Naoki Mitsuse's flash animation for Tateyama Brewing Co.

Artist Naoki Mitsuse's latest TV commercial for Tateyama Brewing Co. is called "Topoli," and introduces a limited edition sake label also designed by Naoki. The song is by singer Anna Vissi, one of Greece's best selling female artists. Naoki is currently working on another flash animation...

Posted By Eileen Cosenza  April, 15.2010

We welcome Killington Arts as our new partner agency

We are pleased to announce Killington Arts as our new partner agency, handling all inquiries from the UK. Owner Kit Killington has a degree in Fine Art from Winchester School of Art, and an MA in Museum and Gallery Management. By building a new agency in London, she anticipates responding quickly to the ever-changing demands of the market, while also nurturing the careers of her illustrators. We...

Posted By Eileen Cosenza  April, 09.2010

Hanoch Piven's Faces iMake iPhone Application

Artist Hanoch Piven has just launched the Faces iMake iPhone application based on his Drawing with Objects workshops. It allows you to create your own faces with objects and to save and share them. Hanoch say, "I am very excited to introduce Faces iMake, the iPhone App where you can make faces using everyday objects. Faces iMake was born in the head of Eyal Dessau, owner of iMagine Machine. Eyal has been the engine behind this for the last three months and without his unlimited energy and calm leadership this would not have happened! I'm happy to be Eyal's partner on it!" Check out the...

Posted By Eileen Cosenza  April, 06.2010

Owen Freeman is working on a series of covers for HarperCollins UK

Artist Owen Freeman just finished the cover of Naked Lunch: The Restored Text for HarperCollins UK, and is currently working on a series of re-issues of books by William Burroughs. Owen says, "Given Burroughs's visceral narrative style, I sketched out as many visual cues as possible while reading, keeping an eye out for those which continued throughout the book. Also, the flexibility to take the imagery in as many strange directions as needed was a huge help to the process, thanks to the...

Posted By Eileen Cosenza  April, 01.2010

Paul Rogers illustrates The Frozen Rabbi for Tablet

Since the beginning of this month, Paul Rogers has been doing illustrations to accompany the serialization of The Frozen Rabbi novel by Steve Stern. The illustrations are for Tablet, an online magazine. The story is about a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town who is encased in a block of ice and turns up in the basement freezer of a twenty-first-century Memphis home. Tablet is running daily installments of the novel over a period of nine weeks. Paul says, "At first, art director Len Small wanted one drawing per week, but the story is so rich that I agreed to do a drawing a day...

Posted By Eileen Cosenza  March, 24.2010

Hanoch Piven's exhibit at The Skirball Cultural Center

From March 10-July 11, "Making Faces: Playful Portraits of People You Know by Hanoch Piven" will be on exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Hanoch's show will contain 22 portraits of well-known people, including six original collages. Included in the exhibit will be Hanoch's depiction of Barbara Streisand, which won a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators, as well as the other portraits shown here. Hanoch will also be holding two workshops and giving a lecture while he...

Posted By Eileen Cosenza  March, 09.2010

Metro Design Studio and Paul Rogers team up for campaign

Paul Rogers continues to illustrate metro stations and modes of transportation for the Los Angeles Metro Transit Authority. He's been out scouting various locations in an around the L. A. area for reference photos for over 40 illustrations for the MTA. They are being used in the Past, Present and...

Posted By Eileen Cosenza  March, 01.2010

Poketo.com sells wallet designed by Jared Schorr

The Poketo online store is now selling a wallet designed by Jared Schorr as part of a series of cut paper wallets. The first picture shows the outside of the wallet, and the second is the interior. Janet Lee of Poketo interviewed Jared on the Poketo blog about his design. He said, "I wanted to do a wallet with a lot of monsters running and having fun, kind of like a Ryan McGinley photo. You don't really know what is going on, but you wish you were there. Though the monsters are running for their lives...

Posted By Eileen Cosenza  February, 22.2010
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