Month: August 2006
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Claude Bordeleau
Claude Bordeleau is a Canadian illustrator, designer and cartoonist who has done work for Warner Brothers and Cartoon Networks as well as a number of other editorial and advertising clients. Bordeleau has a springy, lively cartoon illustration style with lots of energy and color that is nicely restrained with precision linework. He uses a rich…
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Zip and Li’l Bit (Trade Loeffler)
Zip and Li’l Bit is a webcomic by Trade Loeffler that is simultaneously quite modern and nicely retro. By “retro” in this case, I’m referring to newspaper comics from the early part of the 20th Century (or “Golden Age”, coinciding with the Golden Age of illustration). I say that partly because of the excellent drawing,…
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Illustration Mundo
Illustration Mundo is a portal/blog (for lack of better terms) devoted to illustration. It was created by Illustrator Nate Williams because he felt the lack of a portal site specifically for illustration (as opposed to those which included design, photography, film, etc. as well as illustration). The site has recently incorporated Erik Olsen’s illustration podcast…
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Art-o-mat
OK, so you’re in an art museum shop, nosing through the Impressionist calendars and Cezanne-on-a-cup bric-a-brac, and you notice what appears to be… a cigarette vending machine. Huh? “What is this?”, you think, “a MOMA-style exhibition of industrial design?” Hmmm…, you walk closer and it becomes obvious that the machine is not vending death-sticks from…
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Armand Serrano (update)
I posted about visual development artist Armand Serrano last month. Since then his web site has had a complete redesign with added material and a much improved interface. I mentioned in my original post that the interface of the old site was a bit frustrating and difficult to use. His new design is superb and…
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John White Alexander
John White Alexander was an American illustrator and painter in the Victorian era. He studied in Munich and for a while joined a colony of painters Frank Duveneck had established in Bavaria. On the advice of James McNeill Whistler, he continued his studies in Florence, Amsterdam and Paris before returning to the U.S. in 1881.…