News: Target Gift Card for Winter Holiday 2009

Over a year ago I did a fake Target Gift Card.

Then back in October 2008, I got a request for sketches for Christmas gift card ideas. 2 of those ideas were chosen to go to final. Today I got word, that one of the cards was chosen to be produced for Winter Holiday 2009. Once its produced, I'll put up an image.

The art director at Target was amazingly great and easy to work with.

New Style #7: Poppy Botanical

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click for closeup of the textures

New Style #6: Om in the Office/Office Yoga

Design*Sponge Reject

I was invited to do a design*sponge sneak peak, but was rejected. Here are more of my scouting shots on flickr. If you have been rejected from a design*sponge sneak peak, send me an email, at johncoulter at gmail dot com and I'll post your photos here.

I want to be clear: I love Design Sponge. I just want a home to display my photos. And I can't be the only one that doesn't get on, right?

New Style 5: Iranian Text Messaging

New Style 4: Darfur

This was inspired by an article in the New York Times called "Watching Darfuris Die"
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New Style 3: Computer Hacker

Sin City Sinners

There is a band that plays around Vegas a lot, called the Sin City Sinners. One of the guitarists, Brent Muscat, was in Faster Pussycat. They often have a guest musician sit in with them. Its kind like the Rat Pack (RATT pack?) used to do with guest musicians. So far, I've sen them play with East Bay Ray (Dead Kennedys), Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) and Phil Lewis (L.A. Guns). This weekend its going to be Annabella Lwin of Bow Wow Wow.

They already have a pretty good logo. But I thought they might need something a little more Mëtal. So I made one with a devil skull wearing Elvis sunglasses.

New style 2: Predicting the Stock Market

This is my second effort at the "new style" I don't have a name for this style yet. If you have any ideas, leave them in the comments.

Here is the sketch too. I took out the pupil/iris, I thought it looks more serious without the pupil/iris.
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A poster I made for a friends class at University of Northern Iowa.
I was going for a John Heartfield look.

Adam Carolla Podcast Logo

Adam Carolla started a new podcast. Click here to get it on itunes.

Bank Bailout

I'm developing a new style for editorial-type illustration. Click image for larger image and you can see the textures better.

David Kunau Gessien Diver

A friend of mine who lives in France asked me to make him a personalized divebook stamp.
This is what I came up with.

From the Archives: French Fruit

From the Archives: UNICEF Halloween Card

I was digging in the root cellar and found this Halloween card design I did for UNICEF. The date on the file says 2002. As usual, I think the sketch looks better than the final.

Kringle's Tree Farm

I developed this from a left-over sketch from a previous job.
Below is the sketch and a close up so you can see the texture. Click it to see it up close.




























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Some Eco illustrations

My illustration rep, Lilla Rogers, gave us Lillastrators an assignment to produce some eco/green pieces. She included a story about Obama fixing the environment. So I illustrated that story, and did a more general one for global warming too.
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Jet Lag Illustration

I did this for a magazine called Endless Vacation
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Vote Early Poster

I was asked my my illustration rep, Lilla Rogers, to do a "Vote Early" poster.
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Hallmark Card Finalist

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