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!

Chris Sickels of Red Nose Studio was invited to speak at MiMaster, an Italian organization dedicated to creating international ties between editorial illustrators. Some recent guest speakers have included Roberto Innocenti, Steven Guarnaccia, Brad Holland, Natalie Ascencios, Serge Bloch, François Roca, Thomas Ehretsmann, Olga & Andrej Dugin, Lorenzo Mattotti, Danny Fingeroth, and Nicholas Blechman.

Chris decided to teach a class that engaged his students in his process of illustration.

“Students were instructed to amass at least a shoebox full of found objects prior to the workshop along with a list of materials ranging from paints, glues, wire and a chunk of wood,” Chris writes. The students completed a series of exercises using these found objects, ultimately creating the following images:

To read more about Chris’s visit to Milan, visit his blog.

Chris of Red Nose Studio was asked to illustrated 4 mastheads for DeliverMagazine.com. He recently released behind-the-scenes images of the first masthead.  In his blog, he writes about the thought process behind this project:

This is the process for the current masthead. the goal of the project is to create a header image that embodies what Deliver can facilitate in the relationship between marketers and consumers. In this case, Deliver is the machine that utilizes many aspects of communication to help you best reach your customers.

To see more images, visit Chris’s blog.

Purchase your ticket for ICON7, the illustration conference, now and you will be eligible to win your very own Red Nose Studio puppet. Red Nose Studio hand crafted “Neven” and his pet moth “7,” fashioned from a Speedball B-5 nib. See what ICON has to say about the raffle:

This is the first in a series of raffles with bad ass prizes offered by artists, organizations and friends of ICON. The earlier you register, the more chances you have to win one of our raffles. We will announce the winner of this raffle in the upcoming weeks. All prizes will be given out at ICON7 in Providence.

To see more pictures, visit ICON7.

Red Nose Studio’s art appeared in Natalie Ratkovski’s book Creative Illustration, published by Mann, Ivanov and Ferber. Chris’s art is featured alongside work from artists like James, Jean, John Buscema, Simon Bartram, David Wiesner, Deniz Zilber, and Stan Lee. Click here for more photos of the book’s interior.

HOW Magazine sat down for 5 questions with Chris of Red Nose Studio. Chris talks about the inception of his 3D style and his early collaboration with former HOW art director Amy Hawk.

1. HOW: We are big fans, Chris. I always love to ask creatives how they would describe what they do or their style to a designer living on another planet. Go for it.

Chris: I have a hard enough time verbally describing my work to designers here on earth, I guess if I were accidentally abducted by designer aliens while they were examining the patterns on my neighbor’s cows, I would tell them I build little 3D worlds and take photos of said scenes to have them reproduced on a page to grab a viewers attention for about three seconds and hopefully, lead them to read the story, article or investigate a package (it would probably be faster for me to draw a picture for them). I would then discover that these aliendesigners love to use illustration, new clients would be landed, and the contract clause “in perpetuity throughout the universe” would finally make sense to me.

To read the interview in its entirety, visit How Magazine: 5 Questions with Chris Sickels.

Red Nose Studio illustrated a series of spots for AARP magazine. The accompanying article tackles “99 Great Ways to Save Money.”

Red Nose Studio was interviewed by Good Spark, a motorcycle enthusiast blog.  The 6 minute video interview takes you through the fields and streets of Greenfield, Indiana where Chris lives and works.  See the video below for an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at Chris’s studio and creative process. To read the interview, visit Good Spark.

Red Nose Studio designs the online masthead for Deliver Magazine, the leading resource for mail marketing strategies brought to you by the United States Postal Service. To see the masthead in action, visit DeliverMagazine.com.

Red Nose Studio recently unveiled his downtown mural for Greenfield, Indiana’s picturesque Main Street.  Drawing inspiration from historical photos of the now defunct Interurban Rail Line, Red Nose Studio constructed a rail car that closely resembles the trolleys that once traversed Greenfield’s Main Street.

The city of Greenfield will hold a public dedication of the mural Saturday November 12, at 10am.  Red Nose Studio’s original models will be on display.

To read about the experience in the artist’s own words, visit his process blog post on theartalog.com.