Eili-Kaija's airy, watercolour illustrations provide a face-lift to the walls and menus for restaurant F8 in Stockmann department store in downtown Helsinki. To see these illustrations in Eili-Kaija's updated portfolio click here.
John Webster Illustrates the Queer Point of View on Catholic School Funding
John Webster created these graphic, punchy images for a three part article on Catholic School funding in Xtra magazine. John describes his thoughts behind the images: "Since the article was about Catholic education and the monies they receive, I wanted to use the money sign for each of the three illustrations. It becomes part of the character's face (see illustrations 1 & 2) and replaces a cross on the rosary worn by the nun (illustration 3). To illustrate how the Catholic schools will not allow queer kids to have a voice, I used the classic pink triangle symbol in all three illustrations. We see the symbol being destroyed in the first illustration, being worn proudly as a belt in the second and in and amongst the "taboo" words in the third."
"Face It" Show - Portraits by Harvey Chan
Harvey Chan has been busy this past summer exploring realism and revisiting the magic he finds in oil painting and portraiture. A series of the portraits he has created will be on display at The Bunky Studio: 135 Tecumseth, Unit #2 (ground floor) in Toronto - one block west of Bathurst, between Queen and King. The Opening reception will be held Friday, Oct. 7 from 6 to 10 pm. The work can also be seen Saturday, Oct. 8, 1 to 5 pm
To see a selection of the portraits go to Harvey Chan's portfolio and click on Portfolio 2.
Survival Guide for RIM
Peter Zaver, art director for Marketing Magazine asked Jillian Ditner to illustrate conceptually, in a how-to instructional guide format, an article on RIM and a marketing strategy for Blackberry: How Blackberry can stay alive—and thrive—in the hearts and minds of a jilted market.
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Spoof 'Movie Poster' Web Campaign
Bruce Emmett has created a series of movie poster spoofs for EMC on solutions for back-up and restoration of computer data.
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Sarah Beetson's "I Dream in Celluloid", opens in Ottawa, Canada
Sarah opened her fourth solo show in February in Mermaid Beach, Queensland Australia. "I Dream in Celluloid" toured across Australia and the UK and finishes up in Ottawa, at La Petite Mort Gallery in October. Five of the images from this show won "best in book" in the Creative Review 2011 Illustration Annual. The show, "I Dream in Celluloid", is a collection of work based on dreams and memories inspired by and affected by Sarah's obsession with film.
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Rémy Simard Illustrates Risky Business
How do you insure a golf cart? Earthquake insurance and other weighty topics are given a humorous twist by Rémy Simard in a recent issue of Canadian Underwriter.
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The Green Issue Illustrated
Two of our illustrators - Monika Melnychuk and Margaret Lee, contributed to The Green Issue of Owl Magazine. Monika illustrated the cover emulating chalk writing on a green-board with her fun hand lettered type. Margaret approaches a more technical article called How Solar Power Works with a kid-friendly illustration that's used more like a diagram.
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phil illustrates a year in the "Slow Lane"
phil's folk style painting on wood is the perfect "slow" method for illustrating the column called "Slow Lane". Here are the images for the four 2011 gardening seasons for Country Gardens :
Winter/Spring - Snowdrops
Late Spring - Rhubarb
Summer - Spiderweb
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Tim Zeltner Maps Out Ontario Wine Regions
Geoff Redwood from Jan Kelley Marketing approached us to see if Tim Zeltner could paint a map showing all the different wine regions of Ontario in his trademark, whimsical style. The map was for a new website Jan Kelley was creating for Ontario Uncorked, which has now been unveiled here. The website allows you to explore and plan customized tours throughout the famed wine regions of Ontario. The little extra details Tim brings to a piece like this, are what makes the viewer engaged in the 'experience' of the map and this is exactly what this new site is all about!
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Margaret Lee Illustrates a One Woman Zoo
Margaret Lee produced these dreamy, evocative images to accompany an article on Diane Ackerman's book, One Hundred Names For Love- A Stroke, A Marriage and the Language of Healing. The article, published in the Penn Stater, the alumni magazine for Pennsylvania State University, where Paul West (Diane Ackerman's husband) taught. The book chronicles their journey through Paul's stoke and how they adapted to recover his use of language. The two illustrations were based on a chapter in which Paul mourns the loss of the pet names he used to have for Diane. She notes "It was true. Once upon a time, in the Land of Before, Paul had so many pet names for me I was a one-woman zoo...In our mythology there were golden baby owls, ring-tailed lemurs, axolotls, shoulder rabbits, honeybunnies, bunnyskins...and many more." She encourages Paul to re-invent pet names and endearments for her. Some he creates are : Celandine Hunter, My Little Spice Owl, and Spy Elf of the Morning Hallelujahs.
Tracy Debuts Paper Cut Illustrations at Studio Tour
This summer, Tracy recreated some of her favourite fairy tales in paper. You can see these and some of her paintings at the Uxbridge Studio Tour, September 17th and 18th, 2011. Tracy is being hosted by sculptor, Fly Freeman - look for her at site, #15
Eili-Kaija Kuusniemi Illustrates The Perfect Legal Personality
Eili-Kaija was asked to take a slightly more conceptual approach with her rich patterned style to illustrate the cover and feature article in ACC Docket, "The Perfect Legal Personality".
John Webster Creates Nostalgic Cover
John's nostalgic collage style with his quirky humor was the perfect choice for READ's new issue, What's Old is New Again. The image features some Literary great's, Poe, Twain and Shakespeare.
He also used the same collage imagery to create a more moody piece, appropriate for the story Virigina's Final Journey, about Edgar Allan Poe.
Gary Alphonso Illustrates the Village Voice 9/11 Cover
When John Dixon, art director for the Village Voice, called, he said, "We want a really powerful cover for this story about who has profited off of 9/11. We're naming names and dollar amounts." Gary Alphonso quickly got to work on the cover and I think his style was the perfect media for the message.
Social Media and Democratic Change illustrated by Anne Horst
Anne Horst illustrated an intriguing feature article for Marymount Manhattan Magazine recently. The article dealt with Social Media and and it's recent role in the revolutions occurring in the Middle East and North Africa. Her use of photography combined with graphic elements make a compelling cover image.
Rémy Simard Illustrates Non-fiction Book with a Twist
Rémy was chosen to illustrate Duped! for his graphic novel style. Duped!, published by Annick Press and written by Andreas Schroeder, is a collection of eight stories of the most outrageous scams of all time! Rémy is now at work on a second book for the "It Actually Happened" series.
Jillian Illustrates for Canadian Underwriter
Jillian lends her conceptual hand to demonstrate catastrophic insurance circumstances for Canadian Underwriter.
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Ian Lends Whimsy to Serious Subject
Recently Ian Phillips was commissioned to bring his humor and whimsy to a very serious story about bone health for the summer issue of Positive Side magazine. The story investigates HIV-related issues with regard to bone density. Bones can be healthy, brittle or too soft… Ian says, "First Goldilocks and The Three Bears came to mind. Then the Three Little Pigs and their houses of straw, sticks and bricks flashed through my mind as a better analogy. The smart-thinking pig built his house with bricks, demonstrating a proactive role in one’s health as the better choice."
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Illustration Married with Photography
We are seeing a growing trend whereby illustration is combined with photography. Below are a few examples of different approaches. Sometimes the client supplies the photos, although frequently the illustrator shoots their own photos or stock photos are used.
Greg Stevenson created the hand-lettering and icons layered over the photo of Jeff Bridges, supplied by the client, Ink Publishing.
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Anne Horst created a montage of stock photos and illustration to create this image on social media for the cover of Marymount Manhattan College Magazine.
Alanna Cavanagh's minimal and whimsical line illustrations create a great contrast with the rich fabrics in the photo supplied by Fabricut for this Trend Drapery ad.
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John Webster created this piece with stock imagery and client supplied photos of Sorbara Hall on the St.Michael's campus at the University of Toronto. The article was on the history of the use of the campus in film.
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Aaron Bihari used a photo with a duo-tone treatment for the background in this piece, to contrast with his illustrated VW bus.
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This is an example of how Janice Kun creates a dream-like image with the use of her own original photography as well as stock imagery.
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Margaret Lee often sets up her own photo shoots on location and uses a unique colorization to create whimsy and drama.
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Bruce Emmett often stages elaborate sets, with himself as a model, in his photo-illustrative work.