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Kirsten Ulve Gets Personal with Helpwanted in Her Best of 2024

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Illustrator Kirsten Ulve worked with agency Johnny Wonder to create a compelling campaign for client Helpwanted.

See What Mendola Artists Served Up as Their Best of in 2024

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From breakdancing to Jim Beam, Mendola Artists offer up a feast for the eyes in their Best of 2024.

Humor Never Goes Out Of Style

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There are so many ways to create visual humor, be it with irony, exaggeration, a telling caricature, a visual pun or metaphor, the whimsical or subtle, or just plain off-the-wall. It’s …

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Kirsten Ulve’s Best of 2023

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Kirsten Ulve brings her sophisticated yet fun style to a series of 12 holiday postage stamps for La Poste – France’s national postal service. Kirsten also created a wraparound scene for the …

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Kirsten Ulve’s Urban Energy

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Caviar & Ketchup commissioned Kirsten Ulve to bring her exuberant illustration style and design skills to this branding project that will be featured in retail outlets in the airports of four major …

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As Women’s History Month Comes To A Close We Celebrate Women Artists.

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Vanessa Branchi Richard Solomon Artists Representative

Creative Update: Mendola Artists

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Jones & Co  Maryland Department of Transportation Series of animations about safe driving practices. for the MD Highway Safety Office.

Kirsten Ulve Helps Explain mRNA and Spikevax

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Kirsten Ulve collaborated with Moderna on storyboards and illustrations for an animation explaining how the Spikevax Coronavirus vaccine’s mRNA technology works.  The use of illustration and animation in this case gives …

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Illustration InFocus: Christmas in July

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Find inspiration in these illustrators’ projects from holidays past. Above: Kirsten Ulve   Pringles

Today At Workbook: It’s All About The Road Trip

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Michael Dimilo / Salzman International

The Best from Mendola Artists

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Steve Simpson  for Juan Pollo restaurants  

Mendola Art Creative Update

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Publishing projects, textile and wallpaper design, games and puzzles, and packaging are just some of the highlights from Mendola Artists.     Ben The Illustrator  A collaboration with psychologist and …

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Kirsten Ulve for Pringles

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Illustrator/animator Kirsten Ulve’s limited edition, glow-in-the-dark  packaging is the perfect way to add some spooky fun to the Pringles brand. This version of  Sour Cream and Onion Original will be sold throughout …

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Mendola’s New Website

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The best websites strike a perfect balance between organic browsing and logical searching, and Mendolaart‘s new website hits the mark. As Tim Mendola told us recently, “The goal of the …

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InFocus Illustrated Portraits

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Workbook illustrators offer endless stylistic choices in order to uniquely capture their subjects. Sean McCabe  Joe Biden/Rolling Stone

Great GIFs

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Here’s a sampling of some of the latest GIFs uploaded to the site, but to see more GIFs and animated imagery go to our animation page. Above: Guilio Bonasera

Mendola Artists’ Best Of 2020

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Mendola Artists created illustrations and animations for some of the most  well know companies in the world: Facebook,  Harvard Business Review, Adobe, USPS and more.  Here’s just a few highlights …

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Happy Halloween!

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Black cats, skeletons, and animals in sheets are just some of the scary imagery from Workbook illustrators. Above:  Kirsten Ulve

Mendola Project Update

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Mendola Artists have created imagery for a whole host of clients: illustrating books and numerous book covers, a series of stamps for the USPS, and packaging for big brands, just to name …

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Workbook Illustrators Illuminate The Biggest Stories Of The Day.

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Workbook Illustrators are an international group working for the biggest news and opinion outlets in the world. Whether it’s a pared down minimalism or over the top satire, they are illuminating the …

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Kirsten Ulve is Mendola’s Artist of the Month

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In addition to publishing their yearly calendar, Mendola Artists has created a micro podcast called Moments with Mendola in which they spend a minute of unscripted time asking participating illustrators …

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Workbook Radio Episode 32- Kirsten Ulve, Part 2

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On this episode of Workbook Radio, illustrator and animator Kirsten Ulve, whose work graces the cover of our 2019 Illustration Fall Workbook, talks with Social Media Director Thomas James about …

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Trick or Treat!

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Above:  Iain Macarthur

Workbook Radio Episode 31- Kirsten Ulve, Part 1

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In this episode of Workbook Radio, Workbook Social Media Director Thomas James talks shop with illustrator/animator Kirsten Ulve. Kirsten, whose art is our 2019 Fall Workbook Illustration cover, talks about …

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Mendola Artists Are Animating Their Images More Than Ever

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Mendola Artists are creating more motion imagery than ever before. Now that most every publication can be read in print or online, artists are called upon to create GIFs that can …

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The Best of Illustration and Animation 2017

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Every year we ask our clients, “What sort of year did you have?” Did you work consistently? Were you paid reasonably for your efforts? Did the client trust you to do what you …

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Kirsten Ulve’s Twist On the Souvenir Scarf

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Souvenir Scarves have been around forever. There’s probably one for every state in the union and every major city in the world. Kirsten Ulve just released her own version featuring …

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Workbook’s Got Great GIFs

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  The illustrators we talked to all approached the GIF differently, but they all get the point across seamlessly in just a few frames. Some make us laugh, some make …

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Workbook Valentines

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Aad Goudappel  

December Editor’s Picks

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Mark Laita