I signed a contract with San Min Book Co. to have my comic titled, ‘Generation Gap’ publish in a Taiwan textbook called ‘Consumers’ Behavior’. This is the second time this image has been published in a textbook, the last time in France. Apparently this illustration translates across all cultures. Funny thing is I didn’t approach any publishers. They both found the image posted on the web and contacted me about purchasing the rights.

Took this shot at Long Lake Park on Sunday after the first snow fall of the seaon. 

Here’s a recent illustration I did that will be used to help a campaign to get college faculty to throw out their old student records.

A very fitting Illustration Friday topic this week. Goes nicely with the image I was already going to post today. I got a 2 for 1 out of it. Today is the 2 year anniversary of Lollygaggin and that’s certainly reason to celebrate. Or at least good excuse to whip up this illustration.

This is something I whipped up for a poster design. It’s for a Boston College ATIG recognition luncheon and workshop. The organization encourages faculty to incorporate cutting edge technologies in their teaching.

Happy Holidays to you and yerz! This is the design I whipped up for my family’s xmas card. I was very late with it this year. The cards still need to be filled out and mailed, yikes. I got caught up in other things and was slow to get the design done then we were hit hard by the ice storm that swept through New England last week, which has put projects like this on the back burner.

My friends and I were having a little discussion about how we used to send funny homemade postcard to each other when we first went away to college. By the time we graduated email was getting huge and my use of postage stamps really tailed off. At this point it’s extremely rare that I mail anything with the exception of Netflix DVDs. Off that discussion my friend Lea decided to kick off a postcard chain. You know like a chain letter, only friendly. She sent one to me (the turkey collage seen below) and I in turn created one and sent it off to my other childhood friend Alex. The lawn darts are a reference to a song our band played back in middle school.

It was fun to send out some real mail an a great excuse for me to play around with watercolor.

Happy Halloween. Sorry to of been absent here lately. I’ll be posting soon with more illustrations. Till then enjoy these shots I took of our jack-o-lanterns. Thought I’d mess around with some handheld, long exposure shots.

This is a snapshot I took Friday morning of the road across the street from my house. I was about to hop in my car and head out for work when I saw the sun starting to break thru the haze; So I grabbed the camera and fired off this shot. ]]> http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/07/27/photo-op/feed/ 2 http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/07/26/illustration-friday-canned/ http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/07/26/illustration-friday-canned/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:54:30 +0000 bill http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/?p=238

I dusted off an old illustration which seemed fitting for this week’s IF topic.

These rough sketches are ideas I was sketching out for a university student computer services t-shirt design. The project was tabled before I got too far with it. But I thought I’d share these drawings anyway. I’m certainly due for a post here.

Also Drinking and Drawing – Boston II is coming up this Wednesday, June 18th. If you’re in the Boston area I suggest you check it out. I’ll have a full update here afterwards.

Here’s an illustration I created for part of a campaign letting college faculty know about the eSylabus web repository coming out this Fall.

Much like the one posted below, here’s the illustration I did for the Saint Patrick’s Day email going out to BC faculty.  

Here’s an illustration I whipped up this week for use in an html email going out to BC faculty reminding them about the CMS change next semester. There will be more of these holiday themed comics.  Next up; one for St. Patrick’s Day.