Red Nose Studio and Emiliano Ponzi were chosen as winners in the 53rd annual Communication Arts illustration competition. Red Nose Studio’s introductory short for AIGA Design Ranch and Emiliano’s advertisement for Amnesty International were both featured in the animation section.

Red Nose Studio’s illustration for PlanSponsor will appear in the editorial section, while Emiliano’s projects for EMI music and Quiet, Please! will appear in the Advertising section.

Congratulations go out to both!

Emiliano Ponzi was on the radio show RaiTunes, an offshoot of Italy’s largest television network.  In the past, the radio show has interviewed notable illustrators like Yuko Shimizu. RaiTunes played a live stream of Emiliano’s drawing process during the interview. See the video below:

The New York Times pays tribute to Emiliano Ponzi with a solo exhibition held in its Manhattan office. In the 7th Gallery, on the 7th floor of the editorial office of the most prestigious international newspaper, 40 artworks will be exhibited for the American public. Nicholas Blechman, curator of the exhibition and Art Director of the New York Times Book Review, has selected the most important works of the Italian illustrator that best demonstrate his extraordinary success.

This exclusive acknowledgement given to Emiliano Ponzi marks the value of a decade-long artistic career that has been published in the pages of the most important international press: The New York Times, Le Monde, The New Yorker, LA Times, La Repubblica, The Economist, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Il sole 24 ore.

This New York exhibition follows on the heels of Emiliano being awarded two gold medals by the Society of Illustrators.

“These illustrations”, says Nicholas Blechmann, “answer perfectly to the Munari principle, for whom the designer must be able to answer with humility and talent, the questions made by the society in which he lives.”

Emiliano Ponzi illustrated for Portsmouth Brewery’s Kate the Great Day. The annual event takes place the first Monday in March and is the only day of the year the brewery’s Kate the Great Russian Imperial Stout is available. The popular event draws people from all over New England with many waiting in line overnight for what Beer Advocate magazine calls the “best beer in America.”

Emiliano’s quirky portrait of the infamous Russian empress, Catherine the Great, could be seen on labels for the beer, as well as on several other promotional items, including t-shirts for men, women and children and ticket stubs for the event. A portion of the proceeds went to benefit local charities.

Emiliano Ponzi, Graham Roumieu, Nate Williams, Catell Ronca, and Gordon Wiebe have been chosen as winners in this year’s American Illustration competition.  The selected works range from humorous editorial pieces to personal work and product packaging.  This year, 439 images were chosen from 8,000 illustrations submitted by over 1,200 illustrators, magazines, agencies, publishers and schools.  The distinguished jury included Jen Bekman, 20×20; Steven Charny, Rolling Stone; Mia Song, Men’s Health; John Gall, Random House; Aviva Michaelov, The New York Times; Veronica Reo, Young & Rubicam; and Paul Sahre, O.O.P.S.

Congratulations go out to all!

Emiliano Ponzi, “Imaginary Friends” series, EMI Music

Emiliano Ponzi, “Postmodernism is Dead,” La Repubblica

Emiliano Ponzi, “Undertow,” New York Times

Emiliano Ponzi, “Dance with the Dead,” Le Monde

Graham Roumieu, “Social Media Habits” series, Real Simple Magazine

Catell Ronca, “The Freud Museum”

Nate Williams, “Melee,” Tuck Beckstoffer Wines

Gordon Wiebe, “Joy Explosion,” Fubon Art Festival

Nate Williams and Emiliano Ponzi were honored as merit winners in the 2012 Society of Publication Designers Awards.

Emiliano’s submission was an image for Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper.  The image corresponds with an article on our growing reliance on signs and symbols to navigate this world.

Nate’s image for the Harvard Business Review deals with how the English language is evolving to meet the needs of the world’s changing social, intellectual, and economic lives. Congratulations go out to Nate and Emiliano!

 Emiliano Ponzi’s “Subway Angel” for La Repubblica. Stefano Cipolla (designer), Angelo Rinaldi (art director).

Nate Williams’s “Politics on the English Language” for Harvard Business Review. Betsy Robichaud (designer), Katherine Bell (writer), Alison Beard (editor) and Karen Player (art director).

Emiliano Ponzi illustrated for The New Yorker’s recent Style issue. His illustration can be seen alongside a review of Noam Scheiber’s book, The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery.

Emiliano Ponzi was in attendance for the Society of Illustrators Advertising and Institutional awards ceremony on Friday, March 2.  He was presented with gold medals for his Amnesty International animation “Voices for Freedom,” and for his EMI Music illustration “Evil Apple Core.”  Emiliano’s friends and family were also in attendance, including Italian singer Valerio Millefoglie whose label commissioned Emiliano’s award-winning piece. Valerio performed songs from his album I miel migliori amici immaginari throughout the night.

Below is Emiliano’s art, framed and hanging in the Society of Illustrators’ gallery.  The caption reads: “This piece combines one of history’s evil icons with the apple, the fruit of Eden’s Tree of Knowledge. At the core of each apple is a seed, a symbol of life but also a natural source of cyanide. ‘Bad seed’ is moreover an American idiom for someone who is evil to the core.”

Congratulations Emiliano!

Last spring Emiliano Ponzi illustrated for The New York Times’ Book Review of Francisco Goldman’s book Say Her Name, the touching memoir of a man whose bride dies tragically while surfing. Hauntingly beautiful, the illustration was then sought out for the Grove Atlantic US paperback and UK editions, the French edition (Editions Bourgois) and Dutch edition (Lebowski Publishers).

Emiliano Ponzi’s animation for Amnesty International, Voices for Freedom, has been awarded Best in Show in Print magazine’s moving image competition, Print in Motion. Congratulations Emiliano!