United Nations Rio Conventions 2012 Calendar - Illustration Credits & Biographies

Colagene
Illustration Clinic

The idea behind this innovative agency was inspired by a desire to change the status quo in the media and image field — a well-worn cliché, but one that would quickly take off. Born of a common enthusiasm for painting, fashion, graphic design and advertising, Colagene was founded in Montreal in 2001. Co-founders Brisson and Sillard, are both passionate about design in all its forms.

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Chris Arranz
East Sussex, UK

Chris likes to work with a palette of bright colours, reflecting his playful side in his approach to illustration. He likes to reuse symbols in his work, adding brush strokes and using digital techniques to create lively and colourful images, inspired by everyday life and fashion.

Geraldine Georges
Belgium

Géraldine worked as a graphic designer until she started to work as a freelance illustrator. She did not felt like she was leaving behind the graphic design world but rather she was able to see & bring some graphic design elements into her illustrations. The two are inevitably linked for her. Her approach is pretty simple, she tries her best to transcribe emotions, finding a perfect balance through the collages.

In his school days, the margins of Nazario’s notebooks spilled over with pen and pencil sketches of robots, shapes, clouds and an array of curious creatures. He hasn’t let go of his anti-conformist spirit, and his work is a digest of images and recollections from his daily life. His illustrations reveal a romantic outlook, tinged with a bit of irony.

Nicole Jarecz is a Detroit-native who graduated with a degree in illustration from the College for Creative Studies. Her delicate and feminine illustrations are a result of playing with graphite, ink, watercolor and found-textures digitally. She finds her inspiration from everyday events, fashion, traveling, people-watching and living in Paris.

Tonwen Jones
Brighton, UK

Tonwen likes to troll her collection of 1950s magazines in search of images, objects and textures to manipulate for her surrealist creations, which reveal her comical take on everyday life. She enjoys drawing complex motifs in ink or pen, mixing styles and techniques, and using a light and airy colour palette.

Karen Klassen
Calgary, Canada

Karen plays with textures, prints and patterns to create collages using textiles and painting, resulting in a style that combines abstraction and realism. Her use of bright colours creates rich, warm tones in her illustrations, and her use of oil, acrylic and ink reveal her penchant for fashion.

Oscar Llorens
Madrid, Spain

Óscar likes to explore the possibilities of the digital world while continuing to use traditional illustration techniques. His simple lines give rise to a style inspired by the world around him. With a stroke of his pencil, he is able to create a colourful universe, and his detailed illustrations exude a childlike, although not entirely unserious, quality.

Aaron McConomy
Berlin, Germany

Aaron’s illustrations are characterized by his precise and delicate lines, and he also enjoys using silk-screening and watercolour techniques in his commercial work. He starts out on paper, with a practised outline in brush or pen, and then turns to the computer to add colour, resulting in subtle yet methodical illustrations.

Edward McGowany
Edinburgh, UK

Edward’s illustrations, which have a somewhat innocent quality, reveal his passion for silk-screening, in which he combines traditional techniques with a digital printing process. He has a particular interest in 60s-style advertising and Indian matchboxes, whose influences can be seen in his lines and colour palette.

Katrinn Pelletier
Quebec, Canada

Katrinn’s delicate and poetic images start out as watercolour or ink blotches on tracing paper. She then adds clean lines to give life to her characters, which are influenced by urban life and fashion. Besides being fascinated with childhood things, she has a fondness for the 1950s aesthetic and also takes inspiration from vintage items, which lends a fresh quality to her work.

Sonia Roy
Montreal, Canada

The first time she put photo paper into the developer and watched as the picture appeared, as if by magic, Sonia fell in love with images. Inspired by fashion photography and artistic portraits, she uses archival photographs to assemble her creations, which tell stories full of poetry and manage to be both retro and timeless.

Kelly Schykulski
Montreal, Canada

Kelly takes inspiration from everything around him, from old Polaroids to long-forgotten vinyls, and he harbours obsessions with music, film and bicycles. He likes to repurpose symbols and discover treasures in everyday life to use in his collages, which recall that immaculate quality you used to find in encyclopedia illustrations.

Marie-Eve Tremblay is a travel junkie who finds inspiration in her trips abroad, be it from nature or situations in everyday life. Her take on the world is full of affection and humour, and her images are set apart by their warm tones, curious candour, and gentle whimsy.

Adam James Turnbull
Sydney, Australia

Adam James Turnbull is a Freelance Graphic artist and illustrator living and working in Sydney. Adam is inspired by his everyday surroundings and the ways in which we can make them interesting. His illustrations represent this through over analyzing the detail that goes into an everyday objects and scenarios.

Silke Werzinger
Berlin, Germany

Silke finds inspiration in everyday life, magazines, and notebooks she picks up at flea markets. Her simple style, which combines ink and colour, has an almost adolescent brazenness, and her illustrations tell amusing stories in scenes taken from everyday life, conversations between friends, and music.