Happy Holidays!!

Wishing you all a super duper holiday with this fun gif by Santiago Uceda!

Santiago Uceda's holiday card

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Santiago Uceda's phobias

Santiago Uceda created this piece on phobias for a group show called "Flesh, Blood & Data".  The show featured a collection of infographics, and the theme was based on the idea that information designers go through a process to gather content, synthesize data, and then weave their findings into cohesive stories.  Interesting!

Santiago Uceda - Phobias

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Santiago Uceda illustrates and animates for Troy-Bilt

Santiago Uceda recently worked on this fun project for Troy-Bilt lawn equipment called "Think Spring - Tell Us How It's Done".

Santiago created all of the illustrations and animation for this interactive campaign which allows people to share stories of their own backyard projects.  Users upload personal photos and describe the projects in their own words, and it's all set against the animated backgrounds that Santiago created.

It's fun to see his work in motion, and you can go to the Troy-Bilt video gallery, and click  on any of the stories to check it out for yourself.

Here are some screenshots:

Santiago Uceda - Illustration & animation for Troy-Bilt "How It's Done"

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Santiago Uceda for Vegetarian Times magazine

Santiago Uceda did these 2 pieces for Vegetarian Times magazine for their "Veg Supplement Guide: Five nutrient-boosters every vegan and vegetarian should know".

Santiago Uceda - Supplements

Santiago Uceda - Spot Illustration for Vegetarian Times magazine

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Santiago Uceda for Common Ground magazine

Santiago Uceda was commissioned by the Community Associations Institute to create a multi-headed monster for a piece in their publication, Common Ground magazine.  The article is about board member conflicts of interest, and Santiago's 4-headed beast fits the bill!

Santiago Uceda - Conflict

Santiago Uceda - Beware of the Beast - Common Ground Magazine

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Santiago Uceda - How To Carry Bigfoot Home

Santiago Uceda illustrated this cover for a book titled How To Carry Bigfoot Home by Chris Tarry.  The author ran across Santiago's Bigfoot on Bike poster, and thought he'd be a great fit for the cover of his book…and we agree!

Here is the final cover illustration of the book, which is scheduled for release in Spring 2015, along with a couple of other renditions of Bigfoot by Santiago:

Santiago Uceda - cover illustration for How to Carry Bigfoot Home

Santiago Uceda - cover illustration for How to Carry Bigfoot Home

Santiago Uceda - Bigfoot Family

Santiago Uceda - Bigfoot on Bike

Santiago Uceda - Bigfoot

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Santiago Uceda - Put a Bird In It

Santiago Uceda contributed his artwork to the annual fundraiser, "Put a Bird In It", which helps to support the arts in Portland's public schools.  Santiago also participated in the event last year, and here are a few pics of his latest creation for this year's event.

Here is a link to an interview with Santiago by one of the kind folks at We Make.

And check out this super cool video of Santiago in action building his house:

Santiago Uceda - Birdhouse in the making...

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Santiago Uceda - 2013 illustration and animation reel

Santiago Uceda, our illustration and motion graphics extraordinaire, has just released his latest animation reel and we think it's pretty cool!  Love his style, whether still or moving.  What do you think?


Santiago Uceda - 2013 Illustration and Animation Reel from Jennifer Vaughn on Vimeo.

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Santiago Uceda for Ted-Ed

Recently Santiago Uceda was asked to create an animation for TED-Ed , which is the education extension of TED and is made up of educational videos that are collaborations between talented educators and animators who are nominated through the TED-Ed platform.  It was a great honor for Santiago to be asked to participate in this project, and he and an educator collaborated to create this video that explains how we breathe.  Santiago did the illustrations and the animation, and here is the final video along with some screen shots.  Nice work, Santiago!


 

Santiago Uceda - Screen shot from "How Breathing Works"

Santiago Uceda - Screen shot from "How Breathing Works"

Santiago Uceda - Screen shot from "How Breathing Works"

Santiago Uceda - Screen shot from "How Breathing Works"

Santiago Uceda - Screen shot from "How Breathing Works"

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Santiago Uceda - AI-AP International Motion Awards

We recently learned that Santiago Uceda was selected as a winner in the first annual American Illustration - American Photography (AI-AP) International Motion Art Awards (IMAA).  Santiago's winning entry was a commercial that he worked on for Oregon State University's economic impact, and his piece was 1 of only 46 that were selected in this inaugural IMAA juried competition, which "celebrates photographers, illustrators, and designers who make their work move in all media".  Congratulations, Santiago!

Santiago Uceda - selected work for the 1st annual International Motion Art Awards

Santiago Uceda - IMAA selected work

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Jennifer Vaughn Artist Agency group show in Dallas

We're coming back to Dallas, and this time it's for a gallery show featuring the work of 12 of our artists at TractorBeam Gallery from October 11 until November 9th, 2012.

If you're in the Dallas area this Thursday, try to make it to the opening which is from 7 to 10pm – we'll have drinks, music, some great art, ... and most of all we'd love to say hello! 

Artists showing: Calef Brown, Chris Buzelli, Bob Dob, Charles Glaubitz, Terri Fry Kasuba, Craig LaRotonda, Jen Lobo, Joel Nakamura, Martha Rich, Dave Stevenson, Santiago Uceda, and Marco Wagner

Jennifer Vaughn Artist Agency + Tractorbeam - October 11, 2012

Santiago Uceda painting for Put A Bird In It

Santiago Uceda used his unique style to decorate this birdhouse for an upcoming benefit show in Portland, Oregon.  The event is called "Put A Bird In It", and participants were asked to build and paint their own birdhouse.  All of the birdhouses will be auctioned off during Portland Design Week, and the proceeds will go toward music and art programs in Portland public schools.

Santiago Uceda - Painted birdhouse for fundraiser, "Put A Bird In It"

Santiago Uceda - Birdhouse detail

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Santiago Uceda's portraiture

Here is a recent portrait illustration that Santiago Uceda did of Oregon congressman Peter DeFazio.  Santiago describes the style as a hybrid of his older style and what he's doing now.  In Santiago's own words, "The way I draw portraits now is not that different from the way I did them before; the difference would be that DeFazio is not as painterly, it does have texture, but has more of a collage approach, the older pieces feel more like paintings."  Below is the DeFazio portrait, along with a few older pieces for comparison.  Whether old or new, we think Santiago's style of portraiture is super cool!

Santiago Uceda - Peter DeFazio

Santiago Uceda - Jorge Luis Borges

Santiago Uceda - Fidel Castro

Santiago Uceda - Lula

Santiago Uceda - William S. Burroughs

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Santiago Uceda illustrates OSU FileShip

Santiago Uceda created this illustration for a file sharing web application that is being developed by the Oregon State University. This was another opportunity for Santiago to do a space-themed illustration, which he really enjoys whenever he gets the chance. It reminds us a bit of another space monkey piece that Santiago did previously...check them both out below:

Santiago Uceda - OSU FileShip

Santiago Uceda - Space Chimp

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Oregon State University TV Spot by Santiago Uceda

Santiago Uceda's work is seen in the latest TV spot for Oregon State University, where he created all of the illustration and, helped with two other artists, animation. He was also the lead creative on the project, did all the story boards, animatic and led the brainstorming sessions.

From his own words:
"We have a small team so we end up taking on multiple roles that would normally be done by several Creatives at an agency. It was all done in-house (script, voice over) except for music which was licensed from a local band."

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Pisco Sour illustrated by Santiago Uceda

Pisco is a grape brandy produced in wine making regions of Peru and Chile.  The roots of Pisco date back to the 16th century, when the Spaniards brought the grape from Europe to the Peruvian region.  The King of Spain banned wine in the 17th century ... Read more, check out the two illustrations and learn the recipe!

Part of a Santiago Uceda illustration for Pisco Sour recipe - Click on image to go to full illustration

Santiago Uceda - 2 award winning animations!

Santiago Uceda and his team at Oregon State University won the gold in the CASE Awards for their TV spots - Santiago co-directed the spots, did all of the illustration and tackled the animation process with the help of his team.  CASE is the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and for those in academia it's the equivalent of what Communication Arts or the Print annual are for us creatives  :)

Congrats Santiago!!

Oregon State University, Healthy People


What does it mean to be Powered by Orange?

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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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American Illustration 30: Brown, Buzelli, and Uceda

Congratulations to Chris Buzelli, Calef Brown and Santiago Uceda for gracing the pages of American Illustration 30 (2012).

From the AI-AP website:
"American Illustration offers an expansive view of this ever changing field, with images that redefine the most intriguing medium for the communication arts. With hundreds of images selected by an outstanding jury from thousands of entries, American Illustration lives up to its reputation as the best resource for cutting-edge talent that's always on the mark - and the most intriguing gallery in print."

American Illustration 30

Calef Brown - American Illustration 30 entry

Chris Buzelli - American Illustration 30 entries

Santiago Uceda - American Illustration 30 entry

Santiago Uceda illustrates for Artcrank

Santiago Uceda created this illustration for Artcrank, a "show of bicycle-inspired poster artwork that introduces people to talented local artists and sends them home with affordable, original works of art." The art will be going on a 10-city roadshow where 30 screen prints of each art piece will be sold.
The cities include: London, Interbike, Portland, San Francisco, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Des Moines, and Bend.

More about Artcrank below image:

Santiago Uceda - illustration for ArtCrank 2011-2012

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ABOUT ARTCRANK: (from http://artcrank.com/about)
Bikes are the world’s most fun, accessible way to get around. Posters are the world’s most fun, accessible art form. ARTCRANK™ brings them together.

ARTCRANK is a show of bicycle-inspired poster artwork that introduces people to talented local artists and sends them home with affordable, original works of art. Every ARTCRANK show features posters created by local artists from the host city. Admission is always free, and posters are priced to let everybody take home at least one.

ARTCRANK began in Minneapolis in 2007, and has expanded to Denver, St. Louis, Portland, San Francisco, Des Moines and Bend. In September 2010, we held our first international show in London. And in September 2011, we’ll hold our first show at Interbike, the bike industry’s annual convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mission:

ARTCRANK uses creativity to change how people look at and think about bicycles, and grow the cycling community.

Bikes, Art and Doing Good.

The best part of our jobs is that we get to travel to some of the country’s (and the world’s) great cities and get to know people who are as head-over-heels in love with cycling and creativity as we are. This is a great privilege, and we channel that same energy into supporting people and groups who are out there doing good.

In every host city, we select a Cause Partner: A local, national or international organization that’s using bicycles to make a difference in communities, help people live better lives, or just make the world a better place. In concert with our sponsors, we use ARTCRANK as a means to help raise money and awareness for these organizations.