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]]> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:10:01 EST http://www.drawger.com/mckibillo/index.php?section=articles&article_id=8685

The Tokyo Urban Paper show opened on Monday and it was a big success with 15 artists showing their stuff. Here's the pics:

]]> Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:56:44 EST http://www.drawger.com/mckibillo/index.php?section=articles&article_id=8580

It's a poster, it's a papertoy, it's both! Here's my poster for the Urban Paper show that I'm organizing in Tokyo. It will be at Café Pause in Ikebukuro and will run from Sept. 7th to the 20th. Since not everyone who was in the book will be in the show, I didn't want to use the same photo collage from previous shows of the book that included all the designs. I  also wanted to come up with something that more generically addressed the idea of papertoys and could actually BE a papertoy as well, but one that could also work as a flat image. So the poster is also the "official" mascot of the Tokyo show. Here's how it looks built.





To get your own Urban Paper mascot, click here.

]]> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:36:44 EST http://www.drawger.com/mckibillo/index.php?section=articles&article_id=8379

The mailman has been busy lately... oh man, I should just leave it at that. But this is about a book, not about me. And that's what it's about, the Tease, but in visual form or more specifically, poster design for burlesque. Anyhow, I was psyched to receive this in the mail last week. It had been almost a year(?) since the publisher, Korero Books, contacted me about including an illustration I had done for a flyer promoting the burlesque musical act of a couple of friends, Cherry Typhoon and Satoko. Satako belts out the tunes and commands the organ (as well as a variety of drums, whistles, etc), while Cherry mesmerizes the crowd with her ample figure and outsized stage persona. They blend aspects of both Japanese and burlesque performance traditions with humor and sexuality. It’s like some crazy Tom Waits meets Kabuki shit. For this poster, I was really inspired by the early work of Tadanori Yokoo, a Japanese painter and illustrator. In fact, after seeing my poster, the head curator of a Tokyo museum that was having a retrospective of Tadanori’s work, invited Satako and Cherry Typhoon to play the opening weekend.



Besides showing an amazing array of contemporary work being done, the book is also a great resource of historical posters, highlighting some real gems of the past, a few of which are below. The book is full of amazing, sometimes outrageous imagery, and I'm really glad to have been included.







]]> Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:39:26 EST http://www.drawger.com/mckibillo/index.php?section=articles&article_id=8286


Well, I got a very pleasant surprise the other day, when a fat, glossy magazine showed up in the mail with my interview in it. Normally I would be a bit freaked out to see my illustrations cut up and reused like this, but I'm really pretty pleased with the way it turned out!





]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:46:25 EST http://www.drawger.com/mckibillo/index.php?section=articles&article_id=8281

OK, this is really cool and lots of fun... and ABSOLUTELY a reason to finally hunker down and learn flash.  It's a new facebook app from illustrator Jon Keegan that well, as he puts it in his own words: Hey everyone. As the print illustration market shrinks, I’ve been working to seek out new opportunities to meld my illustration and interactive design skills. I just launched MUGGMAKER, an animated avatar creator on Facebook. You can save your ‘Muggs’ and share them with friends, and save JPEGs for profile pictures. I’m excited to see what everyone makes with this! I’d love to hear your feedback. Thanks! – Jon Keegan Link: Muggmaker on Facebook

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