Category Archives: Illustration

Illus­tra­tion of the Day

February 17th, 2011
We don't know a heck of a lot about illus­trator Kieran Ryn­hart – except that that he was recently selec­ted as one of Luerzers Archive's best 200 illus­trat­ors – but what we do see we like a lot. Inter­na­tional Res­cue just sent us through this image, St Brendan, and we thought it too good not to share.
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Fash­ion Fri­day: Take 2

February 4th, 2011
Nadee­sha Goda­munne is another fash­ion illus­trator doing inter­est­ing things in New Zea­l­and. Writer Sam Eichblatt pro­filed her in ProDesign 110, and noted her dis­tinct­ive style and also the devel­op­ment from her trompe l'oeil move into satir­ical illus­tra­tion – a move that comes through quite clearly in the series of images below. She’s only just gradu­ated from AUT’s mas­ters pro­gramme [...]
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Fash­ion Friday

February 4th, 2011
In the last issue of ProDesign we took a quick look at a couple of fash­ion illus­trat­ors that are pro­du­cing great work. We had a lot of images left over, so thought it best to whack them all up here, gal­lery style. First up, the eph­em­eral illus­tra­tions of Kelly Thompson and, in par­tic­u­lar, some of her work for [...]
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Showreel Fri­day

November 26th, 2010
Couple of free Fri­day minutes on your hands today? Well, take a trip down whimsy lane cour­tesy of National Park. Showreels can some­times be a bit more miss than hit, but National Park has nailed this one. Charm­ing, hon­est and hand-made indeed. National Parker Stef­fen Kreft was recently one of the many well-received par­ti­cipants at the Blast sym­posium [...]
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Stamps: A Reader Writes

September 30th, 2010
In the last issue of ProDesign, issue 108, we pub­lished a series of small stor­ies on stamp designs (see image gal­lery below) by the Assign­ment Group, Inhouse Design and Banana­works. While we were focussed on the designs of these stamps, one reader, Paul van Herpt, from Christ­ch­urch, has writ­ten in with some notes on the func­tional [...]
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Mus­ings on Semi-Permanent, vol. 2.

September 8th, 2010
In part two in of our Semi-Permanent 2010 ret­ro­spect­ive, Emma Par­nell recalls the youth­ful exuber­ance and undeni­able tal­ent of illus­trator Jes­sica Hische. For a girl who owns the URL ‘iamobsessedwithmycats.com’ (it redir­ects to her web­site) and describes her life as “a sol­it­ary exist­ence where nobody showers and you get covered in cat hair”, Jes­sica His­che is [...]
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Butcher, Baker, Alpha­bet Maker

July 12th, 2010
Jes­sica His­che is one of the most eagerly anti­cip­ated speak­ers at Semi-Permanent 2010. Sam Eichblatt tracked her down in New York. From ProDesign 107 with addi­tional images. It’s a decept­ively simple idea, but a stroke of genius when it comes to self-promotion. A young Brooklyn-based type designer leaves her day job to go freel­ance in Septem­ber 2009, and [...]
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Feel­ing Cheeky?

May 4th, 2010
Cats, wolves, butts and beer… and Lady­hawke… and T-shirts for Haiti. Illus­trator Sarah Lar­nach shares some thoughts on her pro­fes­sion. From ProDesign 106 with addi­tional images. ProDesign \\ Sarah, how did you get into illus­tra­tion? Sarah Lar­nach \\ Two years ago I found myself sim­ul­tan­eously mak­ing ‘fan art’ por­traits for a book by Amanda Max­well, and embark­ing [...]
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The Art of Eve

March 10th, 2010
The cover story of ProDesign 105 is all about Eve. Ham­ish Thompson takes a look back at the fash­ion illus­tra­tion of Kate Coo­la­han. Words: Ham­ish Thompson. Images: Kate Coo­la­han, cour­tesy Te Papa Pic­ture Lib­rary (online ver­sion of story fea­tures addi­tional images). The fash­ion illus­tra­tion of Kate Coo­la­han feels uncan­nily famil­iar, though few of us would remem­ber her [...]
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Shang­hai to Ohakune

November 19th, 2009
Some of the life and times of illus­trator Den­nis Beytagh Words: Ham­ish Thompson My first encounter with Den­nis Beytagh was a poster all blue and green and busy – pro­mot­ing New Zealand’s tour­ist delights to weary Lon­don com­muters in the 1960s. The design cap­tiv­ated me, with its feel-alive mix of good humour and acute obser­va­tion. It turned out [...]
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