Ana Bagayan, Andrew Hem, Catalina Estrada, Emiliano Ponzi, Gordon Wiebe, Red Nose Studio and Nate Williams were all selected for 3×3 Magazine’s Professional Show. Emiliano even received a Gold Medal for his personal piece, Burka, and two Silver Medals for his editorial work, Stop Speaking and Remember the Bones. All the artists that were selected will be published in the 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 5, available early next year. Congratulations everyone!

Bird Show

Ghetto Bird

Breather

Team

Wait For It

New Forest

Remember

Forest

Sex Tourism

Anniversary of Slave Trade Abolition

Stop Speaking, SILVER MEDAL

Lovers

Remember the Bones, SILVER MEDAL

Burka, GOLD MEDAL

Ombrelloni

Online Music

Warmed and Humbled

Walk

Rolling Cubicles

Elemi

Sherlock Holmes

Tin Cup Serenade

Red Nose Studio’s series of illustrations for Norwegian appliance company ASKO has not only been recognized in the US and Norway, but now internationally as well. Two of the ads in the Built to Look After You campaign were nominated for a Press Lion in the Home Appliances & Furnishings category at the 2008 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Last year, the festival, now in it’s 55th year, attracted more than 9,000 delegates from 85 countries to view nearly 26,000 pieces of work, attend 45 seminars, 20 workshops and catch 4 awards ceremonies. The campaign was art directed by Norwegian ad agency SMFB so thanks and congratulations go out to Hans, Andre, Vibeke and everyone else on the SMFB team!

2008 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival

Red Nose Studio created a series of illustrations for DNA’s new national ad and marketing campaign. Based in Finland, DNA is a telecommunications company that offers customers cellular, cable and phone services. The series of illustrations feature a pink super-hero type DNA character that physically morphs into helpful tools for cell phone users. In various ads the character’s arms turn into scissors, a ladder and clippers, liberating the cell phone user from classic cell phone troubles. The campaign of print ads and collateral material will only be seen in Finland, but can also be viewed on the DNA website.

Red Nose Studio was invited by the Kilkenny County Council Arts Office to exhibit his work in the group show Illustrating Illustration in Kilkenny, Ireland. The exhibition features the work of 11 of the most renowned and successful illustrators from around the world and was curated by award-winning illustrator Alè Mercado (Ireland). The show offers the audience a tour of the process of illustration and opens discussion around two principles- that there is no one original in illustration and that illustration cannot exist without text or concept. Other artists in the show include Saturio Alonso, Steven Aylin, Melinda Beck, BrenB, Ina Fiebig, Jordin Isip, Ana Juan, KEKO, Alé Mercado and Paula Sanz Caballero. Illustrating Illustration runs from Friday, June 13th to Friday, July 25th, 2008.

Kilkenny County Council Arts Office Gallery, 72 John St., Kilkenny, Ireland

Red Nose Studio was invited to speak at this year’s HOW Design Conference at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA. His session, Inside Red Nose Studio: The Creative Process of Illustrator Chris Sickels, focused on the process of bringing an illustration from sketch to model to animation and how to take full advantage of the tools you have at hand. The conference ran from May 18th to 21st with Red Nose Studio’s session taking place on Tuesday, May 20, 2008.

Click here for an interview with Chris from the conference.

HOW design conference 2008

Chris Sickels of Red Nose Studio has a show opening tonight (Fri, April 11th, 2008) in historic downtown Greenfield, IN, his hometown. The event is part of the inaugural Second Friday event which links little shops, cafes, galleries and even a studio arts center with with people in the community. Chris will also be signing copies of The Look Book at the new Crazy Lake Art House at:

2 W Main, Greenfield from 7:30-8pm, April 11th.

The exhibit will run from April 11-July 31st 2008.

Presented by Arts Hancock County.

Red Nose Studio was a keynote speaker at Ringling College of Art & Design’s 2008 Next Step Career Conference. The conference provided students with the opportunity to meet with over 30 accomplished professionals in the industry and took place the weekend of March 14-15th, 2008. Red Nose was joined by other keynote speaker Peter McGrath, VP of Global Creative for Walt Disney Imagineering.

Ringling College of Art & Design

Red Nose Studio’s series of illustrations for Norwegian appliance company ASKO has not only been recognized in the United States but now in Norway as well. Red Nose Studio collaborated on the project with SMFB who entered the campaign in Gullblyanten, Norway’s largest advertising awards. The series, titled Built to Look After You, won a Silver in the Campaign category and a diploma in the Art Direction category. The illustration Built to Look After Your Shirt of Self-Esteem also won a diploma in the Print Ad category. Thanks and congratulations go out to everyone at SMFB!

Stretching Canvas magazine, brought to you by the P-fouts house and the people who publish International Tattoo Art magazine, is now on sale at magazine stands nationwide. The magazine, which is subtitled ‘Outsider Art At Its Finest’, showcases the latest talent and events in the lowbrow, pop-surrealist and outsider art scene and yes, features Magnet Reps’ illustrator Red Nose Studio on the cover of issue number one!

Grab a copy at your favorite bookstore.

Congratulations Sherri/P-fouts and the whole Stretching Canvas team!

For a preview on their website, check out Tattoo Art

Emiliano Ponzi, Red Nose Studio and Nate Williams have all been recognized by the Society of Illustrators 50. Emiliano had four pieces selected, while Red Nose Studio and Nate each had five, with Nate winning a Silver medal for his silkscreen piece that originally appeared in Zeke Bazaar 2, a large silkscreen book by Elzo Durt. The winning pieces will be shown at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators in New York from January 30th to April 26th, 2008 and be published in Illustrators 50: America’s Original Annual of Illustration. Congratulations guys!

Society of Illustrators

Nate Williams, Zeke Bazaar 2, Silver medal

Nate Williams, Young Nomad

Nate Williams, Utne Reader

Nate Williams, Juxtapoz

Nate Williams, Box 1824

Emiliano Ponzi, Io Donna Mazgazine

Emiliano Ponzi, Io Donna Mazgazine

Emiliano Ponzi, personal work

Emiliano Ponzi, Io Donna Mazgazine

Red Nose Studio, Runner’s World

Red Nose Studio, United States Postal Service

Red Nose Studio, The Look Book

Red Nose Studio, ASKO Appliances Norway

Red Nose Studio, Government Executive Magazine