RED NOSE STUDIO for Schwartz & Wade The Beginner's Guide to Running Away from Home by Jennifer LaRue Huget Visit Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast for behind-the-scenes photos
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Red Nose Studio for The New York Times
Red Nose Studio recently illustrated for The New York Times' piece Eat My Dust where writer, Steven Kurutz, tested a half-dozen portable air purifiers in an attempt to alleviate allergies. The article ran in last week's Home & Garden section.
Magnet Artists for Charity
Eleanor Grosch, Bella Pilar and Red Nose Studio each contributed artwork to the 19th Annual Children's Book Art Silent Auction, part of BookExpo America at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. All proceeds from the auction support efforts opposing the censorship of children's books and authors, including The Kids' Right to Read Project, Banned Books Week and the ongoing legal efforts working on behalf of children’s books and authors nationwide.
The auction takes place on Wednesday, May 29th from 5:30 to 7:30pm in the River Pavilion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The art can be previewed online with some of the pieces available for bidding prior to BookExpo America as part of a special online auction, opening Saturday, May 18th at 9am and closing Friday, May 24th at 9pm.
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Red Nose for MicroVisions Auction
Red Nose Studio's Chris Sickels is one of thirteen artists contributing artwork to the annual MicroVisions auction at the Society of Illustrators in New York. Each piece measures 5x7 inches with all proceeds benefiting the Society of Illustrators student scholarship fund. The eBay auction goes live Tuesday, April 23rd and will end Thursday, May 2nd at 7:00pm. Chris' piece 'Waiting for Shackleton' was inspired by Sir Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914. Visit Chris' blog to see preliminary sketches and read more about the piece.
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There will be a Happy Hour and Opening Reception celebrating MicroVisions at the Society of Illustrators on Wednesday, April 24th from 6:00 to 10:00pm. The artwork will be on display until Saturday, May 18th.
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Magnet Artists for American Illustration
We're pleased to announce that several Magnet artists were recognized by American Illustration and will appear in either the AI32 annual or on THE ARCHIVE as part of American Illustration's website collection. Graham Roumieu, Jungyeon Roh, Pieter Van Eenoge and Red Nose Studio had their work selected to appear as full-pages in the annual.
The AI32 book and THE ARCHIVE will launch November 6th-7th at American Illustration's two annual events – The Party and BIG TALK – in New York City.
Congratulations go out to all!
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Workshop with Red Nose Studio
Red Nose Studio's Chris Sickels will host a stop-motion animations workshop at the Society of Illustrators in New York this Saturday, April 20th, 2013 from 1:00 to 5:00pm. Click here for more information or to purchase tickets.
From the Society of Illustrators website: Join the Society and sculptural/ 3D illustrator Chris Sickels, the artist behind Red Nose Studio, for a bare bones, lo-fi stop-motion animation workshop that is an opportunity to submerge into a miniature world of Red Nose characters that you and your fellow participants bring to life via 24 minuscule movements/frames per second.
The workshop will focus on the basics of hands on stop-motion animation: The first 30 minutes will include a demonstration on incremental movements and capturing of individual frames. We will use a set with ready made environmental elements, characters, props, etc. that are then composed and animated by the group as a whole. The goal is to utilize off-the-cuff story telling and 'spontaneous' animation and discover what can come from a group of creatives being run through a crash course on one of the most tedious ways of creating movement in film.
Click here to view an example video from a past workshop.
TICKETS $100 non-members, $90 members Space is limited to 20 participants so please RSVP soon!
Red Nose Studio for The New Yorker
The New Yorker's special Journeys issue hit the stands today and we couldn't be happier! We've been waiting a long time to share the artwork Red Nose Studio created for the iconic weekly magazine and the time has finally come. Inspired by stories about traveling off the beaten path, Chris combined 3D and hand-drawn elements to create a series of whimsical illustrations featuring an oddball character on a series of far out adventures, from jetting through outer space to riding a polar bear across the arctic on an ice floe.
Red Nose Studio's Duroc Pig
Red Nose Studio was commissioned to create an illustration celebrating a major scientific breakthrough in pig genetics. Scientists at the University of Illinois recently published a high-quality draft genome sequence for a female domestic Duroc pig, increasing the potential of the pig as a biomedical model for studying human disease. The team's lead scientist is a huge Pink Floyd fan and asked Chris to use the cover of their Animals album as inspiration for the piece. A large framed print of the artwork hangs in his office and each member of the team received a t-shirt with the art to commemorate the discovery.
Red Nose: Lecture and Exhibition @ Watkins College
Red Nose Studio was invited to speak at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in Nashville, TN on Thursday, March 7th, 2013 as part of their Visiting Artists Series. The lecture begins at 5:30 and will be immediately followed by a reception from 6:00 to 8:30 for Illustration the Hard Way: Process, Sets & Puppets, featuring Chris' preparatory sketches, fabric samples, photographs and puppets. It will be on display in the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Gallery on campus through Thursday, April 4th. The event is free and open to the public.
Dan Brawner, Chair of the Department of Graphic Design at Watkins, says: "Chris Sickels aka Red Nose Studio is one of the most inventive illustrators on the planet. An avid scribbler, builder and maker, Chris is a modern day Geppetto, cobbling together new worlds out of springs and cogs and other found bits and pieces. Via books, advertising and animation he entertains a wide audience with his odd, puppet-filled worlds – garbage barges, look books and holistic visualization are but a few curious topics that have inspired investigation and storytelling. The visual treats from Red Nose Studio are a feast for the face."
Click here to read press about the event.
Watkins College of Art, Design & Film 2298 Rosa L. Parks Blvd., Nashville, TN
Red Nose Studio for Orange Coast + Planadviser
Red Nose Studio's recent editorial work includes assignments from Orange Coast Magazine and Planadviser. His recent piece for Orange Coast Magazine's Secrets of Disneyland dispels some of the enduring myths about America's most-loved theme park, while his cover for Planadviser offers tips to wake up 401k participants.
Red Nose Studio's 'Little Things'
Last summer Red Nose Studio was invited to collaborate on the development of an original ballet for Dance East Ballet Academy in Chris' hometown of Greenfield, IN.
The ballet, called Little Things, revolves around the struggle between a young girl named Sophia and her mother. While visiting her eccentric grandmother’s house on Christmas Eve, Sophia searches for a lost gift and stumbles across a magic door in her grandmother's old bookcase. The portal leads to a secret world inhabited by gremlins, spiderwebs, evil witchy things and their queen, and the mastermind, Stephen Von Breckenbocker. Sophia must summon strength from the Christmas Angels – Faith, Wisdom and Perseverance – who help Sophia see the qualities her mother has struggled to instill in her.
In addition to creating the poster for the production, Chris helped develop the look of the ballet's main characters and designed and built the set. He says "For me, the challenge was how to create characters that help tell the visual story without any dialogue. Designing costumes that enhance movement of the dancers and not hamper it proved to be the biggest challenge. Seeing a costume on paper and on a body was one thing, but if that character couldn’t move like they needed to, things had to be modified."
The ballet ran during the 2012 holiday season and will be an annual production that grows and refines with time and the ages of the dancers. Visit Chris' blog for more sketches and photos from the production and to see a documentary about the making of Little Things filmed and produced by Rebecca Elayne Dixon.
Red Nose for Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly's annual Best and Worst issue - the much-anticipated issue counts down the year's best (and worst) in entertainment, from tv's most romantic moments to the top five stand-up albums. In the issue is Red Nose Studio's piece for their feature on Journey, their pick for the year's best video game. Click here to see some behind-the-scenes shots and to find out more about the process that went into creating the character's mysterious glowing eyes.
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Red Nose Studio for HOW
Red Nose Studio won a merit award in the HOW International Design Competition. The competition recognizes excellence on a global scale with winners appearing in the HOW International Design Annual. Congratulations!
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Red Nose Studio's web banners for the Deliver magazine website. Deliver magazine is published by the United States Postal Service.
Red Nose Studio in NYC for ILLUSTRATORS 55
Red Nose Studio's Chris Sickels will be at the Society of Illustrators' Awards Presentation & Gala for ILLUSTRATORS 55 in New York on Friday, Jan. 4th at 6pm. He’d love to say hello if you’ll be coming, he’ll be the one walking around with fresh new no.2 pencils for those last few New Year’s resolutions. Feel free to sharpen them up and jot down a note at the old-school sharpener installed as part of his exhibit at the show.
Chris' selected pieces (including the one below, created for this year’s Society of Illustrators Call for Entries poster), will be on display as part of the group exhibition Jan. 4 – 26, 2013. Click here to read more about the artwork or visit the Red Nose Studio blog to find out more about the process behind the winning illustration.
Whether you can make it to the gala or not, Chris would love to drop by your office to say hello. If you’d like a visit on Thursday, January 3rd or Friday, Jan. 4th – give us a call at [866] 390-5656 or drop us a line at art@magnetreps.com, we’ll set it up.
For more information on tickets to the gala and exhibit, visit the Society of Illustrators website. Hope to see you there!
Two Winning Series For Red Nose Studio
Red Nose Studio has won two entries in the Society of Illustrators upcoming show and annual. Both were entries in the Series and Sequential Art category which will go on exhibit in the the Society’s New York gallery from Jan. 4-26th, 2013.
The first winning entry was a series of homepage banners for Deliver Magazine’s website, and the second was the series of illustrations created for this years’ Society of Illustrators Call For Entries poster. Opening night for the exhibition is Jan. 4, 2013.
Thank you to the assigning art directors, the Society, and its jurors.
Red Nose Studio for Reader's Digest
Red Nose Studio's Chris Sickels is currently featured in the Inspiring Stories section of the Reader's Digest website. A long-time contributor to Reader's Digest, Chris shares a selection of his favorite work, from recent Angie's List covers to an upcoming release from Random House Children's Books. In his interview with Damom Beres, Chris discusses the process behind his work, the high school art teacher that inspired him and the "clumsy dwarfish Barbie doll scale" of his work.
Red Nose Studio for Deliver
Red Nose Studio recently created a series of illustrations for the Deliver magazine website. Each of his whimsical illustrations were featured as the website's banner image for a period of 3 months, also appearing in e-blasts and on the Deliver iPad app. Deliver is the leading publication for mail marketing strategies and is published by the United States Postal Service.
Red Nose at Design Family Reunion
Red Nose Studio's Chris Sickels was invited to lead a stop-motion animation workshop at the Design Family Reunion this past Labor Day weekend. Modeled on family reunions and wedding weekends, the informal gathering was intended to reunite those who have come to know each other over the years through professional practice and collaboration.
Held on beautiful Asilomar Beach in Pacific Grove, California, Chris called the conference "unlike any other that I have participated in. A slowed down pace and conversation galore. Never have I had such an opportunity to sit back and take in conversation with new and old friends. No masses of people herding in and out of ballrooms and no PowerPoint presentations."
Visit Chris' blog to see photos from the weekend.
Red Nose for Society of Illustrators 55 Call for Entries
Red Nose Studio created the poster art for the Society of Illustrators 55th Annual Exhibition's Call for Entries. John Hendrix, chair of Society competitions, said they were looking for something humorous and not too self-serving and Chris considered a wide range of possibilities – from a man riding a buffalo to an old fashioned pistol duel and one very hairy gentleman. With long-time collaborator SooJin Buzelli art directing, the final piece is a witty interpretation of an artist "sharpening" his skills and can be seen on the Society website and in their printed mailer.
On being asked to illustrate for the competition, Chris says: I was taken back a bit, never would have figured that I would be asked to do the poster. Although, I remember staring at Tim Bower's image for the 44th annual call for entries poster (the 19th image in his portfolio) and dreamily trying to imagine what I would create if I were in his shoes.
Visit Chris' blog to read more about the project and to see some preliminary sketches.
Illustrators are invited to submit artwork through October 26th, 2012 with selected pieces appearing in ILLUSTRATORS 55, "America's Original Annual of Illustration," and at the Museum of Illustration in New York from January 4th to March 2nd, 2013. Visit www.soicompetitions.org for details and registration.
