Dino-Bump board game wins creativechild.com award

"They wanted the dinosaurs to be realistic looking but not too fierce or scary for the younger children," says Jose Pardo. Pardo illustrated the game board and box art for LuvyDuvy Corporation's Dino-Bump board game.

Wrapping a jeep in art

Eamo Donnelly describes his adventure of collaging a Jeep to promote the launch of Mountain Dew in Australia.

Buxom beauties for Sephora lip glosses

Neryl Walker's frisky illustrations are the focus of the full line of packaging for Bare Escentuals, Buxom Lips. Each color of plumping lip gloss is branded with a buxom beauty all its own.

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I Smoked Pot With the Governator!

Louisa Bertman's wild, in-your-face portraiture is a perfect match for Tommy Chong's latest memoir for High Times.

Art that captures the hope of today's inauguration

C.F. Payne's portrait of Barack Obama for Time Magazine.

Bettie Page goes to Washington

Her provocative pin-up images violated all manner of the era's sexual taboos, finally invoking a United States Senate Committee investigation into pornography. In 1955, Bettie Page was summoned from New York City to Capitol Hill by Sen.

Quirky hunting dog illustration snags Gold Medal at Europe's EPICA Awards

Rob Perry's pointing dogs - produced for Saatchi & Saatchi's Novartis Otrivin nasal spray campaign, have a twist.

The closest you can get to being inside an artist's head

New: "An Illustrated Life," by Danny Gregory. Excerpts from the sketchbooks of 50 top illustrators, artists, and designers.

New Yorker cover nails US political mood

Artist Brian Stauffer's "A Very Long Tunnel" visually sums up this momentous week in American history.

Major NYC art rep rolls out new portfolios

Richard Solomon has helped illustrators become A-Listers for over twenty years. This latest portfolio collection amazes.

Pissed on - John McCain to Veterans

Hot off the press! Daniel Bejar's illustration "Pissed On" for this week's cover of the Village Voice features John McCain in his $520 Ferragamo Italian leather loafers showing veterans some love.

Sketchel series 2 is out now

Jeremyville's Sketchel concept is a shoulder satchel that houses original, one-off art on a canvas panel. Vicky Newman was lucky enough to be included as one of the 114 new artists this go-round.

30 images+4 art directors+5 months = 1 project,1 artist

Grey Advertising in San Francisco has been working with Swedish illustrator Krister Flodin to produce a massive series of images for Adobe Inc.

The Making of Amy Winehouse

To create a recent portrait of Amy Winehouse, artist Liz Lomax employed drawing, sculpting, painting, powdering, set design, lighting and photography. And Brillo pads.

Moonshine and the beginnings of NASCAR

The Appalachian History blog caught up recently with Neal Thompson, author of 'Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR.' Neal gives a quick overview of the wild world of early moonshiners and stock car drivers in this post.

SeƱor Blanco, the vinyl toy with 50 faces!

How can you resist Valeria Petrone's adorable blue speckled version?? And if you're in Vicenza Italy this month, the Museo Civico di Bassano del Grappa has all 50 on display.

Discover the ugly truth behind Royalty's even uglier rumors!

Marie Antoinette never said her infamous line 'Let them eat cake.' Think Anne Boleyn had six fingers? One of her biographers said she had 'an extra nail.' A nail isn't a finger. There's more, much more.

Welcome to Modern Baby Design!

Better educated, high-income moms are running to Google instead of Grandma to find swanky strollers and haute couture high chairs.

An Appalachian take on Jack & the Beanstalk

Members of the Hicks family in Beech Mountain, NC have been passing down 'Jack Tales' since 1776. The Grimm brothers published their story in 1812.

How would YOU illustrate a brand named 'Monkey Shoulder'??

Distiller William Grant & Sons commissioned artist Jonathan Williams to help build an identity for this new triple malt whiskey.

Harrods of London brings the animal kingdom to life indoors

When they decided to open an in-store pet department, they sought out artist Garry Parsons.

6 tales from the UK's Peculiar Crimes Unit illustrated by Inkymole

'The Victoria Vanishes,' the first of six, is now out in hardback.

Emmylou Harris is big on dog rescue, so they wanted a dog in there

Illustrator Jamie Wolcott discusses the fine points of creating a gig poster for Harris' NYC stop on a tour promoting her latest release.

Yeahoh, Yahoo or Bigfoot?

Long before it became the brand of a search engine, the creature whose uttered cry gave it a name haunted Kentuckians. Daniel Boone told tales of "killing a ten-foot, hairy giant he called a Yahoo," says John Mack Faragher in a 1992 biography of Boone.

Did you say Felt Tip Woman?

Typeface designer Mark Simonson created 'Felt Tip Woman' based on the handwriting of graphic designer Patricia Thompson. Here's how that font got its quirky name.

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