Bella Pilar has recently completed illustrations for Tiffany & Co. to be used on 'By Invitation Only' special collection and events. The illustrations featured below were fora special best customer ladies shopping event, a cocktail ring event, and a blue and green gemstone event.
On the first leg of a trip around the world for Conde Nast Traveler Magazine, Graham Roumieu illo blogs it on a roadtrip from New York to Los Angeles with food and travel writer Mark Schatzker. On this first leg of the '80 Days or Bust: One man's attempt to circumnavigate the globe the old-fashioned way' journey the pair are off traveling no faster than 100 mph and taking the time to see, eat, drink, and blog about their experiences. Leaving from Red Hook, Brooklyn in a loaner Mercedes E320 CDI, Graham will accompany Mark to Los Angeles on a one-week deadline where Mark will travel westward to the Far East by ocean liner. They plan to retrace Jack Kerouac's classic On the Road route as closely as possible and to eat in the very diners he did back in the day, or as close a match to them as can be had. (As you read the blog you will see that this becomes difficult and unappetizing.)
First stop Chicago . . . Check out the blog at http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/blogs/80days/
Bella Pilar is featured in the February issue of trendy Domino Magazine - The Guide to Living in Style. The article, a recurring series on buying art, guides readers in buying fashion illustration to hang in their homes and showcases the work of eight highly regarded international illustrators including Mats Gustafson and Izak Zenou. The Domino website also displays additional work by the artists including Bella's.
http://www.dominomag.com/galleries/objects/accessories/art/fashionillustration?slide=8#slide
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The Globe & Mail, Canada's national newspaper, sent Graham Roumieu to Montreal to cover the Liberal Leadership Convention Nov. 28 - Dec. 2. Resulting editorials were published in the Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, 2006 papers. Their humorous take on the convention is also available in an online Globe & Mail article.
Graham Roumieu's Love Creeps (St. Martin) book cover was featured in an interview in a great Hot Press interview with rock star designer and creative junkie Edwin Tse. Hot Press is a music, culture and design magazine.
RCTV, Venezuelan television's pioneer broadcaster is producing a one-hour documentary on the best illustrators in the world. After an exhaustive search of worldwide illustrators they have invited Bella Pilar and Graham Roumieu to be a part of this exciting production.
The collaboration will feature illustrations and voice or video excerpts from each artist discussing inspiration or techniques.
Summer 2007 Art Directors will have an exciting and beautiful new choice in which to find fashion illustration. Batsford will be publishing 400 full color pages of about 800 to 1000 fashion illustrations. Bella Pilar was chosen for the selective group of artists to be featured in this largest ever single publication devoted to Fashion Illustration.
The book will be broken down into generic headings including womenswear, menswear and accessories to name a few, then further organized into smaller more specific groups. Art Directors will easily be able to find the particular illustration they want and contact the artist directly.
Snakes and Butterflies
Taschen, one of the most respected names in art book publishing, included two Magnet Reps illustrators in the 150 illustrators featured in this years Illustration Now! The work of Bella Pilar and Graham Roumieu are featured in this book of visual inspiration and eye candy. Other illustrators featured are a 'who's who' list of today's hottest talent including Mark Ulriksen, Gary Baseman, Brian Cronin and Yuko Shimizu to name a few.
Flip through 544 color pages to see the latest in illustration in all forms from ads to album covers to mobile phone wallpaper. Read what the artists have to say about what inspires them, how they work and how to contact them.
Bella Pilar
Graham Roumieu
The Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2004 published by Harper Design International features hundreds of illustrations from illustrators around the world. Edited by Roger Walton, the book showcases illustration in easy to navigate categories such as portraits, still life, architecture and abstracts.
Three of Graham Roumieu’s illustrations, shown below, have been included in this well-edited anthology.
Manchild
Prozac
Getting Chilly
Big Book