Liberal, charming, well-educated and exquisitely respectful, that’s how many will remember Antonio Mingote‘s artwork, but also his persona, character and image. The Catalan-born, Madrilian-adopted legend who died last Tuesday was considered by many the most successful cartoonist in Spain, …
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Cavaliers de l’Apocalypse
There were many good (and many baaad) drawings last weekend @ the Parisian Drawing Now fair, many welcoming and many ”stupid” art gallery owners, a few art magazines advertising their wonderful publications… and quite a lot of people. We’ll …
Drawing Now
Quick reminder! Only 4 days to go until the 6th edition of the Parisian “Drawing Now” art fair opens! 15€ are a bit too much if you ask us, but this is one of those “unique” European art …
↓ Ana Juan
If not very long ago we were talking about Eric Drooker’s New Yorker covers, today we shall pay attention to another great illustrator who also has a long list of amazing TNY orders: Ana Juan, who was just awarded with the Spanish national Illustration 2010 Prize given by the Culture Minister (20.000 cash prize basically)…
Ana, whose works have a very “naive” style and always a fantasy approach received the verdict by e-mail and seemed to be quite surprised by the decision. She’s not one of those young illustrators we generally talk about… having worked with some of the most prestigious publications worldwide (LA Times, El Pais, Rolling Stone…) her work isn’t limited to illustration as she’s also written several books and constantly flirts with painting & sculpture.
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In Spain Ana Juan is also mostly known for her illustrations who helped creating the identity of many local publications such as Madriz or El Vibora (both now part of the local history).
Music heads
Her works have been exhibited a bit of everywhere across Ginebra, NY, Barcelona, Seville but what we really like is her advertising works & campaigns..
artwork for the Japanese film Snake of June
campaign for United Airline business class