Now Japan 2014 festival

Now Japan 2014 festival

Now Japan 2014
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Now Japan 2014 festival

Now Japan 2014 is a festival in Lithuania focused on Japanese music, visual arts, kitchen, teather and other things related with cultural, aesthetic and traditional aspects of life in Japan. For its current edition illustrator Karolis Strautniekas made a fresh visual interpretation of quite typical symbols associated with Japan. Her minimal, eye-catching illustrations were used for graphic elements related with this event. In collaboration with Other Peter (animation & direction) and with Sonar (sound) she also created a motion picture, while Džiugas Valančauskas was responsible for the graphic design.

You can see the final animation here. What do you think about this vision of Japanese culture?

Production: wowburo

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Moby dick exhibition

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Moby dick exhibition

Elmer Sosa and Carlos Soto from SUPERVOLTA incubadora gráfica organized the collective exhibitions “Moby navegando en tinta” (Moby sailing in ink) and “Los 50 grandes” (The 50 greats).  Students and professionals produced illustrated posters based on the classic book “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville.

The opening ceremony was in charge of German Montalvo on December 9th at IESAC-BUAP in Puebla, Mexico. A live drawing session was also part of the exhibition activities.

List of graphic artists included in the exhibtition:

  • Cedomir Kostovic / Bosnia
  • Iwona Rypsec-Kostovic / Bosnia
  • Frank Árbelo / Bolivia
  • Marco Tóxico / Bolivia
  • Bruno Rivera / Bolivia
  • Yann Legendre / USA
  • Ricardo Vázquez / Mexico
  • Aram Huerta / Mexico
  • Chika Galaxia / Mexico
  • Daisuke Kashiwa / Japan
  • Joan X. Vázquez / Mexico
  • Shino Suefusa / Japan
  • Axur Eneas / Mexico
  • Togui / France
  • Lonnie Ruíz / Nicaragua
  • Cone Valencia / Mexico
  • Manzano / Mexico
  • David 902 / Mexico
  • Yuriko Shirou / Mexico
  • Porroga / Mexico
  • Yair Orozco / Mexico
  • Yorch / Mexico
  • amapola /Mexico
  • Chika Galaxia / Mexico
  • Elmer Sosa / Mexico
  • Roy Villalobos / Mexico-USA
  • Ana Ivette Valenzuela / Mexico
  • César Ali Hernández / Mexico
  • Gus Moranslie / Mexico
  • Los Gallos / Mexico
  • Tartar / Mexico
  • Brett Bean / USA
  • Choper Nawers / Mexico
  • John Jay Cabuay / USA
  • Moisés Romero / Mexico
  • Huesudo / Mexico
  • Sergio Cupido / Mexico
  • Aram Huerta / Mexico
  • Fabián Carreras / Argentina
  • Erick Gonzaga / Mexico
  • Chip Cohete / Mexico
  • Jair Abdiel Romero / Mexico
  • José Luis Coyotl / Mexico

Illustrated dreams

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Illustrated dreams

ING Bank Śląski (ING Silesia Bank), in collaboration with a group of talented Polish illustrators, organized a nice and positive campaign named People matter. The project invited people to share their dreams on the competition’s website. Then, the chosen dreams were illustrated by the artists of the project. The Dreamers, who described their dreams will receive these pictures in form of big, printed posters.

Among some the most interesting dreams were:

To have my own kindergarten. I would like to give joy to children and make them happy.

Move out to the country and do what I like. Build motorcycles.

To work as a lumberjack in Canada.

I want to grow a flower, which will not fade within a year, would you help me ?

Works are still in progress, but some of them can already be seen on the website’s gallery. Images are constantly being uploaded,  so you can follow new dreams. The portfolios of all illustrators who participated in this project can be found here.

Would you like to have some of your dreams on the wall?

Illustrations via liczasieludzie.pl

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Exhibition of Jan Lenica – master of Polish poster  

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Exhibition of Jan Lenica – master of Polish poster  

The exhibition Jan Lenica – the legend of Polish poster at the National Art Gallery in Sopot presents 135 images made by one of masters of the Polish poster school. In addition to the posters, the exhibition also features publishing prints, drawings, sketches and films from the collections of the National Museum in Poznan.

Jan Lenica, graduate of Architecture Faculty at the Warsaw Polytechnic, was an illustrator, graphic & poster designer, author of  scenographies and animated movies. In last years of his life he also designed postcard stamps. He was professor at the Harvard University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and he was also the author of numerous books and articles on poster art.

This exhibition will be open until 25th of January, 2015. For more information check out the Gallery’s website

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Orosz poster workshop in Guadalajara

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Orosz poster workshop in Guadalajara

This week the talented Hungarian designer Itsvan Orosz will be teaching  an illustrative poster workshop at Hard to Find in Guadalajara. Orosz is known for his postmodern work, influenced by vision and perception theories. The objective of the course is described as follows:

“If you want to create a poster try to explain your idea in some sentences. Write it. Then try to reduce it, leave out phrases, attributes until you just have the bare essentials. When you do not need any letter at all you are ready with the poster”.

The workshop will run from November 27 to November 30 at Avenida Pablo Neruda #2696 – 6, 44630 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. For more information checkout the events Facebook page.
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Maurice Sendak’s Book Posters

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Maurice Sendak’s Book Posters

These images are part of a surviving copy of the first edition 1986 Posters By Maurice Sendak large-format tome. It contains a unique collection created by Sendak’s illustrated posters for plays, book fairs, art events, operas, Broadway shows, and other cultural happenings.

About the creation of the posters, Sendak says:

“Posters and other occasional pieces make up a very small part of my picture-making, but, paradoxically, I have a disproportionate affection for these easy images. Why “easy”? They came easy. They were painted in rare moments of relaxation. Often, they were the happy summing up of conglomerate emotions and ideas that had previously been distilled into picture books and theatrical productions. Simply, they were fun to do”

About Sendak’s work, the design critic Steven Heller wrote:

“Posters are a distinct genre, but after perusing this “small part” of Sendak’s picture making, it is easy to see that in whatever he created, he had the heart of a poster maker, the eye of a book illustrator, and the soul of an artist”.

Many of the images are featured by his famous Wild Things from 1963. We hope you enjoy this pleacent images.

via BrainPickings

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“Archimusic” by Federico Babina

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“Archimusic” by Federico Babina

Another fun project by illustrator Federico Babina, Archimusic shows a series of posters inspired by the sound, personality and style of famous bands and musicians depicted in creative illustrations of buildings. The results are simply amazing! What do you think? Is there a music style you would like to see illustrated?

via We and the color

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