Reactor Retro
Designer, Steve Dunk and illustrator, Rene Zamic were commissioned by Due North Communications to create a series of eight retro-style ads for their client, Workopolis.
R.O.Blechman – Drawing attention to a Whisper
Click on the image for the Illustration Art blog website and read an interview with R.O. Blechman.
Mountain Music Poster and Handbill
A hand-lettered poster and handbill by Steve Dunk, for some very talented local musicians, Kitgut Stringband, Kristine Schmitt and Los Caballeros del Son, and The Sixth gallery.
Gowdyworks
A few of Carolyn Gowdy’s etchings can be found in “Images 34, Best of British Illustration 2010”. They are featured, along with her set designs for ‘The State We’re In’. The show continues Sept. 7-11, London College of Communication, SE1, and then tours until August  2011.
Clayton Hanmer Sees The Future In Latest Hog-O-Vision.
Every two weeks Clayton does a regular feature for a web site devoted to interesting things about Toronto called torontoist.com. Hog-O-Vision is a look at Clayton’s take on Toronto’s future.
Have a look at Clayton’s past visions.
May 11, 2010The return of Fiona Smyth’s CHEEZ!
CHEEZ was originally a monthly comic drawing published in Canada’s Exclaim Magazine over a ten year period from 1992 to 2002. There were no editorial restrictions on the work apart from the monthly deadline and the colour restrictions of the paper (the art work had to be black and white). Each drawing was created shortly before the deadline and numbered in chronological order. This CHEEZ, featured on INDEXG’s Monday Artpost will be drawn weekly and will continue with the same numbering sequence and restrictive palette. A collection of the first one hundred strips was published as CHEEZ 100 by Pedlar Press in 2001.
R.O. Blechman Reveals The Lowdown On Notgeld.
In Germany during the early 1920s rampant inflation wreaked havoc on the economy (an American dollar—worth 330 marks in 1921—skyrocketed in 1923 to 4,200,000,000,000 marks… at its zenith, an American dollar was worth 99,000,000,000,000). In an attempt to replace or supplement the increasingly valueless German currency, cities took to printing their own money—notgeld, or emergency money (literally “necessity moneyâ€). Notgeld was usually printed as paper banknotes and was usable only in the municipality where it was issued. Read R.O. Blechman’s article, Order, Disorder and Notgeld on the AIGA blog and have have a look at some of his collection.
A scatological illustration on notgeld from the town of Itzehoe in Holstein.
May 3, 2010Bill & Tomio & Louis’ Excellent China Adventure
Last month, Reactor’s Bill Grigsby, Louis Fishauf and Tomio Nitto visited illustrator/artists Henrik Drescher and Wu Wing Yee in Dali, Yunnan, China. Aarmed with digital cameras, the intrepid travellers took a lot of pictures. When they got back, Louis exercised his considerable design talents to edit and create a slide show of their trip.
Canadian Bill Russell Embedded in American Civil War
Bill Russell frequently draws and interviews people he finds interesting. Bill’s reportage begins with a pen, a sketchbook and plenty of conversation.
Recently Bill was embedded as a Civil War reporter artist at the Las Mariposas Civil War Days in Mariposa, California. Check out his activities with the California Civil War reenactors.
