Tag Archives: Illustration

Mus­ings on Semi-Permanent, vol. 2.

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

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

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

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

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. Share/Save
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