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Varoom Issue 15
Varoom – illustration, culture, society Knowledge For Varoom 15 we have travelled from the Land of Blind Faith, through Imagination County and ended up at Resolution Mountains. Lost? Don’t worry, follow the map on Marian Bantjes’ beautiful illustration for our Knowledge issue. Also, Airside agency show us How To Do How To Do films with [...]
Posted: May 9th, 2011 under artists, magazine, news.
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“Illustration as Fine Arts” @ SI 3/9/11
I’m honored to be producing and moderating the lecture “Illustration as Fine Arts” at the Society of Illustrators of New York. Gallery owners Heidi Leigh and Nick Leone from Animazing Gallery in Soho, and Alix Sloan from Sloan Fine Arts in the Lower East Side will discuss the crossover from illustration to fine arts, the [...]
Posted: February 27th, 2011 under artists, events and openings, Interviews, news, The IF Bloggers.
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Anita Kunz & Luba Lukova SI Lecture 4/21/10
I’m producing and moderating a lecture with famed artists Luba Luvoka and Anita Kunz. They’ll discuss social propaganda posters, their commercial and personal work, as well as working in a field mostly ruled by men. Wed, April 21st, 6.30-8.30. Society of Illustrators of NY, 128 East 63rd Street (@ Lex). http://societyillustrators.org/upcoming/kunz.cms – Fernanda
Posted: April 18th, 2010 under artists, events and openings, news, The IF Bloggers.
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Illustration Lectures in NY this Week
About a month ago I got an email from Steve Brodner inviting me to a lecture he was organizing at SVA, where we both teach. He was asking me to participate by sending him images of alternative illustration jobs I’d done. I must confess I was a bit confused, although very flattered, because there was [...]
Posted: March 23rd, 2010 under artists, Interviews, news, The IF Bloggers.
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Fun from the Inbox
The work of vasco mourão: The work of Juanel van der Walt: Varoom 11 – Illustration, Culture, Society Published by the Association of Illustrators three times a year Legends from the Pantheon of illustration, an illustrator who makes his own newspaper, and Christmas cards from the very first, to post-Santa post-Christmas post-Capitalist festive cards (don’t [...]
Posted: December 30th, 2009 under artists, news.
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20/10 Vision at Gallery Hanahou
From the inbox: 20/10 Vision Everyone knows that 20/20 vision is good, but 20/10 is even better. in January 2010, gallery hanahou is ringing in the new decade with a group show that doesn’t need to squint to see a better future. Participating artists include popular local artists like Mike Perry, Yunmee Kyong, and the [...]
Posted: December 26th, 2009 under artists, events and openings, news.
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Upgrades and inspiration
The week before little Veda was due to arrive, Penny and I were discussing the fun stuff we’d like to do on Illustration Friday, plus the necessary upgrades that have been in the works for some time. A few hours later, she gave me a sparkling set of Photoshop files containing a new layout for [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2009 under IF news update, illustrationfriday, news.
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Canadian Portrait Gallery
So, the Canadian National Portrait Gallery has been indefinitely cancelled. Conan O’Brien even mentioned it on his late night show, saying that if we had such a gallery it would be filled with Gretzky portraits. While this made me giggle a little, I am feeling pretty blue that this project got silently scrapped by our [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2008 under news.
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