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Jennifer Nelson Explores the Symbolism of Birds

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  The illustrators with the Jennifer Nelson group employ birds for use in patterns on everything from  fabrics, wallpaper, personal items, greeting cards, and more.  The positive associations we make …

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Callie Lipkin Shows Us How She Channels Her Creative Energy

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Even if Callie Lipkin doesn’t get the job, that doesn’t stop her from putting her own spin on a treatment and shooting the assignment anyway. After submitting two treatments for jobs …

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Richard Borge Shares His Creative Process

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  In a recent interview with California magazine, Richard Borge talks about his creative process and where his inspiration comes from, how adding Cinema 4D (C4D) to his tool box …

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The Richard Solomon Group Takes On the Biggest Stories of the Day

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Pride Month, Black Lives Matter, Juneteenth, and How to Cope With COVID-19 are some of the headlines to which the talented artists of the Richard Solomon group have added visual …

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Greg Mably’s Latest Projects

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With his pared down graphic style and exuberant use of color, Greg Mably created a style heavily influenced by the Pop Art of the 1960s. His recent work for Canada Goose (image …

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Tim Tadder Goes Solo for Five Recent Test Shoots

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  The best way to know if something is going to work is to try it. That’s what Tim Tadder did recently with five photo shoots in which he tested safety protocols that allowed …

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Happy 4th!

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Happy Fourth of July! Image above: Kotryna Zukauskaite

Tracy and David Capture Local Athletes As They Adapt and Persist

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When Covid-19 hit, photo team Tracy and David felt compelled to document the world as it adapted to the new normal. As former photo journalists, they were inspired to tell the stories …

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Armchair Travels with Studio 1482

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While most of us are still hesitant to travel, illustrators Greg Betza and Veronica Lawlor of Studio 1482 have created a series called Armchair Travel to remind us what is …

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Artists Continue to Add Their Voices in the Call for Change

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Each these of these artists uses a unique visual style to add meaning to society’s call for change.

Stewart Cohen Has a Message for Us

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  This personal series by photographer/director Stewart Cohen was created well before we all heard the name George Floyd. He takes a sort of Jenny Holzer approach, with it, but …

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Taylor Callery’s Icons of Social Change

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Taylor Callery reminds us how much our present is wrapped up in our past. His latest series includes familiar icons like the American flag and the black fist, imagery of protest, and …

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Vijeyabhaskaran Mohan’s Splashes, Pours, and Effervescence

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As a photographer who specializes in beverages and liquids, who shoots for clients such as VOSS water, Nvidia, Simple Green, and notNeutral, Vijeyabhaskaran Mohan studies how liquids react in these …

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Nicole Kaufman in Black And White

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Now that we are all covering our faces with masks and are often unidentifiable to those around us, Nicole Kaufman has a renewed appreciation for the illustrated portrait.  She uses …

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Paul Aresu’s Salute to Those on the Front Line

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As the depth of COVID-19 crisis became clear and life in New York ground to a halt, dedicated hospital and medical staff have risked their own health in order to save …

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Saverio’s Life in This Moment

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Given the historic nature of what we are living through right now, photographers like Saverio Truglia are compelled to document life in the moment. At first, he kept these images private, then began to …

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Jason Lindsey’s Climate KIds

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In his latest personal series, photographer/director Jason Lindsey created portraits of the children who will face an uncertain future impacted by climate change. As these portraits suggest, we are intertwined with …

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Art for Assistants Raises $220,000 and Counting

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Photographer Tim Tadder is the brainchild behind Art for Assistants, a fundraising effort initially established to benefit his photo crew out of work due to the corona virus outbreak. Once …

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Darren Carroll Shows Us How Austin Is Staying Sane

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Austin is a pretty health-conscious city; it closed down earlier than many other cities on March 25th due to the Covid-19 outbreak. When photographer Darren Carroll ‘s wife converted their two-car …

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Morgan Gaynin Artists Take Us on a Virtual Tour

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We’ve all got a serious case of cabin fever. Artists with Morgan Gaynin got us thinking about where we’ll go and what we’ll do when we have the chance to …

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Shaina Fishman, Animal Whisperer

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During the current Covid stay-at-home restrictions, many of our artists are making personal collections available until we can all get back to work. Animal photographer Shaina Fishman has numerous furry …

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Jeff Moores Answers the UN Creative Call

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When The United Nations recently put out a worldwide call to visual and performing artists to create artwork to help raise awareness of how we all can help “flatten the curve.” Jeff …

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Workbook Radio Episodes 39 & 40- Soft White Underbelly, Part 3 & 4

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We’re wrapping up the transcript of our 4-part interview series  with Mark Laita about his project Soft White Underbelly, an interview series that shines light on subjects and subject matter often passed over by society.  …

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The Solomon Group Filters Life’s New Realities

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Richard Solomon’s group of illustrators capture life as it is now, as we try to stay connected while in isolation. We go to school, go to the office, and meet …

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George Kamper’s Life in a Bubble

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Bubble Boy is photographer, George Kamper‘s latest series that brings  some much needed humor to our lives in self-quarantine. All the images are created with the help of his wife Sheryl …

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Agency Rush Shows Us Just How Interconnected We Are with Their New Campaign

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Agency Rush will soon launch their #hope&love campaign on social media. As Helen Rush told us, “In these very difficult and scary times, we wanted to find a way to channel …

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#Life On Pause with Kevin Steele

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Life on Pause is Kevin Steele’s latest personal project documenting our new normal: life in quarantine. These images were shot with one camera and one lens through front doors at …

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Latest Additions from IllustrationX

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IllustrationX operates on four continents and in eight countries around the world representing a group of illustrators and animators with a depth of style and experience who are ready to …

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Where We Are Now

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Image above:  Timothy Archibald. Review the top takeaways from our first Where We Are Now which took place on Friday, March 20th and will continue every Friday at 11:00 am. Workbook and …

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Pat Molnar Gets Personal

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The importance of the personal project can never be overstated. With the possibility of work placed on hold for the foreseeable future, it is a good time to think about assigning something …

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