Tag 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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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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Rock, Paper, Scissors

July 13th, 2010
In the best interests of doing our bit for the pro­mo­tion of visual cul­ture in New Zea­l­and, or some­thing like that but less gran­di­ose sound­ing, we're happy to point out that Illus­trator and anim­ator Mardo El-Noor has his latest short film Rock Paper Scis­sors play­ing at the New Zea­l­and Film Fest­ival on 22 and 23 July. [...]
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Win Me: James Jean's Kindling

January 25th, 2010
Kinder Sur­prise Win James Jean's Kind­ling. Judging by the fan­boy (and fangirl) scenes of last year's Semi-Permanent, James Jean is a pretty big cheese in the world of illustration. Leaf­ing through Kind­ling, which arrived on my desk just in time to be ignored in the pre-Christmas chaos, the respect Jean has garnered is pretty well jus­ti­fied. Kind­ling [...]
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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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Graphic Design: Wine by Mash

September 29th, 2009
Return of the Liv­ing Red Film noir meets pinot noir; zom­bie meets zin­fan­del. These illus­trat­ive and evoc­at­ive wine labels designed by Adelaide-based Mash seem to have more in com­mon with pop cul­ture than château styling.
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