Nate Williams’ dreamy poster announcing the Festival de l’Oh! can be seen throughout Paris and its outlying areas. The poster is for the annual river festival held in the small town of Val de Marne, France which is situated on a historically important riverway. The poster and a number of other illustrations were commissioned through an international artist selection process that reviewed artists work from a number of countries before a final decision was made to assign the project to Nate. Additional illustrations can be seen on the web link above.

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Red Nose Studio received an award of excellence in the category of ‘magazines: cover story’ from the Society for News Design 28th Annual international creative competition (2006). The illustrations were created for the Summer Reading issue of The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine.

http://www.snd.org/competitions/28winners.html

An ‘in-character’ portrait of Bigfoot illustrated by Graham Roumieu in the style of Me Write Book – It Bigfoot Memoir (Plume) was on the cover of the Arts & Life section of the National Post this Monday, June 25, 2007. The illustration accompanied an article titled ‘The Fur in Furtive’ that covers a filmmaker in Alberta who says he has found a colony of Bigfeet in the Rockies.

We’re always glad to see art directors go for ‘the real thing’ when it comes to representing our furry friend.

Shawn Barber’s series of six illustrations for Gatorade and Sports Illustrated Kids ad campaign can now be seen in print and online. The ‘Play Your Best’ campaign, which launched this month, features portraits of three athletes: Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade, US Women’s Soccer Team’s Kristine Lilly and the Colts Peyton Manning. The nicely designed campaign features Shawn’s portraits prominently alongside tips and drills to help your game. Two of the ads and can be seen online at the following addresses and the Peyton Manning ad should air in about a month.

Gatorade/Dwyane Wade

Gatorade/Kristine Killy

Gatorade/Peyton Manning

Dwyane Wade

Kristine Lilly

Peyton Manning

The opening reception for The Art Dorks Collective Group Exhibition at THINKSPACE in LA which included Shawn Barber’s work was a great success. The reception was podcast live via the TSG webcam and covered by VIMBY and the NEW ANGELES MONTHLY. It was also covered on BoingBoing. The webcam is online at Thinkspace Gallery along with the entire show. Check out the installation created by David Chung, Jeremy Pruitt, Joseph Daniel Fiedler, Robert Hardgrave, Kim Scott, Kristian Olson and Justin deGarmo.
The show runs through July 7th, 2007.

THINKSPACE Gallery
4210 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029Â (323) 913-3375

Shawn Barber is exhibiting in the The Art Dorks Collective Group Exhibition at THINKSPACE Gallery from June 9th to July 7th, 2007. Each ‘dork’ has painted a version of ‘dork-face’ logo for the show.

The show also features new work from Robert Hardgrave, Travis Louie, Brendan Danielsson, Chris Ryniak, Meagan Ridley, Kate Ridley, Dave Chung, Anthony Pontius, Kim Scott, Jeremy Pruitt, Gregory Jacobsen, Chris Mostyn, Matthew Pasquarello, Justin DeGarmo, Mark Elliott, Heiko Mueller, Jason Murphy, Mike Burnett, Johnny Yanok, and Jad Fair.

The opening reception is this Friday, June 8th from 7-11 pm.

THINKSPACE Gallery
4210 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029Â (323) 913-3375

Shawn Barber, Red Nose Studio and Emiliano Ponzi have been recognized by Communication Arts 48. Shawn and Emiliano each had one piece selected, while Red Nose Studio had two- including “Bill the Monster,” which was entered by the kind people at Reader’s Digest. Thanks, guys! The winning pieces will appear in the July 2007 issue of Communication Arts magazine. Congratulations everyone!

Hunger, The National Labor Federation

Born On A Blue Day, The Week

Bill the Monster, Reader’s Digest

Scare Up Some Fun, Pepsi

Ever wanted to watch Graham Roumieu at work? Well now you can, Graham illustrated the new “Old Style Pilsner” website for Molson Canada. The ‘hands on’ multimedia website features his sketches on the home page and includes spots and ‘live action’ drawn elements throughout the site. Canadians will chuckle at his take on the iconic pilsner label and yes folks, those are his hands.

Pilsner

Nate Williams and Alexander Blue have recently been doing some beautiful work for The San Francisco Chronicle. Here are a couple of our favorites.

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union book review / Nate Williams

Summer Book Review / Alexander Blue

Eight beautiful illustrations by seven Magnet Reps artists were chosen by the recent American Illustration jury to appear in American Illustration 26. Appearing in the book (available November 2007) and website are Gordon Wiebe, Emiliano Ponzi, Graham Roumieu and Red Nose Studio. Appearing solely on the website are Nate Williams (2) and Alexander Blue. A great year for a talented group of artists.

Spiritualism – Books & Culture

Punctuation Army

Under The Rainbow

Alberta Oil – The Walrus

The Gaze – San Francisco Chronicle

Mr. Wood

Organic – Utne Reader