Work selected for Communication Arts Illustration Annual
Posted by Edel Rodriguez at 10:36 pm on July 23rd |
"Celia The Queen" film poster.
Mario de Varona and Joe Cardona, directors.
Lemon Yellow, design firm. KIE films, client. |
I had good luck this year with CA and got a nice number of images in the annual. I wanted to give thanks to the designers and A.D.'s I worked with for sending me these great projects.
The poster for Celia the Queen is special because it's for an independent film company, I really got to know the guys making the film and we talked a lot back and forth about what they wanted to convey. They were very happy it got into CA. The film is being shown again this Friday, July 25, as part of the New York Latino film Festival, Director's Guild Theater, 110 West 57th Street. Info on tickets here.
The other images selected for Communication Arts were the series of Soulpepper theater posters (which also got into the upcoming CA design annual and received a Gold award from the 3x3 annual, along with a number of advertising and magazine awards up in Canada), the Iraq War series, and a portrait of Ray Barretto for The New Yorker.
A lot of other Drawgers are in the CA annual as well—Taxali, O'Brien, Zina, Campbell, Stauffer, Hundley, Kunz, Burckhardt, Allen, Bakal, Rogers, Stephanos. Check it out at the newsstand, looks good.
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Portrait of Ray Barretto, The New Yorker
Art Director: Max Bode |
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Op-Eds for the NY Times
Posted by Edel Rodriguez at 9:21 pm on July 21st |
Has Brian Rea left NYC yet? Whenever I think I've worked on the last assignment with Brian, he calls with a new one. This one is for Today's Op-Ed titled "The Risk of Too Much Oversight" about how all the numerous Congressional committees restrict and get in the way of the Homeland Security department's ability to defend the country. I had a number of ideas and Brian ended up going with this one which I liked. The article is here.
Below are some other recent jobs for the Op Ed page on a variety of subjects. I've worked with Kim Bost, Brian's assistant on some of those. It's been a pleasure working with Brian over the years. He's always been patient, smart, and cool under a lot of pressure.
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POLITICS '08
Posted by Edel Rodriguez at 3:40 pm on July 21st |
I'm curating a show for the Society of Illustrators about the 2008 election. The show will open right after the Democratic and Republican conventions, on September 4, and run through October 4. The opening reception is Friday, September 12, mark your calendars!
Most of the work is coming together and it's looking great. A press release is below:
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"The Way of the World", poster for Soulpepper Theatre
Posted by Edel Rodriguez at 9:27 pm on July 20th |
Acrylic and oil based ink on bark paper, 15" x 15" |
This is the art for a play titled "The Way of the World" by William Congreve. The show opened at Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto on July 2 and runs through August 2. Here is a description from the theatre's catalogue:
"William Congreve's Restoration masterpiece is one of the wittiest, sauciest, and most loved of English language comedies. Peopled with a wonderful variety of characters, the play is particularly distinguished in its creation of the unforgettably assertive women. A rare commodity: a very sexy, very smart and very funny play."
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These are some of the sketches and notes drawn around the manuscript I was given. The image came to me fairly quickly as I read some of the text. |
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This painting was used as the cover for Soulpepper's 10th anniversary season catalogue. |
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Final poster, 18" x 24", offset litho. |
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Here's to Tom Trapnell
Posted by Edel Rodriguez at 10:32 pm on July 16th |
Me and Tom at his office a couple of weeks ago |
A couple of weeks ago, I was in Los Angeles for the first time. There were a lot of people and places I wanted to see, but at the top of the list was an attempt to meet someone I had only known as a soothing voice on the phone for years. That person is Tom Trapnell.
I was somewhere near the ocean in L.A., got in my car, and thought I’d drive to the L.A. Times downtown and surprise Tom. It really takes a long time to get anywhere in L.A., but I eventually got to the Times building, found my way up to the Opinion section, and got to meet Tom. He’s a warm and inviting guy in person, and very interested in all of us and what we do. I could tell he is an avid reader of Drawger because he was on top of the latest discussions at the site here.
Tom is probably the calmest and most reassuring art director I’ve ever worked with. The deadlines are usually one to two day turnarounds, but he never loses his cool. This is the kind of person that makes you want to work harder and stay up later than usual.
Yesterday, many of us got a message from Tom that he was being let go by the L.A. Times as part of their downsizing. It’s very unfortunate and upsetting news, but I know that an art director of such talent and grace will go on to even bigger and better things. If you’ve worked with Tom, it would be great to hear some of your stories. Here’s to Trapnell!
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Below are a few of my illustrations that were art directed by Tom Trapnell for the L.A. Times over the years.
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ICON Limited edition poster signing
Posted by Edel Rodriguez at 2:30 pm on July 1st |
If you're an art director and would like to get your hands on a free limited edition print of my ICON poster, drop by the Roadshow portfolio review event going on this Wednesday as part of the illustration conference. The posters are printed on heavyweight Mohawk fine paper, ready for framing.
When: Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 2, 5-6pm
Where: Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue and 45th Street, NYC
More info about the ICON Roadshow here. A great place to meet illustrators face to face and see their recent work. A mix of new and established illustrators, check out the link above for the full list.
I'm just back from the American Library Association convention in L.A., a fun and crazy event with about 15,000 librarians, publishers, kids, etc. I've got my signing hand on ice for the day and will be back to 100% signing capacity by tomorrow evening!
Great to have met the Drawgers on the West Coast on Saturday. More to come....
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