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Alexander Blue illustrated for Minnesota’s Carleton College alumni magazine, The Carleton Voice. His illustrations can be seen in it’s feature article “This Will Make You Happy,” where the writer poses the question “what makes you happy?” to 12 experts in fields ranging from education and music to politics and publishing.
Alexander Blue illustrated for Ciel Water’s recently launched campaign debuting their new Eco-Flex bottle design. The new bottles are designed to lessen their impact on the environment and Blue’s upbeat and vibrant illustrations echo the campaign’s eco-friendly message. His bright colors and friendly characters can be seen in an animated spot and on billboards all over Mexico, as well as on packaging, t-shirts, notebooks and postcards. The Ciel Water website also features downloadable wallpapers for your desktop, iPhone or Blackberry.
Alexander Blue is honored to be included in Cristian Campos’ new book La nueva ola de la ilustracion japonesa / The new wave of Japanese illustration. The 450-page book features 1200 illustrations from 100 illustrators and has been published in Spanish, French and Italian.
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.
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.
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, Ana Bagayan, Emiliano Ponzi, Gordon Wiebe and Nate Williams all had work chosen to appear in the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles’ 47th annual exhibition with a combined total of 11 awards, with Gord’s piece for Belgian band Guernica winning a Silver award in the entertainment category. Congratulations go out to everyone!
Alexander Blue
Ana Bagayan
Emiliano Ponzi
Gordon Wiebe, Guernica, SILVER award
Nate Williams
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.
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