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World Illustration Awards 2022 Longlisted Artists, Advertising Category: Joey Guidone, Chiara Vercesi, Adrian Bauer Loe Lee, MUTI & Eglé Plytnikaité
World Illustration Awards 2022 Longlisted Artists Advertising Category: Joey Guidone, Chiara Vercesi, Adrian Bauer Loe Lee, MUTI & Eglé Plytnikaité The Association of Illustrators (The AOI), in partnership with the Directory of Illustration, recently announced the Longlist for the World Illustration Awards 2022! In December 2021, we opened our call to illustrators with the aim of celebrating great illustration. The Longlist has been selected by the jury from over 5,000 entries submitted from across the globe. The full 500-strong Longlist is now live on the AOI website for you to browse. The Longlist [...]
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Our creative illustrators can imagine the many potential directions to take your next book cover. This incredible range of talent spans all illustration styles and book genres: from classics to [...]
Job Showcase: Richard Beacham for Harvard Magazine
Richard Beacham was commissioned to create this illustration for Harvard Magazine. Designed for a study at Harvard Medical School researching Super Responders in the field of cancer treatment, this [...]
Embrace the Fall
We know how hard it is to move on from long, sunny days at the beach, but we hope these images help you fall back into your groove this season [...]
Creative Caffeine !
Coffee is the new micro, craft brewed double IPA. In an era of single origin, fair-trade, cold drip, coffee knowledge affirms your credibility as a cultured hipster. With phenomena like [...]
The Vermont Animation Festival
I just finished the illustration and poster design for the Vermont Animation Festival. It was an honor and a joy to be able to work on this project. I got [...]
Drawing the Founder of Windfall Wine Estate
Last year I received an interesting commission from Annette Harcus of Harcus Design in Sydney, Australia. I was asked to create a portrait of Ivor Williams – the founder of [...]
The Featured Five: August 2019
We hope you'll have a great time scrolling through our selections for this month; the range in techniques, mediums, and subjects evident among these five talented artists is more [...]
Run Woodstock T-Shirt Design
A local group of runners were going to be participating in Run Woodstock 2019 and had asked me to come up with a design they could have direct to garment [...]
A Tiger in the Grass
Feeling newly inspired after my stint at mural painting I decided to utilize those creative juices and paint some analog art. (Also, I wanted to create some eye catching work [...]
Night Riders of Utahvania | Client: UAJ
Dracula taking a moonlit mountain bike ride along a spooky forest trail. Latest work for Utah Adventure Journal for an article called ‘Night Riders of Utahvania,” on the joys of [...]
Agency Spotlight: AAARep
António Adrião, lead of AAARep, has worked in the industry for the last 42 years. Adrião has helped clients worldwide to find the right artist, photographer or animation studio [...]
It’s National Bow Tie Day!
In honor of National Bow Tie Day I am posting the beginnings of a series of Illustrations. These are more of my Parade of Bow Ties. Each one created will [...]
Artist Spotlight: Deborah Shaw
For this Artist Spotlight, we'd like to share botanical artist Deborah Shaw! Deborah Shaw has a degree in fine art from Pomona College, where she had the good [...]
New Illustrations for Package Design!
Just got a look at my illustrations for the Tucker Turkey Spices packaging. This was something my grandfather created years ago. It was an honor to be able to work [...]
Old Town Alley Project Mural
Rattle, rattle, rattle, PSHHHHHHH . . . Rattle, rattle, rattle, PSHHHHHHH . . . This is the spray paint hum that kept me company the last ten days. I worked [...]
GIFs Galore!
We may not all agree on the correct pronunciation of the acronym GIF, but I think we can all agree that these GIFs are glorious. Kotryna Zukauskaite complex conceptual illustrations [...]
Graphite Portrait of President George W. Bush
I was commissioned recently to create a portrait of our 43rd President. A non-disclosure agreement prevents me from discussing the client or the drawing’s usage, but there’s no problem sharing [...]
The Return of Kid Hercules
Heroic Kid Hercules battles the iron-clad criminal Chrome-Dome. Kid Hercules struggles to prevent a science lab generator from falling on Vidya as one of Dr. Finkenstein’s killer robots approaches. Young [...]
Rocco Baviera/Jones & Company collaborate for Publix’s H2O Campaign
Publix art director Kim Cook was charmed by Rocco Baviera’s organic, painterly approach to vector illustration. His unique style perfectly represented Publix’s H2O campaign. The campaign culminated in a 60 [...]
Artist Spotlight: Rob Csiki
For this weeks' Artist Spotlight we'd like to showcase Rob Csiki! A self-taught artist, Rob began drawing and creating at the age of 6. After spending much of his youth [...]
Artist Spotlight: Kristjana Williams
For this week’s Artist Spotlight, we’d like to introduce illustrator Kristjana S Williams! Williams studied graphic design and illustration at Central St Martins and quickly gained critical acclaim as [...]