Driving Luxury with a LEXUS

Jelly London’s incredibly talented illustrator, Jo Bird has just completed a pretty classy editorial piece for the launch of a new magazine by luxury car brand, LEXUS.

Through Winkreative, a global branding, design and content agency LEXUS have launched a magazine for their readers and customers. Their cars embody luxury so, true to their brand, this magazine, (which is printed on the finest quality paper by the way) is promoting not only automotive but LEXUS’ new range of luxury items including leather goods, sunglasses and nifty gadgets, which appeal to the sophisticated consumer.

Jo Bird was to illustrate a selection of these products for the first issue of the magazine with a parchment paper and water coloured finish to her illustrations. Jo had to be very specific with the details and colours of each individual illustration but the creatives were thrilled and the issue has just gone to press.

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Pick Me Up 2013 Graphic Arts Festival

Our Head of Illustration, Nicki headed to the Private View of Pick Me Up 2013 and she has written a little review for all you enthusiastic creative types…

“Pick me up at Somerset House opened last week – the industry private view last Wednesday.  In it’s first year, Pick Me Up filled a gap in the creative industry events calendar as the first – and only – graphic arts fair, showcasing the best of our industry which we know so well and packaging it up towards the public.  Such was the industry hunger for the show, the private view was jam-packed and rave reviews flowed.

It’s now the third year in and Pick Me Up is still going strong. Much less a resource for industry folk, the Pick Me Up selects of 2013 had a strong curation but few artists who are industry newbies, but strong and very worthy nonetheless.  Workshops and spaces industry stalwarts such as Nelly Duff and Print Club gave an insight what’s usually a closed circuit and offered up graphic arts / design / illustration for wider consumption.

So perhaps, as we insiders become less excited by the show, it’s actually doing its job – opening up the ‘scene’ for a far wider audience and making our art of illustration and design engaging for everyone else with an interest in it.”

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Related articles

• Graphic Arts Festival 2013 | Somerset House (ultravie.co.uk)
• London: At ‘Pick Me Up London,’ The Art festival for the Rest of Us (jaunted.com)
• Pick Me Up @ Somerset House (queenofheartsanddesign.wordpress.com)
• Pick Me Up 2013 (thegraphicdesignproject.wordpress.com)

Steve Simpson in American Illustration 32 Annual

Steve Simpson has been selected for the American Illustration 32 Annual as well as for the 55th Society of Illustrators NY awards.

This year’s distinguished jury included Jordan Awan of The New Yorker and Sergio Baradat of United Nations Postal Administration among other high-profile names! He was selected from 8,742 pictures which were entered by 1,282 illustrators, magazines, agencies, publishers and schools, the jury selected, by a majority vote or better, only 369 images to appear in the book and represent the best pictures from 2012.

American Illustration 32 will be printed in full colour and distributed worldwide in hard cover.

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Related articles

• The Extraordinaires! by Steve Simpson (illustrationage.com)
• Parsons Alumna, Director of the Society of Illustrators, in the New York Times! (parsonsillustrates.com)

A jelly illustration exhibition at CHI

Jelly London were invited to show some of our fantastic illustrator’s work at CHI this month. You should pop down if you can and take a stroll around.

It is very lovely when one gets the chance to print and frame beautiful illustrations and look at them in a creative space as opposed to gazing at images off a screen, is it not?

Carine Brancowitz, James Lancett, Sandra Suy, Sawdust and Steve Simpson are just some of the artists whose illustrative work will be on display. Check out some of the nice pieces we have hung on the walls of CHI…

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Sex by the book

Sarah Stone of Easy Living magazine has advised her readers about how to re-discover the erotica of Karma Sūtra this May.

We started reading and, well… it’s not really office material. Que blushing! Fashion illustrator, Sandra Suy has once again provided a classy and confidently illustrated muse to enchant the theme further and maybe even entice a little more research… at home!

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