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Emiliano Ponzi illustrated for the OpEd section of The New York Times. The black and white illustration accompanies an article about the break-up of Pakistan and appears in the Thursday, January 31st edition.
The Break-Up of Pakistan
Catalina Estrada is featured on the cover of the current issue of WeAr magazine. WeAr is a fashion workbook showcasing the most interesting collections, stores and market news worldwide. Published in Germany, it is available in 8 languages- English, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese and Russian.
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Nate Williams was asked to contribute to the Insights section on the Design Interact website. Insights is a Q&A section that features someone in the design industry philosophizing about some aspect of the industry that’s important to them. Design Interact is the premiere source of information and inspiration for the interactive media industry and is part of the Commarts network.
Nate Williams (at left)
Jenn Playford’s cloth gift wrap, Furochic, was featured on Global TV’s morning news on Tuesday, January 5th and again on City TV’s City Line on Tuesday, January 22nd. Furochic is a stylish and environmentally-friendly alternative to paper. It is based on Furoshiki, a square cloth traditionally used in Japan to wrap shopping purchases and embellish important gifts. It is made out of 100% cotton and can be turned into a no-sew handbag, pillow covering, scarf, patchwork quilt or used to re-wrap another gift.
Furochic is available at Great Canadian Superstore locations and online at jennywrenpaperie.com.
Catalina Estrada is featured in a 4-page spread in the current issue (#39) of Turkey’s Bant magazine. Bant is a monthly magazine based in Istanbul that features art, music and film. Since it’s inception in 2004 Bant has expanded into the realms of concert promotion, workshops and even television, airing it’s own television show on Turkey’s channel S’nek since 2006.
Charles Wilkin has designed a bag for Blue Q, the designers and manufacturers of decorative objects, eclectic bath products, miniature books and other artful curiosities.
The “Crazy Collage Shopper” is made of woven polypropylene and is available on the Blue Q website and at various boutiques internationally.
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Shawn Barber will appear on an episode of TLC’s L.A. Ink. The show features one of Shawn’s new paintings, a portrait of tattoo artist and series regular, Kim Saigh. The painting is part of Shawn’s “Portrait of the Artist” series and was exhibited in the Red Dot Fair at Miami Art Basel. During the episode Kim gives Shawn a skull with roses tattoo and they discuss the oil painting she did of the same tattoo. The episode airs on Tuesday, January 22nd at 10pm on TLC.
Portrait of the Artist, Kim Saigh, oil on linen, 60 x 44 inches
Emiliano Ponzi illustrated for The New York Times’ Sunday Book Review section. His illustration accompanied a review of Frances Itani’s Remembering the Bones. Illustrator Juliette Borda’s work also appeared in that issue for an article in the Travel section about the Fishtown district of Philadelphia.
Catalina Estrada has two new products available at Chronicle Books- a mix and match stationery kit and a CD packaging kit. A beautiful collection of woodland animals adorn the mix and match stationery kit and the CD packaging kit features 25 CD sleeves and over 60 stickers, turning your music compilations and photo albums into works of art. Both are available from Chronicle Books now.
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
