New work for the Brunswick Review, issue 8

Oi folks,

check out my latest work for the Brunswick Review, issue 8. It's probably the most decorative editorial illustration I've ever performed, but people who know me for a while know that in my life... there're never too many triangles.

©Kotryna Zukauskaite, 2014

Thank you to Paul Richards for great art direction, and of course massive thanks goes to Brunswick Review for assigning me once again. You can see all the work I did for the publication here.

It's great when old clients do come back: Brunswick Review, #3.

When clients do come back three years in a row, one can actually feel doing something right or at least not messing up in an epic manner. And this is why it's so super important for me to see that Brunswick Review comes back again and again, because I do actually accept this as some sort of confirmation of going to the right direction with my freelance practice (which includes a gamble of coming back home to Lithuania after graduating at Kingston 3 years ago) and now trying to develop my career from Vilnius by doing my best to catch more editorial and corporate UK/US clients, which of course sometimes, after sending one more e-mail or one more card, and one more and one more, gets really frustrating. But step after step, I hope, this process of long shots will pay off and will get me where I really want to be: becoming an illustrator-to-call-to for geometric conceptual editorial illustration or corporate illustration.

For many reasons, but mostly because it's so much fun to work with (AD) Gary Chambers, I hope this friendship with Brunswick Review will grow bigger and stronger in the future, and for now: the newest work on Deal Traffic Control (2 of 8 illustrations assigned, all limited color, space left in composition of illustrations (e.g. airplane banner) for text to apply in the final stage, no boxed background, for more detail check my portfolio):

©Kotryna Zukauskaite, for bigger image and more details click here

Spring Cleaning: update, thanks, list, and ready to go.

Hi all, 

just a short note on / to everyone I've been collaborating on editorial assignments in recent months. It was a great ride, and a client list in my illustration portfolio was seriously updated:

• Morningstar Advisor • New Scientist • Random house • Seven • MerchantCantos • Brunswick Review • Harvard Law Bulletin (HLB) • Radcliffe Magazine • Savills • Alma Littera publishing • Wombi (apps) • Peek & Cloppenburg (Style-Cafe La Cité) • King Deluxe • Šviesa publishing • Scaent Baltic Energy • Lithuanian National Television • Pravda magazine, and others.

But the best thing about this is that some of these clients came back to me again and again, so all I can do is to thank people in the other end of the wire - art directors, project managers, editors - for their trust in me, endless patience, and feedback that made me grow as professional more than anything else. Also it made me think of what actually interest me, so I made a list (because making lists is good for one's mental health :) ), which I'll try to focus from now on:

AREAS OF INTEREST:

• Editorial illustration • Corporate illustration • Annual Reports • Data, Charts & other Info graphics • Economics • Financial, Investing, Money • Law • Business • Professional, Strategy & Leadership issues • Institutional issues • Metaphors, Symbols & other figures of speech • Science (Health, Technology, Mechanics, Machinery) • Structures, Schemes (tetris, origami) • any other challenging assignment

Style: Conceptual, Geometric

Medium: vectors filled in with scanned hand-made patterns to make them look more like a paper collage than a digital artwork.

Now, after few days of spring cleaning at home and in my head, all I can do is take a deep breath and make a deep dive hoping to catch a new wave of a new height. In other words I'm just going to put my head down and work work work.

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