Respected blogger Tara Roskell seems to have disappeared from Cyberspace for 7 months now.

Born from 15 years of graphic design experience, her once extremely high profile Graphic Design Blog featured it’s last blog in October 2008, not a word since as far as I can tell, and Tara’s last personal blog was dated May 2008.

Any graphic designer will remember well the hay days of Graphic Design Blog and yet there seems no mention at all in the design community as to why the blogging has stopped and what Tara is doing now? I for one am very curious.

I hope Tara is well and has enjoyed success with her fantastic Weatherpop characters, shown below;

These are some very fine illustrative works by Tara and she very cleverly explains on the website how they are available for licensing and could be used for;

* Children’s clothes and shoes
* Children’s toys and stationery
* Children’s animation
* Children’s food products
* Children’s products – school bags, lunch bags, flasks, picnicware
* Greeting cards and gift products
* Children’s books (one book is already written and illustrated)
* Educational/learning products

The characters yes I agree would be great for any of those applications. If they haven’t been snapped up already I’m surprised.

Visit the Weatherpops website for more images, it’s a really great collection of illustrations and I think the Weatherpops logo is excellent also.