Hello! This is sooo awesome! A friend (Toto from Fabrikalink.com) has asked me to curate his first event at CIFO (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami) and even though it’s very short notice, we are doing all we can to make it HOT!
Here is the info, hope you can make it!
- nic

DJ Wave: A Latin Electronic + Art Experience
Saturday, August 9th - 8:30pm - Cifo

Ready for a latin-filled artistic experience? A whole other level of great. Featuring the art of Brian M. Viveros, live guitar painting, and great beats from Miami’s best Indie/Electronica/World pickers, Cifo brings us yet another kick-ass event.

To see and purchase Limited edition Giclee prints of the Smoking Girls series, please visit: www.brianMviveros.com

Also featured will be Raphael Vicenzi, James Wignall (MUTANTHANDS) and many more!

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Iniciativa Colectiva’s 11th Issue is Online Now for your viewing pleasure.

This month’s Featured Artists include:

- Dario Maggiore from Italy
- Karol Lasia from The Netherlands
- Nathan Spoor form USA

Also showcased in this month’s issue are illustrators & designers Rubens, Molly Crabapple and Samantha Krukowski, as well as photographer Florencia Mazza and Benedetto Riba along with many more…

You may download the issue here.

I hope you enjoy this issue and don’t forget to TELL EVERYONE.

Be sure to send your questions, comments and new submissions this way!

We are currently accepting submissions for our September issue.
Deadline is: August 20th, 2008

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The soul of the world is nourished by happiness. - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

About 8 years ago, I came across a great book by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho. The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.

This book talks about following your own personal legend. It’s what you have always wanted to accomplish. To find your own path no matter what anyone says. To not be afraid to dream and yearn for everything you would like to happen in your life. Even if it was the smallest thing. It talks about how the universe will conspire with you to make all your desires happen.

“…it’s a force that appears to be negative but it prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth in this planet. Because whoever you are and whatever you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth…”

Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho’s charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life’s path, and, above all, following our dreams.
- The San Francisco Chronicle.

Download ‘The Alchemist’ in Audiobook form from the iTunes Store Here.

This is a real great read and it’s free for a limited time so take advantage and get some inspiration from this timeless piece of literature.

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I haven’t written here in a while!
Between work and WOW (yes, I am addicted to this wonderful game - World of Warcraft - screen shot below) I haven’t had much time to update my site let alone the blog…Because I kinda got addicted to wow, it took me about 3 weeks to finish May’s IC! omg! But it’s done, I finished it a bit later than usual, but I did it. It took a lot since I was flying solo this month. But it came out AWESOME! Iniciativa Colectiva #10 is now online!!

I also finished CMN Insider, a magazine for my partner’s job. We did a flip magazine online for them as well.

Slowly, I’ve been getting some great new freelance work. Yesterday I came back from Boston where I attended the 2008 HOW Design Conference. It was an awesome experience, and even more since it was in Beantown! I hadn’t been back since we went to visit Dr. G (that’s my friend Connie who happens to be a doctor last July. I learned a lot about marketing yourself and self-promotion which is great because I really like doing what I do and I wish I did more of it on my own. I definitely have a lot of work to do in the networking section and updating all the work on the website and keeping this blog up to date.

I also happened to meet one of my favorite designers. I have admired this guy since I learned about him some years ago and never in my life did I ever imagine I would meet him, let alone find out he’s so cool. It was Joshua Davis hanging out at the HP booth. I was walking by and I mentioned to my art director that this printer might work for our new office since our Epson wastes so much ink. Then, I started talking to the sales guy who mentioned that one of the posters there was printed on their over-sized printer which I mentioned was also called a plotter. So I waltzed over to the plotter and see this guy sitting next to it and he’s full of tattoos and I think to myslef, this guy is definitely NOT an HP sales guy and I look over to the print, then over to the guy and the light bulb in my head goes BLING! and I ask him if he’s Joshua Davis and he goes yeaah! I almost fell backwards! I couldn’t believe it! So I talked to him for a bit and he offered to give me the print that had just printed (which he also signed) and I was so happy! I also asked him for a photo and here it is:

Photo of me with Joshua Davis!

I do have a couple of projects pending. I am doing wedding invitations for a friend at work. Here are some images of how they are coming out so far. Later I will post the finished product:

I met with some vendors at the conference gave a lot of relief since we have been looking for a letterpress printer or engravers to do the white on navy print which apparently is really HARD! So I will be in touch with these vendors tomorrow and begin an estimate to see what we can do as fast as we can. We are cutting it close.

Also, I am working on an identity project for another friend. She is beginning a Mobile Tanning business which sounds promising in the area we live in. There are a lot of white and pasty, rich women where we live so she will definitely have many clients. I did some sketches for her and sent them already. She said she LOVED them! woo hoo! I love it when they say that! It makes my day. She still has a decision to make, but we are close. I am also doing a small ad for her for the same business. I will post the card when I get them to the printer.

This here is Me playing World of Warcraft.

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I just finished the March issue of Iniciativa Colectiva and it is finally online! This month’s issue includes work by outstanding artists including Featured Artists: Brian M. Viveros and Greg Turco as well as work by Denise Fort and Roman Klonek and more!

Also, be sure to check out our Featured Artists’ interviews as well as the Art Digest for more information on happenings and call for artists nationally and internationally.

Download the new issue today at iniciativacolectiva.com or view it online!

To Art and Life.

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I have just released 1 more print available now for purchase as well as two postcard Designs.

The Sea of My Mind (13″x 19″ Print $35.00)

Postcard (4″x 6″ $2.00)

Espero… (4″x 6″ $2.00)

You can find these and other prints on sale at my website: nicoleandujar.com

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I had been hard at work with Iniciativa Colectiva’s layout and it’s finally out. We are very happy with the new issue and the artists that are featured in it.

We have Jeff Soto, Sauerkids and Camille Rose Garcia among other great artists. Next time I am trying to get more of the Low Brow artists such as Sas Christian and Collin Christian who I absolutely admire. There’s also a new emerging artist that I saw in Antikulture about 2 months ago, Johnny Robles, who I am trying to get to participate as well. I hope he does.

Here is the link to the magazine. Take a look and enjoy.

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This is an entry I did for Tate’s Comics’ Bear and Bird Gallery’s Opening of Skull Sessions, an exhibition which called for everything skulls. I made it quickly and I thought it came out nice

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So I was browsing the net when I was supposed to be working and I fell across Young Go Getter, a nifty design blog by Eric and Travis who, along with Orange 32, are running a contest on business cards.

If you (I) win, you (I) can get 5000 business cards printed by Orange32, design services by YGG, and since I have updated my website, I thought I should update the look on my cards as well.

If I win, I will surely hand these out more often. To me, a business card should reflect your design style to a prospective client. I like the minimal, clean look, with a touch of illustration. I think I always portray this within my designs. And of course, client is always right, but you have to be able to guide that client with your expertise and design aesthetics.

With that said, hop over to YGG to read about the contest, but you better hurry because it’s over tomorrow!

Cheers!

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Hi Folks!

Only 8 days til the deadline for Implied Form’s T/Shirt Design Contest.

We have received a wide variety of entries but don’t despair, send yours in so you have the chance to get your design printed! We have entries from all over the world and it’s getting hard to choose which are our favorites. As soon as we have the main selection, we will post them here to give you a chance to vote and voice your opinions about the contest. We will be voting the last week of October and we will have the selections up by then.

Keep the submissions coming and you could be the next winner and have your Design Printed!! Good Luck!

Implied Form Team
http://www.impliedform.com
info@impliedform.com

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