Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
About Me
A course by Nicholas Blechman , Art Director, Illustrator, and Designer
Joined January 2020
Joined January 2020
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this very first lesson, I will tell you about my past and current experiences as an illustrator. I'll also explain how I came to be an Art Director for two legacy publications: The New York Times and The New Yorker. Finally, I'll explain in more detail what we're going to see in this course.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Blechman addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills. Turn ideas into images and deliver professional illustrations for articles from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me Hello, my name is Nicholas Blechman. I'm an illustrator and I'm an art director living in New York City. I work as the creative director for "The New Yorker," before which I worked as an art director at "The New York Times," and before that I was an illustrator in a small design studio that I started called Knickerbocker Design. My father is an illustrator and filmmaker called R.O. Blechman, and, in many ways, growing up with him and seeing the illustration work he does and his friends, I feel like that was the creative environment in which I grew up and so that was my school. I wa...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration
Nicholas Blechman
A course by Nicholas Blechman
Nicholas Blechman is an award-winning illustrator, art director and the current creative director of The New Yorker. He was first introduced to illustration and design at a young age by his father, a cartoonist, author, and filmmaker; and later went on to study studio art and art history at Oberlin College.
During his 20-year career, he has illustrated for the biggest publications in the U.S., including GQ Travel + Leisure, Wired, and The Atlantic. His passion for telling stories through images has seen him co-author books, run his own design studio, and work as the art director for The New York Times. In 2012, Nicholas was also awarded the Rome Prize in Design at The American Academy in Rome.
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