Anna Goodson was invited to speak via SKYPE at the very prestigious Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). She spoke to two different classes, one a Portfolio Class and the other a Self-Promotion Class. You can read more about it and see a photo of the class here.
Visit - Anna Goodson’s blog to see what she has to say about the industry and more.
Harrods magazine asked Brand Nu to illustrate a page to accompany an interview with Victoria Beckham. Victoria herself, was the one who signed off the illustration ready for print. Out now at Harrods Store in London.
Hanna Melin just illustrated the TV commercial for Halifax Home Insurance in the UK.
News posted - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | Visit - Hanna Melin's profile..
Chris Pyle Exhibits his work! “BLAB!: A Retrospective” opens August 1, 2008 at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art on the campus of Kansas State University. The exhibition will be on view through November 2, 2008. It is the first American museum exhibition devoted to the work of BLAB!, Monte Beauchamp’s periodic anthology of sequential and comic art, illustration, painting, and printmaking. The exhibition, which focuses on BLAB! #8-18 (1995-2007),
features the work of forty-six artists and includes 150 works of art from thirty-nine collections.
Below you can see a new piece of motion graphics from Andy Potts for the new train service High Speed 1.
News posted - Friday, August 22nd, 2008 | Visit - Andy Potts's profile..
Paul Blow was born in Scotland 1969 however grew up in Dorset, England. In 1992, he graduated from Maidstone College of Art and then went onto study MA Narrative Illustration at the University of Brighton. His illustrations have appeared internationally in numerous projects for editorial clients, advertising agencies and design firms.
Paul exhibits his work extensively throughout Britain. In addition to this a portion of his time is devoted to lecturing in art schools across the country. Paul now lives in Dorset, England.
Clients: Time Magazine, New York Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Medicine, LA Magazine, The Guardian, Independent Magazine, The FT, Design Week, Howies, Newscientist, Reader’s Digest, BBC Worldwide, Carter Wong & Tomlin and Saatchi & Saatchi.
Awards: Silver 3×3 Editorial 2008, Second prize in The V&A 2007 Illustration Awards, Gold and Bronze Awards from the Association of Illustrators, Transport for London Silver Award and Glenfiddich Food and Drink Award Nominee.
News posted - Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | Visit - Paul Blow's profile..
Moira Millman recently illustrated Mommy meltdowns for American Baby Magazine - August issue
She also did the cover and inside illustrations for The Good-to-Go Cookbook - Storey Publishing
Anna Goodson is interviewed in this months DPI magazine. DPI is a magazine out of Taiwan, specializing in Design and trends in the industry.
Visit - Anna Goodson’s blog Or download a PDF or the interview here.
Jay Taylor has recently illustrated a double page spread for Mixmag for an article based on the worst jobs in dance music.
He also has two feature illustrations for an article on brain disorders for Nature Magazine.
Sugar by name, Sugar by … well, so it goes. And so she goes, the Australian artist nomadically, restlessly traveling the globe in search of inspiration, persperation and a different menu each night of the week. Such is the life. We interviewed Sugar recently: You’re in Mexico? I never quite know where you’ll be next. What brings you there? ‘I know! Since we have started communicating in 2006, I have lived in Melbourne, Zurich, Barcelona, London, Buenos Aires and now in Mexico. It is crazy but I love it’.
Why Mexico? ‘Well, I think I realized, travelling so much, that it is my spirit home. It is the most beautiful place on earth to me. Don’t get me wrong. I will never stop travelling. There is just too much to see. Maybe even outer-space. Who knows. But my heart is here I know that much. People can be inextricably drawn to certain places and I think it is really important to listen to that. To listen to that thing within you that comes alive.
Now this place could be the puddles you played in at the end of your street, your favourite roller-rink or the town of “Truth or Consequences”. (This really is a town in New Mexico, I have been there) Ha. My point is that you need to follow that thing that takes you there. Mexico. Hell. It is gorgeous.
There is colour everywhere and music and ribbons and fire-crackers and the kinds of people’s faces that make you cry because you can see the wind and the desert and the earth in them. I love the hand-painted sign-age, the colonial architecture, the retablos, the day of the dead, the food, the language, the textiles and patterns, the landscape, the light on the cobble-stones, the every-day-ness. I love how shitty the drivers are and that some cars are held together by plastic bands. I want to melt into every atom of it all.
Yesterday I was swimming in a lagoon surrounded by hummingbirds and I had to cry-swim because it was so beautiful.
I suppose on a practical level also, I just signed with Anna Goodson Management and something made me want to be closer to North America.
I think Mexico is a good centre for me to be able to travel to and from yet keep my heart warm.
How fluent is your creative process? Is it bursts of energy and inspiration or are you a walking, talking well of ideas? ‘I think I am pretty manic. I take a lot of time looking, observing, retreating, hiding and scheming. Being very reclusive, actually. Then someone or something clicks that switch, I am “on” and there is no turning “off”. Some of my closest friends find this pretty hilarious. One once said, “You are the most extroverted introvert I have ever known”. I think that is very true.
To be fair, though, I work every day and consistently create without really needing a break. I feel most alive when I am making things or writing or burdening my friends with my alien soliloquies. So I guess I am fluent with spikes and valleys, if that makes sense’.
How personal is your art/design work: do you inject a little piece of Sugar into every creation or is a job, a job, a job …? ‘Everything I do is personal and full of love or I would not do it. I chose very carefully, after years of horrible menial work, to find a way of living where I would always be present at the centre of what I was doing in a meaningful way. It is so much more fun to care about what you do.
I made the Lint Museum intimate because I wanted to celebrate the intimate. I did not want to be hired by anyone who was not interested in that or the ephemeral or the eclectic. I wanted to work with people who are as excited as I am about the little things in life.
I also think the Lint Museum is a pretty honest way of showing people what they are going to get if we work together. It is much more than a portfolio.
Are your costumes a fun way to lose yourself in fantasy or an even more fun way of losing yourself in reality? ‘I don’t think it is either really. I think costumes are a way to express yourself or make fun of yourself but I don’t think you get lost. In fact, I think you reveal more about who you are through costumes.
Take halloween, for example, aren’t you always intrigued by what people choose for themselves?
There is a big difference between a girl who dresses up as a chicken or a gnome and a girl who choses to be a nun or a witch or a werewolf or a stripper.
(I love werewolves by the way)
Anyhow. I think that we are all dressed in costumes all the time anyway. Conservative business man, emo, priest, cowboy, sex-kitten, hippy, high-roller or average joe.
There is really no time when we are not in costume. Sometimes they are just a little more elaborate. Like the one I dressed in for you today. (see illustration)
Thank you Zolton. You are a star. I am a huge fan of lost at e minor and have been amazed by how prolific you are and how the site has grown.
Champagne! For all my friends!’
Interview conducted for Lost At E Minor - August 10, 2008
News posted - Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 | Visit - Sugar's profile..
Brand Nu has enjoyed 3 week long collaboration with Solent University, working on their latest exciting campaign for summer 2008. The final illustrations have been used all over South Coast of England in forms of billboards, bus stop ads, press, leaflets and even served as basis of the 30 second TV commercial.
Tom Burns I was presented the gold award in the book category in the AOI Images 32 annual last week.
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