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"Gary Taxali visually blends now with then. His style, inspired by vintage comics and advertising art, is repurposed with the goal of communicating the ironies and comical essence of popular culture. His work is at once alluring and endearing. Despite the vintage look, he is neither maudlin nor nostalgic. His imagery is rich in satiric verve."
- Steven Heller
BIOGRAPHY
Gary Taxali is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in many major magazines. He has exhibited in many galleries and museums throughout North America and Europe including The Jonathan LeVine Gallery. In 2005, he launched his first vinyl toy, The Toy Monkey, which included a special edition along with a silkscreen print commissioned by The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. This led Gary to create his own toy company, Chump Toys, which recently saw the release of his OH NO and OH OH vinyl figures. Aside from his gallery shows and illustration work, Gary also devotes a portion of his time teaching and lecturing at various arts organizations and schools such as OCAD University (Toronto, Canada), The Art Director's Club of Houston (Houston, USA), Dankmarks Designskole (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Istituto Europeo Di Design (Rome, Italy) . He is a Founding Member of IPA (The Illustrators' Partnership of America) and sits on the Advisory Board of 3x3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration. Gary has also juried many student and professional competitions including The Society of Illustrators, The National Magazine Awards, The Dallas Society of Visual Communications and 3x3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration. Gary created the cover art and inside illustrations for Aimee Mann’s latest album @#%&*! Smilers, which won a 2009 Grammy Award Nomination for Best Package Design.He just released his first children's book entitled This Is Silly, published by Scholastic Press. He lives and works in Toronto, Canada. CLIENTS Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Reader's Digest, Business Week, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Converse, Levi's, Sony, McSweeny's, MTV, Coca-Cola
AWARDS
American Illustration, Communication Arts Illustration Annual, Society of Illustrators (Gold Medal), Print, Society of Publication Designers, National Magazine Awards (Gold Medal), Chicago Creative Club, The Advertising and Design Club of Canada, National Gold Addy and Shortlist for a Cannes Lion
Find out more at http://www.garytaxali.com
Made in England, designed around the World, collected everywhere.
We are proud to say that our entire range of Limited Edition art and artwares are all made in England. We produce many of the items in house at our factory in York. With our ceramics being produced in Stoke-on-Trent, our Luggage in the South West and new furniture in the North East. We use the finest components and manufacturers.
We ship Worldwide with FedEx.
We ship all art and artware Internationally using FedEx - this means that your prints, cushions or even an eyemask is fully tracked until it arrives at it's destination. It also means that when it leaves us it just takes a couple of days Worldwide. But please remember we print all our art prints and canvas prints on demand to your specification - that takes around 10-12 working days - but if FedEx ship there so do we!
All your import duties are paid!
Not only do we ship worldwide as inexpensively as we can, but that shipping cost also covers any customs and excise duty. So there are no nasty surprises when your item arrives to you.
Hahnemühle Paper & Canvas used on ALL our Limited Edition Prints.
We are now using Hahnemühle paper and canvas for all our limited edition prints. Widely regarded as the World's best paper we use Photorag 308gsm as standard for all our paper prints and 400gsm Hahnemühle Daguerre Fine Art Canvas for our printed boxed canvas. As a result our Art prints are better than ever - colours are even richer and deeper with even more precision and detail. All our prints are a flat matt finish - looking as close to Original Art as possible. All items are manufactured and lovingly hand finished in the UK.
New limited edition art print sizes.
Due to demand we have increased the size options of our Limited Edition art prints and printed canvases. We have added a huge A0 841mm x 1189mm paper print at £139 and also an A4 Contemporary Framed print - this has an external frame size of 330 x 417mm / 13" x 16.5”.
Numbered Certificates of Authenticity with twinned hologram.
To guarantee that all our limited edition art prints and canvases are part of a 250 edition, we are now shipping each with a Certificate of Authenticity that is not only numbered but also features a hologram that is twinned with a hologram on the back of the print. Each hologram is also numbered and tamperproof.
Read all about it...
We are very happy to have seen ClickforArt products featured in several magazines and newspapers in the last few months. From Elle Decor to the New York Times to Computer Arts Magazine. Thank you to all the publications for highlighting us, our products and artists and continuing to support new art. This month you can read about our art, artists and products in Metro, Stella & LivingEtc. among others.
Coming Soon - Silk Scarves & Clutch Purses
We are extremely excited to release our new ladies silk scarves and ladies leather clutch purses. These limited edition goodies will launch featuring Kozyndan and tokidoki. They are British made to the highest spec with cool packaging and signed prints alongside! Watch this space!
Cup & Saucers - Series 4 coming soon!
Get ready for Series 4 of our Limited Edition Cup & Saucers! We will begin the 4th year of cup and saucers in the next month. These popular editions have included designs from James Jean, Audrey Kawasaki, Frank Kozik, Sylvia Ji and many more - and Series 4 is shaping up to be just as exciting! We begin the series with 'The life and Times of Paul Barrington' (pictured above) by The London Police. Chaz and Bob, who form the London Police, are British street artists that have headed to Amsterdam and created an army of International fans whilst exhibiting all over the world. Other artists featuring in Series 4 will include new artists Kinsey, Heidi Kenney, Amanda Visell and the return of Frank Kozik, Yoskay Yamamoto. Plus a few more surprises to come!
Numbered Certificates of Authenticity with twinned hologram.
To guarantee that all our limited edition art prints and canvases are part of a 250 edition, we are now shipping each with a Certificate of Authenticity that is not only numbered but also features a hologram that is twinned with a hologram on the back of the print. Each hologram is also numbered and tamperproof.
Welcoming new artist... Dr Lukas Brezak.
Senor Smoke is the first piece at ClickforArt.com from Czech artist Dr Lukas Brezak. Available in both print and pillow format we are sure he is going to be a big favourite.
Welcoming new artist... Leah Flores.
We are very pleased to welcome Leah Flores to ClickforArt. Leah is an artist based in Portland, USA. Her simple photographs mixed with typography are truly inspiring. We're big fans!
Bunny Blossom Dinnerware ready to expand.
Our Kozyndan dinnerware featuring their much loved Bunny Blossom print has been extremely popular over the last year. Well we have some good news with additions to the set. We will soon have a Teapot, a pasta 'Oliver' bowl, espresso sets plus some cute little egg cups! Bunnytastic.
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