Yesterday evening was the launching event of the first Untitled Object issue. I wasn’t there but my sources tell me it was really great. Were you there?
Anyway, now I can finally share with you the drawing I did for that issue. We all had to create work that had some relation to the concept of “The First Day”.
I wanted to talk about my new found (and often lost) braveness, and also work with Hebrew typography for a change*. Lou Reed knows what I’m talking about:
I have a few issues of the Untitled Object to give away, so if you want one, write me a message and I’ll send you a copy in an envelope and everything :). *Translation: At the age of three and thirty I stopped being afraid.
Just got my hands on the new issue of Odyssey magazine, which cover I illustrated.
This issue’s subject is The Pursuit of Happiness - a very interesting subject indeed!
While working on this commission I listened to all of The Smiths albums, in order to get in the appropriate energetic mood (although I had to pay for my fun later that night, trying to fall asleep while at least three Smiths songs play in my head non-stop and all at once).
Ahh… the perils of being an illustrator.
PS. On the top right corner of the image above you can see the sketchbook spread the cover was based on (or as posted here on February)
This is my latest editorial illustration, for the Yom-Kippur section of Ha’aretz newspaper.
The article, by Vered Lee, tells the story of the first all-women bank robbery in Israel. It’s a pretty interesting story – you can read it here (Hebrew only, sorry…).
I like this illustration very much, because I had so much fun working on it. I watched Dog Day Afternoon while working, to get in the mood (I think that what gave it that 70′s feel :)
A new editorial I worked on last week, for the Health section of Ha’aretz newspaper.
The article was about a new trend emerging in medical care, trying to make patients more involved in the decision-making process of their healing.
I did this small illustration a while back, for the June/July issue of NYLON magazine.
It was for an item about a new book collecting the works of thirty young + promising writers. Actually, the book cover is really cute (below left), they could have just used that, no?
(not a smart business move on my part writing that, I know :)
My name is Keren Taggar, an illustrator from Tel Aviv, Israel. This is sort of a sketchbook blog, a place for me to publish things I have nowhere else to show, and also a daily drawn diary.
