Los Angeles Times: L.A. Affairs Los Angeles Times: Where is my pandemic love story? - Illustration by Eleanor Grosch
BELLA PILAR: SUMMER VIBES
🌴 Bella Pilar's Palm Springs Illustration is giving us ALL the summer vibes! 🌴
DINARA MIRTALIPOVA: CHRONICLE BOOKS
BOOK COVER REVEAL
We're ecstatic to share the cover of Dinara Mirtalipova's upcoming illustrated book “Russian Tales: Traditional Stories of Quests and Enchantments" published by Chronicle Books & slated to be released in September 2021. Click on the link above to pre-order your copy today!
ELEANOR GROSCH: GEMINI
♊️ Gemini season is here - Art by Eleanor Grosch ♊️
"Expressive and quick-witted, Gemini represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see."
ELEANOR GROSCH: TAURUS SEASON
Happy start to the Taurus Season! - Art by Eleanor Grosch
ELEANOR GROSCH: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Young Innovator Program
Here is another series for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Institute for Genomic Biology social media campaign “Young Innovator Program" - illustrated by Eleanor Grosch - This series’ Institute of Genomic Biology innovator is Dr. Yongbeom Seo.
"Yongbeom Seo is a former postdoctoral research fellow at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. He currently is a senior chemist in the Corporate Research Materials Laboratory (CRML) at 3M. His work involves inventing new fabricating techniques and working with his business colleagues to commercialize the same. During his time at the University of Illinois, he worked with Hyunjoon Kong and invented hollow polymer microparticles that contain manganese oxide nanosheets, which can convert hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen. The generated oxygen gas subsequently increases the pressure inside the particles, similar to filling a balloon with air. Seo used this technology to release anti-inflammatory drugs and chemicals such as thrombin, which promotes blood clotting, in a controlled manner over time."
HYE JIN CHUNG: GIF MAGIC
GIF MAGIC
🌀🌀🌀 It’s been a whirlwind of a week already - gotta appreciate this animated gif by Hye Jin Chung 🌀🌀🌀
GRAHAM ROUMIEU: GLOBE AND MAIL
Eager for Spring!
Full-page illustrated piece by Graham Roumieu in Globe and Mail - “Signs you’ve been too eager for the arrival of spring”
GRAHAM ROUMIEU: BIGFOOT IN MADRID
🌎 BIGFOOT - WORLD TRAVELER IN MADRID 🌎
A LOOK AT GRAHAM ROUMIEU’S CHARACTER, BIGFOOT, ON A WORLD TOUR. CHECK OUT HIS BIGFOOT PORTFOLIO FOR OTHER SNAPSHOTS OF HIS ADVENTURE.
ELEANOR GROSCH: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Young Innovator Program
A new series of social media campaigns for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Institute for Genomic Biology- illustrated by Eleanor Grosch - just launched promoting their Young Innovator Program! This series’ Institute of Genomic Biology innovator is Dr. Diana Ranova, she developed a saliva-based covid test. Check back later to see other innovators!
JUNGYEON ROH: HARVARD MAGAZINE
Jungyeon Roh illustrated The Coming Eldercare Tsunami in the January-February 2020 issue of Harvard Magazine.
For: Harvard Magazine
GRAHAM ROUMIEU: THE GLOBE + MAIL
Graham Roumieu predicts ayahuasca and feral hogs in Things to Expect in the 2020s for The Globe and Mail.
For: The Globe and Mail
HYE JIN CHUNG: THE GIRLFRIEND
Hye Jin Chung illustrated 25 Things You Can Get For Free Before New Year’s for AARP’s weekly newsletter for women, The Girlfriend.
For: The Girlfriend from AARP
SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS 62
The Society of Illustrators has announced its annual selection of winning entries from the thousands of entries submitted worldwide. Judged by a jury of professionals, including renowned illustrators, art directors and designers, the official selection represents the most outstanding works created throughout the year. These illustrations will be honored in two award ceremonies, featured in the 62nd award annual, and presented in two January exhibitions at the Society of Illustrators gallery in New York.
Big congratulations go out to Dinara Mirtalipova and Hye Jin Chung, who had work accepted into the Society of Illustrators 62 exhibit and book, with winning entries in the Editorial, Book, Institutional, Uncommissoned, and Surface/Product Design categories. Way to go!
DINARA MIRTALIPOVA, Equilibrium Goddess for Pottery Barn
HYE JIN CHUNG, Housewarming Party for Family Store UK
HYE JIN CHUNG, The Dogwalker for Plansponsor
HYE JIN CHUNG, Waiting for Dumplings
For: Society of Illustrators 62
DINARA MIRTALIPOVA: ORIGINAL ART SHOW
More great awards news! Dinara Mirtalipova‘s illustrations for Leila in Saffron were accepted into The Original Art Show at the Society of Illustrators. The exhibition, The Original Art: Celebrating the Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration, opens tonight – Thursday, November 14th, 6-9pm – at the Society of Illustrators (128 E. 63rd St.) in New York City.
Leila in Saffron, published by Zareen Jaffery’s new Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing imprint Salaam Reads, is the story of a shy young girl who discovers all the things that make her special. Dinara’s illustrations capture both the gentle tenderness of the love between a girl and her grandmother, and the exuberant colors, patterns and energy of their rich culture. Written by Rukhsanna Guidroz, Leila in Saffron was released in June 2019.
For: The Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators
BELLA PILAR: ORANGE COAST MAGAZINE
Bella Pilar illustrated a story for Orange Coast Magazine about a woman who decides to sell her home and uncovers old wounds, featured in the November issue.
For: Orange Coast Magazine
DINARA MIRTALIPOVA: iBLUES
Pop-Up Stories, the Dinara Mirtalipova x iBlues Fall/Winter 2019 fashion collection, debuted last month in Milan. Inspired by pop-up books, fairytales, and the elements of fire, air, water and earth, Dinara’s custom prints and motifs for the chic Italian fashion brand led the seasonal direction of the stunning ready-to-wear collection.
“This season’s artsy collaboration is an eclectic and exuberant take on the world around us. A universe of vivid and colorful prints inspired by the four elements of nature brings to life a fun and dazzling attitude,” as described by iBlues, a division of the Max Mara family of fashion brands.
The only thing we’d change – being able to buy it in the US! The innovative brand is available in Europe, the UK and Asia.
For: iBlues
GRAHAM ROUMIEU: BIGFOOT NOW AN ANIMATED SERIES
The cult favorite memoirs of Graham Roumieu’s misunderstood “King of the Forest” cryptid, BIGFOOT, are now an animated series!
“Bigfoot would like to express his thanks to his die-hard supporters, hurl a log at his non-supporters, and give a friendly (but sort-of creepy) nod-and-wink to the nice people of MONDO and VRV, which are giving this animated series a perfect home,” says creator Graham Roumieu, reading from a filthy paper retrieved from a tree’s knot hole.
This week, the first of 12 initial episodes of the animated series BIGFOOT air exclusively in the U.S. on the MONDO channel of VRV, the animation-centric streaming service. Based on Graham’s series of graphic ‘novels’, including Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir and Bigfoot: I Not Dead (Plume/Penguin), additional episodes written by executive producers Roumieu and Eric Falconer (Blue Mountain State, The Mick) will premiere weekly. Starting this Sunday (10/6/19), the pilot can also be seen on MONDO’s YouTube channel.
SPECIAL THANKS TO: Creative executives Wendy Willis and Greg Franklin; Canadian production and animation teams Blue Ant Media and Solis Animation; Canada’s PSTC and the Bell Fund; executive producers Sam Hansen and Chrystal Falcioni; and of course, comedian K. Trevor Wilson as Bigfoot.
For: MONDO and VRV
ELEANOR GROSCH: Mural Arts Philadelphia
Mural Arts Philadelphia, the nation’s largest public art program, commissioned two large outdoor murals from Eleanor Grosch this summer. The action-packed images, hand-painted by a fantastic crew, flank and brighten the Manayunk Underpass. The murals depict local bike races – tapping into a favorite theme in Eleanor’s work.
For: Mural Arts Philadelphia
HENNIE HAWORTH: A GIRL CALLED SHAMELESS
Hennie Haworth illustrated the cover of A Girl Called Shameless by Laura Steven (Electric Monkey/Egmont Publishing). The young adult novel promotes feminism and combats slut shaming and is the sequel to Steven’s previous title, The Exact Opposite of Okay.
For: Electric Monkey/Egmont Publishing