October 27, 2009
We would like to extend an enthusiastic welcome to our newest open submissions winner Rius. His design, Mixtape Meltdown, is gracing the Infectious catalog and flooding our eyes and hearts with a little bit of that 80’s nostalgia we all long for. This talented designer graduated high school with dreams of becoming a macho hospital janitor, when he found out that he lacked the muscles needed for the job, he settled for art school. We are certainly glad he did.
Based in the Philippines, Rius balances a successful career doing international design consulting while also maintaining a personal art practice. He is currently getting ready for a show opening in January with fellow artists and friends, Jaco Payawal, Mervin Malonzo and Renan Ortiz.
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October 20, 2009
Felicitations to this week’s Open Submission winners!
Kristina Collantes started off her drawing career sketching lunch boxes in the classroom in Phillipines. Now that she’s a So-Cal native she has graduated onto drawing skeletons, women with animal ears, superheroes with fancy boots and vampires. And she’s very good at it. Her signature “doo-dad patterns” have appeared in GQ magazine and she’s also worked for Family Time Records. For her Infectious design The Gummy Inferno of Leonard’s Innards she drew inspiration from a short story she wrote about a man who stumbles into an alternate dimension where his body turns translucent.
British artist Gavin Rampling’s artwork has previously been compared to “a soft ballad from a balls-out metal band”. It’s a fitting description for his winning Infectious design Golden Afternoon which masks a very rock and roll message behind some very picturesque petals. Check out the rest of his interview here to find out about how Alice in Wonderland inspired his typographically driven art and to read up on his up and coming projects.
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October 13, 2009
From the DGPH design studio in Buenos Aires, Martin Lowentein, and the brothers Vaisberg (Andres and Diego) are supplying the world with whimsical critters that warm hearts and make tummies feel fuzzy. Infectious is happy to introduce two designs by this festive trio as this week’s addition to our ever-growing inventory. “Happy Logs” and “Squirrel in the Forest” will surely make you want to hug your computer. From their humble beginnings working from makeshift design studios in their bedrooms, the boys from DGPH are proof that the sky is the limit. With international product lines that range from books (The Ark Project) to inflatable animals, there is no end in sight for these toy loving illustration buffs. Make sure to keep an eye out for their show at Gallery 1988 in San Francisco next year!
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October 6, 2009
We teamed up with our friends at Mozilla and challenged our community of artists to create artwork around the themes of people and robots and technology making our lives better.
Thank you so much to all the artists who shared their weird and witty automaton designs. We’ve seen everything from lipstick-applying gynoids, to agile breakdancing Paul Stanley androids, to poker playing, donut guzzling bots. We also spotted a lot of robots with very impressive cod pieces. But we think we’ll just leave it at that… We were deluged with hundreds of outstanding submissions, but these were the designs that tripped our circuits and blew our fuses. Congratulations to our 1st place winner Hammo who takes home a cool $1000 with his design Playtime. Respect to our second place runner-up Tomek Karelus and his Autumn to Come artwork – who is now the proud owner of a Roomba, and also to our other runner-up Robert Podgórski and his pixelated Firefoxzilla Protecting the City.
As you all know, this contest would not have been possible without those good people over at Mozilla Firefox. If you, like Mozilla, sincerely believe in the power of technology, browsers (and robots) to enrich people’s lives, then you should probably check out their newly lauched Creative Collective and help them build a better internet via the power of your art.
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September 24, 2009
Welcome and bienvenido to this week’s Open Submissions winners!
Venezuelan illustrator Miguel Gonzalez (aka M-Ion) is a practicing architect, a career that leaves him with as little time as possible to paint and illustrate. His personal artwork is inspired by his hometown of Caracas, especially El Ávilia mountain. For his winning Infectious artwork Stepin the City, he turns his capital city into a stomping ground for monsters that look like they have been conjured up out of the clods and pollution.
Brighton-based artist Graham Carter is a freelance illustrator by day and a screen printer by night. Graham was one of the founding members of the critically acclaimed London based Peepshow illustration collective and now runs his own gallery called Boxbird. He was galvanized by the discontinuation of Polaroid film to create his Infectious artwork Poladroid.
Check out www.m-lon.blogspot.com and www.carterworks.co.uk for more info.
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http://www.peepshow.org.uk
http://www.boxbird.co.uk
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September 17, 2009
Tiger and elephants and orangutans! Oh my! Huge congrats to this week’s Open Submissions winners – Zutto, Ready2Rumbl and Zack Madrigal.
Zutto grew up in the Urals in Russia where she used to rock climb the mountains and swim in the lakes. She now translates the idyllic backdrop of her childhood into her personal art, crafting modern day fairy tales like her winning Infectious art A Very Long Journey.
Dutch artist Ready2Rumbl morphs his obsessions with American illustration from the 60s, M.C. Escher and NBA team logos into his design Junglebook.
And Virginia-based graphic designer Zack Madrigal joins the catalog with his jubilant watermelon artwork I Did It! – which was created to fend off an overwhelming desire for a slice of watermelon on a recent scorching hot day.
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September 10, 2009
We recently challenged our community of artists to craft a laptop skin design that revealed the Apple logo in our Cut to the Core contest. Huge thanks to the hundreds of blue sky thinkers who shared their art. However our hearts have been won over and these are the designs that have earned our adoration and accolades.
Congratulations to Jun Nuñez who nets the first prize of $1000 for envisioning the logo as the flowing heart of a robot. And a big round of applause for our runners up and their creative concepts: Aren Vandenburgh who toyed with the idea that “it is the differences in our execution of design problems that makes our work truly unique” in Creative Workflow, Dimo Trifonov who nods to the retro brand colors of Apple with Back to Basics and Jamal Issawi who visualized the bitten apple as a “powerful symbol eating viruses and overcoming obstacles” in his arcade game-inspired MacMan.
All of these winning designs are now available for your Mac laptop in 13” 15” and 17” sized skins. Let there be light!
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September 3, 2009
We’re proud to welcome Sara Antoinette Martin as the newest member of the Infectious family.
Sara graduated from The Pratt Institute in 2005 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Illustration and started off her art career with an internship with Tristan Eaton. She then graduated to product photographer at Kidrobot and now works as an artist assisting (fellow Infectoid) Tara McPherson. Her personal “pop surrealist” artwork is strewn with the heads of ladies, flowers, vintage swimsuits, The Abominable Snowman and the odd masonic symbol thrown in for good measure.
Check out her two Infectious pieces of art Unfinanced Love and Dating Habits of El Chupacabra. She’ll also be joining us in SF in October for the Alternative Press Expo. See www.sara-land.net for more details.
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September 2, 2009
Muchos gracias to Junko Mizuno for delighting our eye-orbs and tickling our fun-nybone at her recent book signing for Little Fluffy Gigolo PELU Vol. 1 at the New People store. We thoroughly enjoyed reading the book in English (finally!) and experiencing her fan base first hand. One such fan was this well-quaffed individual who asked Junko to sign her Infectious skateboard.
Later, we all hit the Japantown. Hard. We got our groove on at Do Re Mi where we rented out a karaoke booth for several fun-filled hours. All we can say is thank god it was a private booth! Without revealing too many embarrassing details, we’ll say that there was lots of soju, voice crackling, high kicks, a little Kiss from a Rose and a lot of bad rapping. Next time, you may think twice about missing a karaoke night with Infectious.
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