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Wearing Two Hats: Deanna Donegan

On February 24, SPD and the Society of Illustrators are sponsoring the event Wearing Two Hats: the Double Threat, featuring Illustrators Who Design and Designers Who Illustrate. Moderated by Len Small, art director of Nautilus, the event will feature the multiple talents of Stephen... MORE

Wearing Two Hats: Carlos Zamora

On February 24, SPD and the Society of Illustrators are sponsoring the event Wearing Two Hats: the Double Threat, featuring Illustrators Who Design and Designers Who Illustrate. Moderated by Len Small, art director of Nautilus, the event will feature the multiple talents of Stephen... MORE

Cocktails & Freebies: Tomorrow Night!

As a special treat, our friends at UPPERCASE have sent along copies of Work/Life 2, their new book celebrating illustration and illustrators from around the world, a great directory of new and upcoming talent, and we're lucky enough to have... MORE

Speakeasy West: Unsung Heroes of Illustration

Jim Heimann Introduces...

Tonight's the night at Smashbox: we're meeting a host of great unsung illustration talent, introduced by some of the great West Coast creatives who've picked them out as favorites. One of our presenters? Jim Heimann, Taschen's Executive Editor (or, as... MORE

Speakeasy West: Unsung Heroes of Illustration

Lou Beach Introduces...

Illustrations. Collages. Album covers. Stories. Lou Beach just about does it all, and at Thursday evening's SPD Speakeasy in LA at Smasbox West Hollywood, he's adding one more thing to his to-do list: introducing us to one of the Unsung... MORE

Speakeasy West: Unsung Heroes of Illustration

InJu Sturgeon Introduces...

The story goes that in 1990, InJu Sturgeon, then the UCLA Extension Creative Director, asked Paul Rand to design the cover of the upcoming winter quarter catalog -- and after some persuasion, he did. Their collaboration started a collection of assignments... MORE

Speakeasy West: Unsung Heroes of Illustration

Brian Rea Introduces...

Thursday night at Smashbox West Hollywood, we're meeting a host of great unsung illustration talent, introduced by some of the great creatives who've picked them out as favorites. One of those doing some introducing? Brian Rea, who's both art director... MORE

Speakeasy West: Unsung Heroes of Illustration

David Armario Introduces...

At Thursday evening's SPD Speakeasy in LA at Smasbox West Hollywood, our West Coast creatives will introduce some of the Unsung Heroes of Illustration. To meet their picks? You'll have to be there (so RSVP now!). But we thought the... MORE

SPDWest SpeakEasy: UNSUNG (Illustration) HEROES of the AMERICAN WEST

We hope you're in the LA area on Thursday, March 24th and can join us at Smashbox West Hollywood for another amazing gathering of the coolest creatives around, a night of Right Brain talent on the Left Coast, presented by... MORE

Results tagged “illustrators” from Speaker Series

Speakeasy West: Illustration's Unsung Heroes

We can't stay away! We hope you're in the LA area on Thursday, March 24th and can join us at Smashbox West Hollywood for another amazing gathering of the coolest creatives around, a night of Right Brain talent on the... MORE

Results tagged “illustrators” from Grids

Three Questions: At Home with Illustrator Noma Bar

Norma Bar has been taking the international world of editorial illustration by storm for over ten years. You've seen his strikingly graphic award winning images in publications such as UK Esquire, The Economist, Men's Health, The New York Times, Wallpaper,... MORE

Barry Blitt's Backstory

Barry Blitt created this striking watercolor for a New Yorker cover assignment. I asked him to give us the backstory:"This was one idea from a stack of end-of-summer sketches I sent in to the magazine. It's as close to a... MORE

Mark Burckhardt on the making-of his Texas Monthly cover

Over on Drawger there's an excellent behind-the-scenes look at this month's Texas Monthly cover (shown here) marking the 15th anniversary of Tejano singer Selena's tragic death. Illustrator Marc Burckhardt walks through the process from commission to drafts to completed cover... MORE

Illustration Awards: Single Page or Spread

Always big fans of illustration, and there's more great work here again in the Illustration: Single Page or Spread category of Medal Finalists. Take a peek after the jump at the big, gorgeous spreads that drew the most attention during... MORE

Gray Areas (To Be Sure)

A reader asked:I would love to hear comments on what to do when an illustrator takes an art director's creative concept and uses it in another publication.Recently, I hired an illustrator. Gave him a clear concept of what we wanted... MORE