“A bit of info of my work. I produce everything you see in my illustrations by hand, every mark, every colour, every background. Using a mixture of pencils, pens, paints, found objects, anything that makes a mark really. I love the unpredictability of mistakes, and when I make them, tend to leave them in my work. Then all of that is put onto the computer, where I put it all together to create what you see now.” - Jay Taylor
Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine Online
Katy Lemay’s illustration was selected to be published in this years American Illustration 26.
The book is available in stores now.
Chris was asked by designer/publisher to participate along with some other artists in his ”Know” exhibition at Art Basil in Miami going on as we speak. Also, Monte Beauchamp designer, curator and publisher of Blab! fame has invited Chris into his fold of artists. He will have images in next years Blab! 19 and I will be participating in Blab! shows in St Louis, Los Angeles, Kansas City in 2008 and a Chicago show already scheduled in 09.
Nathalie Dion’s illustration appeared this weekend in the Dec. 16th issue of The Boston Globe in a Special Medical Issue.
“The Etiquette in a Doctor-Patient Relationship.”
Here is Chris Pyle’s winning image. The judging was done late last summer and the 3×3 illustration annual #4 will be out early 2008.
Passion for fashion, Careers in style by Jeanne Beker is completely illustrated by Nathalie Dion. Published by Tundra books, it will be on the shelves in March 2008.
Marta Antelo illustrates the cover of “La Gaceta de los Negocios”. The theme was Ranking companies.
This year again, Hans Sipma cleans up in several categories at the Lotus Awards in Vancouver Canada. Lotus for Print Best Newspaper Single: Playland - blue barfing guy/Rethink, also a Merit for Playland/monkey/Rethink, Lotus for Best Newspaper Campaign: Playland - all 5 images/Rethink, Merit for Best Outdoor Single: Playland - blue barfing guy/Rethink…
Lotus for Best Outdoor Campaign: Playland-all 5 images, also in that category a Merit for Science World - shark/Rethink, and a Merit for Greengate Garden Centers - redlight, hoop, and chimney/Rethink, Merit in Best Use of Photography: Playland/Monkey/Rethink.
Here are the glasses Pablo Lobato designed for Rizenhoff.
Janice Nadeau’s illustrations appear in a spread in this months Plaisirs de vivre magazine.
Michelle was recently invited to contribute to The Illustrated Ape’s latest issue.
Michelle Thompson is included in Angus Hylands latest book on contemporary illustration, entitled ‘The Picture Book.’ Published by Laurence King.
AGM donates profits to global environmental conservation group
Green is the theme as Anna Goodson Management Launches 6th consecutive Christmas Coaster Campaign.
Anna Goodson Management (AGM) today announced the launch of the 6th consecutive AGM Christmas Coaster Campaign with think green as the theme. This season, AGM will also unearth some extra special holiday cheer, donating 1% of the agency’s profits for January and February 2008 to WWF, a global environmental conservation organization. AGM represents some of the finest illustrators worldwide.
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News posted - Friday, December 7th, 2007
Janice Nadeau illustrates “The Perfect Fit, Perfect Trip” Contestfor Canadelle with Cossette Communications.
Art Director - Yvan Coté
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News posted - Friday, December 7th, 2007
Design City: Talent Spotlight in Montreal
Interview with Stephane Milhomme
TAXI >> How would you describe the design scene in Montreal?
Stephane Milhomme>> I’d describe Montreal as a very diversified city with many great artsist who make the design industry in Montreal a better place. Artist who put Montreal on an international level. We’ve noticed a great change in the last few years but I think the best is yet to come.
TAXI >> What do you feel is lacking in Montreal’s’ design industry and how do you think you can contribute to the industry, society and economy as a creative individual?
Stephane Milhomme>> As a fashion design photographer, I would like to show images that are more creative and open minded for magazines who dare to show a bit more. I can contribute to the industry by showing a personalised image of the fashion industry in order to have the audience dream while looking at my photography.
TAXI >> I love your photography; it seems to have quite a certain romantic quality to it. Are you a romantic by nature?
Stephane Milhomme>> I don’t see myself as a romantic, I rather see myself as a human being who sees both women and men differently than the average male photographer.
TAXI >> The models in your images have a special distinct personality to them. Do you get to choose all your models? If so, what do you look out for in them before you fire away your shutter?
Stephane Milhomme>> Unfortunately it is difficult to always chose the models, but when I am fortunate enough to be able to do so, I like to chose women who are not too sexy with non-classical looks. I like to show subtle emotions that allows the reader/viewer to make up his own story.
TAXI >> We notice that you like to place your models in interesting but yet simple spaces. We especially like the ones with the concrete spaces in your portfolio. Tell us honestly, which is more important to you? The location or model?
Stephane Milhomme>> The model is far more important than the location. I love photographing people in very distinctive places or, and this may sound contradictive, in unknown locations where no one can recognise where we are.
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Design City: Talent Spotlight in Montreal
Interview with Lino
TAXI >> How would you describe the design scene in Montreal?
Lino>> I think Montreal can be proud of what’s going on in graphic design here. Because of our multicultural society we merge different influences and the result is a very hybrid look, with a strong graphic impact.
TAXI >> What do you feel is lacking in Montreal’s’ design industry and how do you think you can contribute to the industry, society and economy as a creative individual?
Lino>> I think what’s missing is a dose of audacity from the “deciders”. We still live in “boomers” market and unfortunately they slow down the emergence of fresh talents. I think it’s time to trust the intelligence and
the sensibility of the consumers and Art is certainly a great way to open this dialogue.
TAXI >> What was the turning point in your life that made you decide you wanted to be an illustrator?
Lino>>Probably the end of the 90’s. Everything was changing so fast around us. Family, religion, work, politics, media, environment, images every where with a lack of reality. I personally decided then, to believe in Art more than anything else. Making art is giving me a sense of liberty and I really think it can help people.
TAXI >> Your works are a little reminiscent of Salvador Dali, it feels surreal. Share with us why you choose surrealism as a key theme in your works?
Lino>> The surrealism and the symbolism movement really influence my work because they both explore this intersection of consciousness and dream, it’s poetry, and it has the power to reveal the invisible side of us.
TAXI >> Which character or figure do you think you identity most with in your works, and tell us why?
Lino>> I think what is the most dominant character in my work is the way I use painting, collage and drawing to make a strong and simple message with one or two symbols that can go straight to the point with sensibility and poetry..
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Design City: Talent Spotlight in Montreal
TAXI >> How would you describe the design scene in Montreal?
Janice Nadeau >> Very present, active and growing.
TAXI >> What do you feel is lacking in Montreal’s’ design industry and how do you think you can contribute to the industry, society and economy as a creative individual?
Janice Nadeau >> In my opinion, there is a lot of talent in our city, but I think it also lacks visibility. The city’s big events — cultural or not — should be more extravagant and call more for the creators’ implication, and use those happenings in order to exhibit established artists as well as new talents.
As an illustrator, my objective is to burst the possibilities of my art by spreading my talent to other aspects of the domain. Exploring territories where design is not often see is a way to make design more visible and present.
TAXI >> Your illustrations have a very distinct style to them; it looks very exquisite, very French. Did the Parisians inspire you?
Janice Nadeau >> I am very inspired by the 20’s and 30’s French bourgeoisie retro charm and class, and naturally attracted towards this period fashion, pattern and textile history. I try to insufflate little reminiscence of this era in my work.
TAXI >> How did you get into illustrating and decide that this was the path you wanted to take?
Janice Nadeau >> It is my passion for drawing who naturally lead me first to design. I studied graphic design at University du Québec in Montreal and then specialized in illustration at L’École supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Strasbourg (France). It combines my passion for design, illustration and hand lettering.
TAXI >> If you weren’t an illustrator and an artist, what would you be?
Janice Nadeau >> Fashion designer, antique dealer, chef pâtissier, horticulturist and garden designer, florist, set and costume designer… it’s all related to art in the end!
News posted - Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
First place #5 Illustrator Janice Nadeau
Second place #1 Illustrator Violet Lemay
Third place #16 Photographer Stephane Milhomme
Mario Wagner is profiled and has a one page spread in issue #82
“Rich yet subtle textures add touches of complexity to Violet Lemay’s eye-catching line and wash work.” - Illustrophile
Gary Sawyer produces cover image for Upfront World Affairs Annual.
Gary Sawyer has produced the illustration for the Naramata Bench Wineries 4th Annual Tailgate Party
New work for harvard business review, LA Times, bon appetite, Dwell, Marie Claire and Rugged magazine
Produced by the students, under the guidance of Terence Van Rooyen – one of Canada’s most respected Winemakers. Brandever is taking an innovative approach for the branding of these wines. The project will see the first wave of these wines reach the marketplace in mid-summer 2007.
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One of the IGI’s newest members Stephen creates powerful images that bridge the narrowing gap between Fine Art and Illustration and now that he has moved back to Ireland we are going to see a lot more of him. And I for one am more than a little excited by that…read on.
BB: Do you have a process you follow when you are making your pictures? Research, trawling the internet, books, sketching, materials?
PD: Yeah there generally tends to be a similar process to making images. With editorial jobs, after reading the article or editors summary I’ll do a few initial sketches make notes etc. and do any research that needs to be done on the subject. Research usually involves going through books or some of my scrapbooks – I started putting these together a few years ago, they’re basically clipping print outs or whatever I’ve come across that I find interesting in magazines or on the internet. I take reference photos all the time and keep them all together.
I usually try to step away from it for a bit, although I’ll still be thinking about it. So I’ll do some other work and when I come back to it I’ll usually have a fairly good idea of where I want to go with the piece. I’ll do a few more thumbnails and send these to the client. I’ve started sending roughs to clients at an earlier stage recently just so I can get a better feel for the reaction on the direction of the piece before spending too much time on the finer details – like getting a pose exactly right or facial expression etc.
Once I gotten feedback I’ll start doing a fully worked sketch before enlarging this and starting on the painting and pencil work. These then get scanned and I do a bit of retouching in photoshop – cleaning up and colour adjustment. I might flatten some of the colours and a lot of the time I’ll do a bunch of elements – mostly pencil work – that I’ll only make the final decision on once I have them on screen.
BB: Can you describe your workspace and how important it is to your working process?
PD: I’m just after moving back to Dublin from London so I’m trying to get set up with a new work space and want to get it sorted more to the way I want it. At the moment I’m kind of getting set up, and am trying to do it as quick as possible. I’d say probably the most important thing is to have a good source of light. It’s particularly important when I’m painting to be able not to have any crazy shadows when I’m working close to a piece and being able to see the colours properly. Also having space to have things spread out on the floor or desk – just things like old pieces of my own or books, this along with having two areas one to do computer work and one for drawing and painting – so I can jump easily between the two.
BB: Describe your timeline of artistic influences and has there been anyone consistently?
PD: I suppose there is a bit of a development in the sort of people that I’m interested in and the way my work has developed. I started off being very interested in comics and worked for a while putting a folio together and went to a few comic conventions showing it around. So I was interested in some of the 2000ad work but after going around with my folio I was put off the whole area and started getting more into painting work and getting my drawing and communication skills up to scratch.
I studied Visual Communication and was working as a graphic designer and as I was painting and drawing more I started looking to illustration as a direction that I worked more and more towards. I started looking at people reading stuff by Stephen Heller and looking to designers , illustrators and painters like Brian Cronin, Milton Glasier, Jody Hewgill, Mark Ulriksen as well as painters like David Hockney, Lucien Freud, Frieda Kahlo and a whole bunch of other things. I was a regular visitor to the British Museum and V&A when I lived in London so I wouldn’t say it was strictly confined to illustration and design – basically it’s wide open to people that communicate visually in dynamic, engaging and visually interesting ways.
BB: What would be a dream project to work on, a fantasy commission, a ‘pinch yourself’, ’slap me in the mouth and tell me it’s Christmas’ job?
PD: I’ve been fortunate enough to be getting some really interesting commissions lately so that’s great. I think the area of illustration has become massively varied over the last few years and I really enjoy getting emails with prospective jobs in areas that I’d never have considered. I think though one main thing I’d love to do is book covers. I loved the illustrated classics covers that Penguin did recently and to get to that level of work would be amazing and something I’d be blown away if I ever got to do.
BB: If you weren’t illustrating, what else would you be doing?
PD: Hmmm it’s kind of hard to think what else I’d do. Maybe some sort of highway wanderer walking the roads of Europe contemplating the mysteries of the world?
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We are thrilled to be NOW be representing World renowned Photographer Heidi Hollinger
Heidi Hollinger has photographed world leaders including Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jean Chrétien, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton and the Dalai Lama. She moved to Moscow for a decade in 1991 after graduating from McGill University. In 1994 she began work as the first non-Russian photo editor at Pravda. In 1995 she opened a portrait studio in Moscow and began to receive commissions from Russian political leaders. Between 1999 and 2002 she published five books including The Russians Emerge (Abbeville Press USA 2002). Her works have been presented in over thirty solo exhibitions around the world from Omsk to Los Angeles and can be found in the permanent collections of the Moscow History Museum, the Moscow House of Photography, Cirque du Soleil and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.
Mario Wagner has an interview and a 7 page spread in the cut and paste issue.
Nathalie Dion’s illustrations continue to grace the pages of the ever-popular ”Babies” books written by Michelle Sinclair Colman and published by Tricycle Press. Urban Babies Wear Black, Country Babies Wear Plaid, Beach Babies Wear Shades, Winter Babies Wear Layers.
Hello Anna, thank you for doing this interview! To start off with I would like to know what motivated you to start AGM and how did you do it? Also what qualifies you to have an international illustrator representative agency named after yourself? Did your name carry weight in the industry before AGM?
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Illustration / Kim Rosen
Pablo’s illustration of Rudy Giuliani is on latest cover of The New Republic.
ONE NEW ILLUSTRATION IN THE 25th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
Pablo hit a home run! Getting 5 of his illustrations selected for the Communication Arts Illustration Annual.
Phil Wheeler, Lino, Clare Mallison, Janice Nadeau, Stephen Ledgwidge and Gianluca Foli all had one or more illustrations selected for the Applied Arts Illustration Annual.
Photographer Hans Sipma also cleaned up on his end at The Marketing Awards in Toronto last week for the campaign he shot for Playland. Categories it won in were: Advertiser of the year, outdoor campaign, outdoor single, newspaper campaign, and newspaper single. There were also some certificates for Gold’s Gym (Tattoo shots).
Illustrator Phil Wheeler did all the illustrations for the background of the Adidas Ad campaign and website.
Photographer Hans Sipma just shot these ads for CruiseShipCenters.
Grey Advertising, Art Director - David Wong.
For the fifth consecutive year, AGM has just sent out their one of a kind Christmas Coasters. If you are an Art Buyer, Art Director, Designer, Creative or just a fan of some really great Illustration & Photography and you have not received your coasters, then please drop us a line and we will gladly send them out to you.
Only while supplies last, limited to one package per creative.
News posted - Friday, January 19th, 2007Dale Roth and Michele Ramberg established Roth and Ramberg Photography in 1993. They formed their business plan one evening over beer and pizza. Their plan was simple: work as hard as they can and have as much fun doing it. Since then, they’ve established an impressive roster of clients including: Blackberry, McDonalds, Bell, CN, and Toyota. On the editorial side, they work for publications such as People, Forbes, Report on Business, Enroute and many more. In 2006, they were chosen by Hasselblad to participate in the Hasselblad Masters calendar.
For more information, visit www.rothandramberg.com
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