"Vacation Sabotage: Don't Let it Happen to You!" warns writer Matt Richtel. His article tackles the problem of worrying about work during your vacation. Graham Roumieu's series of illustrations poke fun at preoccupied vacationers, depicting swimsuit-clad businessmen glued to their phones and tablets. Find the article and Graham's illustrations on the New York Times Most Emailed list.
Roumieu Celebrates Canada Day
Today, Canadian illustrator Graham Roumieu celebrates Canada Day with The Globe and Mail. His illustration of a raucous maple leaf enjoying a day of beer and barbecue comes with the tagline, "Happy Canada Day!"
Roumieu for the New York Times
You can find Graham Roumieu's illustration of robot protesters in the Op-Ed section of today's New York Times. The article, written by Columbia law professor Tim Wu, asks the question: Do machines have a constitutional right to free speech? Read the article here.
Roumieu's Tote for The Walrus
Check out Graham Roumieu's illustration for this annual book tote bag released by The Walrus. Graham's sketch of a nudist, book-reading king captures the characteristic wit of his numerous contributions to The Walrus magazine. Past contributors to the annual tote bag have included Seth and Jillian Tamaki.
Roumieu wins ADC Award
Graham Roumieu's series of illustrations for Real Simple Magazine is a merit winner in this year's ADC competition. The Art Director's Club is the premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind. This year, the jury chair for the illustration entries was Rodrigo Corral, Creative Director at Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Congratulations Graham!
Magnet Artists for American Illustration 31
Graham Roumieu’s humorous editorial series has been chosen as a winner in this year's American Illustration competition. This year, 439 images were chosen from 8,000 illustrations submitted by over 1,200 illustrators, magazines, agencies, publishers and schools. The distinguished jury included Jen Bekman, 20x20; Steven Charny, Rolling Stone; Mia Song, Men's Health; John Gall, Random House; Aviva Michaelov, The New York Times; Veronica Reo, Young & Rubicam; and Paul Sahre, O.O.P.S. Congratulations!
Graham Roumieu, "Social Media Habits" series, Real Simple Magazine
Roumieu for PEN Canada
Graham Roumieu illustrated a promotion for a PEN Canada lecture at the Royal Ontario Museum. The event takes place Thursday, May 17 at 7:00 PM and promises to be a lively and provocative discussion of satire: "Legendary New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin and comedian, actor and author Seán Cullen discuss comedy, satire, and the legacy of Canada's great novelist and provocateur [Mordecai Richler]."
Graham Roumieu Win SPD Awards
Graham Roumieu was honored as a merit winner in the 2012 Society of Publication Designers Awards.
Graham Roumieu's piece, Data Hog, for Bloomberg Businessweek ran alongside the article Wireless: Overstating Smartphone Data Hogs? which discusses how smartphone power users may not be the problem the wireless industry would have you believe.
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Graham Roumieu's "Data Hogs" for Bloomberg Businessweek. Brendan Greeley (writer), Richard Turley (creative director), Cindy Hoffman (design director) and Maayan Pearl (art director).
Roumieu's Quirky Web Illustrations
Graham Roumieu illustrated for Kathryn Borel, the author of award-nominated Corked: A Memoir. His quirky illustrations humorously depict the different sections of the writer (and sometimes) producer's website, including articles, books and video.
Roumieu for Whigby
Graham Roumieu's art will appear on a line of greeting cards. The cards will be released by Whigby at the New York International Gift Fair. Graham's witty cards feature a cleaning maid in the backdrop as Romeo mourns Juliet, a woman celebrating her birthday with her cat, and a 'bootlicker' taking deference to the extreme.
Roumieu for the Globe and Mail
Graham Roumieu's most recent bi-monthly contribution to the Globe and Mail's Focus section has been published. Titled "Seal Team Six: What are a President's Ultra-Classified Friends For?," the illustration imagines zany presidential applications for a highly trained group of Navy SEALS.
Roumieu for Inc. Magazine
Graham Roumieu recently illustrated for Inc. magazine's technology feature, How to Bag a Hacker. The article, written by J.J. McCorvey, discusses how a growing number of companies are asking their techies to blog in an effort to attract top-tier programming talent.
Roumieu Mourns Twinkies for Globe and Mail
Graham Roumieu's comedic take on Hostess filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy was published Saturday, January 14 in The Globe and Mail. Graham calls for "A Moment of Sweet, Cream Filled Silence" for the end of the Twinkie.
Roumieu Featured in HOW Top 10
Graham Roumieu's novelty Twitter feed for Bigfoot has been featured in HOW Magazine's list of Top 10 Websites for Designers.
Bigfoot is the protagonist of Roumieu's series of illustrated novels, Me Not Dead, I Write Book, and In Me Own Words, published by Manic D Press and Plume.
To see who else made the list, visit HOW's January 2012 Top 10 List of Websites for Designers.
Roumieu for Print Magazine
Graham Roumieu illustrated a Print magazine article by Alexandra Lange. The article, An Anatomy of Uncriticism, talk about designers who are uncriticise-able and how the rigor of criticism in graphic design pales in comparison to fields like architecture and art.
Roumieu Featured in Communication Arts
Communication Arts reviews Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People, by Graham Roumieu and Douglas Coupland. "The coupling of Coupland’s unhinged imagination and Roumieu’s insane knack for illustrating the ridiculously weird results in seven deliciously-wicked fairytales featuring seven highly-improbable and inappropriate, characters."
Roumieu's Holiday Mailer
Graham Roumieu wishes his friends and clients a happy holiday season with the gift of mildly disturbing Print Your Own Gift Wrap. Click here to download the files in letter and tabloid formats.
Roumieu for Real Simple
Graham Roumieu illustrated a series of spots for Real Simple magazine. Each illustration tackles a different aspect of internet culture. To read the article in its entirely visit: The Real Simple Guide to Social Media Sites.
More Praise for Roumieu's Highly Inappropriate Tales
Praise for Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People by Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu
NATIONAL BESTSELLER (The Globe and Mail)
Featured in the Mirror (Montreal) fall arts preview [Sept. 2011]
Featured in the National Post Fall Preview [2011]
A Winnipeg Free Press/Canadian Press Featured Book for fall 2011
Featured in the Quill & Quire Fall Preview [July/Aug. 2011]
“Seven short tales of intense irony and weirdness . . . accompanied by marvelous and moody sketches and drawings. . . . A charming and also unsettling reading experience. . . . Flashes of brilliance. . . . A lovely, quirky book.” —Michel Basilières, Toronto Star
“Roald Dahl meets Stephen King in seven warped children’s-story parodies where Coupland’s understated prose is made all the funnier by Roumieu’s gleefully depraved illustrations. With such cuddly heroes as a murderous juice box and an alcoholic, kleptomaniac minivan, the duo take a sly dig at corporate capitalism—think Generation X-cess.” —National Post
“[Coupland’s] clearly not afraid to try something new. . . . And [this book] is certainly something new. . . . The tone is playful, simple and winking. Most of the time, it’s best just to go with the flow without asking too many questions or over-thinking things. . . . The writing . . . maintains its Coupland voice. . . . Both disturbing and hilarious. . . . The illustrations give life to the book, bringing the oddball characters out of the text and into the world. Roumieu’s dark, twisted work reminds me of Quentin Blake’s beautifully perfect illustrations for Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books. . . . A well-executed series of quirky stories that are imaginative and often funny. Also, for the record, Coupland’s dust-jacket author photo is spectacular. If you’ve never seen a Canadian literary icon’s head wrapped in elastic bands, well, Coupland delivers. Your move, Margaret Atwood.” —Edmonton Journal
“The stories are filled with genuine laugh-out-loud moments, usually resulting from the ridiculously deadpan dialogue. . . . While the collection is very clearly a product of Coupland’s strange and unique mind, Roumieu’s illustrations are excellent complements to the stories. . . . These sketches are just as darkly funny as the story itself.” —Quill & Quire
“No matter if you are old or young . . . this collection of cruel fables will undoubtedly charm. If you’ve been waiting for the gleeful pleasure of seeing cartoon characters getting to beat up the unsuspecting, or mock the foreign, or make small children puke, then this book is for you.” —Sonnet L'Abbé, The Globe and Mail
“The mind of Douglas Coupland must be a scary place to live. Proof: this . . . book. . . . Illustrated by the talented Graham Roumieu . . . [it] is . . . a feast for adult eyes only. (Vomit has never looked so painterly.) So, those of you who have ever wondered what kind of trouble a Hobo Minivan with Extremely Low Morals can get into can take a soothing breath: the wait is over this month.” —ELLE Canada
“Anyone who has ever wondered what might transpire if the author of Bigfoot’s autobiography were to illustrate a story collection by Canada’s reigning postmodern ironist can stop wondering.” ––Quill & Quire
“Graham [Roumieu]’s illustrations amped up the funny. . . . He may very well be a spiritual successor to Quentin Blake.” —Drawn
“If you like Edward Gorey’s irony, or the wickedest tales in Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (David Sedaris), Coupland’s demented collection of short stories is for you.” —Lindy Reads and Reviews (blog)
Roumieu with Gary Taxali in Toronto Life
Artist-illustrator Gary Taxali, whose work has appeared in Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, and the Whitney Museum, sat down for an afternoon with Graham Roumieu at The Gem, a neighborhood bar in Toronto, Canada. Toronto Life documented the conversation as a series of photographic panels. See the photos and check out the conversation at TorontoLife.com
(Photographs by Daniel Ehrenworth www.dephoto.org)