Overkill :: Special Edition

A limited edition of Overkill is released this morning. Signed & numbered 120 copies, includes a signed & numbered 8.5" X 11" giclee print, and a cream colored debossed cloth slipcase. $100. on sale at Upper Playground. Happy holidays! 

Tomer.

Ai Weiwei X 2

Ai Weiwei, artist as instigator. If you're new to the AWW experience i suggest learning about it. He is doing some amazing cerebral acrobatics vs. the Chinese government (while risking his life) that somehow translate into powerful art.

 

Art directed by Luke Canning for Grand.

OVERKILL :: monograph

OVERKILL comes out tomorrow!

*Designed and edited by Anton Ioukhnovets.

T.

Society of Illustrators Call for Entries Poster

I've been submitting work for the Society of Illustrators annual exhibition since the late 90s, while still a student, so it was a rare pleasure/pressure taking a shot at creating a 'call for entries' poster.

 

the unmatched Anton Ioukhnovets did the design and typography. Yuko Shimizu, who's chairing the competition, assigned the project. personally, the Society's annual book/show has been very effective at getting the work out there, so to end with a word of advice-- ENTER.

TH

The Atlantic Fiction Issue

Tomer: scenes of the flooding in the south kept washing up on our TV screens until they became invisible. The Atlantic envisioned a post disaster landscape as the theme for this cover-- a survivor escapes-- conveying the unique power of literature.

 

 

Art directed by Jason Treat.

From God’s Mountain IV

A New limited edition print will be released (here) this Wednesday, July 13th,

From God’s Mountain IV is 13″ x 19″ Giclee with an edition of 45.

Not A Self Portrait

Tomer: more on this soon.

How to Illustrate a Chart

Tomer: the Play section in Wired focuses on a single theme and measures certain aspects of it throughout the magazine. it's an info-graphic, or a pie chart, showing the relative sizes of the different parts of a whole.

This chart was about the Apocalypse. my initial idea was a lone mutant survivor climbing a heap of junk, sporting a multi-lens glasses. each lens represents a different segment. no luck.

Another round: ghosts; rainbow; toxic puddle; totem. no luck.

 

But the totem led to this idea.

Which became this page--

Art directed by Alice Cho for Wired magazine.

From God’s Mountain III

A new limited edition print will be released this Thursday, May 12th.

From God’s Mountain III is 13″ x 19″ Giclee, with an edition of 45, and is $85. 
The print will be added to the shop on Thursday afternoon (NY time).

Why We Celebrate a Killing

Tomer: A man is shot in the head, and joyous celebrations break out 7,000 miles away. Although Americans are in full agreement that the slaying of Osama Bin Laden is a good thing, many are disturbed by the revelry. From an op-ed piece by Jonathan Haidt in today's NY Times.

UPDATE: my favorite rumination on this matter, by The Realist->

 

art directed by uber illustrator Josh Cochran.

How to Illustrate a Reflection

T: new print: Star Trek / Mirror, Mirror. 24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition 175, on sale today at Mondo.

 

Spock's cold logic and Kirk's messy humanity exist at the core of their characters even when their personalities invert-- as they do in Mirror, Mirror, an episode from the original TV run taking place in a parallel universe populated with their evil counterparts -- suggesting a different kind of mirroring effect; one which reflects a familiar dynamic between archetypes. Independent of context or moral standing, their yin-yang like balance remains intact.

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Hollywood Fixer

Tomer : "Often, only a man stands between a celebrity and danger. Meet the go-to guy for stars in peril". the story of Aaron Cohen, super star bodyguard.

 

 

  

Art directed and designed by Cody Tilson for Playboy.

Swallowed By the Sea

Tomer: for Newsweek-- "As Japan reels from the tsunami, archeologists claim to have discovered the lost city of Atlantis, a fabled place built--like much of the world--in the crosshairs of nature." The idea was to keep the focus on the human peril aspect of this primal threat looming above civilazation since the dawn of time.

 

 Art directed by Dirk Barnett.

A Psychic Moment Illustrated

T:  a few weeks ago I've sent this sketch to the NYer about Gaddafi's fear barrier collapsing and the country's twitterers suddenly unafraid to slam him. the AD mentioned that another illustrator came up with something similar. got my copy earlier this week with Barry Blitt's delightful solution. instead of twitts he went with doves, which works well for a country with no internets. visual ideas float around like free radicals. further reading here->

You Tell Me

Tomer: who are these kids? and what are they waiting for?

Spider-Man for the New Yorker

Tomer: for John Lahr's review of Turn Off The Dark, the high adrenaline Spider-Man musical.

Art directed by Chris Curry.

Memories of the Gore Administration

T : lead art for a New York Magazine story chronicling  a fictional decade where the 2000 election had gone the other way, and Al Gore became president. America: This is your parallel life. In the first chapter, written by Kurt Andersen, Gore moves in, and United Flight 93 strikes the White House. Al Qaeda doesn’t care who’s president.

art directed by Josef Reyes.

Perfect Storm / Valentine's Day Print

The original drawing was pitched as a NYer cover and wasn't used (blogged here), and I wanted to see where it would go with actual skin. It's a metaphor for intimacy:  two bodies in a warm vessel sailing through space while the world outside is slowly being covered with ice.





 

Perfect Storm is a Valentine's Day themed limited edition print. It goes on sale this morning here.


T. H