View from the Zoo

3×3 has just announced their winners for this year’s edition of the Children’s Show, a juried collection of illustrations and books for children. Just to get in, the majority of the eight judges have to vote for the piece. I’m very happy to announce that three of my entries were selected – one for a newspaper illustration about relaxing activities for kids during Spring Break, a second for a poster showing the handmade Bambino sled and, the third, for the ADzif line of blackboard wall decals «Memo». Congratulations to La Presse, goslide.ca and ADzif! 

All the winners will be published in the upcoming annual No.7. 3×3 is a magazine of international contemporary illustration, published in New York. In addition to the magazine, 3×3 organizes three juried shows each year and publishes an invitation-only directory.

My first illustration in Japan has just been published – the cover of the annual Auto Camp Guide of Japan. It was a great opportunity for me to work on a new pattern of tents and trees that can be seen in the background. I quite enjoy the commercial quality of the Japanese characters on the cover. Below is one of the crazier sketches that I proposed.

Sorry to have been inactive this long. I have been working on restructuring my website and reworking my designs into viable collections available for licensing. Here’s an ad that will be running in the next Total Art Licensing magazine. You can see a few samples of new patterns and designs on the left that I will present on this blog soon. The website, well, will be ready once my collections are in order!

My Christmas animals series of illustrations that I produced for moo.com and La Presse have received awards from Lux 2009 and the AIIQ. Lux is the annual illustration and photography competition showcasing the best from Quebec in the last year. All the awards can be see in the Lux special issue of Grafika magazine on the stands now or on the Lux website.