SOGO's Anniversary

the art in use at the SOGO Hong Kong store

Commissioned for the SOGO Hong Kong 20th anniversary, Daria Jabenko creates an image exploding with beauty.
Now seen all over the city and mainland China, Daria's illustration has been used on large displays, for in-store decoration and on many gifts including purses, diaries and a 2014 calendar.

Coin Designs for The Mint

2014 Year of The Horse

2014 Year of The Horse

2013 Year of The Water Snake

Chrissy Lau works with The Australian Mint to produce several coin designs.

Following her first commission to celebrate the Year of the Water Snake - 2013, her most recent designs for the Year of the Horse 2014 have just been launched.
Chrissy was asked to work on two distinctive illustrations for the range. The first is an energetic kicking horse inspired by Chinese brush paintings and the second design illustrates eight horses,  '8' being the symbol of wealth and success in China. Chrissy was able to research her Chinese heritage and look extensively at patterns and tapestries of past Dynasties to help with the concepts. The result being these precious collectable coins.
Chrissy says "The Year of the Horse 2014 is the year of the Wood Horse and people born in this year exude strength and stability, which is represented in the muscular tone of the horse in this design."
Chrissy is currently working on designs for the 2015 Year of The Goat, so there's more to come!
The Prestige Lunar Series Coins can be seen here.

Nippon Paint Subway Exhibition

Melissa Chaib's illustration on the subway

Daria Jabenko's illustration on the subway

Nadia Flower

Muxxi

Shannon Toth

Hannah Davies

Alex Fuentes

Christopher Corr

Wai

Kat Cameron

Ten of our illustrators were asked by Saatchi and Saatchi to take part in a fantastic subway exhibition in China. Called "Fresh Beginning for Love" the artworks, used large scale are on tour in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou right now with the aim of 'turning common subway stations into colourful art galleries.'

Nippon Paint invited a total of 32 artists and illustrators from around the world to use their environmentally friendly paints to create the 'love' images. Now, the stations are inspiring 'visual feasts' for commuters.

The Global Times says of the event "After touring the three cities, the 32 artworks will be sold at a charity bazaar at the end of this year. All the funds will be used for "Color, Way of Love," the charity platform of Nippon Paint China for Hope Project Schools, and to improve the teaching environment as well as art education.
Nippon Paint hopes that this philanthropic subway exhibition will inspire people who love beauty to look at their surroundings with fresh eyes and to fill their lives with color."

Our artists taking part, in order of the images above are; Melissa Chaib, Daria Jabenko, Nadia Flower, Muxxi, Shannon Toth,  Hannah Davies, Alex Fuentes, Christopher Corr, Wai and Kat Cameron.

Starbucks China

Mark Oliver's magnificent work for Starbucks China is now live.  JWT Shanghai commissioned Mark for ten illustrations, each of a different planet to represent ten Frappuchino flavours. The illustrations also had to accommodate a photographic image of the Frappuchino. Mark says "The plan was to create an amazing HTML 5 animation for the web and all illustrations had to be complete within three weeks."  See it here.

ANTA Basketball is Life

Alex Fuentes

Versatile Alex Fuentes tackles a big commission from China. Working with JWT Shanghai for Chinese sports brand ANTA, Alex has produced this energetic illustration to be used on TV and print on the theme Basketball is Life. It is not often that a Chinese brand works with foreign talent, which makes this commission even more special. It has also used the talents of  Echo Chernik and Mart Klein for the other ads.

Echo Chernik

Mart Klein

Dennis Juan Ma's Scrapbook

Chinese born illustrator Dennis Juan Ma tells of his education in New Zealand and sharing a studio in Auckland. Dennis Juan Ma's Scrapbook

Fei's Scrapbook

Illustrator Fei shares the inspiration of living in the "most beautiful place in China".

Fei's Scrapbook
Fei's portfolio

Tianyin Wang and Arting365

For those of you who can speak or read Chinese you must take a look at these interviews with our very own rep in China Tianyin Wang, for Arting365.com.

http://www.arting365.com/vision/character/2010-01-13/content.1263348870d219207.html
http://www.arting365.com/vision/character/2010-01-12/content.1263287933d219199.html