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Robert Newman Thursday September 8, 2016
Adam McCauley is a San Francisco-based illustrator who has been creating smart, cool, diverse artwork since the late 1980s. In addition to doing extensive editorial illustration work, McCauley has
written and illustrated a stack of delightful children's books. In his spare time, he plays music with the band Bermuda Triangle Service (check them out and their great LPs here). And if that's not
enough, … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday February 26, 2015
John Hendrix is a remarkable illustrator who fuses his experience as an art director with a brilliant storyteller's talents and a fluid, detailed drawing style. John's illustrations, maps, and
typography have been seen in the page and on the covers of countless magazines and publications, and he has a rich collection of children's books that he has both written and illustrated. Read the full Story >>
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Jeff Wignall Tuesday November 27, 2018
When you first look at photographer Greg Boratyn's meticulously crafted landscape images, it's almost inevitable that the work of another great nature master, Ansel Adams, comes immediately to mind.
It's the obvious reverence both share for nature at its most dramatic moments and their ability to capture it with perfect craftsmanship that begs the comparison. In today's edition of the Pro Photo
Daily Master … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday June 11, 2015
Nora Krug is an illustrator, artist, and creator of what she describes as "visual narratives." In addition to her frequent editorial illustrations for publications including The New York Times and The
Guardian, she has created a striking series of illustrated books and graphic novels, most notably Kamikaze, about a World War 2 Japanese pilot, and Red Riding Hood Redux, a remix of the classic … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday July 28, 2016
Gary Taxali is an illustrator and artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His distinctive "pop surrealism" imagery has appeared in countless magazines and publications, books, CD covers, product
design, and even a series of coins created by the Royal Canadian Mint. Taxali has also had his art exhibited in galleries around the world. He'll be part of the Cluster group show opening August 3 … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday August 11, 2016
Jordan Awan is a classic double-threat visual creator. He is the art director of MIT Technology Review and a former art director of The New Yorker who has had his design work recognized by the Society
of Publication Designers, Type Directors Club, and more. At the same time, Awan is an accomplished illustrator whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New … Read the full Story >>
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Jeff Wignall Wednesday December 2, 2015
Wildlife and nature have been the heart and soul of photographer Daniel J. Cox's career since he first began selling his images to outdoor magazines when he was 21 years old. His wildlife photo career
started in earnest when he discovered his first bread-and-butter subject -- the whitetail deer that populated the woods around his home in northern Minnesota. Today he is an award-winning … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday November 10, 2016
Eric Nyquist is a Los Angeles-based illustrator, artist and educator. His illustrations have appeared in many publications, including National Geographic, The New Yorker, Nautilus and Audubon
magazines, as well as on a series of covers for The New York Times Book Review section. Nyquist's work has also appeared on book covers, Beck tour merchandise, murals for NASA, and much more. His
illustrations are rich … Read the full Story >>
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Jeff Wignall Wednesday January 6, 2016
On her website, Laura Hicks describes herself as a "keep-it-simple kind of girl" with a love of nature - including bugs, frogs and spiders - as well as a passionate traveler, a collector of shoes who
prefers going barefoot and an avid reader who often stays up far too late in the night. She is also a talented and successful high-school-senior portrait and wedding … Read the full Story >>
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Jeff Wignall Wednesday February 3, 2016
Photojournalist Eli Reed is living proof that successful careers are often born of a healthy mix of talent, luck and steadfast perseverance in the face of adversity. The first black photographer to
join Magnum as a full member, his work has been published in National Geographic, Life, People, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Sports Illustrated and
many … Read the full Story >>
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Jeff Wignall Wednesday February 10, 2016
After 30 years of traveling around the world for publications like Time, the New York Times, Le Monde, Washington Post, Newsweek and Vogue, Anne Day settled in a small town in northwestern Connecticut
where she and her husband raised their three children. There, Day built a successful photo business shooting weddings, architecture and portraits, in addition to her own fine-art work. Then in 2013, … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday March 10, 2016
Jody Hewgill is a Toronto-based illustrator who has been contributing brilliant sparkling images to countless magazines, books, and publications for the past 25 years. Much of Hewgill's editorial work
includes bright, vibrant portraits of celebrities and entertainers-she was awarded a gold medal last year by the Society of Illustrators for a piece that appeared in Entertainment Weekly-but she also
creates powerful conceptual work as … Read the full Story >>
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Richard Alden Peterson Tuesday January 17, 2017
Today we feature the conclusion of photographer Richard Alden Peterson's memoir about the years he spent as the friend and collaborator of the artist Bruce Conner. With the exhibition "Bruce Conner:
It's All True" currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Peterson decided to record the experiences he had with Conner over three decades. Yesterday he described meeting Conner amid … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday September 15, 2023
Brooklyn Museum, September 15: María Magdalena Campos-Pons | Behold
Spanning nearly four decades of visually engaging artworks, the exhibition explores Campos-Pons’s prescient and sensorial work—transporting viewers across geographies, mediums, and spiritual practices. In her explorations of migration, diaspora, and memory, Campos-Pons draws on feminism, photoconceptualism, and Yoruba-derived Santería symbolism to weave together personal narratives and global histories.
The first multimedia survey of the artist’s work … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday January 12, 2017
Laurie Rosenwald is a New York City-based illustrator, artist, designer, and book creator. In addition to her many editorial illustrations for a wide variety of publications, Rosenwald has created
animation, product design, and leads an ongoing workshop, "How to Make Mistakes on Purpose." You can see a cool video interview with Rosenwald here, where she talks about art, design, illustration,
and her approach to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday August 15, 2014
From Art Making to Art Thinking: New Paradigms for Illustration Education By Bryn Barnard, Instructor, DP Visual Art and Theory of Knowledge, American
International School of Kuwait This article examines systemic, existential problems in the field of illustration education and explores potential solutions. When I
was an illustration student at Art Center in Pasadena, California, I lived with a group of other aspiring artists in a seedy … Read the full Story >>
