awards and recognition | Monday, July 5th, 2010

Society of Illustrators / ICON 6 Exhibition

We will be shipping “Secrets” across the world to California for the Society of Illustrators exhibit at ICON 6 (the 6th Biennial Global Illustrators Conference).

Thank you Society of Illustrators – L.A. for giving Johanna the chance to exhibit. It’s not very often that we get the chance to show work in America. If you want to go see the show, the exhibit will be at the Wentworth Room of the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, California. It opens on July 13 and will run through July 17.

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Johanna’s Illustration West-48 ID Number

We had this frame made at a Workshop, North of Cebu

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awards and recognition | Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Society of Illustrators West (48) Certificate of Merit

Hooray! The Society of Illustrators has announced today that they have awarded Johanna Velasco a Certificate of Merit for artwork done for gallery work in 2009. The Society of Illustrators – LA is a professional society based in Los Angeles, founded in 1953. The mission of the Society is to promote the art and apprecia…tion of illustration, as well as its history and evolving nature, and to encourage high ideals through exhibitions, lectures, and education.

Every year the prestigious organization selects a number of illustrators from across the world to receive awards for work done across different categories like advertising, entertainment, editorial, childrens and gallery among others. Considered to be one of the major illustration awards today, past (and present) winners include some of the best professionals in the field like James Jean, Alberto Cerriteno, Chris Buzelli, Jaime Zollars, Bill Mayer, Nate Williams and many of our favorites. You can see the full list here: http://www.si-la.org/48/gallery.html

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awards and recognition | Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Graphika Manila 09 Book

Very happy to be part of the inaugural Graphika Manila Book.

They chose to feature this illustration:

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awards and recognition | Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Milestone: Luerzers’ 200

I am very happy to tell you that we got selected to be part of Luerzer’s Archive: 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide, a book published in Europe every two years and features work by some of today’s contemporary commercial illustrators. It is distributed in over 35 countries and was launched at this year’s Cannes Ad Fest. I am doubly proud that we, a duo with a small client base working out of a relatively unknown studio, both made it into the collection.

It is also a pleasure to see work by some of the artists that we admire, Sam Weber, Olaf Hayek, Edward Kinsella, Edel Rodriguez, Anita Kunz, to name a few. Our own extremely talented compatriot Mary Ann Licudine made the list too.

When we first started Happy Garaje, we knew little about the design and illustration business or even how we wanted to be perceived. What we were sure of was that we wanted to do something creative, something that would let us take photographs, draw, write and film all day while still being able to pay for food, clothing, shelter and movie tickets

I Wish I Could Sail Away by Johanna Velasco

Trick by Mark Joseph Deutsch

Cover Illustration by Edel Rodriquez

Between then and today, we’ve found out that one of the most important things for somebody working in the creative field is to find a voice. A look and feel to be recognized by. And this is quite possibly what we’ve worked hardest to achieve (along with making clients happy). What we do now, in illustration in particular, are things that are a mix of J’s dreamy and moody paintings and my own scribble-like & warm colored drawings.

Mark & Joh for Happy Garaje

What we want to do in the coming months is to collaborate more, to find a unified voice and also to tell stories and make moving pictures. This means illustrated fiction, childrens’ stories, music videos and short cartoons. It’s been a good start for us so far. I hope we keep doing this for a very long time.

The Facts: 200 Best Illustrators 2009/2010 (lifted from the book)

• Each illustrator invited to submit work had to be nominated by an art director working for an ad agency or by a publishing house. This is how 152 illustrators new to the series got their first chance to be in the volume.
• There were a total of 4,716 submissions from 44 countries.
• Where not recommended by a professional from advertising or magazine publishing, an illustrator’s work must have previously appeared on an Archive publication.
• Only illustrations published within the past 18 months were eligible. Of all the submissions, a final 502 illustrations made it into the book.

There were two sets of book juries.

• The preselection jury:
  1. Dr. Matthew Eve, post-doctoral research fellow in the Typography and Graphic Communications Department at the University of Reading
  2. Michael Weinszetti, Editor in chief of Luerzer’s Archive.

• The main jury was made up of:
  1. Jason Brooks, one of the world’s top illustrators
  2. Takahiro Kanie, illustrator and President of the Japanese Society of Illustrators
  3. Menno Kluin, one-time Luerzer’s Archive Student of the Year, now a succesful art director who won several Cannes Lions for his former agency Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, and is currently with Y & R, New York
  4. Liz leavitt of New York-based artists’ agency Levine/Leavitt
  5. Anelle Miller, Executive Director of the Society of Illustrators, New York
  6. Anne Telford, Editor-at-large of Communication Arts Magazine

More information about the book.

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awards and recognition | Monday, May 18th, 2009

200 Best Illustrators Worldwide 2009/2010

Johanna Velasco and Mark Joseph Deutsch were selected to be on Luerzer’s list of 200 Best Illustrators 2009/2010. They will be part of a book that will initially be distributed at the Cannes Ad Fest, 2009. More details to come soon.

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awards and recognition | Thursday, September 18th, 2008

HG @ Tokyo Designers’ Week 2008

Some of Mark’s posters will be on display at the 100 Percent design booth at Tokyo Designers’ Week, 2008.

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awards and recognition | Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Photoworkshop.com / Adobe Digital Imaging Awards

Mark Deutsch placed third among three thousand entries in the Photo Illustration category of the 2007 Photoworkshop.com / Adobe Digital Imaging Awards. See results here.

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