Red Nose Studio will be participating in Collaboration and Expansion at Savannah College of Art and Design. The panel discussion will address the profound changes the communication arts industry has seen over the past few years and the new opportunities these changes have opened up.

Moderated by SCAD Professor of Illustration, Julie Lieberman, the panel will include Tyler Darden, art director of Virginia Living Magazine, Bridgid McCarren, art director of HOW Magazine and artist/illustrators Anita Kunz, Christoph Niemann and Yuko Shimizu.

Collaboration and Expansion takes place on Wednesday, April 14th, at 6pm at the Trustees Theatre, and will be free and open to the public.

Nate Williams illustrated for Boston’s SoWa Open Market. The market, which is currently in it’s seventh year, hosts a wide variety of vendors. Whether you’re looking for hand-crafted accessories, original art, indie designer clothing or just a fresh loaf of bread, you’ll be sure to find whatever it is you’re looking for.

Red Nose Studio’s wine labels for Blasted Church are currently being featured in the Exhibit Online section of the Communication Arts website.

This storytelling wine label project has been a wonderful collaboration between Chris Sickels (Red Nose Studio), Laurie Millotte & Bernie Hadley-Beauregard (Brandever) and Evelyn Campbell – a most trusting, open-minded and ultra cool client (Blasted Church Vineyards).

The Blasted Church label series tell the true story of an abandoned church that was dismantled in 1929 with the resourceful use of three dynamite sticks … to loosen the nails. The church was then moved some 20 miles to a new home in Okanagan Falls, British Columbia where it still stands to this day.

Our creative development process was rich with wild ideas, rules-bending, and quirky humor. We anticipate that the wine establishment will find these labels objectionable, … but consumers may think differently!
- Brandever

Red Nose Studio will be doing a reading of Here Comes the Garbage Barge! by Jonah Winter at Happen, Inc. in Cincinnati, OH this Friday, March 26th, 2010. The first 30 families will receive a free autographed copy and some of the 3D models from the book will be on display. There is a suggested donation of $10 for this event.

Friday, March 26th, 2010 6:30PM
Happen, Inc. 4201 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati, OH

Here Comes the Garbage Barge!, written by Jonah Winter and illustrated by Red Nose Studio, was released last month and has received some great reviews. The book, published by Schwartz + Wade, is available through Amazon. Check out this amazing video to see how the art was made.

This fable, based on an actual incident in 1987, has its plasticized tongue planted firmly in its polymer cheek. Red Nose Studio created each of these illustrations out of wire, cloth, clay and, to put it bluntly, trash. What better medium for a book about a barge that totes 3,168 tons of garbage from Islip, N.Y., to Belize and back again — stopping along the way in North Carolina, New Orleans, Mexico, Texas and Florida. Did any place welcome the Break of Dawn and its stinky load? Not the police . . . the mayor . . . the coast guard . . . and especially not the Mexican Navy. Equal opportunity stereotyping abounds: Gino Stroffolino, the archetypical New York mobster, says “dis” and “dat”; the Mayor of New Orleans wears Mardi Gras beads; south of the border they pack pistols and sport handlebar mustaches; and Floridians are old and white and float around in rubber-ducky inner tubes. Cautionary? Yes. Hilarious? You betcha!
By Kristi Jemtegaard, The Washington Post

Winter, whose You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! (2009) was graced by some of the year’s most dazzling artwork, returns with another uniquely illustrated picture book. He takes the story from a 1987 incident in which a Long Island town decided to send more than 3,000 tons of trash down to North Carolina. In Winter’s fictionalized account, Cap’m Duffy of the tugboat Break of Dawn is saddled with hauling the garbage down south but gets turned away from port after port, all the way down to Belize. While Winter’s folksy, storyteller’s voice captures the scruffy spirit of the adventure with plenty of humor, the artwork by Red Nose Studio steals this show. Photographs of polymer-clay models and found materials (including, you guessed it, piles of trash) have the same uncanny-but-fun allure of Claymation videos, and if it’s not exactly endearing, that’s fine—a book about a stinky pile of garbage has no business being prettied up. Just in case the moral isn’t clear, a buoy helpfully spells it out, “Don’t make so much garbage!!!”
By Jay Freeman, Booklist

Nate Williams illustrated a hand-lettered logo for The Land of Me, a new interactive game from Made In Me. The game is geared towards children aged 2 and up and has been designed to inspire creativity and playful learning with the help of a snow monkey named Yama-San, Anthony the Anteater and Doda and Genghis, two otters with a passion for dance!

Nate Williams was thrilled when Rachael sent him this pic of a cake she had made for a friend’s birthday. The cake was inspired by Nate’s Petri Dish pillow for Hola Amiga. We hope Kara had a very happy birthday!

Nate Williams illustrated for eco-friendly stationery company, Ecojot. His illustrations are featured on six journals, each made with 100% post-consumer recycled paper products and vegetable-based inks and glues.

For each journal, jumbo journal and sketchbook purchased, Ecojot will donate a notebook to a child in a developing country as part of their Buy One, We Give One campaign.

Ana Bagayan is hosting a Fan Appreciation Day as a ‘Thank You’ to all the fans that have supported her artwork over the years. To show her gratitude, Ana is giving away three prizes. Visit her blog to see how you can enter to win an original drawing, her Medicine Boy t-shirt or her last Critters print. Good luck!