WHAT’S HAPPENED AT CHARACTERIZED NEW YORK 2013
What's a character tour without New York? We brought the battle to BK's Music Hall of Williamsburg for a look at how NYC loves characters. We challenged designers to create villain characters that we can't help but love despite their chaotic qualities! A sketch wall, a photo booth, lovable villains, awesome designers - We'd say the night was nothing short of amazing. Congrats to Julian Glander & Juliet Phillips for taking home the prize w/ their smelly, lovable swamp monster.
TOURNAMENT ARTWORK // Theme : Villains We Love
In this competition, the 3 teams of 2 designers were challenged to create two original village characters, only one of which was used for a final composition in the final round. The competition was made up of 3 onstage rounds, each intended to create a product to be used in the following round. Despite the villain's evil qualities, we can’t help but love them and their design must communicate those qualities of both “evil” and “lovable.” In the first 10-minute onstage round, competitors prepared a black & white sketch of their first Villain character. In the second 10-minute round, they prepared a second black & white sketch of the 2nd Villain character. After round 2, the audience determined for each team their choice of villain between each team’s 2 sketches. In the final 15-minute round, the teams added full detail in color, texture, and style the Villain incorporating their chosen audience sketch of an object or accessory.
TEAM
1
champs
Julian Glander
&
Juliet Phillips
TEAM
2
Skip Dolphin Hursh
&
Justin Winslow
TEAM
3
Jung Yuen Shin
&
Rose Naves
CHARACTERIZED New York 2013 Team 1
Julian Glander
Illustrator, Freelance
JulianGlander.com
JULIAN GLANDER's work radiates a playful, manic energy--'whimsical' seems to be the word people throw around the most. Glander's background--[no, call me Julian, I insist]-- Julian's background is in creative writing, which may be why he often solves communication problems by inventing characters and universes for them to inhabit. Also, he's from Detroit and now lives in Brooklyn. I guess that's not really important.
CHARACTERIZED New York 2013 Team 2
Skip Dolphin Hursh
Designer / Illustrator / Animator
skiphursh.com
Skip is a Designer, Illustrator, Animator, Artist, and Thing-Maker from the midwestern USA, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His work ties a thread of playful abstraction and vibrant colors through works both simple and complex. He has had the chance to work for a variety of clients including Nickelodeon, Scholastic, Discovery Channel, Freakstep Records, and French Horn Rebellion. He is also a contributor to the art and design blog The Fox is Black.
Justin Winslow
Illustrator / Art Director, Freelance
justinwinslow.com
I'm a seasoned, New York based Designistrator: (design + illustration ninja). Since 2000, I've been working in the animation and graphic design industries but my true passion comes out when illustrating and creating new original characters. An eye for design, a mind for concepts, and a skilled hand for illustration all come together in one package whenever I'm creating new work. Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, I've been living and working in New York for seven years now and I love everything this city has to offer.
CHARACTERIZED New York 2013 Team 3
Jung Yuen Shin
Motion Designer / Illustrator, Freelance
jyshin.com
jungyuenshin.blogspot.com
Jung Yuen Shin is a motion graphic designer and illustrator based in New York. She has a BFA in Communication Design and an MFA in Digital Arts. Her illustrations were published in the character compendium book “Pictoplasma” Germany with other worldwide artists in 2012.
Whenever possible, Jung Yuen loves to go out and observe the world and discover new and unique art.
Rose Naves
Illustrator & Animator, Freelance; Creative and Marketing Director, Aston Luxury Group
rosenaves.com
Rose Naves is a digital artist currently working in New York City. She graduated with a BFA in Illustration and Animation from Parsons the New School for Design in 2004. She later obtained an MFA in Digital Arts at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Rose likes spending her free time with friends and family.
CHARACTERIZED New York 2013 Team 4
CHARACTERIZED New York 2013 JURY
Artist
jonburgerman.com
'Jon Burgerman makes vibrant, neo primitive scrawls of shapes and colour. He's pushed his monster-like characters into compositions where cartoon-like forms are crammed on top of each until they create a screaming mass of energy. Intensely prolific, he has pushed the character obsession of the late 90s into a far more interesting and strong direction. Think Walt Disney at an Incan monument on mescaline.'
- Francesca Gavin, author of Street Renegades and 100 New Artists (published by Laurence King), Visual Arts Editor Dazed & Confused
Jon Burgerman has risen to be one of the prominent artists in the recent boom of practitioners who traverse the disciplines of contemporary art, design, illustration and entrepreneurism. His award winning work can be seen globally from gallery and bedroom walls to cinema and iPhone screens. A sense of British self-deprecation, dry humour and modern-day anxiety imbues his work along with an enthusiasm for salad.
Burgerman exhibits internationally and has shown work along side artists such as Banksy, Damien Hirst, Vivienne Westwood and Gerald Scarfe. His work is collected worldwide and is in the permanent collections of The Victoria and Albert Museum and The Science Museum in London. He gives lectures, public performances and occasionally pop concerts with his band Anxieteam. In 2008 he appeared as a guest on the popular BBC TV show Blue Peter and in 2009 was part of the original The Underbelly Project, which saw selected artists exhibit in a secret incomplete 100 year old subway station deep underneath the streets of New York City.
He has received a Cannes Lions Advertising award, two D&AD Silver award nominations and has collaborated with brands that include: Pepsi, CocaCola, Nike, Sony, Sky, Kidrobot, Puma, Nintendo, MTV, Levis, 55DSL, Miss Sixty, AOL, Size? and Rip Curl. He also designed a special sick bag for Virgin Atlantic flights.
Burgerman lives and works in New York and online.
Artist / Product Designer / Author
jeremyville.com
Jeremyville is an artist, product designer and author. He wrote the first book in the world on designer toys called 'Vinyl Will Kill', in 2003, and his 2nd book 'Jeremyville Sessions', (both published by IdN, distributed by Gingko).
Jeremyville has been in group shows at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, Colette in Paris, the Madre Museum in Napoli, the 798 Arts District in Beijing, and Giant Robot in New York. Converse has released 2 Jeremyville Chuck Taylor high tops, and Kidrobot have released several of his designer toys. He also regularly speaks at creative conferences, having spoken at Pictoplasma in Berlin, and in Oslo, with upcoming conferences in Argentina, New York and Brazil.
He now splits his time between his 2 studios in SoHo, New York City, and by the ocean at Bondi Beach in Sydney. He travels around the world often, and his studio is also wherever he opens up his sketchbook and starts drawing.
Animator / Illustrator
juliapott.com
Julia is a British animator and illustrator living in Brooklyn, NY
She graduated from Kingston University with first class honours in 2007
She graduated from an MA in animation from the Royal College of art in 2011
She was named one of the 25 new faces of independent film by Filmmaker Magazine, 2012
She was named one of the 37 indie film breakouts of 2012 by Indiewire
She is an ADC Young Gun X, 2012
She is a blogger for the Huffington Post
Artist / Illustrator
buffmonster.com
Buff Monster made a name for himself by putting up thousands of hand-silkscreened posters across Los Angeles, and other far-away places. His work is characterized by happy characters living in brightly-colored bubbly landscapes. Along with meticulously executed paintings, he has created a wide range of merchandise ranging from prints and stickers, to vinyl toys and plush. In 2012 he created an ambitious homage to Garbage Pail Kids called The Melty Misfits; a collection of vintage-style trading cards, complete with wax wrapper. The color pink, a symbol of confidence, individuality and happiness, is present in everything he creates. And he often cites heavy metal music, ice cream and Japanese Culture as major influences. His work has been shown in galleries worldwide, often accompanied by large installations. In 2010, the Bristol City Museum acquired a painting of his for their permanent collection. His art has been published in a variety of magazines, websites, newspapers and books, including Juxtapoz, Paper, Nylon, Cool Hunting, Angeleno, The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, The New York Times, and many more. He was also featured in Banksy’s movie: Exit Through the Gift Shop. After 15 years living and working in Hollywood, he has recently moved to Brooklyn.
MUSIC
DJ RT
A fifteen year veteran and host at as many clubs, parties, and neighborhoods as NYC has to offer, DJ RT has made a career from his versatility in sounds, music knowledge and technical prowess. RT devoted his energies to tirelessly keeping an ever-hungry crowd on their feet, spinning with NY legends including Cosmo Baker & Eli Escobar, touring the country with artist like Chromeo, and rocking special events for brands such as H& M. Currently RT is a resident with Jam Master Jay’s Scratch Music Group and can be enjoyed at Top of the Standard NY. This is his second event with Cut&Paste, after 2012’s NY World Championship.
CHARACTERIZED New York 2013 PARTNERS
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