Watch the making of video of the concert poster DKNG made for  Explosions in the Sky here.

Vodafone commissioned five Irish artists from different disciplines to create unique artwork. The artists involved were Kilkenny graffiti artist Danleo, Dublin stylist Aisling Farinella, Waterford born illustrator Kathi Burke, photographer Steve Ryan from Kilkenny and Cork born Eoin Coeveny (above) who is a graphic illustrator.

These incredibly detailed illustrations for an Indian Mobile phone company were recent Cannes Lions winners. The concept is reminiscent of a creepy arm stretching scene from a 1960′s Sinbad movie…only with a tongue. Now that’s gotta hurt.  The illustrators were Nishikant Palande, Jayvant Tambare, Nilesh Kore, and Mukesh Jadhav.

The South African illustration house Am I Collective were commissioned to create  murals for ESPN’s 2010 FIFA World Cup campaign under the direction of New York based ad agency Wieden+Kennedy. Taking inspiration from Ghanaian movie posters of the 80′s the artists set about creating a total of 32  murals  – one for each team taking part in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.  The murals have been appearing on print ads, billboards and bus shelters across several states in America.

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To ‘Eboy’ is a verb at this stage, right? Here’s a video showing the development of Eboy‘s recent poster illustrations of Irish cities as part of a McCann Erickson Coke campaign.

Really interesting post on Eye magazine’s blog were Mother’s Kyle Harman-Turner and Josh Engmann talk about the use of David Watkins’ political cartoons for Schweppes’ ‘Experience Matters’ campaign. This is a follow on to his great article in the most recent print edition of Eye about how big brands are turning to illustration, read ‘Drawn into conversation’, by Steve Hare, in Eye 72.

On the streets of Africa, from Cape Town to Kinshasa, from Lagos to Mombasa, the true measure of fame is having a haircut named after you on a barbershop sign. The streets are full of ‘The Obama’, ‘The Oprah’ and ‘The Denzel.’ This ubiquitous barbershop signage is an African art form or African graphic art with its naïve renderings and pragmatic use of wood, metal and any material that is close at hand.
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Is it March already? Wow where are the months going? Well if you are looking for something to mark the passing of Time (it won’t make it pass slower but rather keep track of it in a more visually interesting way) you could do a lot worse than call into your local AIB and ask for a copy of their 2009 calendar – Dots On A Map. Designed and curated by myself and Richard Seabrooke, it features the talents of 12 leading Irish Illustrators each choosing a very local tale from around the country.
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Congrats to US illustrator Tim O’Brien (interviewed by Illustrators Ireland some years ago) for scooping the Hamilton King Award 2009 at the Society Of Illustrators Awards. And he won for this illustration “The Scrum” for the Rugby World Cup (commissioned by Rothco). Our own Steve Simpson was at the awards and will be doing a write up on them soon.

Overspray: Riding High with the Kings of California Airbrush Art is a new book by Norman Hathaway that reappraises that oft-maligned illustration technique. In this Eye Blog article Hathaway discusses the book, and on his website you can see video interviews with some of the artists. illy credit: Yasei Jidai.