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Monday, June 04, 2007

Duck types

Mindless Munkey sent me a nice email today alerting me to the following clip and hoping I liked it:


Via: VideoSift

I do, MM, I do. It's very cute.

Actually, it was mucking around with letters like this (but in the more static form of prints) that led me to the creation of the Ampersand Duck:

ducks in formation

I was designing a children's book for the Noma Concours Book Illustration competition, something we were encouraged to do every two years as students in the Graphic Investigations Workshop.

Here's another duck, this time with a balloon:

balloon duck

I printed these (and other things like birds and fish and aliens and circus performers) onto very bright monoprinted backgrounds, so no two prints were the same. Monoprinting is something I love to do, because it makes each print unique. One day I'll have time to play with it again.

Anyhoo, those little ducks stuck in my head, flapping about a bit for a few years until I had to make up a blog name, and then they quacked as loud as they could to be remembered. And here we are.

Thanks for thinking of me, MM. Much appreciated.

5 comments:

meli said...

Cool video! The little 6-snail makes me smile. And I love your &ducks.

fifi said...

What a lovely clip- so clever!

Very similar to your designs. I love the "crackly" aesthetic of the old letters, remind me of old novels. Nice.
I love monoprinting, especially on rice paper, I am doing a layered print with monoprinting on tha bottom and fish over the top. And seaweed. fuuuun.

Mummy/Crit said...

Wow, I loved that animation! reminded me of old school sesame street. But also a lot like the &duck.

Anonymous said...

that link to mindless munkey doesn't go anywhere!

Ampersand Duck said...

Goodness me, you're right. It's fixed now.