Mark Smith

The motivating factor behind my artwork could be described as – ‘being inspired themes from the Constructivist Manifesto to try to access what I perceive to be the essence of any given text or story’, or – ‘I just like drawing pictures’. There’s an equal amount of truth in both of those statements.

Title: msmithTorLambLion
Caption: The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion
Description: Cover art for Margaret Killjoy's 'The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion'
Title: msmithExeterBulletin
Caption: How to build a better sense of self.
Description: Cover art for The Exeter Bulletin
Title: msmithESPNAlicover
Caption: Tribute to Muhammad Ali
Description: For ESPN The Magazine
Title: msmithMizzouarguingwell
Caption: How To Argue Well
Description: For Mizzou Magazine
Title: msmithNEWYORKERlifeisajoke
Caption: My Life Is A Joke
Description: For the New Yorker
Title: msmithFolioCandles2
Caption: A Shilling For Candles
Description: Interior art for the Folio Society edition of A Shilling For Candles
Title: msmithInstInvtopjob
Caption: How To Get The Top Jobs
Description: Cover art for Institutional Investor
Title: msmithEnttwitter
Caption: Twitter Abuse
Description: How to deal with an ex-employee's disparaging tweets, for Entrepreneur Magazine
Title: msmithGWBoros
Caption: Portrait of Julius Boros
Description: For Golf World Magazine
Title: msmithNatureALS
Caption: Lou Gehrig's disease
Description: For Nature Journal
Title: msmithRemodelling2
Caption: Improving Cashflow
Description: For Remodelling Magazine

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www.marksmithillustration.com
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Mark's work has featured in magazines, newspapers, books and advertising campaigns around the world for clients including The New Yorker, ESPN The Magazine, Penguin Books, The Folio Society, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, The New York Times and many more. His particular take on the world has won him recognition and awards from the NY Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Luerzers Archive, 3X3 Magazine, Communication Arts, LA Society of Illustrators and the V&A Illustration Awards, stand out's include a silver medal from the NY Society, the Patrick Nagel Award for Excellence from the LA Society and the 'Best in Show' award from 3X3 Magazine.

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Houda Bakkali

Houda Bakkali is a visual artist and art director. Her colorful artwork and illustration have been exhibited worldwide and her techniques and creative process have been recognized by different international magazines and institutions, including the Palazzo Bellevue, the Museum of Flowers in Sanremo (Italy) and the Spain Culture in New York.

Her work has been exhibited in Monaco, Paris, Cannes, Sanremo, New York, Barcelona, Biarritz…, and she has been honored with awards from the American Illustration (NY), the New Talent Award at the International Festival Artist of the World in Cannes, Graphis Awards (NY), London International Creative, Paris Design Award, Creative Quarterly (NY), among others distinctions.

She has worked for different companies and international institutions, managing different projects, both visual art and communications, as well as multimedia and interactive design, audiovisual projects, editorial, etc. many of them awarded internationally.

Houda Bakkali is the founder and art director of the multimedia creative studio La Bonita Digital.

Title: Transgression
Title: Sensuality
Title: Freedom
Title: Pop girl
Title: Spring
Title: Crazy heart
Title: Just Time
Title: Too many fish, too few loaves
Title: Don Quixote Time
Description: This is a tribute to Don Quixote and to its universal values: reflection, conversation, understanding, humor and wit, color, words for love and hope. It is the time of words and stories. It is the time of optimism and hope. It is the time of fantasy and dreams. It's time for legends with happy endings. It is time of reflection. It is the time of genius and madness. It is time of the Don Quixote of the 21st Century.
Title: Stay home
Title: Follow me

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Preston Craig

Painting and drawing allows me freedom to address some of the social ills that plague our modern society and to paint what I feel, not necessarily what I see. Having grown up in a rural setting and having had opportunities to travel and live overseas, I decided to paint what I saw in my mind’s eye while referencing what I experienced around me.
The nature of my work is that through the use of varied imagery, classical and digital painting techniques and humor, I sometimes utilize teddy bear images to address contemporary, social issues that are relevant and that affect the human race on a physical and spiritual level. Some paintings are a result of investigating my Native American roots (Choctaw), while others are a result of my spiritual quest and studies in Jungian symbology, Shamanic practices and Aboriginal Dreamtime myth. Through my Twisted Teddys” series and other imagery, I hope the viewer is inspired to be more aware of their global connections to each other and to take personal responsibility for effecting positive change in society.
I’ve worked with drug addicts, the homeless, victims of sexual abuse, young people who have been incarcerated, and have friends in the porn industry so I have definitely seen some of the seedier side of life. I’ve seen how people can make a bad decision and get trapped in that decision. They are unable to figure out how to get out of the situation in which they find themselves. With that in mind, my artistic goal is that I aspire to achieve positive social change with my art.

Title: AlasFairTeddy
Caption: Alas Fare Teddy
Description: The image was inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, and targets suicide prevention.
Title: BodybuilderTeddy1
Caption: Bodybuilder Teddy
Description: This image addresses the prevalence of sports enhancing drugs in our society.
Title: GangstaTeddy1
Caption: Gangsta Teddy
Description: This image addresses not only the loss of innocence but how that innocence can be twisted.
Title: HomelessTeddy
Caption: Homeless Teddy
Description: This image addresses the plight of the homeless and how they are viewed by society.
Title: RedneckTeddy
Caption: Redneck Teddy
Description: This image addresses racism and bigotry in our society and how that is passed on to our children.
Title: CruciTeddy
Caption: Cruci Teddy
Description: This image addresses the theme of physical, sexual or emotional abuse of children. The teddy bear is an iconic image of childhood innocence. Christ on the cross is a premiere image of innocence sacrificed. When a child is abused, their innocence is sacrificed.
Title: CruciTeddy
Caption: Cruci Teddy
Description: This image addresses the theme of physical, sexual or emotional abuse of children. The teddy bear is an iconic image of childhood innocence. Christ on the cross is a premiere image of innocence sacrificed. When a child is abused, their innocence is sacrificed.
Title: CruciTeddy
Caption: Cruci Teddy
Description: This image addresses the theme of physical, sexual or emotional abuse of children. The teddy bear is an iconic image of childhood innocence. Christ on the cross is a premiere image of innocence sacrificed. When a child is abused, their innocence is sacrificed.
Title: BookCover
Caption: The Goggle-Eyed Green Hairy Monster and Me
Description: Book cover I designed for a children's book
Title: HairyMonsterPage5
Caption: The Goggle-Eyed Green Hairy Monster and Me.
Description: (Interior illustration) of The Goggle-Eyed Green Hairy Monster and Me.
Title: S Stotzer
Caption: Okay, You Have My Attention
Description: Commissioned piece for a promoter of AA.
Title: MurderbyGaslamp
Caption: Murder by Gas Lamp
Description: Jack-the-Ripper prowls the dark streets of London.
Title: ShadowsintheDarkness9x12
Caption: Shadows in the Darkness
Description: A Queen under the sea, surveys her empire and ponders the threat of impending evil. Illustration for a Sci-Fy magazine

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Stephanie Olivieri

I’m a writer and I also work as an artist.
I mostly do cartoony work for kids’ books, greeting cards, animation, anything fun.
I work both traditionally and digitally.
For more information, rates & availability please contact me.

Title: Jabberwocky
Title: Skating
Title: Friends
Title: Where is my scarf?
Description: Digital and traditional illustration
Title: Do you have it?
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Title: STEPHANIE_OLIVIERI_ELEANOR_ICB3_WK3_Pg2
Title: Paris Cafe
Title: Cold