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Bella Pilar has recently completed illustrations for Tiffany & Co. to be used on ‘By Invitation Only’ special collection and events. The illustrations featured below were fora special best customer ladies shopping event, a cocktail ring event, and a blue and green gemstone event.
We are pleased to announce the addition of talented artist Charles Wilkin to Magnet Reps. Charles’ multi-disciplinary background shines through in his signature mixed-media and digitally assisted collage illustration work. His inventive combinations of handmade and creatively appropriated visual elements are simultaneously clean and messy, old and new, consciously communicative and beautifully abstract.
Having started the successful design firm Automatic Art and Design and the font foundry Prototype (both are still going strong) in 1994, Charles has grown creatively in directions rare for many illustrators. It’s no surprise his illustration variously includes handlettering and type of all kinds and has a well developed design sensibility. What is refreshing, is the serendipitous appearance of his work with fragments of drawn, painted, lettered, graphic and photographic elements wavering between smart mid-century and ‘this century’ aesthetics.
Take a look at his work, we hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we do. Welcome Charles!
Cut and Paste: The Collage Show features some of the most notable names in contemporary collage including Gordon Wiebe and Charles Wilkin from Magnet Reps as well as Poul Hans Lange, David Fullarton, and David Plunkert among others. Guest curated by Jim Kaufmann, the show runs from March 3rd – 31st at TAG gallery in Nashville.
TAG Art Gallery
237 5th Avenue North
Nashville TN, 37219
615-255-7816
In the March 14th, 2007 article ‘Is the Pen Mightier Than the Photo?’ printed in New York’s The L Magazine, Bella Pilar is referenced along with a few other fashion illustrators as an example of “fashion’s movement … into the realm of the fantastical”. An illustration of Bella’s is featured as a lead image in both the print and web editions of the magazine.
Red Nose Studio will be exhibiting in the HIDDEN DEPTH group show opening tonight from 6 to 10 pm at Subtext in San Diego’s Little Italy. The show, which runs through April 20th, will showcase sculptural and mixed media pieces and will also feature work by Kevin Titzer, Jenna Colby, Matt Burlingame, Mike Maxwell and Josh Longo.
Subtext
680 West Beech St, #1
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 876-0664
Archiventure has included an illustration by Nate Williams in it’s launch of Re:Vision, the first in a series of ‘Competitions For Visionary Thinkers’. Eight visionary urban artists were commissioned for the project including Ricky Watts, Blaine Fontana and Ferris Plock.
The five current competitions Re:Volt, Re:Route, Re:Store, Re:Connect, and Re:Vision, challenge us all to be bold, think big, and imagine that we all have the power to change the world. Themed around urban development, transportation, economy, community and architecture, each competition encourages the exploration of visionary ideas for the design of urban space.
Nate’s illustration for Re:Vision accompanies a competition that will ultimately transform an actual run-down city block into a thriving mixed-use area centered on the family and local business.
On the first leg of a trip around the world for Conde Nast Traveler Magazine, Graham Roumieu illo blogs it on a roadtrip from New York to Los Angeles with food and travel writer Mark Schatzker. On this first leg of the ‘80 Days or Bust: One man’s attempt to circumnavigate the globe the old-fashioned way’ journey the pair are off traveling no faster than 100 mph and taking the time to see, eat, drink, and blog about their experiences.
Leaving from Red Hook, Brooklyn in a loaner Mercedes E320 CDI, Graham will accompany Mark to Los Angeles on a one-week deadline where Mark will travel westward to the Far East by ocean liner. They plan to retrace Jack Kerouac’s classic On the Road route as closely as possible and to eat in the very diners he did back in the day, or as close a match to them as can be had. (As you read the blog you will see that this becomes difficult and unappetizing.)
First stop Chicago . . .
Check out the blog at http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/blogs/80days/
