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Muse: Detroit

Often, the best artistic inspiration comes from heartbreak, and Detroit is an incredible muse.

- Colleen Hill, Pixelgawker

Illustration Portfolio >>> YAY

CHECK IT OUT! Live on the internet:

The Angela Duncan DOT COM!

Please and thank you for visiting, Miss or Mister internet buddy.

Here’s a recent, hand-illustrated poster I made for Handmade Detroit’s Craft Revival: A Spring Indie Craft Fair. I will be there with a table of fun for sale.

Alert! Hot New Illustrator

Please click the image, or go here to see the site. I am working with a web developer to create a beautiful, sparkling portfolio site. But for now, I made this:

House Industries

House Industries
We don’t claim to be the best type designers, illustrators, letterers or graphic artists, but we do a damn good job of combining those disciplines and incorporating the tastiest bits of culture into everything we do.

These guys are awesome. Yep.

Sweet Updates

It’s been a while since my last post, but I have some truly sweet updates for you.

Meet The Silent Giants. They do it themselves, and they do it right. What they do is design and hand-screen great posters out of Detroit. They’re new on the scene, and already working with big names like The National, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Wolf Parade, Bon Iver and more. Here’s some fresh Silent Giants press from OMG Posters! Your office would look awesome with some of their posters on the walls. People will swoon at your coolness and knowledge of music.

On a personal note, I’m thrilled to report that my illustration career is gaining momentum!  I am putting a portfolio site together.Yes! It will be clean, Angela-style, and effective. My good Yooper friend, Justin Sailor, is being a hero and setting it up. His many awesome projects: The Hometown Invasion Tour, Yooper Steez, and Bugsyrocker.com.

Do you like rare books? John K. King Books (in Detroit) is incredible. Perhaps you’ve heard of them. I wandered the amazing stacks for a few hours today, taking photos and looking for great, old illustrations. It’s a goldmine, if you have the time.  Imagine an enormous warehouse-turned bookstore, packed with old volumes in every imaginable subject, and you’re getting close.

Detroit Design

Bet you never expected great design to come out of a rusty, half-abandoned city like Detroit. But here it is. Straight from a great design blog, run by ex-San Franciscans, no less. Eat it up:

Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » detroit design guide
As far as I know, we have no ceramic antler peddlers or artists working around the clock to draw owls in every conceivable fashion. We do, however, have a sizable population of ring-necked pheasants. And packs of wild dogs.

Detroit is an underdog. I love underdogs. Michigan is an underdog, too.

I am rambling, but I hope you dig the Design Sponge blog. There are a lot of great things  happening in Detroit.  It’s such a worthwhile place to visit or hunker down.