AdCritic.com/Future on Paper
By Mark KaufmanI am very pleased to announce that I’m a finalist on the adcritic.com Future on Paper showcase. I’m in some very fine company indeed. Some amazing illustrators and photographers from around the globe. Do check it out, you can click to see a larger version of my vision of the future in all […]
American Affairs Desk: Backpack Nation
By Mark KaufmanWhat’s with adults schlepping backpacks everywhere? A check of the contents of an adult American male and an American teenager reveals that somebody has some growing up to do:
Teddy Bears Picnic
By Mark KaufmanHere’s a new illustration I did for The Seattle Symphony Young People’s Concert Series. Yes, I can do cute when I want to. It’s not just politics and creepiness around here. Although my wife thinks that the bear looks high as a kite. I guess I can’t help myself even though that wasn’t […]
Canadian Content
By Mark KaufmanA couple of posts back I bloviated on my love for magazines. Much like the internets where you can find something amazing everyday in the fields of design, illustration, architecture, (not to mention videos of morons risking life and limb for their 15 seconds of fame) being old skool I still find amazing […]
Drawmark Magazine Club
By Mark KaufmanBook clubs are everywhere. Sure I read books, and newspapers, and blogs, and annual reports, the backs of cereal boxes but the thing I love the most, the thing that I am almost never without are magazines. And yes, I read them for the articles, but I must admit, design, illustration and photography […]
Johnny Hart. Dead.
By Mark KaufmanJohnny Hart the cartoonist, creator of B.C and the Wizard of Id has died. Much has been said in the past and in his obits about his ultra christian, anti-semitic, anti- muslim cartoon and viewpoint. Quite frankly I don’t give a shit. It’s a free country, if he wanted to write garbage that […]
Technology Alliance Luncheon 2007
By Mark KaufmanHere is a a detail of new project that Vivitiv designed for the Technology Alliance. It is for the Technology Alliance’s annual luncheon, which this year features a keynote conversation with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and Ed Lazowska, professor and Gates Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. […]
Ways of Seeing
By Mark KaufmanHere is a fine example of not only seeing things differently, but rendering them in vastly different styles. Much like the Famous Artists School ads which ask you to draw the clown or the pirate, every artist should have a different vision of how to draw something. On the left is my interpretation […]