When I said I wanna blog about her, she thought I’ve muddled her with someone else. No dear, that’s you. Abi Daker has working as a professional artist since graduating from the University of Reading in 2003. Abi provides illustrations & artwork for children’s books, print and web publications, adverts, posters and private commissions. Her work is always drawn freehand, whether it is coloured digitally or with dry or wet media.

Did you know that? Now you know. I think this is the first time something cool connected with my homeland – Croatia is featured on LearnSomethingEveryDay.co.uk. Site is full of interesting facts illustrated daily on a very unique way, with the simple drawings. It’s a must-follow in your rss readers and you can also submit your fact(s), so get involved.

Every day, during my searching for interesting stories and creative brains, I usually stop by on modest websites which impress me with the small details. And again I have very-very interesting story, about Umber studios. I talked to lovely Jessica who told me more about their creative space.

Digital graffiti wall? Wow! Guys from Chairman Ting performed at the Salt Building inside the Athlete’s Village. They were commissioned by The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Interesting fact is that Tangible Interaction have made this unique digital graffiti wall technology using Open Frameworks. Creative open source, for the win.

Now, artists can digitally “paint” a surface in the same way they can tag a wall with traditional spray paint.

You’ve noticed something new here? O’yes it’s a header illustration made by my dear friend Djurdjica Selec also know as Djuro. She’s amazing and really nice person, I usually call her a ninja because she kicks ass in drawing stuff. As freelance web designer and illustrator she works with the clients around the world. Djurdjica recently moved to the coast and still can’t believe it.

To realize what she meant with the illustration I asked her a few questions…

Wake up your photos because the frames may be boring and static a bit. With the awesome Doodle Frames you can scribble a new one every day. Draw speech or thought bubbles, write notes or reminders for yourself. This product comes from Photojojo and it costs $15.

It’s great for telling the story behind a photo and adding a title or description.

New awesome fish eye photo came from Threadless. Their in-house magical graffiti musician snowboarder extraordinaire, Joe Suta, is back in town this week to paint up a bunch of mashup murals for the next few weeks of releases.

In this photo (credit: Threadless 365) he’s prepping pieces of Masonite.

What kind of art is this? Simply, my interpretation is “the fate of smokers”. Now you see how smoking can be art. Whatever, I’m sure mixed stuff below inspires you to think twice, next time.