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Work Showcase: Paola Pagano
WORK SHOWCASE: Paola Pagano The Directory of Illustration highlights unique work from multi-skilled and talented artist, Paola Pagano. Artist: Paola Pagano Studio Project: The Limited Edition Website: PaolaPaganoStudio.com ABOUT THE PROJECT: The Limited Edition is a pet project of Paola Pagano in which she selects a few designs from her collections and create beautiful silk scarves with them. Gea and Neutra come from two different collection of conversational abstract prints. They are different in palette of colors and tone [...]
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Tom Jellett: Illustrations for “My Amazing Dad”
Tom Jellett created the illustrations for a 32 page picture book titled, My Amazing Dad written by Ezekiel Kwaymullina and published by Little Hare, an imprint of Hardie Grant Egmont. My Amazing Dad is [...]
HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM GARY SWIFT…
HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM GARY SWIFT STUDIOSHeres a selection of unique character designs for clients focused on creating a quirky seasonal campaign for their Product. As Halloween becomes the second retail [...]
Steven Noble: Mike’s Hard Lemonade Limited Edition Packaging
Perspective Branding commissioned Steven Noble to create an illustration for Mike's Hard Blackberry Lemonade. The artwork includes blackberries and branches that extend and intertwine throughout the packaging across the six packs, bottles [...]
Garth Glazier: Deco Detroit
Garth Glazier is currently developing a new line of posters for his Michigan Travel Series. Each design features a travel destination in the state and explores the character of that destination by focusing [...]
Dave Cutler for Roosevelt University
Dave Cutler worked with creative director Carrissa Lytle to create this illustration for an article on the question of social justice that ran in the Roosevelt Review. Roosevelt University discovered [...]
Allison Bruns for Ethisphere
Thanks to her participation in the Directory of Illustration program, Ethisphere found and commissioned Allison Bruns to illustrate a series about prominent Fortune 500 CEO's for a high-end publication called the Executive Briefing. [...]
World Illustration Awards 2015 Exhibition Opens at Somerset House
The AOI Illustration Awards exhibition have been hosted annually since 2012 by Somerset House, a major arts and cultural center in the heart of London, whose year-round program of large [...]
September Gallery Sales
Approaching Storm- 36" x 24" Oil on canvas by Greg NewboldSeptember Still- 12" x 9" Oil on panel by Greg NewboldI'm pleased to get word from Evergreen Framing Co. & [...]
Zoë More O’Ferrall: “London Influences My Work Hugely”
Zoë More O’Ferrall is a London-based commercial illustrator with a long list of prominent clients such as Vogue, Topshop, The Guardian, Harrods, Mumford and Sons, National Geographic, J Crew and many [...]
CARTOON BRANDING ACROSS ALL…
CARTOON BRANDING ACROSS ALL PLATFORMSHeres a project I created for a leading Winter Clothing Brand to show how versatile the Character design is across all Media Platforms and devices, including [...]
Dennis Wunsch & Scotsman Guide Media
Dennis Wunsch is an award-winning creative with more than 25 years of experience illustrating for advertising and editorial clients. Dennis started his illustration career drawing Scooby-Doo and Super Friends for Hanna Barbera, but eventually switched gears [...]
Artist Spotlight: Cristina Guitian
Cristina Guitian, represented by Meiklejohn Illustration, has achieved great success as both a commercial and fine artist. Her strong line work and surrealist concepts have been used across print, digital [...]
Ashley Percival for PBS
After seeing his work in the Directory of Illustration, PBS contacted Ashley Percival to do a series of illustrations for a documentary about evolution called "Your Inner Fish." Ashley's drawings [...]
Nicolle Rager Fuller: A Stunning Look Inside the Body
Artwork created by Nicolle Rager Fuller exploring health, disease, and cancer. The stunning illustrations below depict microbes in our gut, cancer cells migrating from the tumor and flow detection by the [...]
Sara Mordecai: Digital Murals of Los Gatos
Sara Mordecai was recently commissioned to create a series of illustrations that are being produced as vinyl wraps to go around various utility boxes in the town of Los Gatos, California. Sara says, [...]
Category Winners for World Illustration Awards 2015 Announced
Featured Image: Aad Goudapel The Association of Illustrators, in partnership with Directory of Illustration, is delighted to announce the category winners for the World Illustration Awards 2015. This year’s winning [...]
Andy Potts: Tomorrow’s People
Andy Potts was recently commissioned to illustrate the cover and 8 essays for a new UKTV publication promoting British creativity entitled, Tomorrow's People: Making Cultures for Creativity. Tomorrow's People: Making Cultures [...]
Going with the flow – floral pattern
Part of the new calmer lifestyle I’m trying to adopt, I’m throwing out all my design career goals and schedules and plans and ‘going with the flow’. That doesn’t mean I’m [...]