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New Illustration / John Malloy’s graphic artwork
October 22, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn 
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I love the finely rendered, graphic (yes, rendered and graphic) work of illustrator John Malloy. His charmingly quirky sensibility is the crowning element of his work.
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New Illustration / Illest of Ill illustration book
October 21, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |
Those amazing illustration seniors from The Ringling School have outdone themselves with their beautifully designed book, Illest of Ill. The book was created with the intention of selling it to raise funds for their senior show. They contacted various illustrators and asked them to contribute an illustration based on the classic Gibson Girl or Arrow Shirt Man (myself included). The book includes some fantastic work from illustrators Sam Weber, Nathan Fox, George Pratt and Sterling Hundley, among so, so many others. Read more
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New Illustration / Ana Ventura
October 21, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Lisbon-based illustrator Ana Ventura has been using chipped, flaking, and cracked walls as inspirations for her most recent work, printing and stenciling directly onto surfaces she comes across on the street. I love how subtly they are — if you weren’t paying attention they’d be really easy to miss. Read more
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New Illustration / Roman Klonek
October 19, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |
German illustrator Roman Klonek sucks you right into his topsy-turvy world of smiling cartoons and graphic woodcuts. I particularly enjoy his use of type to create images reminiscent of vintage eastern European ads. Read more
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New Illustration / Iain MacArthur
October 16, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
I really love the dense and contrasting textures Iain MacArthur renders in his crazed-yet-controlled images. I’m not as much a fan of the realist elements he incorporates, impressive as they are — his cartoon images just seem more cohesive and focused style wise. Read more
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New Illustration / FuFu Frauenwahl
October 15, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Berlin-based comic book artist/illustrator FuFu Frauenwahl has a classic style that really appeals to me. They remind me of the Tales from the Crypt and Heavy Metal comics I used to read late at night when I couldn’t sleep. His Mollusk Head character is pretty gnarly too. Read more
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New Illustration / Didier Blondeau
October 14, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |
There is something almost apocalyptic about the intense black and white decimated, chaotic landscapes that French artist Didier Blondeau lovingly depicts.
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New Illustration / Mini Monsters Tiny Terrors
October 13, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Pittsburgh’s Zombo Gallery is currently running an exhibition of miniature paintings of monsters, dinosaurs, and mythical beasts by Nathan Mazur. The show ends on October 16, but presumably the online gallery will be up for much longer and Mazur is available for reasonably priced commissions. The little paintings in this exhibit go for $30 a pop, making them great gift ideas.
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New Illustration / Nicolas Palmer
October 12, 2009 | New Illustration | by Nicklaus Andersen |
Nicolas Palmer captures candid images from strange worlds inaccessible to many and brings them to our attention through precision linework and vivid color. Palmer studies concept art, storyboarding and comics at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. From graphite drawings to computer animation, Palmer’s surrealistic images travel the territory between cute and terrifying with unflagging boldness and whimsy. Read more
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New Illustration / Santiago Morilla
October 10, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Elegant, simple, whimsically twisted, and vaguely Shell-Silverstein-ish, Spanish illustrator Santiago Morilla’s work has a graphical quality to it that’s understated but memorable.
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New Illustration / Food One’s body art
October 9, 2009 | New Illustration | by Andy Howell |
Jim Mahfood, aka FOOD One, is a prolific neo-contemporary illustrator and painter whose work shows up in all kinds of odd places including his own 40 Oz Comics, Spiderman books for Marvel, Kevin Smith’s Clerks Comics, a mural on the Sarah Silverman Show, a brand new Simpsons collaboration with graff artist Kofie, on apparel for boutique brand King Duce, and other hotbeds of contemporary youth culture. A good night of drinkin’ and drawin’ for the accomplished comic artist includes live painting on naked girls in his local LA hotspots and around the country. I’ve painted with FOOD One, and when I say prolific I mean this guy’s got a lightning fast quickdraw with spraypaint, markers, and brushes like you wouldn’t believe. Read more
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New Illustration / Richie Pope
October 7, 2009 | New Illustration | by Tin Salamunic |
Richie Pope was born in Newport News, VA, and grew up drawing anything he could, always with paper in hand. He moved to Richmond and majored in Communication Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he received a BFA in 2009. His work has been seen at the 2009 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition, CMYK magazine and a handful of other magazines and websites. We checked in with him and asked him how important the constant drawing in his sketchbook is for the more commercial work he does: ‘To me, it’s extremely important to constantly draw in my sketchbook. I see it the same way a bodybuilder would see the gym. You have to constantly work at it to get better. The more you draw, especially from life, the more will stick and you’ll start to draw things more naturally. At first, my sketchbook work didn’t really connect with my commercial work because I had just started really sketching seriously. Now, I find that the gap is getting smaller and smaller’. Read more
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New Illustration / Geordan Moore
October 7, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
I don’t really have a preoccupation with death, but for some reason I am endlessly compelled by the image of a skull. That said, most artistic renderings of skulls can be quite cliched. Illustrator Geordan Moore is the first person in a while who I’ve seen draw a skull in a way that I’ve never seen before.
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New Illustration / Masters of the Universe hipsters
October 5, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
German artist Adrian Riemann’s reworking of Masters of the Universe characters as hipster fashion models has been making the internet rounds lately. I’m sort of tired of hipsters as a cultural touchstone, but these are somewhat amusing. He should make Thundercats into goths next.
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New Illustration / Bats Langley
October 1, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |
Bats Langley. What a fantastic name! With some fantastic work, as well. I would love to see his detailed paintings or drawings grace the pages of a childrens’ book.
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The Apartment is a New York-based design group whose work is outstanding. They do everything from architecture to product branding, web and interior design for clients as varied as a reflexology center, restaurants, and a house built from a church in London.
I spent time recently in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee, enjoying fine Southern cuisine, gracious hospitality [’y'all come back now!’] and the warmth of a sun beating down like a semi-gnarled blanket. It was interesting to see the cultural values of the city; the social graces of its people which permeate every conversation. Read more
Illustrator Hope Gangloff has a stack of her ‘election’ tees from the previous US election available for sale which she created with the talented New York-based artist (and her hubbie, no less!), Ben Degen. Even though they were done to mark Bush’s reappointment, they still kinda sum up her mood on the tussle between Obama and McCain. ‘If the election gets stolen’, she says. ‘What say we burn down the capital instead of blogging about it?’. Hmmm, now there’s an idea.
Wheeeeee! This game is so freaking fun! You move your cursor over each dot to make them split into four smaller dots ad infinitum.
On a recent trip to San Francisco, I was lucky enough to meet with John Trippe, the main man behind the popular arts based site, Fecal Face. Read more
Sufjan Stevens creates autistic music for introverts — soft, shy, naive, full of shadows, windows, and insecurities. Yet it all sounds slightly forced, his enigmatic songwriting as comforting as it is unsettling.
I don’t do yoga. I have nothing against it, but it just seems a little too new agey for me. However, if I do eventually try it, I’d like the instructor to put on Fabio Orsi’s moody, ambient, drone experiments. Using piano, guitar, percussion, field recordings, and various sampled elements, Orsi creates some beautiful, meditative pieces that, while undeniably fruity, are still weird enough to hold my interest.
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