Posemaniacs.com!

Want some figure reference for that demanding professor and to make your stuff look kick-a**?! Then head on over to Posemaniacs.com and take a look around. The figures there are modeled in CGI and you can move them around, even throw a grid over them to help you draw. What are you waiting for?! Draw better figures! (Thank you, Nicole Salamone)

Peace Corps 50th Extravaganza!

It was a great celebration and ART 3210 was there in force with our beautiful posters on display at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Well done, ART 3210- it was a lot of hard work and worth every second!

Some of us with Carrie Hessler-Radelet, Deputy Director Peace Corps... who adores our work!

ART 3210 students contemplating their show.

Good news! Our show will travel to the Regional Campuses and also to Washington DC to hang in the Peace Corps offices. Watch this space for additional news as the time approaches.

Reserve March 2nd: Peace Corps Poster Time!

Image ©2011 Jake Anderson

The University of Connecticut Celebrates the 50^th Anniversary of the Peace Corps!

Be with us at the Dodd Center on Wednesday, March 2nd, 4 pm- 6 pm, to celebrate 50 years and see our posters in action. Dignitaries, including Senator Dodd, will be there along with many past (and future?) volunteers. It will be a great party! See you there!

Rochelle Baross, Cover Illustration!

Rochelle Baross, current undergraduate, created this great scratchboard cover illustration for Children's Literature Association Quarterly and it gets distributed to 1,000+ children's literature scholars within a few weeks. You can also see it at Project Muse while this issue is current: Project Muse

Well done, Rochelle, and continued success!

ILLABORATE: You Are Not Alone!

ILLABORATE- The Collaborative Illustration Project: visit ILLABORATE here!


"ILLABORATE is the perfect marriage of inspiration, motivation and pressure, because you’re not in it alone. Someone else is counting on you to finish what they’ve started or to start what they’ll finish."


Read more about ILLABORATE at their site or here at Escape From Illustration Island.

The Power of Visual Symbols

A great editorial by Steven Heller on the power of symbols. Kids, we're gonna talk about this one in class so: read Heller's article here

Illustrators and designers create our visual landscape.
What does it mean to you to "take responsibility" for what you create?

UConn Illustration In Print!

Dylan Fedora hard at work on his "seed" image
©UConn Today

Hey Kids, we've gotten some good press for our current project, "Peace Corps Anniversary Posters!" You'all look good in this photo essay by Sean Flynn and Sheila Foran in UConn Today. Well done, Colonel!

Check out the rest of the essay here: UConn Today

Sherry Wong makes revisions.
©UConn Today

Bruce Mau, Creative Director, Has Some Kick-A** Advice For YOU

Bruce Mau, enthusiastic and smart creative director.

His Advice for YOU!

 Take a few minutes to read this. You won't be sorry. Re-read it again in six months. Especially if you graduate. ;-)

Featured Alum, Shawn McCauley- New Publication

Our Hero! Shawn McCauley!

Alum Shawn McCauley releases his gazillionth comic book today through Silver Dragon Books. It's the Discovery Channel's graphic novel "Top Ten Deadliest Sharks." You can buy this wonder through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, etc., or through the Silver Dragon Books site.

Totally Frightening Shark Book! ©Silver Dragon Books,
©Discovery Channel

Catch Shawn's other offerings in the regular series "Shadows of Oblivion" amongst other works. We'll look forward to another update from him soon!

PrintShop Open House, 12/1

Imprimerie Karcher, circa 1910 fr. Poster Classics.com

PRINTSHOP EXHIBITION and OPEN HOUSE

Wednesday, December 1 from 6-8 pm

Everyone is welcome!!!

Please tell your students to come see lots of prints and have some refreshments!


I mean, look at these guys. If they don't look like fun all the way, I don't know what does!

Raab Associates Prize Winner, Phil Morgan!

Philip Morgan with guest Liz and tasty beverages.

Philip Morgan with Adjunct Instructor, Patti Argoff.

Well, a great time was had by all! Philip Morgan, Senior Illustration student, was awarded First Place in the 12th Annual Raab Associates Prize competition, and as a result, got to attend a fancy-schmancy dinner with a lot of other authors and illustrators. The event coordinates with the Connecticut Children's Book Fair right here on the UConn campus. It was swell! Get the story on the Raab Prize and check out Phil's entry here in the near future: Raab Prize site.

Or take a look at some of the press on his portrait of Geno Auriemma and Kay Yow here: Hartford Courant

And a BIG shout-out to Susan Raab, UConn alum, sponsor of the competition that bears her name, and all-around fab gal! Also, thanks goes to Jane Yolen, internationally known writer, who donated her poem for our use, as well as Terri Goldich, Curator, who is the glue who holds the Dodd Research Center, and this competition, together!

UConn Illustration Takes Over Society of Illustrators

That's right- we invaded the Society of Illustrators (as the Living Dead) in NYC on November 6th. Well, we participated in EPIC, the new art collective for students that has formed there. UConn represented well and even stepped up to take on some leadership positions. Well done students, and welcome to your future network!

Pretty worn out on the way home. Except for Mitch, who enjoyed sitting with his new "Travel Parents."