Kim Rosen: HOW Magazine Merit Award

A campaign Kim Rosen recently illustrated for the Starbucks-sponsored Hot Java Cool Jazz posters won a merit award for non-profit work in HOW Magazine.
The original project was to create one poster for each of the 5 high school jazz bands playing at the annual Hot Java Cool Jazz event.
Congrats Kim!!

HOW Magazine

Kim Rosen - Hot Java Cool Jazz posters

Kim Rosen - Hot Java Cool Jazz Poster #5

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Calef Brown prize at Chronicle Art Auction at ALA

Article edited from our friends at Publishers Weekly

Some of the lucky attendees at The January 20th Chronicle Books' cocktail party, January at ALA Midwinter, got more than a preview of some of the publisher’s forthcoming books—some walked away with artwork from artists, including Sylvia Long, Calef Brown, Sophie Blackall, and Christopher Silas Neal. Chronicle Books held a raffle at the cocktail party, with winners receiving a piece of original art on display at the event.
In the photo below is winner Edie Ching (left) showing off her prize: an original Calef Brown illustration from His Shoes Were Far Too Tight:

Original Calef Brown Illustration won by Edie Ching (L)

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Santiago's Dirt Rag Mag Table of Contents

Whether you're a mountain bike aficionado or read Dirt Rag Magazine just for fun, you'll appreciate Santiago Uceda's illustration for the new issue's table of contents.  Fun illustration in his typical, warm, and unique style which we love (not because we're biased!)!

Santiago Uceda - Dirt Rag Magazine Table of Contents illustration

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Kim Rosen illustrates 3rd Billabong Surfboard

Kim Rosen - Billabong surfboard design

This 3rd Billabong surf board illustrated by Kim Rosen will be on display in the Maui Billabong store. For Kim, these boards are so much fun to create as she enjoys the challenge of the working within the format of the board.
So far, Kim's designed surfboards are being displayed in Soho-NYC, Deerfield-FL, Panama-Canada, Limeridge-Canada, and now in Maui-Hawaii.

Kim Rosen - Billabong surfboard design

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Lucie Rice - Your Preschooler's Toughest Questions Answered!

Lucie Rice created these illustrations for the February 2012 issue of Parenting magazine for an article titled "Your Preschooler's Toughest Questions Answered!"  Her style works so well with illustrations of adults and toddlers alike - fun fun!

Lucie Rice - Parenting Magazine, February 2012

Lucie Rice - Parenting Magazine, February 2012

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Livia Cives animation for Mangowave.org

Our very own Livia Cives just finished this very cool animation for Mangowave.org, a new website launching in a few days -- of course, we can't reveal the content yet, but we thought you might still appreciate the preview clip:

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Bob Dob's demons

Bob Dob has illustrated the covers for all 5 books in the series Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go, and now he's working on the 6th one.  Here are just a few of the characters he created for the first book...they're so cute, yet creepy!

Bob Dob - Banana Meat Demons

Bob Dob - Humpty Dumpty Bat Demon

Bob Dob - Inside Out Demon

Bob Dob - Mantis Demon

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The Sardonic Smile by Chris Buzelli

Chris Buzelli recently completed a cover for The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. The cover project was to illustrate "the sardonic smile" as a medical term.

From Chris's blog:
"I knew about the cynical/vengeful expression of a sardonic smile but I had no idea about it as a medical term. In medicine, it is defined as a smile-like facial expression induced by involuntary muscle spasms most often caused by toxins released by tetanus bacteria. However in folklore, the sardonic smile has a much more interesting past. It might have to do with the ingestion of the sardonion plant from Sardinia which cause muscle spasms, laughter and death. "

Chris Buzelli - sketches for "The Sardonic Smile"

Chris Buzelli - final illustration for "The Sardonic Smile"

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Calef Brown - Annoying Buzzwords

Calef Brown did this illustration for a feature in the December 2011 issue of PlanSponsor Magazine.  The article was about annoying buzzwords in the workplace, and we think Calef's illustration does a great job of conveying this. It must be the way he thinks outside of the box...  :)

Calef Brown - Annoying Buzzwords

Calef's illustration in context of the article

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Bob Dob - Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go

Bob Dob has been illustrating the covers for Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go since the series first began in 2007.  Here are the first 4 books, and the 5th one will be released this May.  Bob is currently working on the cover of the 6th book, and there will ultimately be 9 in the series. 

Bob Dob - Heck cover - 1st in series

Bob Dob - Heck cover - 2nd in series

Bob Dob - Heck cover - 3rd in series

Bob Dob - Heck cover - 4th in series


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Kim Rosen - Middle East Storytelling

Kim Rosen illustrates a story is about a friendship between an Israeli man and a Palestinian woman and their dreams of using storytelling to break all the barriers of conflict between the two nations.

Kim Rosen - "Middle East Storytelling"

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Calef Brown's Gertrude Stein... in French!

Calef Brown illustrated a children's book about Gertrude Stein titled, "Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude", written by Jonah Winter.  The book focuses on the relationship between Gertrude and her partner Alice B. Toklas, their colorful life in Paris, and the people who surrounded them.  The book was originally published in 2009, and it has just been published in a French edition.

Here are a few images from the book - oh la la!

Calef Brown - Getrude Stein

Calef Brown - Alice B. Toklas

Calef Brown - Ernest Hemingway