I hold the latest issue of 3×3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration before me. With over a year on the shelves, a review seems in order.
3×3 speicalizes in the clever, graphically bold, ‘charming’ style thats so hip these days, think “Optic Nerve” or “The Believer”. While it’s handsomely bound and bursting with pretty pictures, the editorial content is a bubbly hot-tub of congratulations. All the interviews are fawning, the advice section is small and shallow, and the editor’s letters have the tone of a PBS fund drive.
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Illustration is a bit like being a show girl. If you want to get work you need to show as much as possible to as many people as possible, Directories (also called Sourcebooks) are phone books of artists, things Art Directors leaf through though trying to find just the right look for whatever project they’re working on. The big books like ‘Directory of Illustration’ (http://www.directoryofillustration.com/) and “Black Book” (Blackbook.com) will burn a $2540 to $4315 hole in your wallet. Most print directories include an online portfoilo and pages for you to mail around willy-nilly. (more…)
The Society of Illustrators, located in a swanky townhouse in NYC, dates back to the time when Illustrators where taken seriously and wore top hats and tails. The Society, with its gentlemen’s club air, is a musuem, a bar, and host to lively life model sessions every Tuesday a 6:30. (more…)
