ICON5, The Illustration Conference

ICON5 will be held in New York City at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan. This year's theme, The Big Picture, is more than a slogan, it is the perspective through which we see our future – a future of limitless possibilities for illustrators as thinkers, story tellers and providers of creative content. The conference promises to examine and discuss the current creative and economic forces that our industry faces today.

ICON continues to gather the industry's best and brightest talent to present and talk about their work, their business, their lives, and their passion for illustration. Our conferences have also grown to include inspiring, informative and topical pre-conference tours and workshops. ICON5 is going a step further with ambitious attendance goals, increased global involvement and more pre-conference events to make the ICON5 experience a must-do for 2008.

July 2-5 2008

Illustration - Imaginism Studios

Imaginism Studios is made up of independent artists specializing in design and illustration. Take a look...

Contest - Ink of the Week

Each week we award a $100 voucher to the CustomInk customer whose photo shows the most group spirit. Help pick this week's competition winner by clicking and rating your favorite photos. Customers submit your photo to enter the contest.

The CustomInk story began in 1999 when three former college classmates got the bug to start a business about a year after graduating. Co-founder and President Marc Katz was hard at work in a Wall Street job that he says "didn’t have a lot of heart" and was itching to do something entrepreneurial and meaningful. Meanwhile, Marc’s former roommate Mike Driscoll (acting on his mom’s suggestion!) had spent the previous summer building the very first version of CustomInk.com, which let people upload graphics onto t-shirts and buy them… at least in theory. Read more...

Photography - ASMP’s Copyright Application Tutorial

Your original images are your legacy. Like many a photographer, you probably expect to retire on the royalties from the photographs you have made over the years. Early planning, especially with proper copyright protection, can facilitate this. Although every original photograph you create is automatically copyrighted the instant the shutter is clicked, you don’t get much legal protection unless you follow through on a few things. Read more...

Jim Goldstein is an independent photographer specializing in landscape, travel, environments, nature and event photography for advertising and editorial use.

A member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), Jim produces the highest quality photography for both commercial clients and fine art photography collectors. Jim's photography has been featured in the Washington Post, Sierra Club, Future Snowboarding magazine, Surfmag.com, SFGate.com, and a variety of other publications

KT Meaney: Greening the Grocery Store

In 1988, the Society of the Plastics Industry developed a resin identification code — a numbering system from 1 to 7 — categorizing different types of plastic. The code is centered in a triangle made of arrows chasing each other. This mark is commonly misidentified as the recycling symbol. Though the system was instituted to “facilitate the recycling of post-consumer plastics,” the chasing arrows graphic is meaningless. Plastic imprinted with the arrow symbol doesn’t indicate that the material is made from recycled content nor that the plastic can be recycled, misleading many.
Read more...

solar seven - James Thew images

I am a creative artist who specializes in digital media and photography. I have a background in web development and graphic design. I currently have a library of over 1000 images available as Royalty Free through creative libraries such as Istockphoto and Stockxpert.

I supply my images to all major royalty free stock photography sites including:- Istock, Stockxpert, Shutterstock, Fotolia, Dreamstime, and Crestock.

All my images at these sites are royalty free and can be used for various projects from Advertising to presentations. All images are available with extended licenses and come in a variety of sizes from small to extra large. Illustrations can also normally be downloaded in vector format.

More ...

Hillman Curtis films - Lawrence Weiner

We recently teamed up with Debbie Millman (Design Matters) to film Lawrence Weiner, a central figure of conceptual art, in his Greenwich Village Studio. I hope you enjoy it.

View Film (4 min, 47 sec)