Check out these amazing, illustrative pillows created by Rachael Cole. Hopefully she’ll have them for sale soon!
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3×3 Call for Entries!
Passed along by Parsons Full-time Faculty Nora Krug, here’s the scoop on 3×3 magazine‘s most recent call for entries:
Mark Your Calendars! As our 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 5 is coming off the press it’s time to start thinking about our next international illustration competitions. Here is our schedule and a few details.
3×3 Student Show
As always this show is open to all undergraduate and graduate students in all art schools, colleges and universities around the globe. Work must have been completed in calendar year 2008. A partial list of this year’s judges include illustrators/educators Alexandra Kardinar, Germany; Gary Embury, United Kingdom; Clemente Botelho, Canada and Martha Rich, John Hendrix, Nora Krug of the US. Rounding out the judges is artist representative Pat Lindgren, Lindgren & Smith.Entry deadline: February 14, 20093×3 ProShow
Open to all art directors, editors, designers and illustrators. Categories include: Advertising, Animation, Books, Editorial, Fashion, Gallery, Institutional, Self-Promotion, Sequential, Three-Dimensional and Unpublished. Our judges to date include art directors Alexandre Lagoet, Amsterdam, Raban Ruddigkeit, Germany and SooJin Buzelli and Darlene Simidian, the US as well as illustrators Roman Klonek and Monika Aichele, Germany, Marco Ventura, Italy and Yuko Shimizu, the US.Entry deadline: March 14, 20093×3 Children’s Book Show
Open to all art directors, editors, authors, designers and illustrators from around the world. All published and unpublished children’s books completed in 2008 are eligible. We are in the process of naming our judges for this year’s show. Entry Deadline: April 14. 2009We will begin accepting entries on January 5 but full details are available online at 3x3mag.com. All entries must be either uploaded or received by the deadline. Winners will be featured in the 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 6 coming out in late 2009. Full details on both shows are online. Remember you can pay and upload your images online. Children’s book details will be available beginning in February.
Thanks for sending along the info, Nora!
[image by Illustration Alum Jake Messing, who is listed in 3×3’s New Talent Gallery]
Bat-Manga: Chip Kidd, Anne Ishii, & Geoff Spear at Rocketship!
Illustration Faculty Frank Olinsky gave us the heads up about a fantastic event going on at Brooklyn’s own Rocketship, purveyor of fine comics, cartoons, and graphic novels.. Here’s the scoop from their blog:
BAT-MANGA!!! Slideshow Presentation and signing with editor/designer supreme CHIP KIDD, photographer extraordinaire GEOFF SPEAR, and translating superstar ANNE ISHII!!!
Beer and Wine will be served… what a great opportunity to get a signed copy of my current favorite Batman book, BAT-MANGA, for yourself, or for the Batman fan in your life!
7:00-7:30: open bar, meet the BAT-MANGA crew
7:30-8:00ish: PowerPoint presentation
8:00-8:15: Q&A
8:15-close: signing
ONE-NIGHT ONLY BOOKPLATES DESIGNED BY MR. KIDD!! Available for folks getting books signed at the event! AWESOME!!
Sounds incredible–get out there tomorrow!
Thanks for the tip-off, Frank.
Weekend Sendoff: Obama–the man, the doodle, the logo
The president-elect is apparently a doodler. See Exhibit A, above, which Obama created for charity in 2007. According to the Chicago Tribune:
The Obama doodle…contains likenesses of some of the Senate’s most powerful members: Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Democratic colleagues Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Dianne Feinstein of California and Charles Schumer of New York.
In more professional news, here’s a two-interview with Sol Sender, who co-designed the now iconic logo for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
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Additionally, here’s a brief snippet of an interview with Sol, conducted by Steve Heller:
Steven Heller: How did you get the job of designing the Obama logo?
Sol Sender: We got the job through Mode. Steve Juras, a classmate of mine from graduate school is the creative director there. They have a long-standing relationship with AKP&D Message and Media, a campaign consulting firm led by David Axelrod and David Plouffe among others.
Q: Have you done other political logos in the past?
A: No, we had not.
Q: I have to ask, since many agencies that do political campaigns are simply “doing a job,” did you have strong feelings one way or the other for the Obama candidacy?
A: We were excited to work on the logo and energized by the prospect of Mr. Obama’s campaign. However, we didn’t pursue or develop the work because we were motivated exclusively by ideology. It was an opportunity to do breakthrough work at the right time in what’s become a predictable graphic landscape.
Q: How many iterations did you go through before deciding on this “O”? Was it your first idea?
A: We actually presented seven or eight options in the first round, and the one that was ultimately chosen was among these. In terms of our internal process, though, I believe the logo — as we now know it — came out of a second round of design explorations. At any rate, it happened quite quickly, all things considered. The entire undertaking took less than two weeks.
Read the rest of the interview here.
From the Inbox: Diane Dillon and Brian Selznick visit Pat Cummings
We’re passing along this fantastic invitation from Parsons Illustration faculty member Pat Cummings…
For the final sessions of my classes (both Parsons and Pratt) I’m having two guest speakers next week. Any students you think might be interested in either or both presentations would be welcome to come.
Both presentations will be held at my apartment in the Cobble Hill area of Brooklyn and there’s a limit on how many can attend. So please have anyone interested email me for directions and/or more information ASAP at:
write2me@patcummings.com
please write: ‘children’s book program’ in the subject line so I don’t toss it out as spam.
MONDAY, DEC. 15TH
1-2PM
DIANE DILLON
TUESDAY, DEC. 16TH
11AM-Noon
BRIAN SELZNICK
This is an incredibly exciting opportunity! Thanks for passing along the invite, Pat.
[top illustration by Brian Selznick]
Follow-up: Illustration/DWR/Emeco Reception
Garrett Pruter’s disco-reinvention of the chair
The reception last night for the collaboration between Noel Claro’s Beyond the Page class, Design Within Reach, and Emeco was a happening event. Here are a few images. You can see the whole collection (taken by Bradford Shellhammer) here!
Quick Hit: Books + Stop Motion
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This is a pretty rad video, created by Apt Studio–it uses over a thousand books and took almost a month to film. You can check out stills from the production here. You can also see time lapse footage of individual scenes here. Neat stuff, indeed.
[via C-Monster]
Quick Hit: “Carousel” hosted by R. Sikoryak tonight!
CAROUSEL
Cartoon slide shows & other projected pictures presented by a glittering array of artists, performers, graphic novelists, & other characters.
Hosted by R. Sikoryak (Parsons Illustration Alum and Faculty Member)
Featuring:
Gabrielle Bell with Karen Sneider
Jon Keith Brunelle of The Psychasthenia Society
Emily Flake
Dale Goodson
Jen Perez
Doug Skinner
R.S.
and more!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
8 pm (door opens at 7:30 pm)
at the
NEW Dixon Place
161 Chrystie Street
NY, NY
Tickets:
$15 each or $25 for 2
or TDF; or $12 student/senior
Advance tickets & more info:
www.dixonplace.org
(212) 219-0736
Follow-up: Level Reviews F08
Frank Gehry’s Superlight chairs given new weight at DWR’s Chelsea Studio!
Straight from the Design Within Reach newsletter and blog:
A semester-long collaboration between Parsons the New School for Design, Emeco and DWR culminates with the unveiling of reimagined Frank Gehry Superlight chairs at the Chelsea Studio reception. Parsons Illustration students were challenged to redesign Gehry’s 6.5 lbs. chair. We purposely left the instructions vague, so as not to limit the students’ ideas. We placed no restrictions on materials (we encouraged mixed media) or concepts (we challenged them to think about the usefulness of the chair, the human form, social conventions, style and culture). The designs are as diverse as the students who created them. You are invited to discuss the results with Parsons Illustration chair Steven Guarnaccia, Emeco representatives, DWR’s own Bradford Shellhammer and the student-creators themselves. Snacks and wine will be served.
Editor’s Note: Come out and support all the great Illustration students (and their fantastic instructor, Noel Claro) who worked on this!
Reimagining the Chair: A Parsons, Emeco and DWR Collaboration
Wednesday, December 10, 7-9pm
DWR West 14th Street Studio
408 West 14th Street
(between 9th and 10th Ave.)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: 212.242.9449
Directions
[illustration by Paul Kim]