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Karl Kwasny teamed up recently with Clemenger BBDO and Rip Curl to create this 'Flaming Nut' Snickers surfboard for a giveaway competition.

Eamo did some excellent work for Complex Magazine.

Biddy Maroney has been busy with illustrations for ANZ's CEO Agenda magazine on greenhouse emissions and an article for Popular Mechanics in it's January 2009 issue on Forest Fires in the US. This article has extra significance after our devastating bush fires.

Oslo' has recently worked for George Patterson Y&R in Melbourne for their house ad in the Melbourne Advertising & Design Annual.

James Gulliver Hancock for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine on pets living in secret in rental properties.

Lachlan Conn shows us how laundry in the future will look in Handyman Magazine for Readers Digest.

Marecla Restrepo has also done some work for The Sunday Telegraph magazine on an article about the new frugals.

Before we head off to continue to waste the good weather watching The West Wing, here are some recent commissions for your viewing pleasure:

Biddy Maroney for AFR BOSS magazine - Bullying in the workplace

James Hancock for AFR BOSS magazine - Executive Education Special

Kat Macleod for WISH magazine

Thats all for this week! Stay tuned for Monday's book reviews!

Desktop Magazine here in Australia recently published their special illustration issue, with great work and interviews covering a great spectrum of artists, agencies, and organisations. Resident JW artist Matt Huynh even made it on cover:

Other artists covered were: James Gulliver Hancock, Ebony Ellerlise, Ben Sanders, Biddy Maroney, Marcela Restrepo, Andrew Joyner, Karl Kwasny, Tim Molloy, and Justin Maller.

To read the full text, head on over here.

Its a Jacky Winter extravaganza over at the current edition of Empty Magazine!

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The Aussie Issue features some generous pages featuring JW Artists Karl Kwasny, EAMO, Justin Lee Williams, Jon Paton, Justin Maller, Biddy Maroney, and Mel Stringer. Get it while it's hot!

Geographic restrictions keeping you from checking out Lamington Drive? For those of you lucky enough to be in Sydney, there are two great shows on at the moment worth checking out.

First in Sydney, we have The Throw Shapes fundraiser for Heaps Decent, featuring EAMO and WBYK amongst stacks of other great talent.

For some more JW action, be sure to check out James Hancock, Justin Lee Williams, and yes, WBYK, over at Palmer Projects for 20/20/20, featuring 20 artists for prints in editions of 20, for a bargain price, of yes, 20 bucks.

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And for everyone else, all I have for you is this:

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Those of you in Melbourne looking to see some JW work in the flesh are definitely spoiled for choice over the next month with a great selection of group and solo shows taking place.

First up, in a shameless self-plug, is Lamington Drive. The JW-exclusive gallery that sits in our new space, The Compound Interest: Centre for The Applied Arts will be opening its doors on August 21 with our inaugural show, Surrender, by Biddy Maroney and Sonny day, aka webuyyourkids.

Next up, JW artist Justin Lee Williams is having a show of new works along with fellow artist Andrew Gordon at the expansive No Vacancy in the CBD.

Finally, over at Kick Gallery in Northcote, you can catch JW artist Cailan Burns alongside JW favoruites Isobel Knowles, Jeremy Dower, and more for the group show, 'While you were sleeping'

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

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