History of Illustration
Co-Editor + Contributor
Bloomsbury Publishing
History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ancient to the modern. Hundreds of color images show illustrations within their social, cultural, and technical context, while they are ordered from the past to the present. Readers will be able to analyze images for their displayed techniques, cultural standards, and ideas to appreciate the art form. This essential guide is the first history of illustration written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators.
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Playing With Sketches
Author + Contributor
Rockport Publishing
Drawing is the backbone of art and design; with all of the tantalizing wonders of the digital world, the best designers, illustrators and artists know that it’s good to step back occasionally and hit the refresh button on your hand and mind. Playing with Sketches is a hands-on, fun approach to exploring drawing principles.
With over 25 contributors, from high-profile designers, illustrators and artists to talented graduate students, the book provides meaningful outcomes for your practice, including building an image archive, being exposed to new ways to use media and tools, inspiring you to break the rules, to collaborate, and much more!
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IlLISTtration
Contributor
Quarry Books / London
IlLISTration by Jamie Zollars.
Author and illustrator Jamie Zollars, with the help of a number of contemporary illustrators, wrote this book on how to use lists and other means to prompt creativity. The book’s design even allows space for the reader to start drawing.
Illustration Next
Contributor
Thames & Hudson / New York
Illustration Next by Ana Benaroya.
This book examines contemporary illustration by pairing up illustrators to address an assigned theme and collaborate in the process. My theme with Josephin Ritschel of Germany was EXCESS. We each chose a kind of excess [me: excess of the body, her: excess of collecting], created a piece on our chosen direction, then did a piece on the other persons direction. This is my excessive collector, a young connoisseur and her dishes.
“The Connoisseur” was selected for inclusion in the Society of Illustrators annual exhibition and companion publication, Illustrators 55.
Damn Good
Contributor
Hexanine / Los Angeles
Damn Good edited by Tim Lapetino and Jason Adam
Logo for Myrtle Dove Vintage chosen by American Illustration 30.
Dialogue: The Fine Art of Conversation
Contributor
Mark Murphy Design / San Diego, CA
Sixty eight illustrators were asked to contribute works based on found notes, poems and scribbles.
Each spread included the art and the paper ephemera that inspired it. Mine was inspired by a love note I received in 5th grade from 2 boys and is entitled Rick & Ron OXXOXXOX after the way they signed the note. Dialogue: The Fine Art of Conversation is a 308 page hard bound book designed by Mark Murphy.
Teaching Illustration + The Education of an Illustrator
Contributor
Allworth Press / New York
These books use syllabi, case studies & interviews to give the reader perspective on teaching illustration edited by Steven Heller and Marshall Arisman.
This book offers a comprehensive array of topics, reading lists, and teaching tips for courses of all levels. I contributed content for several courses including Sr Thesis and Graphic Design/Illustration Workshop. Teaching Illustation is edited by Steven Heller and Marshall Arisman.
This book discusses how professionals acquired their illustration know-how and went on to apply it in their careers, as well as exploring model illustration undergraduate and graduate education curricula created by leading illustration educators and practitioners. The Education of an Illustrator is edited by Steven Heller and Marshall Arisman.
1000 Journals
Cover Illustrator
some guy / San Francisco, CA
Started in 2000, the 1000 Journals Project is an ongoing collaborative experiment attempting to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels. The originator of this project is Brian Singer,, aka some guy, He wanted to see these journals pass from friends to strangers to see where they would go, He invited 100 illustrators and designers to create covers for these journals.
The project was also made into a book published by Chronicle Books, a feature-length documentary film by Andrea Kreuzhage, and an exhibition at SFMOMA.
Hear!Here!
Illustrator
Clarkson Potter / Random House / New York
Hear! Here! is a book of 64 illustrated translated sounds from around the world. Learn how to say Yum-yum, Ding-dong or Gulp in several different languages. Hear! Here! is published by Clarkson Potter / Random House.
Heaven & Hell
Illustrator
Mark Murphy Design / San Diego, CA
A collection of original paintings, literary quotes, stunning visuals and inspirational points of view about the concept of Heaven & Hell. My spread shows Heaven drowning while on a holiday swim and Hell happily tending her garden – Heaven is in hell and Hell is in heaven.
The Cow of No Color
Illustrator
Henry Holt and Co. Publishing / New York
The Cow of No Color is a book of riddle stories and justice tales from countries around the world. Each story pauses at the critical moment where the reader can ponder “what would I do in this situation”, then resumes to resolve the tale. A selection of stories contain my illustrations in B&W. The book is edited by Nina Jaffe and Steve Zeitlin.
Several pieces of original art from this project are in private collections.
Nozone
Illustrator
Princeton Architectural Press
Knickerbocker Design / Edited by Nicholas Blechman
"Welcome to EMPIRE. Billions drink its sodas, listen to its music, breathe its air, drive its cars, smoke its tobacco, practice its religions, watch its movies, ingest its pharmaceuticals, and benefit or suffer from its policies. Every person, animal, and insect on this planet is affected. From the melting ice caps in Antarctica to the defoliated wastelands of Africa, its relentless expansion goes unchecked. But EMPIRE is more than a political reality. It has, in its often elusive way, imbedded itself beneath our skins. It is an aesthetic, a conditioning, a psychology, and a lifestyle. Where does our individuality end, and the EMPIRE begin?
At a time of global crisis, Empire rallies a coalition of artists, designers, writers, and photographers to protest the mysterious, all-powerful phenomenon that dominates our civilization. Empire is the first book based on the award-winning alternative political graphic magazine, Nozone."
-- Empire introduction
Included in the AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers of 2003.
An interview on UnderConsideration between Armin Vit + Nicholas Blechman.
