Each week, the New Yorker’s Art Director accepts submissions for upcoming themes. This weeks was taxes. Here’s my entry, “The 15%”
March 24, 2012
Blown Cover: The 15%
March 20, 2012
Corporate Knights Winter 2012
CK Canada Cover: Artist Paul Blow
I Art Direct and Design Corporate Knights, an environmental business magazine, published quarterly in Canada and the United States, and distributed through The Washington Post and The Globe and Mail.
Co-Art Director Pete Ryan just had our most recent issues published this month, the “Winter” (what winter?) issue of CK. We were very excited to work with some of the top talent in the industry for these issues, and are very thrilled with the results. Please check out some high lights below… and follow us on the CK art blog.
Any interested illustrators and photographs feel free to submit your portfolio to me at mr.jackdylan@gmail.com
A big thanks to all of our artists for this issue, and to the team at CK.
CK US Cover: “The Global 100” Artist David Plunkart
(Above) CK US Ed Note: Artist Raymond Besinger
(Above) CK CAN Ed Note: Artist Jack Dylan (me).
(above) CK Book Review: Artist Pete Ryan
(above) Artist: Alain Pilon
(above) Spot Artist: Jack Dylan
(above) Artist: Jonathan Bartlett
(above) Artist: Jack Dylan
(above) Artist: Paul Blow
(above) Artist: David Plunkart, (graphic intro) Jack Dylan.
(above) Global 100 Chart
(above) Artist: Mathew Bartlett
(above) Artist: Dan Hertzberg
(above) Artist: Yarek Wazul
March 20, 2012
Jack Layton Looming
Recent piece for Toronto Life on the NDP convention to elect a new party leader. The author describes how the new leader will be be forced to adopt Layton’s “soft” version of socialism, and about the Conservative victories Layton unintentionally engendered.
We had a bit of a time with this one, exploring the different angles. In the end what we came up with seems obvious, but it took us a while to get there. Thanks to Art Director Bradley Reinhardt.
The Piece talks specifically about how Layton’s socialism is “baby-like” and compares Layton to the children singer Raffi.
March 20, 2012
The Miseducation of Jack Dylan
So here was another heart-breaker. I was asked by the Canadian Federation of Students to come up with a promotional campaign poster for the, with the theme of education as a right. The poster would be printed and sold, with proceeds going to the CFS.
Unfortunately in the end, the project fell apart, so there will be no final, but we all agreed that the roughs turned out lovely, perhaps we’ll finish it someday.
Here are more roughs…
March 20, 2012
There will be Traffic
Here’s a new piece for Toronto Life, done under the Art Direction of Bradley Reinhardt. The article was about Toronto’s dysfunctional taxi system. — Also Note for those outside of the know, in Toronto the majority of our cabs, are orange, not yellow. Aren’t Canadian’s crazy?
Below are some roughs…
March 20, 2012
I was the Walrus, but then I was not…
Sometimes things just don’t work out. Here is a piece I was working on for the Walrus which got the axe in the end. I was working with Art Director Brian Morgan on an in-house ad for the The Walrus, that venerable Canadian magazine, which was meant to call attention to The Walrus’s many facets; Walrus Web, TV, Humor, etc.
The Challenge was representing The Walrus, without showing a walrus, while at the sometime expressing the theme of unity, or a kind of United States of Walrus. Brian also imagined an A.M. Cassandra like fell to the poster, which is why he went to me.One issue we also had to contend with was the amount of text that had to go on the poster, something which seemed like would need dwarf any image.
So in the end we through in the towel and Brian came up with a text based solution. Here are the out takes from the brain storm…
March 20, 2012
Order and Disorder
BOOK COVER - “Dans Le Ordre Et Le Desordre” by Anne Thériault, coming out this month in paper back through Les Éditions Vents d’Ouest.
Don’t have a version with the text yet, but here is the artwork I did for it. Thanks very much to Anne for choosing to work with me on this, and for giving me a lot of freedom. The book is about four friends who strike gold in the dot-com bubble with a satirical website, and then face the trials of success.
I believe this is the first book cover I’ve done. — Wait, is can that be true? I don’t remember/am shocked. — Below are some roughs we tried out…
December 23, 2011
Hitchens for the Holidays
HITCHENS FOR THE HOLIDAYS — Just in time for Christmas, here’s a new piece for the special Dec 24th edition of the Globe and Mail. I was very excited when Art Director Jason Chiu called me yesterday to offer me a piece on Christopher Hitchens, the recently deceased author, journalist and historian who died last week. The piece is not exclusively on the Hitch, but introduces the whole Globe Holiday package. The concept deals with atheism, secular society and Christmas. Caught in the cross-fire of holiday shoppers, are Muslims, non-believers, commercially coerced Christians, and Hitchens himself, looking as he did in younger days. Hitchens didn’t believe in an afterlife, but at least he can live on in his prime in this one.
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December 17, 2011
Corporate Knights Fall 2012
cover art directed by Antonio De Luca, design Tamara Shopsin
CORPORATE KNIGHTS — I’m very excited to tell you that I am now officially an ART DIRECTOR in a addition to being a famous poster artist, lover of acid jazz and friend. Corporate Knights is an environmental business magazine published four times a year as an insert in The Globe and Mail, and Washington Post. I will be working with CK on the design and art direction of their upcoming issues with fellow illustrator/designer Pete Ryan, who will be co-art directing the magazine with me as Design Director.
This is a late announcement as the first issue Pete and I designed together has already come out. We were so busy with it that we needed to take some time for the dust to settle before we could look back on it. Over all we were very happy with the way it turned out, and were thrilled to have been able to collaborate with so many talented artists in one issue, including the cover and logo designer Antonio De Luca. Pete and I art directed and design the contents of the magazine, while the cover, (above) was art directed by Antonio, and designed by Tamara Shopsin.
Other contributing artists include: Raymond Besinger (who did our Editors Note, and will hope will continue on in that spot. p.8), Daniel Fishel (who did an excellent portait of Conrad Black for us. p. 14), Mark Smith (p.13), Julie Morstad (p. 18), Alex Nabaum (p.36), Justin Renteria (p.40), and Daniel Hertzberg (p. 44).
You can see their work below, as well as some other spreads. It was a real challenge but very rewarding to be able to put out this first issue. Special thanks to Editor Tyler Hamilton, and the Managing Editor Jeremy Runnalls, of CK. As well as too our old friends in the Walrus Art Dept for reminding us what buttons in InDesign do what.Our next issue of CK will be out near the end of January, stay tuned.
Raymond Besinger (above)
Mark Smith (above)
Daniel Fishel (above)
Julie Morstad (above)
December 16, 2011
CAN’T A-FORD
PRICES YOU CAN A-FORD — Here’s a new piece as part of an ongoing series with Toronto Life. The article is about how the city of Toronto, under the stewardship of the honorable mayor Rob Ford, it try to raise so dough by selling off it’s assets, like land, utilities, and historical building; you know, stuff we don’t need. I worked with Art Director Bradley Reinhardt on this, my original idea was to show a cheesy salesmen who is selling his own suit (who’s looks might just remind you of Ford), but Bradley said just go for it, so instead I wound up being able to do this fun caricature of Ford. — Below is alternative concept.
A word on caricature: I never used to enjoy it, to me it always seemed sort of easy to make fun of people by exaggerating their physical features. My old style was more more realistic and I was interested in trying to show something that was “true” in the way that the perfect photograph might capture a moment. But a professor of mine, William Grigsby of Reactor Design recently introduced me to a number of caricature artists whoes work I admire, particularly the work of Miguel Covarrubias the Vanity Fair Illustrator of the 1920’s on. So increasingly as my style evolves I feel a peaked interest in the possibilities of caricature. I can tell you that as a concept it maybe easy, but in practice it is not. The ability to distill a person in to a drawing that looks effortless, exagerated, yet perfect in it’s likeness and meaning, is something that you could spend a lifetime improving upon.
December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
CAPITAL IDEA
CAPITAL IDEA — Here is a new series of illustrations I did for Capital Magazine. While the last of the OWS protests were being crushed, I used my ability to create art to illustrate how businessmen can pay less taxes. (Don’t look at me that way, some of us have water-bed, quiche and hotel addictions we need to fund.) Anyway, I truly had a great time putting this piece together with Creative Director Dean Mitchell of Fresh Art and Design.
At first I picked up on the article’s use of metaphor to come up with a concept. Phrases like “searching out tax evaders” and “a drag-net to collect lost revenue” prompted me to think of depicting the Revenue Canada Agents as FBI-like agents who are on a man-hunt to catch business men. Dean and the editors liked this approach but it was felt it needed to be more business friendly; after all, who am I, Obama!? So that concept was altered so that it would be the businessmen who are using searchlights and crime fighting tools to discover tax savings! Hooray! Everyone percent Wins!
Below are the roughs of an alternative concept…
December 16, 2011
ECHO CITY
ECHOER — This is a new one. I recently completed a pretty massive project to design and draw an entire world, which was then animated for an online ad. Creative Director George Simeonidis over saw production of this large project, and over about a month we put together this animation, (George and his team did the animating and the bubbles, I just did the drawing). This was a really new experience for me, not only was it just a far bigger illustration than I’m used to doing, but I have rarely had my drawings animated. I even practiced a bit of my own animation in this, developing a character turn (which took about a day and appears for 0.5 seconds in the video). It was amazing to see the way everything came alive in the end and how the hundreds of hours we poured into this, turned into a very beautiful 20 seconds. — Watch
December 16, 2011
BEST MAN ? — I was not really the best man and my friends Andrew and Gill’s wedding, but I did design this nifty invitation, despite being VERY BUSY with other work. And I did also get to deliver what is traditionally known as the best man’s speech, where in I toast the groom. I was promised that I would be allowed to use the word “crappy” twice in the speech, but did have to change the word “sleazy” to “questionable”, which actually was much funnier in the end I think. All in all a great night.
December 16, 2011
THE BIG THREE
ROBBED BY THE BIG THREE — Here is a Toronto Life piece (part of an on going spot I do) for an article on how the big three phone companies are robbing Canadians. Apparently these companies are being supported by ACTRA, the alliance of actors that promote Canadian talent, and other shadowy forces which enable them. This was a pretty difficult piece to illustrate because it had some many disparate threads. Art Director Bradley Reinhardt and I bounced around many, many ideas before we arrived at this one. Here are a few options below… (remember it’s about wireless, actors, and fat cats.)
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