There’s a big difference between a sketchbook and a portfolio. Growing up, I erased, scribbled over, and tore out my mistakes so that only my best work remained. I didn’t know any better at the time, but I could have gotten much more of out of my sketchbooks with a few simple tweaks. What I…
This is pretty cool: New York-based Pub Crawl is hosting “See How Magazines are Made”, an all-day in-depth tour of visiting the offices of popular magazines and getting a look at how the magazines are made. This year’s tour includes visits to Men’s Health, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Inked, People en Español and Seventeen magazines. The event will…
Starting a Design Studio Advice by Rob Giampietro to designers getting ready to start their own studio: 1. An untended garden quickly becomes a field: plant what you want to grow. 2. Have partners, but don’t do the same things: make sure you both do something you enjoy. 3. Hire people for what they can teach you,…
You can no longer talk about children’s book art in Utah without hearing Willy Terry’s name pop up. This is a good thing. A very good thing. See what I mean? This is a typical painting from Will—and by ‘typical’ I mean teeming with rich, luscious colors, playful contrast between light and dark tones, endearing…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sRO5sipTKY&feature=channel_video_title] This is a video I made for an IT company that will be launching soon. They wanted something simple and direct that would describe their services in a way that was fun and easy-to-understand. This is the first in a series of several animations I’ll be making for their clients, as well as their…