Year: 2010
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Drazen Kozjan
Drazen Kozjan was born in Croatia and now lives in Canada, where his family moved when he was young. His career has included visual development and storyboarding for a number of features, including The Neverending Story, Rupert the Bear, Franklin The Turtle and George Shrinks. He is also an editorial illustrator and children’s book illustrator,…
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Glenn Jones
Glenn Jones, a freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Auckland, New Zealand, creates deceptively simple images that always have a twist or hook, usually leaving you smiling if not laughing out loud. After a 15 year design industry career, Jones found that his T-shirt designs for Threadless.com were so successful that he started his…
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Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting
Tiziano Vecellio, commonly called Titian, was one of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance. His reputation spread form his native Venice to Rome and the other art centers of Italy, as well as to Spain and throughout Europe. His mastery of oil painting, use of color, and strength in all phases of painting —…
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Chris Ryniak
On his blog Chris Ryniak describes himself as “monster & critter maker”. On his website you will find galleries of his monsters & critters both as paintings (also here) and as small scale sculptures in epoxy, glass, vinyl and acrylic. My timing is a little off with this post, in that his show at MyPlasticHeart…
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Machiavelli, online graphic novel by Don MacDonald
Niccolò Machiavelli was a 15th Century Italian diplomat, philosopher and writer, from whose political treatise, The Prince, along with other writings, we get the contemporary usage of his name in the term Machiavellian, referring to the use of deceptive cunning and planning in politics. Machiavelli himself, however, was hardly an example of the intricate political…
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Margarita (Hampa Studio)
Margarita is a beautifully designed, drawn and realized animated short (about 12 minutes long) from Hampa Studio. Another example of small independent studios doing high level work, this award winning story follows the adventures of a young princess (lived in the imagination of our actual protagonist, a young girl being read the story by her…