CONTACT

jakegiddens [at} gmail [dot] com

ABOUT

My art combines traditional art styles with a fun, playful vibrance. Often drawing inspiration from Japanese woodblock prints, medieval paintings, Persian drawings, comic books, fable storybooks, contemporary children’s textiles and more. 

My work is best suited to briefs that allow me to have fun with the subject matter and color palette. 

I’ve been illustrating professionally since 2014, and I’ve had the privilege to work on everything from editorial illustrations, graphic tees for major companies, album art for recording artists, greeting cards, glassware, comics, and I’ve been in a number of gallery shows. 

BACKGROUND

Education: B.F.A. Ringling College of Art + Design

Partial Client List:

• The Bloodhound Gang

• Briarpatch Magazine

• Carl Abbott Architecture

• Chicago Magazine

• Cognitive Surplus

• Flocabulary

• Funny Bone Animation

• Hollywood Reporter

• LL Bean

• New West Records

• Portland Mercury

• Ringling College Library Association

• Scigentasy

• Spectacle Publishing

• The Team Spirit Store

Featured:

• Bill Gate's Time Poverty Animation by Flocabulary

• Neil Gaiman Tumblr Blog

Awards and Recognitions:

• Adobe Design Achievement Awards – 2013, 2014

• Best of Ringling – 2013, 2014

• Creative Quarterly CQ33 Runner Up – 2013

• Illest of Illustration – 2013

• Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles - 2014

• Tampa Bay Times "Latitudes" Competition – 2012

Solo Exhibitions:

• Mythos, 77 Salon, Portland, OR - 2017-2018

Group Exhibitions:

• Camouflage, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, MN - 2017

• Bower Bird, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, MN - 2015

• Skate Or Die, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, MN - 2014

• Sprung, SoHo Arthouse, New York, NY - 2014

Publications:

• An Artist’s Notebook - 2019

• The Traveling Sock - 2015

• Paint & Pixels - 2014