The Devil in Sal DiMasi
October 31, 2009
Gluekit illustration for Boston Magazine, 2009.
NBC Makes People Laugh
October 30, 2009
Gluekit illustration of The Office and Parks and Recreation for Rolling Stone, 2009.
Melrose Place
October 29, 2009
Melrose Place illustration by Gluekit for Entertainment Weekly, 2009.
The Tonight Show
October 28, 2009
Tonight Show illustration (featuring Conan O’Brien, Johnny Carson, and Andy Richter) by Gluekit for Rolling Stone, 2009.
Toxic Assets
October 27, 2009
Gluekit illustration for Portfolio magazine (RIP), 2009.
Glee!
October 26, 2009
Glee illustration by Gluekit for Entertainment Weekly magazine, 2009.
Sweet Dreams for Cookie Magazine
October 25, 2009
Gluekit illustration for Cookie Magazine (RIP), 2009. This was supposed to be published in this year’s Cookie 100…
The Office
October 24, 2009
Recent Gluekit illustration of The Office for Entertainment Weekly magazine, 2009.
John Hughes Illustration for Rolling Stone
October 23, 2009
Gluekit illustration for Rolling Stone, 2009.
Design Week
October 22, 2009
Gluekit illustration for Design Week (Rising Design Stars supplement), 2009
Modern Family
October 21, 2009
Modern Family illustration by Gluekit for Entertainment Weekly magazine, 2009.
Sports Busts for Maxim
October 20, 2009
Gluekit illustration for Maxim magazine, 2009.
Ally McBeal Illustration for Entertainment Weekly
October 19, 2009
Ally McBeal illustration by Gluekit for Entertainment Weekly magazine, 2009.
Totally Complex
October 18, 2009
Recent Gluekit illustration for Complex Magazine (2009).
In Black and Gold: Jean Jullien
August 9, 2009
Jean Jullien’s sweet summer goblin cover for the Yale University Art Gallery 2009 Calendar!
Jean is a mega-talented London-based illustrator & designer who has a penchant for cuddly characters, costumes, and cut paper. His three-dimensional cover for Victionary’s 2008 Stereographics: Graphics in New Dimensions caught the eyes of the design world, and he’s since finished a number of projects and produced new exhibition work that explores an expanding galaxy of characters and his own playful visual language. Jullien gradated from Central Saint Martins just last year and is now studying at the Royal College of Art while continuing to produce a steady stream of colorful commerical work for clients like Print Magazine and The Guardian.
Days of Summer
August 4, 2009
Gluekit’s illustration for Entertainment Weekly, featuring the stars of (500) Days of Summer, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel!
In Black and Gold: Non-Format
August 2, 2009
Non-Format’s stellar cover for the Yale University Art Gallery’s Summer 2009 Calendar!
This gem of a design sparkles with custom typography that Non-Format designed specifically for the YUAG cover. What’s wonderful is how the gentle abstraction they deployed to create the letterforms lends itself to the satisfying activity of decoding the expected series of words, yet the overall design can be appreciated on a purely formal level.
Non-Format is the international design super-team of Kjell Ekhorn and Jon Forss. Working together for nearly ten years, the pair have produced a steady stream of innovative design and illustration. Their list of clients is star-studded with names like Coca-Cola, Nike, M&CSaatchi, Graniph, the Tate Modern and EMI (among many others). They have art directed the independent music monthly The Wire and also Varoom: the journal of illustration and made images. In 2007, Die Gestalten Verlag published Non-Format Love Song, an artist monograph that features their award-winning work.
Kristen Wiig!
July 25, 2009
Gluekit’s recent illustration for EW’s Must List of the super awesome and funny Kristen Wiig. Our favorite part of her Wikipedia entry reads: “She was hired as a graphic artist by a plastic surgery clinic to show clientele what they would look like after surgery, but left for Los Angeles before ever starting the job to pursue an acting career.”
In Black and Gold: Steven Harrington
July 14, 2009
Steven Harrington’s Summer 2009 calendar cover for the Yale University Art Gallery!
Steven’s addition to the series features his adorable personal iconography in a collegiate still life, complete with yarn ornaments and anthropomorphic objects. Harrington is based out of Los Angeles (check out the behind-the-magic peek into his California home at Design*Sponge) and has produced a stunning array of graphic gems, stellar art, and awesome goods under his own name and as co-owner and director of the graphic design studio National Forest Design. With influences ranging from classic Time-Life Encyclopedias circa 1965-1972, to thrift stores, owls, and the Moody Blues, Harrington’s distinctive style merges hand-drawn nostalgia with illustrative and dimensional cut paper objects, creating a recognizable universe of playful characters, symbols, and starscapes. His work has been exhibited widely, in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, Milan, Tokyo, Montreal, and Melbourne.
In Black and Gold: Emigre
July 7, 2009
Summer is definitely here in the balmy Northeast, and that means it’s time to feature another set of Yale University Art Gallery Calendar Covers!
This cover for the Summer 2009 calendar is by digital typeface pioneers and respected graphic design publishing luminaries Emigre (Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko), and utilizes a typeface Emigre distributes (a shadowed Los Feliz by Christian Schwartz) against Puzzler type designed by Zuzana. Emigre is widely recognized as a hugely influential force in the field of digital typography and design, known both for designing or releasing many cutting-edge typefaces– early dot-matrix fonts, high-resolution typefaces, and vector-based designs– as well as for publishing Emigre magazine between 1984 and 2005. The magazine was a venue for radical digital experimentation, highlighting the potential of the studio’s innovative typeface design and establishing an early forum for a growing community of digital designers. The entire run of Emigre is now part of the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection.
