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!

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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

National Public Radio (NPR) will interview Chris Sickels of Red Nose Studio for the program The Art of the Matter through affiliate station station WFYI Indianapolis. Chris discusses the characters in his new picture book, The Look Book, and how they relate to his installation for the lightbox art project in downtown Indianapolis.

The interview will air Saturday, December 8th from 4pm to 5pm EST. You can listen to a temporary archive of the episode online at wfyi.org until Monday, December 17, 2007 at noon.

http://www.wfyi.org/artOfTheMatter.asp

Red Nose Studio’s Ian and Ann, the brother and sister duo from his new book The Look Book, are occupying a 9-foot tall and 26-foot wide light box in Indianapolis, Indiana. The illuminated photograph of the twins sitting atop a teeter-totter can be seen on the Survive Alive building at 748 Massachusetts Avenue until October 2008. The project is an initiative of Public Art Indianapolis and is managed by the Arts Council of Indianapolis, funded, in part, by the Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission.

Public Art Indianapolis

Indy Star article

Red Nose Studio was commissioned by Mum Puppet theater to develop seven characters for the Philadelphia production of The Fantastiks. The characters were then re-created by the theater as fully functional puppets with the show opening on April 11th, 2007 to rave reviews.

The Fantasticks received 7 nominations from the Theater Alliance of Greater Philadelphia with the winners being announced on October 1st at the Annual Barrymore Awards Ceremony at the Crystal Tea Room. The nominees are…

Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical
The Fantasticks (Mum Puppettheatre)

Harold Prince Award For Outstanding Direction of a Musical
Aaron Cromie (The Fantasticks, Mum Puppettheatre)

Outstanding Musical Direction
Mat Wright & Aaron Cromie (The Fantasticks, Mum Puppettheatre)

Outstanding Leading Actor in a Musical
Bev Appleton (The Fantasticks, Mum Puppettheatre)

Outstanding Leading Actress in a Musical
Kim Carson (The Fantasticks, Mum Puppettheatre)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical
Dave Jadico (The Fantasticks, Mum Puppettheatre)

Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical
The Fantasticks (Mum Puppettheatre)

Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia

The Fantasticks, main poster

Mortimer and Henry

Old Friends

Reconciliation

Red Nose Studio is featured in READ magazine’s Halloween issue. His illustration appears in their Center Stage section, accompanying Mike Ruscoe’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Red Nose Studio and Catalina Estrada are exhibiting in the show ‘Kings and Queens and Childhood Dreams’ at the Strychnin Gallery in London.

50 international artists and illustrators are showing work including: Beth Robinson, Madeline von Foerster, John Santerineross, Francois Escalmel, Kevin Titzer, Scott Radke, Ansgar Noeth, Dan Quintana, Virginie Ropars, Chris Sickels, Christopher Owen, Lisa Mei Ling Fong, David Stoupakis, Angie Mason, Christina Graf, David Hochbaum, Claudia Drake, Daniel Van Nes, Raf Veulemans, Richard Kirk, Tim Roosen, Lori Field, Chet Zar, Ver Mar, Kristen Ferrell, Alexander Sterzel, Sylvia Beeman, Wayne Martin Belger, Chris von Steiner, Brian Horton, Matthew Bone, Natalie Shau, Danielle De Picciotto, Gothic Hangman, Jason Jacenko, Manuel Cortez, Elmer Presslee, Marc Janssens, Lesley Reppeteaux, Scott Holloway, Viktor Koen, Maria d’Agostino, Miraschi, Chantal Menard, Seymour, Kukula, Mimi S., Bijou, Diva, and Laurie Lipton.

Strychnin Gallery
65 Hanbury Street, London, UK
right off BRICK LANE - E1 5JP

Opening Reception
October 26th at 7pm - 11pm
Strychnin Gallery

We’ve been patiently waiting until the EPSON ad campaign featuring Red Nose Studio launched so we could tell people to look out for it. It seems the day is finally here as the ad has been spotted in both HOW Magazine and MacWorld this month.

The campaign titled ‘Now Your Ideas Can Look As Good In Your Hand As They Do In Your Head’ promotes the EPSON pro series 3800 and 4800 printers and features some of the top creatives out there today. The concept explodes Chris’ creative process stage by stage, and element by element in a purely visual interpretation that includes a great shot of Chris himself (by photographer Sam Yocum). Online, an interview with Chris expands on the print ads with more information about process, creativity and the business.

EPSON

Sam Yocum Photography

Red Nose Studio recently completed a series of four illustrations for an ad campaign for the upscale Norwegian appliance company ASKO. The innovative campaign makes the treasured clothing (and other washable items) the heroes, and Chris’ 3-D illustrations were the perfect solution to translate the items from the illustrations to the product photography.

The advertising and design community in both Norway and the US has taken notice of the campaign and it has been written up on adcritic.com as well as in the Norwegian magazine Elektronikkbransjen. The adcritic.com article is available to subscribers only, and below is a scan of the spread in Elektronikkbransjen which talks about why the ad agency chose illustration and went in this direction. Adrants also wrote up a clip on it.

ASKO

CREATIVITY

ADRANT

Teddy Bear

Long Legs

Self-Esteem

Lumberjack

The Team

We are thrilled to announce the release of Red Nose Studio’s first book The Look Book published by F+W Publications.

As siblings Ian and Ann try to keep themselves entertained during a long and boring summer day, they learn that the world around them is more exciting than it first appears. After they leave the house on a quest for amusement, they come across an unusual array of characters and scenarios that make them see the world in surprising new ways. From exercising priest to priests exorcising, and kitchen sinks to sinking kitchens, everything depends on how you look at it. Creative word plays grace every spread and teach the duo that there’s plenty to see if you open your eyes to the world around you.

A solid 8 x 8″ book, it is packed with with 64 illustrations. The cover is die-cut so you can see through the spectacle ‘lenses’ to Ian and Ann.

$17.99 (Can $21.99)
ISBN 978-1-58180-940-4

The book is available at:
http://www.fwbookstore.com/product/1552/0#

You can ’sea’ more images and sketches and fun facts about the book throughout the fall at:
http://www.rednosestudio.com/rednoseblog

The book was reviewed on Pop Candy, USA Today’s blog that ‘unwraps pop culture’s hip and hidden treasures’ on 09/07/2007 in The Week in Pop: My Favorite Things. They had this to say about it:

“A gorgeous book just came out called The Look Book by Chris Sickels (How Books, $17.99). It’s somewhere between a children’s book and an art book — he does this amazing 3-D illustrations that remind me of Tim Burton movies and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.”

http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/2007/09/index.html

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