Portfolio List
- Featured Artists: 3D
- Allott, Dwight
- Blake, Francis
- Bugatto, Dominic
- Bullock, Gary
- Carosielli, Todd
- Casson, Sophie
- Clarke, Robb
- Coburn, John
- Daley, Matthew
- Denis, Stephane
- Dewar, Ken
- Dollekamp, Ron
- Edmiston, Jason
- Ferguson, Peter
- Fletcher, Claire
- Hall, Steven
- Hargreaves, Greg
- Haughey, David
- Howalt, Paul
- Hume, Kelly
- Keen, Trevor
- Kveta
- Lam, Tanya
- Manning, Claire
- Matthews, Derek
- McCarthy, Alana
- McGowan, Shane
- McSherry, Kevin
- Mellor, Belle
- Mitchell, Ian
- Munday, Steve
- Nelson, Trevor
- Nichols, Sandy
- Normandin, Luc
- O’Neill, Martin
- Parsons, Guy
- Rosati, Jacopo
- Roussel, Matt
- Rudebjer, Lars
- Steininger, Otto
- Super Totto
- Szachowska, Joanna
- Thompson, Jode
- Vidak, Zsolt
- Watson, Jon
- Whamond, Dave
- Willms, Russ
- Wilson, Cam
- Wunderlich, Stephanie
Author Archives: Three in a Box
Fresh Work from Sophie Casson
The wonderful Sophie Casson has given us a refresher on why she is so important to illustration today. Her simple graphic style narrates to us in perfectly succinct images. And yet these images are deeply moving and sincerely beautiful.
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Welcome Todd Carosielli!
OMG, have you seen Todd’s work? Fabulous! Amazing! Breathtaking, too! Todd is a Pennsylvania-based CGI illustrator who has worked on many top-tier projects over the last 13 years. It doesn’t matter if your project needs architectural, gaming, lifestyle,product, motion, what-have-you…you need to see his work.
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Zsolt Vidak’s Poe Portrait
We totally missed this one. Zsolt Vidak intended us to post this on Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday and it is a moving portrait of a darkly disturbed genius. Zsolt’s approach highlights his ability to reach into his subject and bring their inner elements to the fore. Apologies to you, Zsolt, for this late post. For [...]
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Otto Steininger is in the Society of Illustrators 54
These two pieces were accepted into New York’s Society of Illustrators 54th Annual Competition. “Angel feeding devils”, a personal piece, highlights the darker side of Otto’s imagination. The other piece, named “insomnia” by Otto, was originally commissioned by the New York Times for a story on how ‘smart homes’ can take over your life.
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Otto Steininger in Yale Medicine Magazine
Otto Steininger’s work for Yale has recently been published. Yale Medicine Magazine’s Autumn 2011 issue features Otto’s illustrations on the cover and several large interior illustrations. It’s an amazing story on the role of physicians as scientists. And it turned out to be an amazing series of illustrations executed in Otto’s beautiful line style.
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Matt Roussel Goes Big!
Now that’s visibility! Matt Roussel has recently finished work on his largest 3D illustration yet! Mounted on the side of a multi-storey for the next 3 months outside of Porte Maillot on the Paris metro…in case you’re thinking of checking it out in person.
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The Groupbook is out!
Our Latest Groupbook, lucky number 27, is hitting the streets as you read this. Steve Munday, collagist extraordinaire, gave us the crazy amusement park-themed cover. But don’t get lost deciphering the myriad gags in his illustration or you will miss the amazing collection of the finest illustration in between the cover pages.
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Jon Watson joins us!
Arizona-based 3D illustrator Jon Watson has recently joined the group. He has a wonderful grasp of light and reflections and has great facility in rendering anything from water, wood and metal surfaces to characters in 3D environments. Have a look at his portfolio here: http://www.threeinabox.com/artist-portfolios/watson-jon.
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Matthew Daley in Creative Quarterly 25
Matt Daley has just been notified that three of his submissions to CQ25 have been accepted, one of which was among the winners in the illustration category. This illustration was part of Matthew’s submission for our last issue of the Box Lunch and it’s wonderful to see it, and Matthew’s work in general, being recognized! [...]
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Mr. Monitor gets mechanical!
Matthew Daley‘s regular comic for Broken Pencil is Mr Monitor and he has recently created a paper-craft version of his protagonist. You can view the pdf instructions/template here. And, check out the finished product to the left!
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John Coburn’s Architectural Illustrations up on the 210 Simcoe site
210 Simcoe is condominium project located in the heart of Toronto. John Coburn provided the project’s agency, 52 Pickup, with some gorgeous illustrations of the location and a rendering of the building in situ. Cool project, great architecture and an amazing illustrator…what a combination!
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The Box Lunch Summer Digest Issue is out now!
Our annual editorially-geared promotion, The Box Lunch, is being mailed out now! You may have already received it. We’d love to hear if you have and let us know what you think of it; it’s a new format for the Box Lunch and we want to know how it handles. Tanya Lam executed the brilliant [...]
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Otto’s 3X3 Winners
These four images received merit recognition in the upcoming Pro Show #8 Annual by 3×3 Magazine. The King Kong image discusses the bed bug plague which has literally reached the Empire State Building. “Baby air travel” (scroll down) appeared in The New York Times in an article about new safety regulations for infants on airplanes. [...]
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Trevor’s Mini Adventure
How’s this for a fun project? Taxi Advertising in Toronto commissioned Trevor Nelson to create an astoundingly long image tracking the adventurous voyage of a Mini across frozen tundra, under pack ice, off a cliff, under a mountain and then, finally, arriving at its home. Wow! What a great image! It’s a bit too long [...]
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Jason Edmiston Chosen for American Illustration 30
We just found out that Jason Edmiston won a place on America Illustration’s website for this year’s Annual Awards. It’s referred to as Chosen (the book winners are Selected). The piece is from the Village Voice and is about the fate of Coney Island. It pays homage to the fold-in process made famous by Al [...]
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Finally, we can tell you about Martin’s work for Folio
Martin O’Neill was commissioned to recreate the cover for the best selling novel by Oliver Sacks, along with 10 internal full page illustrations for the Folio Society, London. The book will be published in a limited edition of 5000 copies. The illustrations were created over 6 months. O’Neill says he tried to approach the images [...]
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Blue Spruce Award goes to Dave Whamond!
Furthering his collection, last month Dave Whamond received the Blue Spruce Award for his book My-Think-A-Ma-Jink. This award, given to the author chosen by over 250,000 school age kids, is presented by the Ontario Library Association at their Forest of Reading Awards. Dave was thrilled to be honoured with the award and about the book [...]
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Dave Whamond Wins at the NCS Reuben Awards
Dave Whamond was recently honoured with a Rueben Award from the National Cartoonists Society for the advertising category. One of Dave’s personal fave illustration idols, Arnold Roth presented the award! The illustration for which he garnered the award is the brilliant Kodiak piece to the left. Nice work Dave! Check out his full portfolio here: [...]
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Matt Roussel 3D Style Used in iApp
Matthew Roussel’s amazing 3D style was used to create the imagery of a recently released app for iDevices. The App, called Scott’s Submarine, is an interactive book. Read more about it here: Scott’s Submarine
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Derek Matthews was Featured on the AOI
We missed this post at the time that the AOI chose Derek Matthews as their featured artist but it’s still a great way to learn more about Derek, his approaches and how he handles the various styles that he is very capable of using. Click here to view: Derek Matthews: Featured Artist
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Dominic Interviewed on American Elegy
Dominic Bugatto has been interviewed by American Elegy, a website devoted to artists and photographers who are conscious of the disintegration of what was once proudly referred to as “The American Dream.” The interview gives a great insight into Dominic’s influences and approach and also introduces many viewers to his photography. Check it out here: [...]
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Sophie Casson at Ooh là là Illustration Show
Sophie Casson is travelling to Toronto on the 28th of April to participate in the Ooh là là Illustration Show. This will be held in the ballroom of the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St West, from 6-9PM. The Ooh là là Illustration Show is presented by Illustration Quebec and showcases 40 illustrators from la belle [...]
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Super Totto Featured on caroleguevin.com
Super Totto has been featured as “one of the best” by Carole Guevin, founder of Netdiver Mag (RIP), in her post-Netdiver site caroleguevin.com. Thanks Carole! You can read the feature here: http://caroleguevin.com/micro-details
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John Perlock takes on Cereal Boxes
There comes a point when each of us must face it. Breakfast. It is the meal that is a pure compromise between what we know we should eat and what we really, really want. I remember moving from oatmeal to sugar cereals one fateful childhood Saturday morning. Even now, though I have great fondness for [...]
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Dave Whamond Nominated for Two Awards at NCS Reubens
Dave Whamond was nominated for two Reuben awards this year from the National Cartoonists Society. He is in the running for the Newspaper Illustration category and the Advertising Illustration category. We look forward to the results come May! Hopefully we get to see Dave in his tux again! Check his folio at www.threeinabox.com/artist-portfolios/whamond.
Martin O’Neill, Oliver Sacks and Folio
Martin O’Neill has recently finished a project for the Folio Society’s edition of Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. A fantastic cover, which is all we can show you now. You won’t believe the interior illustrations! It will be April before we can put them up but we are anxious [...]
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Otto Steininger wins, too!
I know we just posted about Jason Edmiston’s merit awards but it turns out that Otto Steininger, as well, has been a recipient of the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles. You can see four of his six awarded pieces in the Illustration West 49 show. We hope to get more details on the where [...]
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Awards for Edmiston
Congratulations to Jason Edmiston who was awarded three Certificate of Merits from the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles. His work will be shown at Illustration West 49 this spring.
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Groupbook 26 Hitting the Streets
It’s been about a week now since the mailing house sent out our latest catalog of illustration, Groupbook 26. Jode Thompson illustrated the cover for this edition, our first square format book. If you’re on our mailing list, it should be arriving any moment. If you’d like to get on our list, email info@threeinabox.com.
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Sophie’s Choice
The fairies smiled on Sophie Casson as she picked up two Communication Arts awards, including one in the self-promotion category for the cover of the Fairy Tale Issue of the Box Lunch, on which we were delighted to work with her. The other illustration won in the editorial category and was for a series of [...]
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5 Awards for Shane McGowan
Congratulations to Shane McGowan who recently racked up 1 gold, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes in the Illustrators Australia Awards! Way to go Shane! Click here to view the 2011 Illustrators Australia Awards winners list.
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Pearl Diving with Otto Scores AltPick Award
Otto Steininger’s recent illustration for PC World has won third place in the single illustration category of the AltPick Awards. A companion piece to a story on finding the best apps for your smartphone, Otto tackles the difficulty in sifting through the myriad of options and the pleasure of finding something that actually adds value [...]
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Jason Edmiston hits 2 of the Top 10 Alt Weekly Covers for 2010
We started off this new year with some great news! Three in a Box illustrator extraordinaire Jason Edmiston has had two of his covers selected by the Society of Publication Designers for the 10 best Alt Weekly covers of 2010. His Mad Magazine-style fold in for the Village Voice is the #1 cover and his [...]
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Belle Mellor, partnered with Josh Ford, recently completed a short film produced for English Heritage telling the history of Framlingham Castle.
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Ken Dewar Paints the Leafs
Three in a Box and Ken Dewar have been very fortunate to be heavily involved with the Toronto Maple Leafs marketing program in the recent years. He has just finished a set of six amazing paintings for this year’s season tickets. These tickets are for home games with the Leafs historical rivals. Last year he [...]
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Otto in the NYTimes
Otto, a recent newcomer to the parental world, recently completed an illustration for the New York Times Travel Section on infant car seats on airplanes. Click through the image to read the story or click here for Otto’s full folio.
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Francis Blake, How Rude!
Francis Blake is well known for his delightful watercolour/pen and ink illustrations. He has illustrated many of Jan Andrews’ story books for Tundra Press and their recent collaboration, Rude Stories, has just been published and is now available through book sellers everywhere, including here.
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Ian Mitchell is Next
Ian Mitchell has graced the web pages, print ads and even a television commercial for the UK retail giant Next. For the 2010 Next TV commercial, Ian created a stylized map of Paris that shows up around the 14 second mark. He has also created the images for many of the current Next gift cards. [...]
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We Take Down the Double Down
Jason Edmiston and Ken Dewar have recently completed pieces for KFC’s Double Down product launch. Celebrating what is surely one of the most controversial food items to be launched anywhere, our two intrepid artists toss aside questions about the sanity of such a sandwich and get right to the meat of it. Jason’s piece is [...]
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Belle Draws Finance Like Nobody’s Business
Belle was approached after the Parsons The New School of Design viewed some of her recent work in The Economist. For their Visualizing Finance 1.0 Symposium, the IMF image, top left, was used for the poster and the other was used in the concurrent exhibition held at the Aronson Gallery on Fifth Ave in NYC. [...]
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Martin O’Neil does the Cinema!
Martin’s massive hoard of ephemera once more comes to the rescue in a thrilling explosion of razor blades and talent. Click here to view Martin’s full portfolio.
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The Box at The SpeakEasy
Three in a Box will be attending the 10th Annual SpeakEasy Illustration Show. It is at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen St West in Toronto) on the 7th of October from 7PM to 11PM. Come upstairs to the second floor and seek us out. Come on out and get a glimpse of our Illustration Toolbox [...]
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Matt Daley Gets Milk
Matt Daley has contributed to a fun and healthy iPhone game targeted to teens.
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New Guy on the Block!
Ever since Guy won his school’s competition to design the masthead for the school paper in grade six, he knew he wanted to make images forever.
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Jason Edmiston on Creep Machine
Jason Edmiston has been chosen as a featured artist on Creep Machine. He talks about his love for the horror genre, his choice of medium and what he’s up to next. Click on through to read the entire interview and view some of his horror-specific pieces. You can also view his portfolio here at threeinabox.com/artist-portfolios/edmiston.
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Derek’s New Lettering Style
Derek Matthews has recently submitted to us a couple of his lettering samples. Vintage vibe with an illustrative and hand-drawn feel, Derek’s work is executed within the superb flexibility of vector software. As large or as little as you can conceive of displaying it and it’s always perfect.
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Perlock does a Moonwalk for Maisonneuve
John Perlock has created a lovely image for Maisonneuve's summer Issue.
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Sophie featured on Communication Arts
Sophie Casson was featured on the the Communication Arts site’s Fresh section. Sophie’s images are well represented and she gives us some insight into her influences and experience through an interview. Check it out at http://www.commarts.com/fresh/sophie-casson.html
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Dave Whamond in the News
Dave Whamond is famous for his illustration, of course. He’s also famous as the cartoonist for his Reality Check cartoon, which is syndicated worldwide. The Calgary Herald is one of the first gigs Dave had as a professional illustrator/cartoonist. They’ve done a great piece on him recently and you can learn more about Dave by [...]
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Belle Mellor wins in the SPD Spot Competition
Belle Mellor has been working on the Wine and Spirits column with John Munoz at Bon Appetit for quite a few issues now. John and Bon Appetit entered one of Belle’s spot illustrations and the accompanying article on champagne to the Society of Publication Designers Spot Competition. Well, we are delighted to announce that they [...]
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Zsolt does Hemingway
Yesterday we missed this post. It was Ernest Hemingway’s birthday and Zsolt, in memorial, created this crazy lovely piece.
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Jason Edmiston places 2nd at Alt Weekly Awards
Jason Edmiston’s cover illustration for the LA Weekly’s May 22nd, 2009 issue placed second in the over 50,000 circulation category of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Awards. You can view the full list of winners here.
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Photographer Chris Marshall Joins the Box
Photographer Chris Marshall has joined the Three in a Box group. We are excited to have his edgy approach to lifestyle imaging added our group of award-winning talent.
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John Perlock has given us an Update
John Perlock’s website has been updated with his newest pieces for APICS Magazine, BC Gold and with this amazing World Cup piece in the current issue of Maisonneuve. His portfolio is available here or visit his website at www.johnperlock.com.
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We’re on WorkBook.com
Branching out from our traditional in-house marketing efforts, we’ve just added a selection of our illustrators to the workbook.com web site. We welcome your comments, be you illustrator or art buyer, about the usability of either our threeinabox.com web site or the workbook.com web site.
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Dominic Bugatto in Vanity Fair
Dominic’s comic strip for Vanity Fair is available in the current newsstand issue! His moody Film Noir aesthetic imprints itself on the portraits of the individuals who control the world of high fashion jewellery.
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Peter Ferguson Illustrates the 10th Anniversary National Book Fair Poster
Peter Ferguson, who is particularly well known for his publishing work, was selected to illustrate the poster 10th Anniversary of the National Book Festival, to be held in Washington D.C. on September 25 2010. Initially quite apprehensive at being selected for such a prestigious honour, Peter threw himself into the poster with his trademark whimsy [...]
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Dave Whamond’s Amazing Maps
Dave has an amazing talent for all things illustration. His comical maps are no exception. His belly-laugh humour pervades every aspect of any large scene he does. One of the great challenges as a viewer is to get every single gag he’s hidden in the illustration and they are always worth the hunt. Click through [...]
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McSherry’s Dublin Nocturne
Kevin McSherry has recently updated his blog with a great interpretation of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. You can get to his blog by clicking through the image or here.
Otto Steininger and the Black Keys