COMMUNICATION ARTS FEATURE!
I am so excited that my work is featured in the one and only Communication Arts magazine. Please take a look at a newsstand near you or click the cover for preview. Big thank you goes to Rebecca Bedrossian.
FORMAT MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
I am finally coming out of “hermit” schedule which went on from January till…now. School year is over at SVA and my students are off to early “summer” vacation which gives me 4 months of time off as well.Friends from abroad are flying in on the perfect timing next week. Agata Nowicka from Warsaw, Thilo Rothacker from Stuttgart, and Monika Aichele from Berlin. Looking forward to spending some time with them!
And yes, I will take care of forever neglected Illustration Section of the site. Please don’t think I don’t have any new work. I have been working a lot, and that is why it hasn’t been updated.
New online interview is up now. I was able to talk about my serious obsessions with WNYC here, which was fun. Thank you Daniel Eckler, editor of Format, and writer Carmel Hagen.
GOOD FRIDAY, ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY
Penelope Dullaghan is a Superwoman! She is a wonderful illustrator who illustrates full time, AND runs ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY on top of that to help young and aspiring illustrators. I am a full time illustrator myself, and trust me, I know how busy and crazy an illustrator’s life can be.About a month ago a client told me that Penelope recommended me to them. I had known her work, but we have never met or had any conversations before. How unbelievably nice of her to recommend someone she has never met?? So, I e-mailed to thank her, and we had a few correspondences, and then she asked me to be interviewed for her site. I have to say I am very very honored to be featured on this site run by this wonderful woman!!
HOW INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ANNUAL
HOW MAGAZINE‘s 2008 International Design Annual just came out.3×3 MAGAZINE issue in which my work was featured has won Merit in Editorial Category. Yay!
Congratulations to Editor, Art Director and Designer Charles Hiverly, and everyone who worked on this issue including my dear friend Kai Kiuchi, photographer for my feature article.
BOOK SEASON IS HERE!
Posted above are some recently published books. How exciting, it feels like everything is coming out at the same time! Because of this, I quickly organized PRESS SECTION and added them as well as some old press and sample page spreads as links. Check it out.
3×3 ANNUAL No.4 IS HERE!
I haven’t updated illustration section in a while, I know. It is not that I haven’t been working, it is just that a lot of the jobs I have been doing recently are not ready to be shown due to the contracts with my clients. So, plese stay tuned…I posted series of mural images to my top page. They were actually created about two years ago. The library where the mural is supposed to go up is still under construction.
Some jobs just takes a long time to mature like that. I will make a page with all the mural panels very soon.
In the meantime, check out this cute young ILLUSTRATiON ANNUAL 3×3. I am loving this unpretentious annual filled with fresh talent, and so are my students at SVA.I was honored to receive Gold Award and Silver Award this year. Big thank you to the judges and my art directors, Antonio De Luca of The Walrus Magazine and Chie Araki of MTV!
YUKO HAS JOINED SKETCHTRAVEL
I have officially joined SKETCHTRAVEL, a traveling sketchbook drawn in by artists from around the world. Please read more about this interesting project on their site and on the blog. I received it from my former roommate James Jean (who lives in LA) when we met up in Atlanta two weeks ago. Tomer is next in the line. I will call you when I am done.
MINI-INTERVIEW FROM LOST AT E MINOR
Thank you Lost At E Minor for posting an interview article on me again.Interview was done right before I took off to Venice between Zolton and me.
We talked about my current world travel addiction and how I believe it fuels creativity.
STEFAN SAGMEISTER COLLABORATION IN HIS NEW BOOK
I have been working a lot. I mean, I always work a lot, but this is like an exceptionally a lot of a lot. For example, I drew from 9AM to 1:30AM straight in one day last week, which is about 16.5 hours. I don’t even know how I did it. I was even sick, lost my voice a few times due to cold, and I am still working on curing my ulcer. Popping pills, spraying propolis. C’est la vie.So anyway, I had not had chance to update my site since I went to Venice, but I am posting some news before taking off to another business trip this week. In fact, there are a lot of exciting news!!
Of course Stefan Sagmeisterhas been my hero like any designer’s dream. We have worked on a mural project together, which is still under construction in a public school in The Bronx here in New York.Stefan ‘s latest book Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far (cover on right) features his recent projects as mini-books in a book form. Our mural project Everybody Who Is Honest Is Interesting is featured as one of them.
I will post the actual illustrations on this site soon.