Bella Pilar has been featured in the current issue of XFUNS, a Taiwanese magazine that discusses international trends in creativity and design. Her work appears in a special themed issue dedicated to fashion illustration. Other artists featured include David Downton, Stina Persson and Ali Douglas. XFuns Magazine
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Graham Roumieu has been asked to read an excerpt from his 2006 book Me Write Book - It Bigfoot Memoir (Plume Books). The reading will be broadcast on As It Happens at 5:30pm EST this Friday, October 19th 2007. You can listen to a podcast recording of the broadcast at the following link. 2007-10-19 As It Happens Podcast
Graham Roumieu's newest book 101 Ways to Kill Your Boss, published by Headline UK, released this Thursday, October 4th, 2007 and is sure to keep us all laughing. The title being self-explanatory, everyone will find humor in Graham's priceless recipe of a quart of off-beat wit, a pound of absurdity, and in this case, more than a healthy dose of macabre. The 112-page hardcover book is currently available only in the UK or through online sites such as Amazon.
October is Breast Cancer Month and the latest Bella Pilar illustrated cards to be found at PAPYRUS include a box set of notecards to help benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The illustrated pink box contains 20 blank notecards, 5 cards each of 4 designs and matching pink lined envelopes. The current issue of Self magazine featured the cards in the article 'Pink Power' which raises awareness about breast cancer and breast cancer research. The cards are available at Papyrus stores nationwide.
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The Walrus Magazine is now selling prints of Graham Roumieu's 'Nice to Meet You' June 2007 cover (without the bar code and coverlines). http://store.walrusmagazine.com/products/cover-print-nice-to-meet-you
Graham Roumieu is showing his series "Six Tiny Stories" as part of the Nuit Blanche event at Index G Gallery in Toronto. There is a special preview of the show taking place on Thursday, September 27th (7-10pm) with the official opening on the following Saturday, September 29th (7:30pm-dawn). Index G Gallery, 50 Gladstone Avenue, Toronto
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Bella Pilar has won a Maggie award, 2007, in the "Best Series of Editorial Illustrations/Trade" category for "Dream a Little Dream." The artwork was done for the March 2006 issue of Nail Pro magazine. Maggie Awards 2007
Bella Pilar appears in Gingko Press' "The Age of Feminine Drawing." The book highlights the prevalence and importance of the female hand in our modern culture and showcases the works of some of the most talented male and female artists in the world. The Age of Feminine Drawing
Tell me who else you'd assign an illustration to with a cover story titled Bigfoot Inc.? None other than Graham Roumieu fits the bill. Never predicable, a business-like Bigfoot with no pants glares at the slightly grungy hed and dek of a story about a local Meno Park, CA man who is a one-man sasquatch industry. Nice choice Metro, I'll bet your paper boxes emptied quick that week.
An 'in-character' portrait of Bigfoot illustrated by Graham Roumieu in the style of Me Write Book - It Bigfoot Memoir (Plume) was on the cover of the Arts & Life section of the National Post this Monday, June 25, 2007. The illustration accompanied an article titled 'The Fur in Furtive' that covers a filmmaker in Alberta who says he has found a colony of Bigfeet in the Rockies.
We're always glad to see art directors go for 'the real thing' when it comes to representing our furry friend.
Ever wanted to watch Graham Roumieu at work? Well now you can, Graham illustrated the new "Old Style Pilsner" website for Molson Canada. The 'hands on' multimedia website features his sketches on the home page and includes spots and 'live action' drawn elements throughout the site. Canadians will chuckle at his take on the iconic pilsner label and yes folks, those are his hands. Pilsner
Graham Roumieu’s editorial illustration for The Walrus was chosen by the recent American Illustration jury to appear in American Illustration 26 book and website.
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Curated by Dane Jensen, The Venice Contemporary presents Scoundrels an exhibition of drawings inspired by historical political cartoons and 21st Century business scandals. Graham Roumieu will be exhibiting alongside Eric White, Bob Dob, Nathan Spoor and Kris Lewis among others. The show opens this Saturday, May 19th 2007, reception from 7 - 11pm. The Venice Contemporary
12222 Venice Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90006
Four limited editions vintage style T-shirts featuring Bella Pilar's illustrations are now available in-store and online. Target left her artist signature intact on the artwork, added a custom 'Bella Pilar' logo to the outside of each T, and featured an extensive 'tagless' artist bio on the inside collar of the T's. TARGET
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Graham Roumieu was selected to appear in American Illustration 26. Congratulations!
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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.
In the March 14th, 2007 article 'Is the Pen Mightier Than the Photo?' printed in New York's The L Magazine, Bella Pilar is referenced along with a few other fashion illustrators as an example of "fashion's movement ... into the realm of the fantastical". An illustration of Bella's is featured as a lead image in both the print and web editions of the magazine. www.thelmagazine.com
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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