Katy Dockrill for National Drapery
When art director Lila Graham first contacted us to work on the new website she was designing for National Drapery, it was an exciting opportunity for Katy Dockrill to bring her flair for sewing and love of home decor to an illustration assignment! The new ND website was the inspirational vision of Natalie Hartman, who was a delight to work with. Visit the ND homepage and see how Lila and Katy literally brought Natalie's vision to life here.
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The new website design also included a series of drawings to highlight the many custom products National Drapery offers. Katy adores creating for surface design, so when Natalie asked her to include an indication of patterns to depict various textiles and bring some flair to these more technical illustrations, she was happy to oblige. The result? These little gems...we've combined a few of our faves here:
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Janice Kun - Black History Stamps
Canada Post celebrates Black History Month by commemorating two distinctive and historic African-Canadian communities: Vancouver's Hogan's Alley and Halifax's Africville.
Working closely with designer, Karen Smith, Janice Kun created the background watercolors depicting historical churches, central to these communities. Typical of Janice Kun's style, the pairing of the paintings with supplied historical photographs is a delicate dream-like balance between these real people and remembered communities.
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Happy Holidays!
Suddenly the holidays are upon us.
Wishing you all happy trails and happy times!
Winter Wonderland
Clare Owen was commissioned by Lori Pedrick for Yankee Magazine to illustrate The Legacy of Family by Edie Clark. Voila, the lovely piece above!
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Greg Stevenson for: Positive Side
Greg Stevenson was commissioned by the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE) for their publication called The Positive Side. This illustration is about how a low viral load can cut the risk of HIV transmission was art directed by David Vereschagin to have an overall optimistic tone. Greg says, "The candle was meant to imply a ‘re-kindling” of desire in both partners (one positive and one negative) while practicing safety and awareness." Notice how the very subtle ('Rothko-esque') variations in the background add beautifully to the mood of the piece.
Thom Sevalrud for Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association
Thom Sevalrud created this powerful image for the cover of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. This is Thom's fourth cover for the JNMA, working with art director Emma Dalby, who seems to match him perfectly with topics that speak to his visual vocabulary. Conceptually, Thom addresses many aspects of whole genome sequencing, which is becoming more and more accessible to us all.
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Happy Halloween!
Tim Zeltner illustrated Little Boo, a wonderful new Halloween picture book for Henry Holt, Books for Young Readers. Shh though, this is just a sneak peek...You're going to have to wait until August 2014 when the book is released to learn all about the journey of Little Boo from tiny pumpkin seed to his first Halloween night!
Tim Zeltner for Emory University
The king of landscapes, city-scapes and make-believe kingdoms, Tim Zeltner works his magic for Emory to accompany a story about the Rollins School of Public Health.
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Our debut at Surtex 2013
Here we are ready for day one!
Featuring prints and patterns from participating artists: Sarah Beetson, Alanna Cavanagh, Harvey Chan, Katy Dockrill, Betsy Everitt, phil, Mark Hoffmann, Monika Melnychuk, Ian Phillips, Thom Sevalrud, Tracy Walker and Tim Zeltner.
From left: Ian Phillips, me (Shelley Brown), Tracy Walker, Betsy Everitt and Alanna Cavanagh.
Our pillow and plate presentation drew a LOT of oohh's & aahh's! Thank you Ian Phillips, for doing such a fabulous job of designing our booth!
Ian holds up two of our custom pillows seated below our fabulous plates! We held a draw for the pillows and plates following the show.
Tina Roth Eisenberg aka Swiss miss checking out our artists' work for some Tattlys!
Me (Shelley Brown) with Arren Williams, Creative Director at the Hudson's Bay Company.
Print and Pattern features Katy Dockrill!
SURTEX is only a few days away, and we are super excited to share the post Print and Pattern featured on Katy Dockrill. If you would like to see more of her bright and beautiful work in person, please visit us at booth #340 at the Javits Center in NYC from May 19-21.
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i2i art's first ever exhibition at SURTEX!
If you're attending SURTEX next week, we hope you'll come by say hello and meet the artists. You can get a tiny sneak peek here, but when you visit us in person, we'll share our newest collections! If you'd like to arrange to sit down and chat about your needs, we're happy to set aside some time for you. Just call or text Shelley Brown at 416-505-6847, or email shelley@i2iart.com.
Monika Melnychuk for Canada Post: Adopt-A-Pet Campaign
We are excited to unveil this special postage stamp series created by Monika Melnychuk for Canada Post. Monika's whimsical line art style serves this playful concept, which features photography of actual homeless pets, in environments that could become reality--if only they are adopted. A brilliant example where the concept is the message! The would-be homes for these pets, are left up to the viewer to fill in, by adopting a pet!
Working with Vancouver based design firm, Subplot, Monika illustrated the collectable Souvenir Sheet, Official First Day Cover, as well as the Five Collectable Stamps for Canada Post's Adopt-A-Pet campaign.
It's great to see Canada Post using their currency to help bring awareness to such an important cause. In 2010, close to 150,000 homeless pets were admitted to shelters across Canada. Partnering with the CFHS, Canada Post wanted to create awareness around the need for animal lovers to adopt from their local Humane Society or SPCA, and give homes to animals who so desperately need them. As of today, April 22 2013, the full package below can be purchased through Canada Post--the collectable Souvenir Sheet Official First Day Cover, complete with all five Canadian stamps.
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Project Director: Danielle Trottier, Canada Post.
Designer, Ross Chandler, of Subplot.
Creative Directors: Roy White and Matthew Clark of Subplot Inc.
Photography by: Raeff Miles (cages) and Raina + Wilson (animals).
Bring on Spring!
Time to look forward to sunny days in the garden!
See more of Katy Dockrill's sunny illustrations here.
'In the Garden' by Katy Dockrill.
i2i art welcomes illustrator and surface designer Katy Dockrill
i2i art is proud to welcome Katy Dockrill into our family of artists. Her work is fresh and fun and full of irresistible personality!
Below is a small sample of her illustration and surface designs. To see more please visit Katy's new i2i art portfolio here.
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This image (above) called Friends, caught my eye when I first saw it screen printed on a tote bag!
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Love the retro car in this illustration!
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This is one of her lovely surface design patterns. Can you just imagine it on children's bedding or curtains?
Tim Zeltner for Brewer's Association
Working with Allison Seymour, art director for the American Homebrewer's Association Tim Zeltner created this cover at for the March/April issue of Zymurgy Magazine, featuring the concept of home brewing with locally sourced ingredients. Tim's trademark rural landscape painting with the surrealistic addition of a pint of home brewed beer, create a dreamy utopia for any beer lover.
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Greg Stevenson: Sin & Self-Improvement
The Alberta Magazine Publishers Association is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2013 Alberta Magazine Awards and we are delighted that this cover art created by Greg Stevenson for art director Kim Larson, is one of the award winning covers.
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Feeling inspired by the subject matter, Greg went to town covering all the sinful bases with his first sketch (above)!
(we just thought you'd enjoy this behind the scenes sneak peek into Greg's process)
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And this is the award winning cover art!
How about a little self-love?
Love by Eili-Kaija Kuusniemi
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Monika Melnychuk for Naked Flock
i2i Art was approached by cider maker Jonathan Hull of Applewood Winery to have Monika Melnychuk create new packaging for their Hudson Valley Hard Cider, which was to be relaunched under the new name, Naked Flock. The product name was inspired by a very colorful, visual folk tale about a pastor who plants some poppy seeds and a flock of geese who eat the poppies and fall into a deep sleep. Thought dead the geese are plucked for their feathers--hence the name Naked Flock. Read the whole tale on Applewood Winery's website.
Monika says, "This is one of my favorite projects to date. And the first project I have been hired to do the illustration and design as well. Naked Geese? The story is hilarious, so when I approached the project I wanted to create something funny, but a bit edgy as well."
Monika designed the logo and labels and illustrated all three skus of Naked Flock Hard Cider: Original, Draft and Pumpkin.
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Thom Sevalrud: Big Data
The Wikipedia definition of Big Data is: "a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools..."
Thom Sevalrud has a way with taking just this type of complexity and in his very unique visual vocabulary communicating the idea clearly, like no other. That's why Brian Donahue of Be Design called upon Thom to illustrate Why Big Data is a Big Deal for Macalester Today. Brian is also a big fan of Thom's hand lettering so he also asked him to illustrate the headline for this feature as well.
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Happy Chinese New Year!
Wishing prosperity for all in true Year of the Snake style!
This beautiful image was created by Harvey Chan.
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