Paris Match-Au Nature

My latest Illustrations published at Paris Match, discussing the arrangements based on the exchange of carnal favours against the provision of abode.

Au Nature

The future of the printed press

Well, This week Harford touched on the apparent link between the printed press and corruption. As for me, this was an opportunity to express my own view on the very future, of the very tree that grew the branch from which, my profession is still dangling from.

Well, This week Harford touched on the apparent link between the printed press and corruption. As for me, this was an opportunity to express my own view on the very future, of the very tree that grew the branch from which, my profession is still dangling from.

Hippothetica

I simply enjoyed drawing this one. It accompanied an article with a very strong metaphoric edge, criticizing the Israeli inspector of banks.

Vigilance magazine

Recently I have started working with a French magazine, published by EDF, Frances’ largest energy company. As far as an internal magazines are concerned, EDF has on its payroll, no less than 156,000 employees. The themes dealt with in Vigilance, are mostly around the employee’s life. In this issue, I related to an article dealing with the working conditions of EDF’s workers, their work environment, the role of the management and the vicinity of the workplace to one’s home, as part of the employee’s well being. These kind of topic, much as they might come across as dry and informative are in most cases those which provide me with a greater challenge for a creative gymnastic.

Vigilance Cover

Homework

Motivation

Eric Ambler, The Guardian Review’s Cover

In Print, as well as online. here is this week’s Review’s cover with my illustration.

The Guardian's literary review, Eric Ambler

He became intrigued by the shady, unsavoury characters whom he would once have cast as villains Eric Ambler’s exciting, fast-paced spy novels influenced Hitchcock and Graham Greene, and with their leftish take on 1930s European politics rescued the genre from nationalist cliché. Thomas Jones on a consummate thriller writer whose scrutiny of the links between big business and bad governments is all too relevant today.

ELBI

Elbi-walking in the footsteps of giants. The cover illustration

This week saw the publishing of a new edition of a children’s book, written by Yair Lapid and illustrated by yours faithfully with great pleasure.

The book is a mental rollercoaster evolving around an heroic medieval knights story.

The hero; Elbi is a young eligible knight invested entirely in the quest of releasing his beloved Eleni from the hands of the ferocious , vicious queen Concenta Cylmus.

The story is a breathless affair of endless action and mind challenging  events.

It reveals an entirely new dimension of  knight life in medieval times.

It is above all illegally funny and highly recommended.

Here is a link to a review (in Hebrew) of the book in ynet

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3714815,00.html

Getting into trouble

And into some more

Israel 61

 

Israel 61- Cover

A Week  ago, the state of Israel celebrated its 60th birthday.

The particular and complex state of affairs of Israel, invited the idea of writing a speculative Utopian article, trying to portray Israel future.Yair Lapid, wrote, and I have as always, enjoyed  giving my visual commentary to the written words. (Yedioth Aharonot, special supplement for independence day )

Water: Drought and desalination

Law: trials would run around the clock until a verdict is reached

Peace: embracing the foundations of the state

Environment: simply, becoming 'greener'

Israel 61 First and Second spreads

Tel Aviv 100 years young

For the centenary of Tel-Aviv, celebrated these day. Yedioth Acharonot published a special supplement written by ten of its’ leading writers. The them was a portrayal and a personal account of the city.

I was invited to accompany their writings with my illustrations. I had five working days from the day I had received the copy until the deadline…. Must say, but I shouldn’t: I have enjoyed myself immensely.

Here are some of the illustrations from the supplement. most of them occupied a whole broadsheet page.

Rothschild (Boulevard) Tel Aviv

This illustration won me the first place in a competition b Globes, around the theme of the Rothschild boulevard in Tel Aviv. For those of you who are not familiar with this urban phenomena, this boulevard, through the past fifteen years, turned into the most popular artery, meeting place as well as an open air architectural museum for the modern movement in Tel Aviv.

The illustration, depicting the baron Edmond de Rothschild emerging out of a Parisian art nouveau styled metro station, in the middle of the celebrated boulevard bearing his name, seem to have captured peoples mind and imagination.

In the way of thanking all those who supported and voted for my piece, attached a snapshot, taken straight from my mind.

 

Passover in Boston

As always, I am running late behind my very self. Here is an invite for Nextbook’s Boston event from October, last year.

Just found this link to the Nextbook site.

Back from a long fishing trip

The title is sure misleading. It corresponds with the panel usually hanged on the fishmongers’ door when he is off duty,  saying : ‘Gone fishing, back soon‘.

I simply had a period of intense work, around the house, as well as my fair share of illustration. So, as there’s an abundant harvest of illustration from my proverbial fishing trip, I shall allow the images do most of the ‘talking’ with some, exceptionally limited amount text.

My ABC book is being published in Israel this week. It is a formidable source of pride and excitement

Enjoy.

 

And Here comes a series of images, accompanying the obvious topic of the global economical crisis

The billionar’s nightmare

Banking lawyers facing the credit crunch.

Cover illustration for G magazine, dealing with the anxiety of being fired

How to recognize a business in trouble

Harford: The false economy in a time of crisis
Harford: The would-be gambler on their future would-befunds. Pensions and the stock exchange.

Harford: Joseph Stiglitz – one of the Nobel laureates in 2001.

Harford: Africa’s route to prosperity is not just a rocky road

Harford: Hearing voices

Harford: The measurement of courtship

Harford: the pains of car share

Harford: the frustration with the discrepancy between ones ‘ salary, and the one he or she were brought up to believe  would earn

Vigilance Magazine, Paris: the hazards of buying the wrong presents for Christmas.

Lapid: The boredom and the lack of real choice in the coming general elections. the guy at the bottom is Bublil: a notoriously, legendary ’big brother’ character, who with his impoverished, somewhat deprived personality has managed to eclipse the nation’s culture.

Lapid: Rewinding one’s life on the net.

Lapid: The plan to save the Israeli tycoons with public funding in order to prevent the collapse of the local-stock exchange.

Lapid: from the same piece as above.
Lapid: Nature or nurture - NURTURE!

Lapid: the inevitability of the general elections Results in Israel

Lapid: The post of The Israeli PM. Whoever he/she might be

Lapid: from the same piece as above.

Lapid: the threaten charity monies due to the economical crisis.

Lapid: the strategy of the election campaign.

G Magazine: Serious disorders in the authorization of  planning permission to the privileged elite.

A pleasant surprise

Two days ago I received this google alert which directed me to the following quoted text:

Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review

October 22, 2008 by Paul Karlsgodt

Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners:

Class Action Art?

In one of the more original class action-related blog postings ever featured in the CABWR, Artist Izhar Cohen has created a graphic description of an Israeli court’s recent class action ruling in a case filed against a milk container manufacturer in his blog My Window (see CAB entry discussing the decision here):

http://izharcohen.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/297/

A detail La Fontaine missed

in The Cricket and the Ant

Recently, I have started collaborating with Calcalist: an Israeli financial daily. Here’s an illustration I did for them for an article reveling the well hidden fact that 70% of all ants are actually… lazy! Only a small percentage amongst them are working in an organized manner. as to the rest, well, chaos seems to be working very well for them. Makes one wonder.

Yom kipur- the Day of Atonement

One of  Yom Kipur’s more picturesque customs, is the practice called “Kapparot”. The meaning which means: atonement. This  custom involves  a chicken or rooster which is swung over one’s’ head in order to pass on to it the person’s sins. The explanation is in fact much more complicated. Still, I thought of this image as being most appropriate for that day.

Harford: UK new imigration directives

The Migration Advisory Committee presented a list of professions that would qualify migrants for entry, broadly on the grounds of UK skills shortages. They include geologists of all stripes, veterinary surgeons (but not other veterinarians), chefs (but only those paid £8.10 an hour), sheep shearers with a British Wool Marketing Board bronze medal (or equivalent) and ballet dancers (but not choreographers, nor other dancers).

This illustration accompanied the following question addressed to Harford: Dear Economist: Do Olympic judges need a profit motive? Well, I have been economical with my drawing and have quoted the members of the panel above into the Olympic contest. must say, I have enjoyed it.

Shipping costs helping a greener earth

This article was written two weeks ago, since, the world’s economy is in the mayhem it is. At the time, oil prices were so prohibiting that a new phenomena was came about. people tended to minimize their imports and export within a limited territory in order to curb their expenses.

And this one accompanied the ‘Dear economist’ questions and answers bit. This week the question was: How can I make my children behave?
Disciplining children seems simple enough. Reward them when they do well and punish them when they misbehave. They should respond to incentives, right? Am I missing something?

Boston Business Journal Cover

This issue dealt with the diminishing number of philanthropic bodies within the Biston business environment and the way NGOs are dealing with this new development.

Click on the image for a larger view

Bibliki- Autumn

His writing is most inspiring, very colorful and deep. This week Bibliki dealt with the season.

for all hebrew readers amongst you, click here to be redirected to his piece:

Class Action

The courts in Israel have recently ruled in favor of a class action initiated by customers who fell victim to a scam by Israel’s largest dairy firm. In the past I dealt with the topic of Class Action, so this time again, I had to find a new visual metaphor to relate and communicate the particular qualities of this procedure.

Cover for Calcalist

It is the Jewish new year. So first of all: Shana Tova to you ALL!

These days, Jews are invited to celebrate all new beginnings. It is also a time for reflection and of a retrospective regard upon the time that has elapsed.

This issue of Calcalis is dedicated for people in the middle of their life.

The most Vibrant, up – to – date, inteligent, and useful site for Hebrew speakers about Paris

A good friend, Kinneret Rosenbloom,  who happens to be extremely talented in whatever it is she is engaged in, Brought to the world a brilliant site which is all about Paris:

parisait.com

Her writing is fluent and accessible, full of charm and wit. If you happen to live here (Paris) or if you intend to drop by, Pay a visit to her site, It will be worth it. Guaranteed.