K just wrapped up the poster for the WRIR 4th Annual Monster Mashquerade…get your creep on October 29th…
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Tags: Illustration, Monster Mashquerade, poster, recent work, RVA, WRIR
K recently wrapped up a piece on ‘green technology’ in VA for Richmond Magazine…
Tags: editorial illustration, green technology, Illustration, Kevin, recent work, Richmond Magazine
Kevin got the Q&A from Brent Almond, captain of Design Nut, on parenting, being a dad, thick skin and much more…Check it and see if he’s a fit parent…
Kevin McFadin is the husband of a former co-worker of mine. He and his wife Dawn are both incredible illustrators/designers and together own and operate Fan Works Design in Richmond, VA. He also wears a few other hats, which I’ll let him tell you about…
Q&A with designer dad Kevin McFadin
Tell me briefly about your design business and what kinds of clients you have.
I’ve been running the shop with Dawn since 2002. Before that I was an AD in Alexandria [VA] and up until then I was the staff illustrator at a couple of newspapers. I still pursue illustration, inside and outside of the shop.Getting up and running out of the DC Metro area many clients are, of course, associations and non-profits. We’ve worked with organizations based out of Richmond, such as Southern States and Child Fund, and helped some start-ups here in town when we were starting up ourselves.
via DDQ&A: Kevin McFadin : Designer Daddy.
Tags: Design Nut, Designer Daddy, Graphic Design, Illustration, interview, parenting
K got the call to help out his DJ-brother in arms, valis, of the mighty Trip Inside This House, launching out of St. Louis on KDHX, with some chocolate visuals to get into his aural peanut butter.
Every year valis does a Summer Solstice compilation for the event that you can grab at his stellar blog gratis. Well worth checking out if you need fuel in your rocket. Point that mouse in the proper compass direction, click, put up your feet, take a deep breath, put on your helmet and enjoy the ride…
More info and download :: Trip Inside This House Summer Solstice Vol. IV
Tags: CD art, dj, Illustration, KDHX, Kevin, psych rock, psychedelia, radio, Trip Inside This House, valis
K just wrapped up a piece on cloud computing and its security risks…You can see more of Kevin’s illustrations at kevinmcfadin.com. Thanks for checking in!
Tags: cloud computing, cloud security, data security, data storage, editorial illustration, Illustration, Kevin McFadin
Last week the New York State Supreme Court, New York County, dismissed all claims in a million dollar lawsuit brought by the Graphic Artists Guild (GAG) against the Illustrators’ Partnership of America (IPA) and five named individuals.
In the lawsuit, GAG asserted claims for defamation and interference with contractual relations, alleging that IPA had interfered with a “business relationship” GAG had entered into that enabled GAG to collect orphaned reprographic royalties derived from the licensing of illustrators’ work. GAG alleged that efforts by IPA to create a collecting society to return lost royalties to artists “interfered” with GAG’s “business” of appropriating these orphaned fees.
via The Illustrators Partnership Orphan Works Blog.
Tags: GAG, Graphic Artists Guild, Illustration, illustrators rights, Illustrators' Patrnership, IPA, Orphan Works
Fox Elementary is ramping up for the 32nd annual Strawberry Street Festival, May 7th, from 12 to 4:30 pm. It’s a big deal, and every year gets bigger…music, bands, Foxy Flea Market, silent auction, games, activities, food, super creative vendors with all their wares and, of course, strawberries.
We got the call to jump into the fray and lend a hand to this year’s blow-out, joining a roster of incredible volunteers, teachers and students. We were asked to come on board and help out with this year’s t-shirt and poster design/illustration. And just like Caine’s mess boys, we couldn’t resist the lure of strawberries…
We started with a pencil.
The ‘Fox Zeppelin’ won out for the t-shirt this year, taking the iconic fox someplace it hadn’t been before. Strawberry Street Festival is one the biggest and most successful fundraisers of the year for Fox PTA, requiring vigilance, volunteering and watchful eyes to keep the machine operating smoothly. What better place to put your fox to keep that watchful eye? {The hen house concept lost out…}.
Strawberry Street Festival :: May 7, 12:30–4 p.m. :: 2300 Hanover Ave.
2011 Strawberry Street Festival T-shirt
You’ll be told to head to 2300 Hanover Avenue to find the happenings and trust me, you will. Happenings galore…but right on the corner is the festival’s namesake.
Tags: banner design, childrens illustration, Illustration, poster design, recent work, Richmond, Richmond Public Schools, RVA, Strawberry Street Festival, t-shirt design, The Fan, William Fox Elementary
It really doesn’t get much simpler than this … and it really doesn’t need to be. Let the music do the talking, and your eyes do the walking … Check them all out at 33.3 Art Show.
Hi. I’m Andrew and I like it when people call me an illustrator, graphic designer, or “the sensible one”.
At one point I was going to re-imagine The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band but then thought “Why do that when I could interpret the album that INSPIRED it?!?” I mean, who inspires the Beatles?! Frig The Beach Boys are cool.
Tags: 33.3 Art Show, album covers, exhibition, Illustration
K recently finished up this set of pieces for TGD Communications to be used on a wealth of materials for the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. We used to be based in the DC Metro area, so much of the scouring and research for this run was fairly autopilot, if not tinged with some nostalgia.
“Working on pieces that are ‘DC’ can be strange since the area virtually comes with a visual syntax all its own … it’s hard to get away from the obvious since so much of DC is … obvious. But TGD was open to something a bit different from the usual tried and true red, white and blue.
You usually only hear horror stories of projects gone wrong or manhandled beyond all hope, but I have to say, TGD was fantastic to work with. From start to finish one of the smoothest roads I’ve been down.”
:: See more of Kevin’s illustrations at kevinmcfadin.com
Tags: AAPS, Illustration, Kevin McFadin, new work DC, recent work, TDG, Washington DC
Montgomery College Communication Arts Technologies Gallery
Presents
The Art of the Label
An exhibition of artwork created by professional artists from
around the country for wine, food and beauty products.
Exhibitors include
Bascove, Kinuko Craft, Louise Fili, Nancy Frame Design, Craig Frazier, Robert Giusti, Kit Hinrichs, Becky Heavner, David Labrozzi, Gary Overacre, C.F. Payne, Michael Schwab and Nancy Stahl.
November 8 – December 17
Gallery Talk:
Wednesday, November 10, 3 – 4 pm.
The Communication Arts Technologies Gallery is located in Room 106
on the lower level of the Technical Center, Montgomery College, Rockville Campus.
Hours:
Monday through Wednesday, 10 am – 6 pm,
Thursdays, 10 am – 8 pm
Fridays, 10 am – 1 pm
240.567.7521
Tags: label, label design, Montgomery College, packaging
