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
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.
The Meat Market Gallery presents Mario Wagner at the SCOPE Hamptons.
Returning for its fourth year to the East End, SCOPE Hamptons will transform the 25,000 square-foot East Hampton Studios into a world-class art fair and destination-location coinciding with the 15th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit. SCOPE is a major contributor to the Hamptons most celebrated weekend of art. Centrally located and inches from seasoned and emerging collector’s homes, East Hamptons Studio is SCOPE’s home away from home for the New York and international art enthusiast. With over 40 international established and emerging contemporary galleries from over 15 countries, SCOPE will present a full schedule of special events, performances and screenings, alongside museum-quality programming, creating what has become “The Hamptons Weekend of Art.”
Do you think you’re too old to be an illustrator?
I did have the answer to this written down somewhere. Now where did I put it…? Longevity in this profession isn’t any particular advantage, but there are distinct disadvantages. Being asked to draw in what I recognise as an old, abandoned style can be a difficult pill to swallow. Self-doubt sets in, and I have to bolster myself up by artificial means.
Possibly the greatest disadvantage to having a few professional years under your belt is nothing more remarkable than the industry’s clamour for novelty, for new names and new techniques. I know a couple of illustrators who have reinvented themselves, producing new bodies of work which they have marketed under pseudonyms. I can see nothing wrong with this practice, but could not do it myself. I wouldn’t know which of me was answering the phone.
But no, I’m not too old.
How much has the industry you love changed with the event of the digital age?
You mean illustration? I love working digitally, although I’m sometimes a little resentful that a style of drawing which took me years to develop using technical pens, airbrushes and lightboxes, is now so immediately available courtesy of Adobe. But what a box of tricks! I don’t believe that the fact that so many of us use the same software has caused homogenisation, any more than the airbrush made all airbrush art similar. I do though see a lot of work which I read as more computer than illustrator, and perhaps there might be a case for teaching restraint. I wish I’d grown up with technology and were more at ease with it, but I manage. I rarely see printed versions of my commercial work these days, it used to be a courtesy afforded by clients, to return artwork and some printed samples. Read more…
This is a recent illustration Isabelle did for Poder Magazine’s June/July issue.
Andy Potts was recently Interviewed by Advanced Photoshop magazine about his use of mixed media in my work.
This is Marta Antelo’s recent editorial illustration for the Boston Globe Magazine.
Andy Potts did the cover design and a selection from ten illustrations created for Italian manufacturing company Carraro’s Annual Report.
Stephen Ledwidge is exhibiting as part of ‘Candy Karaoke’ which opens on July 19th in Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin. Candy Karaoke sees over 70 of Ireland’s leading creatives reimagine their favourite album covers.
This is a recent illustration Chris Pyle did for Rhode Island Monthly.
Jay Taylor was recently featured on Communication Arts website.
Advanced Photoshop, for the third time now, choose Brand Nu to illustrate the cover of their latest issue. Brand Nu is a regular contributor to magazine’s tutorial section as well as sharing practical tips and tricks within editorial features. Magazine available now in the UK, next month worldwide.
Phil Wheeler illustrates the new I LOVE NEW YORK advertising campaign with
Saatchi & Saatchi New York.
Quebec Illustrator Nathalie Dion recently illustrated the advertising campaign for The Walk a very high end fashion center in Dubai with DDBO Dubai.
Jay steps into the realm of comics as he illustrates a four panel strip for Nature Magazine.
Dean Gorissen recently illustrated this article on the boom in Online Selling for the Hartford Courant.
The Animated series ‘I got a Rocket’, based on the book by Matt Zurbo and Dean Gorissen, received:
NEW APPROACHES – Best Children’s, DAYTIME CHILDREN’S ENTERTAINMENT,
35th ANNUAL DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS, JUNE 2008
It’s produced by SLR and shown on Kabillion, USA.
Dean Gorissen’s illustrations featured throughout Virgin Blue’s inflight magazine Voyeur’s article on business failure and how to learn from it.
Volkswagen Billboard Series in collaboration with Grabarz & Partners, Hamburg
GOLD WINNER 2008 - MONTREAUX, SWITZERLAND
ONE SHOW - Merit Award
ADC, Germany - Merit Award
D&AD - “IN BOOK”
VW Billboards Series PUBLISHED IN:
“Creative Review”,
“Luerzers Archive”
“American Illustration 27″
“HOW magazine”
These are stills by Clare Mallison from the VISA Infinite’s website banner. Click here to see the illustrations animated on the VISA Infinite website.
Katy Lemay was recently interviewed by the news and portfolio portal Taxi.
These are the complete layouts for Entrepreneur Magazine that include Michelle Thompson’s illustrations.
Cerasoli Gallery is pleased to present Mario Wagner ‘Lost Art Of Murder’ Solo Exhibition in Gallery One, and Marco Cibola ‘A New Division’ Solo Exhibition in Gallery Two, at the Cerasoli Gallery (8530-B Washington Blvd in Culver City). Opens Saturday June 14, 2008, and remains on view through July 5, 2008.
A new North American perfume company Seven Skies has had their debut perfume collection illustrated and packaged by Brand Nu. The work stretches from the products to website, point of sale and marketing material.
3×3 Magazine, Issue 10 is now on newsstands at Borders in the UK and independent bookstores in Canada. AGM’s Mario Wagner is in the Gallery.
Below are Michelle Thompson’s completed an editorial illustrations for Wanderlust magazine, jun/july 08 and second and third for May’s New Scientist.
Moira Millman recently illustrated an article about ‘Viva Voluntourism’ for the Vegetarian Times.
Nathalie Dion was recently interviewed by the news and portfolio portal Taxi.
This is Eva Tatcheva’s illustration for an article about getting fit for Continental Magazine.
Illustration for latest Business Week issue about the hottest new companies.
Cover and spread illustration for Vision magazine and an advert for its UK publishers Futurelab, promoting innovation in education.
Recent illustration for Readers Digest about the outbreak of superbugs.
Latin American Soccer based illustration for Macdonalds campaign
This illustration by Marta Antelo has just been published for Tu ciudad Magazine, June/July.
Hanna Melin has just finished a four week editorial piece for the Guardian Family section about relations ships between parents and children.
This work by Marta Antelo has just been published for Review Magazine.
Michelle Thompson on an illustration for an article titled ‘Where are they now?’ for Junes edition of Homemakers magazine.
Nathalie Dion has a double page spread in Pink magazine.
Isabelle Cardinal illustration appears in this months Replacement Contractor magazine.
Brand Nu has enjoyed the ongoing working relationship with London based label Shack Music since 2006. The label still releases vinyl records which are exclusively illustrated by Brand Nu. Recent work counts Palladium EP and image for their 3rd anniversary celebrations.
Michelle Thompson illustrates a full page for the June issue of the Advocate.
Nathalie Dion illustrates cover section in the Boston Globe.
This job was done by Katy Lemay for Canadian Family magazine Olympic Parenting.
Nathalie Dion illustrates Eco Babies Wear Green, The 5th book from the series of “Urban Babies” Written by Michelle Sinclair Coleman is in stores now.
Have you ever met someone that inspired you so much that you found yourself thinking what it would be like to live a day in their shoes? Or maybe you’ve day dreamed about what you might say to that person if you ever met them “in real life”. Well, we have, and we did!
Interview originally conducted by FAIRspot - May 2008
We asked famed international designer and illustrator Radim Malinic, a.k.a. Brand Nu, the questions everyone wants to know but were afraid to ask. And hey, even if they aren’t exactly what you would ask, it’s a great look into the life of a major trend setter that has helped propel us to where we are today. Enjoy it!
FAIRspot: What’s the more difficult role, Designer or Art Director?
Radim Malinic | Brand Nu: Hmm … Art Director talks more, Designer creates more. If you do both, you talk while designing 
FS: What makes someone a “great” designer?
RM: A pair of hands, eyes and legs … oh and the rest of the body, obviously .. hehe. I don’t really know what the secret recipe is to be a ‘great’ designer. If you are open to new things, willing to observe and keep up with the time and pace around you, maybe they are the key ingredients. Maybe not, who knows. I would only say, stay true to yourself …
FS: Why have you chosen to be represented by an agent as opposed to representing yourself?
RM: I’ve been freelancing for the best part of 5 years now and thought I’ve come to the point where I reached all the possible options on my own. When I released my showcase book, the interest from agents was quite a thing:) It was definitely a good door-opener. Being represented by agents on both sides of the pond bears great benefits of taking the skills to higher level and opportunity to work for bigger clients.
FS: Is there a method to your madness when it comes to choosing color?
RM: Nah, I don’t have a set plan at any time, I just go with the client’s brief. Although I get very open commissions where I just do what I want. There’s a little technique I’ve developed with PSD brushes where by overlaying strokes colour becomes more vibrant.
FS: How long does an “average” print piece take you from start to finish?
RM: I hardly work on anything for more than a day or night. Depending on a brief or image it could take 2-4 hours.
FS: How do you know when a piece is finally “done”?
RM: When I run out of time or space:). There’s a feeling when the image contains the right amount of detail, colour vibrancy and looks strong. Also, when you start smiling in the middle of the night when your piece starts making sense and you’re happy. But sometimes, I find myself working on a piece that I feel isn’t working. The next day though, it makes perfect sense. It’s quite important to leave things to digest.
FS: The Sloanes Interior Murals are insane. What was it like producing such a large scale piece and how were the final images transferred to the wall?
RM: These murals were my first 4GB files ever. Although created at 100dpi this was quite a mammoth of a job. Sloanes wanted to bring the outside inside with a play on the English Country garden mixed with music elements. For example, each piece didn’t take longer that one day to illustrate. It was enjoyable from beginning to start, client wasn’t chopping and changing at all, which made it really easy to finish. Then it was sent to a specialist printer who do wallpapers and that kind of tricks. I believe it was then down to interior designers to paste it all up and apply each strip of wallpaper.
FS: What items do you carry in your pockets every day?
RM: My P990i, which is a crap of a phone and my cash cards. I never had a wallet in my life, so occasionally some loose change. I could be spotted with my man-bag where I drag about a couple of copies of my book and other needed promo, just in case.
FS: If someone paid you $10 Million dollars to quit designing today, and you couldn’t do anything design related for the rest of your life, would you accept the offer? If so, what would you do instead of design?
RM: I guess there a little hole in your proposal, hehe. I would possibly accept the offer, use the money to open a design studio and art direct all the work. There’s some great designers and illustrators that I would hire and live a happy life.
FS: We heard you were in a killer band before! Do you still play? What music groups do you listen to the most?
RM: Yup, although my band days are over I still occasionally play my guitar, usually to pick up a song. It was fun back in day when we played very heavy rock with me on the mic in the front a few hundred people. We then mellowed out and played more grunge Alice in Chains type of stuff, but then I started djing and found it more rewarding. When you’re in a band it’s always politics of what direction to take. Djing was much easier as I played what I wanted. Easy as that, hehe. These days I still love discovering new music of any kind really. Right now I’m searching of a perfect deep house mixtape and some minimal beats. My collections counts more that 600 - 700 CDs and there’s at least the same amount I would love to buy. The only problems is that I’ve run out of space in the house. On a normal day I listen to Fink, Ben Westbeech, anything from Sonar Kollektiv, Blind Melon, Incubus, Erykah Badu, occassional Jamiroquai, Reef, Me’Shell Ndegeocello, Terry Callier … anything with a nice beat and feel.
FS: The next time one of your fans catches you at the bars in Southampton, what drink should they order you?
RM: Pint of black stuff…. hehe… Guinness please.
FS: What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned since becoming a designer that you’d like to pass on to everyone?
RM: There’s quite a few actually, with being more patient as one of the most important ones.
FS: What should we expect from Brand Nu for the remainder of 2008?
RM: At the moment I don’t have much of a plan. I’ve just relaunched my website at www.brandnu.co.uk where finally I my work is presented in its full glory. My last site was good, but I didn’t feel I worked it out too well back then. Yesterday I’ve opened Nu Visual Language exhibition which was a major project in works, I’m still working with O2 Germany on all their illustrations this year, working with Heineken too right now and a few other projects that keep me awake at night. There’s a range of illustrations for perfume packaging which I’ve just finished, it was quite a nice change to apply my ideas into a new dimensions and I really enjoyed it.
News posted - Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 | Visit - Brand Nu's profile..Search by artist..
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