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Emiliano Ponzi will be doing a live online tutorial that walks participants through the process of bringing a sketch to final illustration using Corel Paint. Twenty-five users can register to view Emiliano’s monitor for each one-hour session with three sessions in total. The event takes place on Thursday, June 5th and is being presented by Scatto Design, an Italian design blog. Click here for more information.
Emiliano Ponzi illustrated the cover of Italian author Franceso Gungui’s latest novel Nel catalogo c’è tutto (or It’s All In the Catalog in English). The book was published by Feltinelli and is available online.
Bella Pilar’s newest series of cards and gift bags for Papyrus are now out. The items feature glitter embellishments and are available in stores now!
Catalina Estrada was invited by Tiempo BBDO (Barcelona) to participate in a campaign to raise awareness about violence against women. The campaign was sponsored by YO DONA, a section of Spain’s El Mundo newspaper, and acts as a preview to the Iberoamerican Festival of Publicity Communication.
The theme of Tiempo BBDO’s campaign was to have three posters art directed by men and illustrated by women. The idea was to show a very feminine and delicate illustration contrasted with curse words to show that violence against women often starts with verbal abuse and that women shouldn’t wait for the violence to turn physical before they seek help. The other illustrators that took part in the project are Carolina Melis and Nina Chakrabarti.
Seven other advertising and design agencies from Spain were also asked to participate in the campaign and people are invited to vote for their favorite online.
Click here to see all three posters.
Click here to see the other campaigns.
Click here to vote for your favorite.
Emiliano Ponzi was recently the feature of a half hour TV show in Italy called Life Sharing. In each episode, the show’s hosts interview a different guest with the interview being directed by the contents of their guest’s laptop computer. Emiliano’s interview obviously included quite a bit about illustration and is fun to watch. Tune in to the link below on his myspace page to view the episode, although if your Italian is not up to snuff you will be entertained solely by the lovely imagery and the preponderance of double cheek kissing.
Red Nose Studio was invited to speak at this year’s HOW Design Conference at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA. His session, Inside Red Nose Studio: The Creative Process of Illustrator Chris Sickels, focused on the process of bringing an illustration from sketch to model to animation and how to take full advantage of the tools you have at hand. The conference ran from May 18th to 21st with Red Nose Studio’s session taking place on Tuesday, May 20, 2008.
Click here for an interview with Chris from the conference.
Graham Roumieu will be appearing on Seán Cullen’s Seán Schau at The Drake Underground in Toronto on Wednesday, May 28th. Seán Cullen, a comedian, actor, singer, broadcaster and author, hosts a monthly talk/comedy show at The Drake and regularly features literary and musical guests. He also delivered a eulogy at the recent launch party of Graham’s Bigfoot: I Not Dead.
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Doors Open at 8:30 pm
The Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St. W., Toronto
Catalina Estrada was invited to be one of 12 European illustrators hand-picked to appear in PRINT’s European Annual issue. For the past 12 years PRINT has published this widely anticipated issue, which presents the work of accomplished illustrators and designers as well as articles on design trends from all over Europe.
PRINT European Annual- available now!
Catalina Estrada was asked to design a pair of Camper’s LOCUS shoes in celebration of their 33rd anniversary. Camper Shoes was created in Barcelona in 1975 so in honour of their 33rd anniversary they asked 6 local creators from different disciplines to illustrate, transform, customize and fine-tune their famous LOCUS shoe. Other participants include: Lievore Altherr Molina (Industrial Design), Nani Marquina (Textile Design), America Sanchez (Graphic Design), Philip Stanton (Illustration & Graphic Art) and Chu Uroz (Fashion Design). The shoes will be available in Camper stores this fall.
