With recent illustrations for overseas clients, you may come across a Magnet Reps illustrator’s work wherever your travels take you this summer.

Emiliano Ponzi, The Great Race of Vanity for La Repubblica (Italy)
The vanity involved in receiving the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Marguerite Sauvage, Motherhood for Enfant Magazine (France)
Relaxation techniques are necessary for a Zen pregnancy.

Raquel Aparicio, Swing for Viajar Magazine (Spain)
American Civil War sites, such as cemeteries and battlefields, have become popular tourist destinations.

Emiliano Ponzi, Noir for La Repubblica (Italy)
The popularity of the Noir thriller in Italian literature; the genre is referred to as Giallo (yellow in Italian) after the famed series of yellow bound detective novels in Italy in the ’20s.

Alexander Blue, Chacun Son Himalaya for Moi Je Lis Magazine (France)
This children’s story by Pascal Prévot tells the tale of a cow that climbs to the top of a mountain and gets so dizzy that the villagers have to saw the mountain down.

Raquel Aparicio, Pears & Apples for El Mundo (Spain)
Each woman’s body distributes fat differently; pear-shaped women carry extra weight in their thighs and buttocks while apple-shaped women tend to carry it in their abdominal area.

Alexander Blue illustrated for JCW’s restaurant The Burger Boys. The restaurant serves good old-fashioned burgers, fries and milkshakes and is based in Utah. The illustration is part of a marketing and promotion campaign that includes menus, placemats and t-shirts.

Alexander Blue was commissioned by the hot South American ad agency Gazz to create a series of characters and illustrations for Coca Cola. The illustrations were then animated by the agency’s design team into a 2 minute short titled ‘Vivir Positivamente’ (Live Positively) which can be viewed as a series of small segments or as one longer one. The animation which follows a couple of upbeat characters through their day and shows the effects of ‘living positively’ will be shown at a Coca Cola corporate events in Buenos Aires and throughout Argentina. It may also be viewed on the Coca-Cola Argentina website. Click here to watch the animation.

Alexander Blue was interviewed by Jesus Pacheco for Reforma, a newspaper in Mexico City. The article discussed current illustration trends and also featured some of Alexander’s work.

Read the interview here.

Alexander Blue not only appears in Taschen’s recently released Illustration Now! Volume 2, but also in their corresponding diary for 2009. The spiral-bound diary opens flat and includes all national holidays.

Illustration Now! Diary

Nate Williams and Alexander Blue have recently been doing some beautiful work for The San Francisco Chronicle. Here are a couple of our favorites.

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union book review / Nate Williams

Summer Book Review / Alexander Blue

Eight beautiful illustrations by seven Magnet Reps artists were chosen by the recent American Illustration jury to appear in American Illustration 26. Appearing in the book (available November 2007) and website are Gordon Wiebe, Emiliano Ponzi, Graham Roumieu and Red Nose Studio. Appearing solely on the website are Nate Williams (2), Alexander Blue and Marguerite Sauvage. A great year for a talented group of artists.

Spiritualism – Books & Culture

Punctuation Army

Under The Rainbow

Alberta Oil – The Walrus

The Gaze – San Francisco Chronicle

Grafuck Book

Mr. Wood

Organic – Utne Reader

Alexander Blue recently completed a gift card fot Target.

“Googley Eyed Alien” is now available in stores nationwide.

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