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You there! Yes, you! Want to work with the Jacky Winter Group? As we expand into our new space and gallery, we are seeking a very special person to join us for the ride. Is that you? See below for short job description:

Lamington Drive is a new gallery launching late August that will exhibit the work of Australia’s best illustrators represented by The Jacky Winter Group. We are seeking an assistant to work across all areas of the business including sales, administration, organising exhibitions and client and artist liaison. The person will need to have experience in a commercial gallery or good knowledge of exhibition practice, together with a passionate interest in illustration and graphic art. Sales experience highly regarded. Fitzroy base. This is a part-time position working Tues–Sat. Email expressions of interest and CVs to Jeremy at The Jacky Winter Group,  info@jackywinter.com Applications Close Monday August 11.

Back home on the JW main site we have uploaded a new batch of recent works that have been completed. Check out the recent commissions pages for new works by Eamo, James Hancock, Lachlan Conn, Biddy Maroney, and more! Here's a bit of a taster:

Lachlan Conn for Readers Digest Health Smart

Eamo for Blender Magazine

Biddy Maroney for Columbia School of Journalism Review

James Gulliver Hancock for Business Week

Andrea Innocent, fresh from her voyage to NY for ICON5 is currently nominated for best original Illustration for the Desktop Create awards. The piece in question is her lovely original 'Jacky Winter' illustration done for the 2008 Field Guide. Click the image to cast your vote now!

Jacky Winter by Andrea Innocent

Biddy Maroney hit up this weekend's New York Times Week in Review with this little number:

Biddy Maroney for The New York Times

Under the wonderful Art Direction of Aviva Michaelov, the piece is a modern interpretation of these two pieces by William Blake:

Reference Image: Melancholy by Willam Blake

Image Reference: Mirth by William Blake

This clip has been making the rounds, but I couldn't resist posting it here, just in case you needed another reason to enforce those set number of revisions :)

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In many ways Is Not Magazine is partly responsible for the formation of the agency, as it was really through publishing it that I was able to meet many of the first artists represented. After three long years and 12 issues however, its time to call it quits, as the five of us who started it simply don't have the resources to continue.

To celebrate the final bumper issue (shown below, to the left of our first issue), we are currently showing a retrospective of all 12 issues in Melbourne at the former Abaris Printworks, on A'Beckett Street (between swanston and elizabeth). Its only on until this Friday as part of the State of Design festival. Details on opening hours and location can be found here.

In typical Is/Not fashion, we are going out with a bang with our last party ever, our Senior Prom. Come ham it up this Friday night. Details on the main Is Not site.

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Also related to the State of Design festival was last's nights Design \'O\' Pizza event at Ladro, where six designers were chosen to work in the medium of Dough.

My personal favourite can be seen below, the 'Aussie Roadkill Pizza' by Elenberg Fraser architects. I was finally able to eat the Australian Crest, through a lovely combination of Kangaroo Prosciutto, and Emu sausage. Yum.

Stuart's creation was definitely one of the most talked about. The CMYK pizza made of truffle, coloured ricotta, beetroot, and mozzarella, all served on a letraset-covered plate. Shame we couldn't get the overprints to work...

For those of you with some downtime between those juicy commissions, this film poster comp for Channel 4 in the UK seems right up the collective alleys of some JW artists...  (via crblog)

The fabulous Clemens Habicht also put me onto this interesting comp as part of the 'Illustrative' festival, the Young Illustrators Award, in partnership with Swatch.

Over the next 12 months we are exploring some very exciting new promotional avenues through Creative Review, but first up we have finally gotten around to our online listing at their fantastic Creative Handbook, which CR has recently bought out and redesigned and reworked. While our print listing will not be out until the next edition, you can still browse our online listing.

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Jacky Winter Artist Karl Kwasny makes the front page of this morning's 'The Australian' newspaper for his just released agitator artwork wrap for Boral:

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A big shout-out the wonderful folks at Brave New World in Sydney who thought up and commissioned the piece, and a bigger shout out to the even braver people over at Boral for getting on board with the idea to begin with!

This was a really fun job to work on, especially with CD Yanni Pounartzis and Head of Art Guy Collins on board. With a clear brief that included ample reference of both Karl's work and other inspiration, it was refreshing for Karl to be able to go wild with it. Seeing Karl take things from an initial pencil sketch to the final was very inspiring, and with the permission of Brave, I am posting some of the stops that we made along the way. Enjoy!

First Pencil from Karl

Refined pencil sketch on dieline for vinyl wrap. For the vinyl application, the entire drum had to be split into a left and right hand side. Another thing to consider would be that these would be rotating, therefore type was only to appear on one side.

Here we can see both sides of the artwork in a refined sketch, along with a nominated colour palette to begin finals.

Initial Colouring. Whoa!

The colours taken down a notch. It was important to have the corporate Boral colours of Green and Yellow present.

The final artwork, ready to roll. Pun intended.

Artwork In Situ

...and the other side.

Since sharing offices with the 30-strong crack team that make up the elite squad of webdesigners known as Barking Sparrows I have definitely become a bit of a 37signals fanboy, and I gladly worship at the altar which is their blog, Signal vs Noise, which is where I first found this clip of Ira Glass of This American Life talking about storytelling.

It's a short clip, and applies to any creative pursuit really, but if you approach Illustration from a storytelling perspective, as I like to think I do, then this clip is definitely required viewing:

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