DANIEL HERTZBERG: BEHIND THE SCENES AT BRYANT PARK

Daniel Hertzberg had the amazing honor to work with Hill Holiday on branding and illustrating this year’s Bank of America’s Winter Village at Bryant Park. His illustrations were used for entry pillars throughout the park, dasher boards that surrounded the ice rink, light towers, entrance gates, barricade covers, and numerous promotional materials, including Bryant Park’s website, banners along 42^nd Street and a major ad in Times Square.  Make sure to check out his work if you’re in New York, the rink will be open until March, and it’s free admission--We can’t think of a better combination!

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The New York Public Library is in the background with various layered buildings. 

The buildings in the background were based on a row of apartments that Daniel saw while he was in Harlem. 

Daniel wanted to give off the sensation that the Winter Village was the warmest, happiest place in Manhattan. Daniel purchased figures from stock image sites and used a lot of his own photography, including elements of Bryant Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Yankee Stadium to name a few. His photos of the park were taken during the summer. Daniel put his own winter touch by adding snow to the lamp posts and chairs.

The Bank of America Building (at the corner of 42nd Street and 6th Ave.) had to be prominently featured. 

Fun Fact: The trees at Bryant Park are London planes, which had to be shown as well.

Materials for the entrance gate

The dasher boards

The barricade covers featuring stone columns

We're excited to make our way to Bryant Park for some skating and winter fun. We hope you have the opportunity to view his amazing work in person, too!

GERALD AND CULLEN RAPP IS BREWING CREATIVITY

Hal Mayforth's illustration can really give you a scare!
Can you say, "Boo?"

With Halloween just around the corner, we're excited to share a collection of mysterious, bizarre, and spine-chilling illustrations. We asked our artists to submit their favorite images that relate to the season.  It's a fun collection of work that we hope you enjoy.



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Mark Fredrickson

Shaw Nielsen illustrated costumed kid characters and Halloween-themed background art for this year's Publix display. The artwork is meant to be wrapped around bins filled with various candies. 

Jonathan Carlson developed this illustration for This Old House Magazine. 

Seth

Yao Xiao's "Black and White Masquerade" was originally designed for a theme
party. The concept is a Steampunk masked ball. 

PUSHART's "Boogie Man" image was originally created for Orange Coast Magazine. The story described how
trick-or-treating has transformed over the last 50 years in Orange County, CA, since the days when tales of
the boogie man haunted the orange groves near developing suburbia. 

Martin Ansin created a limited edition screen printed poster for the 1931 film, Frankenstein. 

Halloween also coincides with a possible game 7 of the World Series for the
Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park. (John Dykes)

Ryan Snook is currently working on a picture book. This illustration depicts a child encountering numerous creatures in a cave. 

Anthony Freda's alarming illustration represents the unnerving merger of corporate and governmental
 powers. The piece is being used to help promote a national march in Monsato. 

Roman Muradov shows off his morbid side with the moonlit narrative above. 

Brian Ajhar's illustration was done for the Fall issue of Scholastic's Storyworks Magazine.
The only requirement was that Brian has to include a book in the image. 

Robert Neubecker

Bob Staake

Peter and Maria Hoey created a t-shirt
design based on vintage Halloween
masks. 

Phil Foster illustrated a spooky nightmare for the American Bar Association Journal. 

Nigel Buchanan's character was created for a

ghastly alphabet book.

James O'Brien's screen print of a sea creature
rising up out of the water is for a Halloween
art poster exhibit. 

Traci Daberko created a web banner and landing page for
Mind Touch's Halloween blog post. 

Stuart Brier's monster was done for a book
project raising money for a children's charity.
The concept is taking children's monster drawings
and rendering them as professional
illustrations. 

Rafael Ricoy's illustration is about different types of phobias and how to cure them. The piece was published by
El Pais Newspaper in Spain. 

J.D. King's personal piece "Los Diablos."

Sharon Tancredi

JF Podevin's theater poster depicts Macbeth
becoming king of Scotland through regicide.
His reign marks his spiritual death.

Edison created a full page illustration for
Scholastic, retelling the story of Frankenstein

Raul Arias

DANNY SCHWARTZ: WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN

We are thrilled to introduce a young new artist who gravitates toward traditional media. Danny received his BFA from the prestigious Syracuse University in 2010, and developed a passion for figurative narratives. He creates detailed paintings, working in graphite and acrylic washes, inks, and whatever he thinks is best for the piece. The final art is scanned and delivered in Photoshop. In a short time Danny has developed an impressive repertoire of clients which include The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. He is super fast as evidenced by his daily newspaper clients. We are excited to add Danny to the group and hope that you appreciate his timeless style!

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Rapp on Twitter. 

Danny has created a series of apple festival posters for his hometown since his senior year of college. During that same year he submitted one of his apple illustrations to the Society of Illustrator's Student Show and ended up winning a top award. 

This was a piece for LA Times 'LA AFFAIRS' column, a weekly love story that resembles New York Times 'New York Love.' The story was about a woman who looked to Joni Mitchell for her love advice.

MARTIN ANSIN'S BIG RELEASE

Over the years, Martin Ansin has brought his own perspective to feature films. Martin has created incredible images for popular movies including Taxi Driver, Man of Steel, Iron Man, and Frankenstein. 

He’s currently putting together a number of poster illustrations for an upcoming exhibition at Alamo Drafthouse's gallery in Austin. While Martin is busy preparing for his latest show--we thought it would be fun to share a variety of his recent work.

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Martin created a limited edition screenprinted poster for Zack Snyder's 2013 Superman film Man of Steel, staring Henry Cavill, Michael Shannon and Russel Crow.  

He's been busy creating limited edition posters for this year's 2013 box office hits. Take a look at his illustration for Neil Blomkamp's science fiction film Elysium, starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley.

The limited edition poster above was created for the 1982 Conan the Barbarian film, directed by John Milius and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. He released a modified version of the poster in metallic silver and gold inks for this year's 2013 San Diego Comic Con.

(left) Limited edition screenprinted poster for the third Iron Man film, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Kingsley.

(Right) Limited edition screenprinted poster for Terry Gilliam's 1985 sci-fi classic Brazil, starring Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist and Robert De Niro.

Martin illustrated a limited edition screenprint for two special screenings of the 4K digital restoration of Taxi Driver at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz.

Frankenstein poster based off the 1931 horror classic, starring Boris Karloff and Colin Clive. 

The limited edition screen print of Thor was for the recent Marvel's The Avengers film.  Martin created another version of the poster featuring special glow-in-the-dark ink. His Dracula poster is based off the 1931 classic, starring Bela Lugosi. 

Martin created two poster versions for Rian Johnson's time-travel film Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt and Bruce Willis. There was a gold-colored and a silver version, both in metallic inks.