Karla Burns

Fridgeezoo.

karlaburns — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:09:06 +0000

I am obsessed with these beautiful creatures! Fridgeezoo is the best Eco friendly product out there. These animal themed cartons let you know when you open the fridge door for too long, letting the fridge cool, meaning more energy and work is required from the fridge to regulate the temperature. Such a smart, chic idea! Thanks to the Dieline for introducing me to my new obsession.

I cannot choose between the Penguin and the Walrus.

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Witty Business Card.

karlaburns — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:50:12 +0000

I randomly found this business card online, and I love it. I love the witty and informal approach it has, it would definitely catch my attention. A nice change from the usual stuffy, corporate design business cards. Alexander Parker created it as a temporary business card.

ISTD Brief.

karlaburns — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:46:55 +0000

Next year I will be choosing my ISTD/ D&AD brief and so I have been looking into work that previous students have created. I found this beautiful piece by Rishi Sodha, I was instantly pulled in by the presentation, the beautiful, chic black packaging, and the explosion of the individuality wrapped posters. A beautiful controlled and executed piece.

Rishi is a very talented, award winning designer, I’m sure Rishi’s career will be very successful. On Rishi’s website Rishi explains the thoughts and process behind the concept:

“The original brief was to explore the concept of 100 and its significance.

As such, in this project I decided to answer the question: If we are defined by the people we know, can you be defined by your relationships with 100 people? 100 people were each given 100 seconds to answer 3 simple questions about an anonymous person, referred to as X. These posters look at their answers & invite the viewer to make their own judgements of the anonymous subject.”

Pancake Tuesday.

karlaburns — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:22:42 +0000

So in light of this festive day I thought I would post an inspiring piece representing Pancake Tuesday. My tummy is twice its size after my over indulgence on Pancakes. For those of you unfortunate people who have not had pancakes today, and have no idea how to make them, fear not the fabulously talented Kate Sutton is here to save the day. I found this beautiful illustration for a pancake recipe on the Handsome Frank’s website. I must say I am in love with it, Kate Sutton is a very talented illustrator! I just adore hand drawn type.

Would you like fries with that?

karlaburns — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:42:45 +0000

Another Illustration I did super quick for a birthday card. A bucket of delicious chicken, yum yum!! It’s making me hungry. Hope you like!

G’day Mate.

karlaburns — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:38:10 +0000

This was a really quick illustration of the stereotypical Australian hat, with the corks lining the rim. I needed a card for a ‘sheila’ who was leaving for Australia and I realised that the only cards available where the generic ‘sorry to hear you are leaving’ which are usually reserved for colleagues leaving places of work. So I just whipped this design up super quick, I hope you like.

Punk Rock Kitty.

karlaburns — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:53:20 +0000

After I gave my sister her Nurse Hello Kitty Plushie, she asked if I could make her another Hello Kitty Plushie this time a rock/punk Kitty, she picked the colours and told what she would like. I had so much fun creating this one for her! I loved making the skull and cross bones bow, and I think the stars up the opposite side of her face are so cute!

Nurse Hello Kitty Plushie.

karlaburns — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:47:40 +0000

After I made Mr Reily, my sister said that she would like a Hello Kitty plushie. She is a nurse, and she loves anything Hello Kitty and so I decided to create a Nurse Hello Kitty, with Nurses hat and blue bow. I think she is super cute, she only took 3 hours to make, so an extremely quick craft project, with a fun result!

Mr Reily Plushie.

karlaburns — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:41:51 +0000

After the failed Jasper attempt I decided to create one of my other Characters for my mum, Mr Reily. Again his colours were not all in the felt pack so I had to make a few substitutions. Learning from my mistakes with Jasper I decided not to make the project any more difficult for myself and so I decided to stitch visible stitches, and thank fully for my sanity it worked this time! So everyone meet the very friendly Mr Reily.

Jasper Plushie.

karlaburns — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:33:46 +0000

My wonderful sister came home with lots of sheets of felt for me yesterday and I got straight to work. I have been wanting to make a Jasper doll for quite some time the packs had all the colours for him except for skin colour but I decided not to let this hold me back and so I substituted peach for white. I wanted Jasper to be cleanly sewn, with no visible pieces of thread, so my idea was to sew him inside out and then turn him out to show perfect lines, this worked for the head, but unfortunately it was not so successful with the body. The fabric was too thin and so I could not turn it back out after I had completed stitching, so this was a failed attempt, but I learned a lot from it.

Reily Says Roar!

karlaburns — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:54:36 +0000

Introducing the newest member of my family, the very friendly, Mr Reily.

It’s For You.

karlaburns — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:36:28 +0000

Todays illustration, as I sit waiting for the call to kick of my 2011!

Doodles.

karlaburns — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:52:20 +0000

Some more fun little doodles from my sketchbook, I went through a phase at college of being obsessed with doodling needles and thread.

X-ray Specs.

karlaburns — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:43:46 +0000

I LOVE drawing glasses, I could draw glasses all day every day and NEVER get bored! It’s so much fun! Here are a couple of my recent additions to my portfolio of Glasses Illustrations! If anyone needs Glasses Illustrated let me know! Make an illustrator VERY HAPPY!

Phonebooth.

karlaburns — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:31:20 +0000

Another quick post featuring one of my illustrations. A collage, ink and paint old style American Payphone, in the words of the one and only Alexander Graham Bell; “Ahoy Hoy!”