Andrew Hem had nine pieces selected to appear in the Society of Illustrators 50th exhibition and annual. Congratulations, Andrew!

Ana Bagayan’s illustrations for the Daylesford campaign won the Eckersleys Medal for Best Illustration at the Melbourne Advertising & Design Club 2007 awards.

Melbourne Advertising & Design Club

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

Emiliano Ponzi appeared in the OpEd section of The New York Times on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007. His illustration accompanied an article, Junior Fear Abroad, about the stereotypes associated with being an American student traveling abroad.

The New York Times

Catalina Estrada’s work for Anunciacao appears in the current issue of Germany’s WeAr magazine. WeAr is a fashion workbook showcasing the most interesting collections, stores and market news worldwide and is available in 8 languages- English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese and Russian.

WeAr magazine

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

Shawn Barber is participating in a two-man show with Ron English for The Shooting Gallery. He will be showing 8 pieces that are a continuation of the Tattooed Portraits series and will be a precursor to his solo show next year at Billy Shire Fine Arts in Culver City, California. The show is part of the Red Dot Art Fair at the South Seas Hotel in Miami Beach. The show runs from December 6th to 9th.

The Shooting Gallery

Red Dot Fair

Portrait of the Artist, Kim Saigh, oil on linen, 60 x 44 inches

Portrait of the Artist, Shige (study), oil on panel, 30 x 24 inches

Portrait of the Artist, Cristy Road, oil on canvas, 44 x 32 inches

Shawn Barber will be one of over 25 artists participating in the F.A.M.E. Collective group show, part of the Miami Art Basel. The F.A.M.E. Collective is a four-story exhibition described as “the downtown art world meeting the uptown fine art world in a cultural crash collision course.” The show celebrates the world’s most prolific street artists that have elevated the mediums of graffiti, pop and contemporary art techniques to a fine-art form. Other artists participating in the show include Dave White, Futura, Ron English, Jeremy Fish, MARS-1, Kenji Hirata, Tomokazu Matsuyama and more. The show runs from Tuesday, December 4th to Friday, December 14th and takes place at 2228 Park Avenue, Miami Beach, FL. RSVP on their website.

F.A.M.E. Collective

Feast or Famine, oil on linen (36″ x 42″)

Gordon Wiebe is showing artwork in the fifth installment of Mark Murphy’s Know art exhibition to be held at this year’s Art Now Fair in Miami.

Art Now Fair will showcase approximately 50 different galleries from across the United States and internationally who have shown a commitment to exhibiting cutting edge, emerging, and thought-provoking art. The Fair will be held December 6th through 9th, 2007 at the Claremont Hotel.

Art Now Fair Miami

Mark Murphy

Hesitant Bather

Gordon Wiebe has done the cover art for Belgian band Guernica. The album is called Who Are Your Songs For? and will be released on December 9th on Vlas Vegas Records.

Guernica

Vlas Vegas Records