Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Illustrations by Edel Rodriguez
Edel Rodriguez was born in 1971 in Havana, Cuba. In 1980, his family immigrated to the United States on the Mariel Boatlift. They settled in Miami, where he lived before enrolling at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1990. Rodriguez studied illustration, painting, and graphic design and did design internships at Spy magazine and MTV. He graduated from Pratt in 1994 with a degree in painting and worked at Spy briefly before joining Time magazine as a designer.
His work has been featured in Print's 1998 New Visual Artists Annual and on the cover of the 2004 Communication Arts Illustration Annual. It has also been regularly selected to appear in the pages of CA, American Illustration, SPD, and The Society of Illustrators Annuals. He is also the recipient of both a Gold and a Silver Medal for editorial illustration from the Society of Illustrators. He has illustrated two children's books, "Mama does the Mambo" and "Float Like a Butterfly", a story about Cassius Clay. A stamp he created for the United States Postal Service was published in the Summer of 2005.
Partial Client List:
The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Pepsi Inc., U.S. Postal Service, Spot Design, WBMG, Rolling Stone, Gentleman's Quarterly, Reader's Digest, National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, Galison Books, University of Chicago Press, The New Republic, Hyperion Books, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Henry Holt Books, Esquire magazine, Conde Naste Traveler, The Washington Post, David Morris Design, Fortune Magazine, Golf Digest, The Progressive, Los Angeles Times, McGraw-Hill, The Nation, Vibe Magazine
Edel Rodriguez was born in 1971 in Havana, Cuba. In 1980, his family immigrated to the United States on the Mariel Boatlift. They settled in Miami, where he lived before enrolling at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1990. Rodriguez studied illustration, painting, and graphic design and did design internships at Spy magazine and MTV. He graduated from Pratt in 1994 with a degree in painting and worked at Spy briefly before joining Time magazine as a designer.
His work has been featured in Print's 1998 New Visual Artists Annual and on the cover of the 2004 Communication Arts Illustration Annual. It has also been regularly selected to appear in the pages of CA, American Illustration, SPD, and The Society of Illustrators Annuals. He is also the recipient of both a Gold and a Silver Medal for editorial illustration from the Society of Illustrators. He has illustrated two children's books, "Mama does the Mambo" and "Float Like a Butterfly", a story about Cassius Clay. A stamp he created for the United States Postal Service was published in the Summer of 2005.
Partial Client List:
The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Pepsi Inc., U.S. Postal Service, Spot Design, WBMG, Rolling Stone, Gentleman's Quarterly, Reader's Digest, National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, Galison Books, University of Chicago Press, The New Republic, Hyperion Books, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Henry Holt Books, Esquire magazine, Conde Naste Traveler, The Washington Post, David Morris Design, Fortune Magazine, Golf Digest, The Progressive, Los Angeles Times, McGraw-Hill, The Nation, Vibe Magazine
Labels: Illustrations
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