Category Archives: Illustration Industry

Parsons Illustration Alum Jonathan Jay Lee solo show

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OPENING RECEPTION: 7-9PM TUESDAY 10th FEBRUARY 2009

Fresh from New York City, Jonathan Jay Lee has returned to Hong Kong to breathe new life into the local illustration scene, holding his first solo Hong Kong exhibition from February 10 to February 27 at the Fringe Gallery having worked in the U.S. for esteemed clients such as Marvel Comics.

“The illustration scene in Hong Kong is weak”, says Jonathan, “not because there aren’t a lot of creative people, but because clients aren’t willing to take risks with good ideas.” He believes that his exhibition will inspire and motivate viewers to venture into the illustrative unknown. Others agree; Singer Kary Ng, for whom Jonathan conceptualized and illustrated the Lady K comic book for, comments “Jonathan Jay Lee transformed and brought Lady K to life – one of the best artists I’ve worked with.”

Partnering with artist network Alive Not Dead, Hong Kong events organizer HK Clubbing, ultra-chrome printing specialists Giclee HK and monthly House event Opium Soul, artist Jonathan Jay Lee brings a new visual pleasure of aesthetic, with themes varying from Romance, Science Fiction, True Crime, Lonely Hearts to Zen Buddhism. “Hong Kong needs an illustrative kick in the ass,” Jonathan observes, “Let’s hope this event does just that.”

Congratulations, Jonathan!

Greetings from the Illustration Department

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Happy holidays, a warm winter, and a bright solstice to all of you:  our devoted readers, students, faculty, and alumni.  Thank you for making 2008 a wonderful year.  Fresh updates will resume around January 12th after we take a much-needed rest.  See you in 2009.

[Illustration by Jillian Tamaki, Parsons Adjunct Faculty and all-around wonderful artist.]

Bonnie Gloris in Creative Quarterly and a Call for Entries!

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Parsons Illustration Alumni Bonnie Gloris recently won a Merit Award in the catergory of Fine Art in Issue 13 of Creative Quarterly for the piece above.  You can check out out more of Bonnie’s work here at her official website.

Congratulations, Bonnie!

And Creative Quarterly is currently making a call for entries for Issue 15!  Here are the details:

Who’s eligible to enter?

All art directors, graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and fine artists in all media. We’ll judge both professional and student work. Students must be either undergraduate, graduate students or recent graduates. Entrants must be in the US or Canada. We’ll begin our international show with our next issue.

Easy to enter.

If you enter online, you can pay online. Click to learn how to prepare your entries for online submission. Click here to enter online.

Want to mail your payment? Download the Call For Entries 15 PDF and send your payment along with a disc with your entries.

Same categories, just more winners.

Same categories: Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, Fine Art but we’ll have separate sections for professional and student work. One more way we’re going to share the inspiration.

Speaking of inspiration, winners will be asked to submit their own person, place or thing that inspires them which we’ll reproduce in the magazine as space allows—we’ll also select one of those inspirations for the cover.

The deadline is January 30th, 2009 so head over to the CQ site and get all the information.

88th Annual Art Directors Club Call for Entries!

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The Art Directors Club has posted the official guidelines and deadlines for their 88th Annual Call for Entries.  Here’s a summary:

IL215 MAGAZINE EDITORIAL
IL216 NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL
IL217 COVER, NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE
IL218 BOOK (Commercially Published Volumes Only)
IL219 BOOK JACKET
IL220 CARTOON/COMIC BOOK
IL221 CORPORATE/INSTITUTIONAL (Annual Reports, Brochures, Etc.)
IL222 SELF-PROMOTION
IL223 CALENDAR OR APPOINTMENT BOOK
IL224 POSTER OR BILLBOARD
IL225 MISCELLANEOUS
IL226 MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENT
IL227 NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT
IL228 POSTER OR BILLBOARD ADVERTISEMENT
IL229 PHOTOILLUSTRATION

  1. All Illustration entries, excluding books and physical volumes, should be mounted on Bristol boards with a roughly one-inch (3cm) margin.
  2. Illustrations alone will not be accepted: no fine art.
  3. For works less than 24 x 34 inches (metric A1) in size, please submit mounted originals, printed copies, proofs, reprints or tear sheets trimmed as published. Oversized entries may be represented by scaled artwork reproductions or in-situ photographs, mounted on boards.
  4. Non-English-language entries must be translated into English or have a typed English translation taped to the back of the board.
  5. For single entries, tape the printed Entry Label to the back of the board.
  6. Series entries consist of three to five (3-5) components. Please tape the printed Entry Label to the first board in the series and number the back of each board accordingly (1/3, 2/3, 3/3, etc.).
  7. Do NOT hinge, tape or “accordion” boards together.
  8. For Book categories (PH204, IL218), only commercially published volumes are accepted

For a full listing of information, check out the official website here.  Good luck!

3×3 Call for Entries!

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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, 2009

3×3 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, 2009

3×3 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. 2009

We 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!

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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.

From the Inbox: Diane Dillon and Brian Selznick visit Pat Cummings

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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.

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MONDAY, DEC. 15TH
1-2PM
DIANE DILLON

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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]

Frank Gehry’s Superlight chairs given new weight at DWR’s Chelsea Studio!

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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]