The New AlexShakar.com

About a year and a half ago I was contacted by Alex Shakar, who I met while I was in New York working at EFS, to do illustrations for his upcoming novel. His previous works have garnered critical acclaim and he is an accomplished author and professor. Fast forward to today and that novel is being published with a release date of August 2011! Congratulations Alex! Upon this years release, Alex contacted me again to redesign his website and I am honored that he would come to me to complete his vision. Alex was a pleasure to work with as he was patient and always available for collaboration. Together we came up with a redesigned website that reflected the elegance, simplicity and artistic vision he had in mind. We also architectured the site around Wordpress so we could allow him to post updates and appearances around the new novel easily. He was very happy with the new site and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Alex once again.

Check out alexshakar.com and discover his writings. You can also preorder your copy of the upcoming novel, Luminarium, now!

Wow.

You can finally get the music here : http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/color-in-your-hands-ep/id425346042 ----- Wall painting by Supakitch and Koralie at the VÄRLDSKULTUR MUSEET GÖTEBORG / SWEDEN With the support of POSCA www.supakitch.com & www.koralie.net ----- Video by elroy : www.elroy.fr ----- Music by DLid (quatre rec. / Leonizer) : www.myspace.com/dicklaurentisdead ----- http://metroplastique.com - Collection Grand Cru available on October 1st CHECK ALL METROPLASTIQUE UPDATES ON THE FACEBOOK PAGE : http://www.facebook.com/metroplastique#!/pages/METROPLASTIQUE/172834136271?v=wall&ref=ts ----- ----- SUPAKITCH, KORALIE, ELROY & DLiD are represented by OneLouder. agency http://onelouderagency.com/ ----- -----

I came across this while reading one of my favorite artist's blogs, Eliza Mazzone, and I just had to share. This is incredible video of artists SupaKitch and Koralie at work on a large wall piece. I think it is absolutely stunning and you can see from the video just how intricate their work is. It's work like this that inspires me to create and get back to my art. Graphic design work is wonderful, but there's something about drawing/painting that is magical.

SUPAKITCH & KORALIE - VÄRLDSKULTUR MUSEET GÖTEBORG from elr°y on Vimeo.

My thanks to EFS

Friday was my last day at EFS. These guys have been invaluable to me. My job at EFS was my first job out of University and it was my dream job. They have given me more experience than I ever imagined. EFS allowed me to become the designer I wanted to be. They appreciated my artistic skills along with my programming skills and allowed me to wear both hats. They also trusted me as a designer and that is a gift. I will always be grateful to these guys for the opportunity, for trusting my work, allowing me to grow and taking care of me. Thankfully this is not goodbye and I will continue to design for them, but I will miss coming into the studio and collaborating in person.

Love you guys and I will miss you, but I'll come visit. The Canadian care packages will be coming :)