The Directory of Illustration is excited to share the new website launch of Mendola Artists!
WHAT’S NEW? Mendola Artists‘ new website has several exciting new features and beautiful upgrades. The entire site is very user-friendly, intuitive and delightful to navigate. The new gallery homepage is stunning and inviting; every page is clean and bold. Some of our favorite new features are the added filter functions on the portfolio pages, making it easy to view the different styles and genres of each artist. We also love the optimized ability to search within an impressive range of mediums and specialties. The “Projects” and “Blog” pages have a wonderful new aesthetic that makes it enticing to read and enjoyable to scroll through. The new site also has the wonderful ability to host an amazing selection of GIF’s and animations. We love the overall look and feel of the new site – it elegantly expresses the strong values and unique voice of Mendola Artists and their fantastically talented artists. Take a look below for some snapshots of these exciting new features and be sure to explore the new site!
New Search Features: The new website has three drop-down tabs, featured in the top left of the header for easy and seamless search options. You can search for an artist in the “Artist” drop-down feature (which is nicely alphabetized), or you can search by “Medium” such as Watercolor/Gouache, Ink, CGI, and Animation/Motion, or search by “Specialty” in a wide range, such as Animals, Technology, Logos, Science, Lettering, Textile/Surface Design, Architecture, Emotional, Childrens, Packaging, Maps, Motion and even 8-Bit (just to name a few)!
New Filter Functionality: You can easily search for artists on the Portfolios page by sorting through the newly added filters.
(Portfolio featured above: Kirsten Ulve)
New Subheadings: Within each individual artist’s portfolio, you can also easily sort through different subheadings to search for specific specialties.
New Projects Page: The new Projects page has been beautifully updated with a very clean and minimalist layout and a smooth scrolling feature, creating for an enjoyable experience as you read through recent projects.
(Project featured above: Rocco Baviera‘s recent cover art for Progressive Magazine)
(Blog featured above: Luis Pinto “Proudly Unstoppable for UPS”)
New Blog Page: The new Blog page also has some wonderful improvements, with a beautifully simplistic layout, clean aesthetics and bold titles, subheadings and preview text, making it so inviting to dive in and read each post!
GIFs and Motion Graphics: Mendola Artists is extra proud of their newly added ability to feature amazing GIF’s, Motion Graphics and Animations live on the site. This new addition makes the site even more engaging, dynamic and makes it really come alive!
(GIF by artist blindSALIDA)
Mendola Artists is a family-owned, United States-based illustration agency founded by Joseph Mendola in 1960, before CGI, JPGs, fax machines or even FedX. The agency continues to evolve and expand under the expert guidance of his two sons Tim and Tom. Since the very beginning, Mendola Artists has sought out the best talent from around the globe, establishing relationships with the country’s top ad agencies, package design firms, editorial publications, and toy companies. Whether they be masterful oil painters or innovative CGI animators, Mendola Artists currently represents over 100 of the world’s most accomplished illustrators.
They work in a range of industries, including editorial, book publishing, toys, packaging, pharma/agriculture and consumer advertising. A sample of their clients is: Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Eating Well, Harvard Business Review, Times Magazine, Scholastic, Harper Collins, Penguin Random House, Disney, Kensington, Hasbro, Mattel, Fisher Price, Spinmaster, Boston Beer, Publix, Pringles, Nantucket Nectars, Celestial Seasonings, Dunkin Donuts Coffee, Pepsico / Kevita, Makers Mark, Abelson Taylor, Sudler / VMLYR, Vanguard, Ogilvy Commonhealth, McCann Health, Bader Rutter, Razorfish, BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi, Publicis, Havas…
