[Illustration by Jillian Tamaki, Parsons Adjunct Faculty and all-around wonderful artist.]
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.
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
- All Illustration entries, excluding books and physical volumes, should be mounted on Bristol boards with a roughly one-inch (3cm) margin.
- Illustrations alone will not be accepted: no fine art.
- 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.
- Non-English-language entries must be translated into English or have a typed English translation taped to the back of the board.
- For single entries, tape the printed Entry Label to the back of the board.
- 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.).
- Do NOT hinge, tape or “accordion” boards together.
- 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!
Check out these amazing, illustrative pillows created by Rachael Cole. Hopefully she’ll have them for sale soon!
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]
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.
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.
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]
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!
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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]