site.

Pikaland is back after a two-week holiday! I hope you had a well-rested holiday amid lots of fun-filled moments with friends and family — I’m looking forward to see what surprises 2010 will bring! I’ll start the first post of the year with something apt — how about a time capsule? Thun...

Okay, I think I got carried away a little and entered the blog into the Homies Award 2009, sponsored by Apartment Therapy...

I’m not due back blogging until next Monday, but I just wanted to pop in and mention the wonderful work that Julie Annis has been doing for the indie band Camera Obscura from Glasgow, Scotland (I think she did the illustrations for their website as well). ...

From Better Homes & Gardens: Christmas Ideas, 1956. Illustrator: Roy Mathews. Image from Ward Jenkins’ Vintage Christmas set I was supposed to draw something in time for the coming holidays as a greeting card to send out, but as you can see I never made it. ...

Face it, it’s too late to put together good gifts for everyone. Not because of time, but because of the sheer amount of wonderful work floating about that leaves your brain bursting at the seams of what to get for the people in your life. ...

Today we’re doing an interview with an illustrator who draws with the computer as opposed with her hands! Lynn of Jinjerup is a dear friend of mine who just opened up an Etsy shop that sells digital downloads of her work. Behind all that cutesy-ness is a mind with a razor-sharp wit! ...

The last of our holiday giveaways is a copy of Uppercase Magazine from Uppercase Gallery, a gallery, publishing house and an awesome online shop filled with lovely papergoods. If you’ve not yet discovered this little gem of a magazine, then you’re in luck. Ja...

Karin Soderquist, Åsa Wikman and Maria Vladimirova have collaborated on a zine together called Mui, and they’re giving out THREE copies for readers of Pikaland. The fanzine features a theme on dreams and is 28 pages filled with color drawings made by these awesome ladies. ...

Oooh, I bet you’re going to love this one! Allison Cole of Bang Bang You’re Thread (featured previously) is offering ONE lucky reader a chance to win her Take Us Home Tote and the Correspondence Card Set! There are three different ways you can enter to better your odds: 1. Co...

Matt Lyon (C86) has an awesome portfolio of typography and illustration and t-shirts and freebies! Oh my! I also enjoy that his illustration style lies somewhere between absurdity and certainty.

The fourth giveaway of the holiday special comes from Thereza Rowe, a London-based illustrator and graphic designer who is offering ONE Pikaland reader a Fox Ride print from her shop...

From Homeschool – an affordable art shop selling original art for $150 or less that’s based in Portland, Oregon – comes this awesome giveaway of an original drawing by Jessica Hirsch aptly entitled Beachbum. This original sketch measures 11” x 8.5” and is graphite drawing on paper. There ...











































