Helen Friel, Paper Engineer
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These days, Helen Friel’s inventive use of cut paper is showing up in just about every medium for a diverse roster of clients. Whether it’s an animated or a still image, a piece by Helen …
Jones and Company Designs These Animated Characters from Their Home in Cape Town
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Jones and Company is really a family affair in which Dylan illustrates, his wife Heike oversees production, and their kids, Anna-Rose and Sophie-Mae serve as inspiration. Just about anything from …
Peter Pachoumis Is Peter POP Art
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It’s graphic and colorful, and perfect, not just for comic books, but advertising and editorial projects too. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and others gave us Pop Art in the 1960s …
The Artists at London-Based CIA Speak a Range of Visual Languages
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Above: Kitra. His work has been translated into murals, installations, and design objects for clients such as Coca Cola, Red Bull, Greenpeace, and Deutsche Bahn. To keep up with the …
Workbook In Motion: Illustrator/Animator Steven Noble
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How did you become involved with motion/ directing/ animation? Please describe your journey. I got involved with animation when I was approached to help create and supply illustrations for the ESPN College Gameday animation for tv commercials. What …
Workbook in Motion: Animator Davide Bonazzi
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Davide Bonazzi is a busy illustrator, and now animator, creating promotional animation for Brandman University/Vitro Agency, Unesco WWAP, and Gatorade, to name a few. Listen as he tells us why …
Portfolio Refresh: Blindsalida
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Blindsalida brings his graphic illustration to life in these new GIFS and animations created for Sublime Skins and French clients Pot Commun and SNCF.
Workbook In Motion: Animator Marc Phares
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His first year out of art school, Marc Phares got a job creating storyboards, hundreds and hundreds of them. From there it was a natural progression to animatics and motion …
Workbook in Motion: Animator Michael DiMilo
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The new 2019 Spring Workbook will launch our new motion tabs for live action directors and animators as well as a new digitally enhanced online version. As part of the launch we asked the featured directors and …
Best of 2018: CIA Meets the Demands of the Ever-Shifting Media Landscape
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Above: WRK In 2018, it was a year of experimentation and change for Central Illustration Agency. They met the demands of an evolving media landscape and created sculpture, GIFs, murals, and …
Instagram Highlights 2018
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Workbook spent 2018 engaging with artists and creatives, and significantly growing its following. The power of compelling and thoughtful imagery is the engine for this growth and connection.
Workbook is Proud to Sponsor the AOI 2019 World Illustration Awards
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Workbook is delighted to support The World Illustration Awards 2019! Workbook is supporting the World Illustration Awards 2019, now open for entries until January 31st, 2019. This year the WIA features an array of …
The Latest Illustrators and Animators to Join Workbook
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Specialty Updates at Workbook
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Periodically we review our categories and search terms at Workbook and remove underutilized specialties, modify any outdated specialties and add new specialties. The updates below outline the changes to the …
Workbook is Working to Add Full Support for Your Motion Files
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The latest innovations in animation technology and motion production have opened up an array of creative choices for Workbook contributors. Workbook has followed these developments. In order to more …
Richard Borge Nails the Story on IBM with These Iconic Illustrations and GIFs
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Richard Borge takes these simple icons from the early days of computing technology when IBM was the undisputed leader and gives them a starker new meaning for the competitive age in which …
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 …
A Happy Holiday GIF
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Federico Gastaldi created a holiday GIF within a snow globe that captures the sometimes solitary life of the freelancer.
Design Lad: Another Great Addition to JSR
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The work of Matt Wood AKA Design Lad has a style reminiscent of Rube Goldberg; it’s fun, irreverent, and colourful and draws on a lot of nostalgic references and themes that make …
An Interview with Jamie Stephen, Founder of JSR
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After 12 years in business and a major recession, JSR is a highly capable team of professionals who can manage any project, of any size, anywhere in the world. They’ve worked on …
Peter POP Art for The Price is Right!
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Today’s The Price Is Right is all about Halloween and superheroes. Check out this promotion for the show on their Twitter featuring illustrations by Peter POP Art.
Latest Additions: May 14th – 20th
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An Interview with Artist Representative David Goldman
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Take the time to read this interview with Artists’ Representative David Goldman; you won’t be disappointed. It provides a great overview of where the business has been and where it’s going…a …
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 …
Greg Betza’s Latest in Animation
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What began as a mostly illustrated assignment with a few motion elements grew into three fully animated promotions for InterContinental Hotels, in which Greg drew every frame himself. Greg created the storyboard for …
Mendola’s Best of the Best 2016
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Illustration is a constantly evolving medium, and Mendola Artists spent 2016 exploring all the ways in which to utilize their many talents for themselves and their clients. They are …
Illustrators are in a Festive Mood!
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Illustrators like Jeff Rogers, who created the GIF above, are all geared up for the holidays. The Workbook site is full of terrific holiday imagery we want to share with you here …
The Latest from the Salzman Group
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As business conditions change we all adapt, and Richard Salzman knows this better than most. By the early 2000s, the rate and manner in which imagery was commissioned and consumed had changed …
Gayle Kayaker’s Animated Answer
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Gayle Kabaker‘s colorful, fluid watercolor style only enhances the excitement of international travel as it flows from one possibility to the next in this latest 55-second promotional video for ACIS, a leading-quality, educational …
The Fluid Lines of Elvis Swift
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Elvis Swift has a new animation project he just shared with us. We’ve always loved the continuous fluid lines in his illustrations so it’s great to see his talent put to use in this latest promotion for DAGNABIT …
