Blue Riding Hood/ Sage Gnocchi #design101 /011

Moose is back again:) this time with Blue Riding Hood, the vegetarian sister of Red Riding Hood.

I got this receipt from my CS guests and it was written on the back side of this nice Blue Riding Hood card.

(John Bauer)Here is my other inspiration image for the task.

and this is a little story of a Blue Riding Hood visiting her little blue friend in the sage forest.

Who´s there?

hmm? What´s happening?!

Blue Riding Hood loves belgian beer and it fits perfectly with cheesy ricotta gnocchi.

Food is ready!

Bon Appetit!

Squirrel and kangaroo

This makes me really happy. A baby book is born: Squirrel and kangaroo.

I made all the drawings and text is by Philippe Luickx. Its possible to order it from Blurb and if you order now there is still time to get it for christmas wherever you are.

Love and happiness,

Silva

xmas drawings

Every year I make many drawings by hand and send them to my friends. This year I also knitted some stuff and I am making a cat calendar in the last minute. Hopefully next year I have time to make my calendar already early on and maybe even sell it on Etsy. Now its coming ready in the last moment, ready to be used right away when the new year 2012 kickstarts. Here is some polar bears dedicated to my little nephew Nyyti. I am bit like this one lonely polar bear. I cannot travel this year to Finland and I ll stay in Berlin.

unikeko

I had so much fun doing this passenger. Its about freeloaders, sleepyheads (unikeko in finnish), dreamers and for those who are living their life in a half sleep. Or sleeping in trains and metros missing their destinations or maybe being late for work. I would like to say that is time to wake up and do things not just dream of them. But same time the biggest sleepy season is coming. So many animals will be winter sleeping while people just keep going.

p.s kuvassa on jopa symbolinen unikko, josta yritin tehdä sellaisen ettei se vain vahingoita Marimekon tekijänoikeuksia. Olisin kyllä tykännyt antaa kukan olla ilman ääriviivoja.

update! 

p.p.s you can buy now this design on my society6 page here. There is many kinds of products like framed art piece, tote bag or pillows:) Would be so cool if my sloth would get to travelling into the street in some tote bag in some part of this world. He is kind of secret passenger and hitchhiker just very dreamy and sleepy one.

Log Lady

Here is my newest work. T-shirt design on Threadless.
There was a T-post competition on Threadless with a theme "Green is as green does". T-post magazine is really cool initiative:) http://www.tpostmag.com/ I hope my design could become part of it.
Would be great if someone would vote on Threadless. Voting will start in 1-2 days and last then for 1 week. In one week I should have more than 500 votes in order to get printed.

I hope to keep active so I can post here more of the things I do. Its funny how much drawing takes place back scene of these final design. Process is always nice as I come up with so many ideas that makes many more designs.

I will also dedicate some future designs to my dear cat Black Jack that escaped when we had our last holiday day in Finland. Luckily he was found after 3 weeks in a little bit thinner version of himself and one of my friend could travel with him back to Berlin.

memefest

I am still waiting someone of the jury would comment my work in the memefest. Its seem to be I am not gonna win that competition. Anyway it has been great to participate and I got plenty other ideas related to this work I made. I am going to do them as well in near future. Today I looked this picture and thought about Japan's catastrophe. Somehow this picture could be an illustration of what's happening now in Japan. I just wanted to point out dialogue between love and power. It came almost like a flipper game in this illustration.

The title of the poster is: What would you do?

I wrote in description of the competition that " I hope these connections that I made will give inspiration to also some other to think about what is important in your life while everyone's time is limited. Love is power in life and death. One year can bring both good and bad news. Love is a dialogue. It can be very bad news to nature that nuclear waste will never go away and she has to live with it. Thou she can not be crying for it forever but what would she do? I have used some slogans to underline the duality of life "Better to be active today than radioactive tomorrow." or "Run for your life as the rabbit starts its run against the clock!" There is also lot of vengeance in the hearth of the mother nature.
Here are the outlines for the competition:
http://www.memefest.org/en/competition/visualcommunicationpractice_2010outlines/


Would be great if someone would give me some feedback here about my work!