did you know that "rico"
—HOWDY, DID YOU KNOW THAT "RICO" STANDS FOR
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WEALTHY, 02
TASTY, 03
FEELING GOOD, 04
AND RICH. 05
WELL, RICO IS ALL THOSE GOOD THINGS AND NOW WE ARE HAPPY TO SHARE WITH YOU WHAT RICO MEANS TO US
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We are an illustration agency serving clients in Mexico, Spain, France, England, and the U.S. Our team is passionate about illustration and we are willing to find the perfect match between our artists and your products, prints, animations, web, or social media projects. We are privileged to represent some of the best Illustrators in the industry today. In order to guarantee an exceptional service, we are located in Houston (TX) and Mexico City. Our Illustration agency prides itself on evolving everyday to meet the requirements of the communication industry and to understand any business demand. We are very excited to hear from you! Now, we proudly introduce you to our admired and talented friends.
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Mr. Kone
Styles: Animation & Motion Graphics, Character Design & Licensing, Hand Lettering & Typography, Vector & Graphic Art. Techniques: Ink, pencil, silkscreen, and digital. ricoillustration.com/mr-kone mrkone.com
Mr. Kone is part of Design and Visual Experimentation Studio, founded in Mexico City in 2002. His work is a mix of innovative ideas and pop influences. Mr. Kone is the alias of mexican graphic designer César E. Bautista, Art Director and CEO of this successful and international renowned design studio. Mr. Kone enjoys to create funny and clever characters to help engage and communicate any kind of project.
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Mr. Kone believes in dreams and he works daily to make them come true. His studio has worked for brands like MTV, Nickelodeon, Nike, Adidas, CocaCola, Pepsi, Lipton Europe, Brisk, Mini Cooper, and local brands.
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"I am devoted to my children, my family, and my neighborhood. They are my first and most valuable source of inspiration. I also get brilliant ideas from old cartoons, japanese anime and contemporary graphic novel as well. Everything is inspiration: anything that comes to your way and your senses are able to perceive." 10
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Luis San Vicente Styles: Children's Illustration, Teen & Young Adult, Animation & Motion Graphics. Techniques: Ink, acrylic, and digital. ricoillustration.com/luis-san-vicente luissanvicente.blogspot.mx
Luis San Vicente is an acclaimed illustrator and graphic designer. He has published several prized children’s books and produced a series of animated shorts for TV. He has won UNESCO’s prestigious NOMA Encouragement Concours Prize for Illustration. His work has been exhibited in recognized forums: Tokyo Art Forum (Japan, 1999), Bratislava Illustration Biennale (Slovakia 1999), Queretaro Municipal Museum (Mexico, 2007), and Club Jeunesse Book Fair (France, 2009), among others.
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Suplemento Cultural de Reforma • Domingo 16 de Enero del 2011 • Nº 864
> Escalera al cielo
Guadalupe loaeza ‘invita’ al cine 4
Ideas
Domínguez y la poesía en tiempos de la Red 3
Nowadays, he coordinates the Photo-Art Department for the prestigious newspaper Reforma in Mexico City.
Luis San Vicente
Serie
Sergio González Rodríguez analiza el fenómeno de Wikipedia, que llega a su primera década con más de 400 millones de lectores 2
dEn este año que comienza, la agenda editorial y cinematográfica está marcada por reediciones, homenajes, rescates y remakes
novedades de Musil, Petrovic y Vonnegut. Su editor, Diego Rabasa, adelanta la llegada de un volumen hasta ahora inédito en español: Sobre las teorías de Mach, de Mu-
una de las novedades más esperadas, los dos primeros volúmenes de la trilogía 1Q84, de Murakami, quien con el título alude al 1984 de George Orwell. En japonés, la letra q y el número 9
libros con mayor tiraje del año. El brasileño presenta El aleph, mientras que la chilena una novela que aún no tiene título. Entre las novedades narrativas más importantes para es-
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"The illustration universe is a place where people materialize what they think. Illustrators are in charge of creating images that someone else will understand. We belong to the Magicians kind, because we wisely transform the shape, light and color of the world, and I truly believe it is a gift"
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Estudio Zoveck Styles: Animation & Motion Graphics, Collage & Mixed Media, Murals & Street Art, Visual Communication. Techniques: Collage, block printing, silkscreen, and digital. ricoillustration.com/estudio-zoveck zoveck.com
Zoveck is an illustration and design studio integrated by Sonia Romero and Julio “Valiente” Carrasco. This magical partnership is responsible for the creation of a new baroque visual style that has been commissioned for editorial, corporate communication, web, and illustration projects in Mexico, US, France, and Spain. Their work has been recognized by HOW Magazine, IDN, and Taschen’s Latin American Graphic Design, among others.
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Sonia and Julio like to develop workshops to share their fascination for image creation process and the unpredictable taste of mexican pop culture.
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"What has mostly inspired us —and we think it has much influence in our creative process— is surrealism. The stories we create come from our inner world, a dream world. And we have discovered that collage is the natural way to access this world. When you enter this magical realm, you don't know what's going to be like, what ideas are you going to find. You just need to be ready to collect all kinds of treasures." 18
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Luis Pombo
Styles: Animation & Motion Graphics, Collage & Mixed Media, Politics & Current Affairs. Techniques: Pencil, crayon, tracing paper, ink, acrylic, and digital color. ricoillustration.com/luis-pombo luispombo.com
Long time recognized illustrator, specialist in Politics, Current Affairs, and Literary publications. Luis has a Masters degree in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in Mexico City. He graduated with honors. He lives in Houston TX, and he loves all kinds of side businesses.
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Since 1998, he has explored various styles and techniques. He's always pursuing the perfect balance between concept and image.
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"I believe in Appropriation as a legitimate way to achieve any visual communication endeavor. Today's culture is a messy map full of subtexts and pop references. It would be a shame to waste all these data and visual information. Besides, I was never good at drawing"
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RICO ILLUSTRATION AGENCY • Houston, TX • Mexico City www.ricoillustration.com Contact information: t. (+1) 832-321-3996 e. [email protected]
01
WEALTHY, 02
TASTY, 03
FEELING GOOD, 04
AND RICH. 05
WELL, RICO IS ALL THOSE GOOD THINGS AND NOW WE ARE HAPPY TO SHARE WITH YOU WHAT RICO MEANS TO US
06
We are an illustration agency serving clients in Mexico, Spain, France, England, and the U.S. Our team is passionate about illustration and we are willing to find the perfect match between our artists and your products, prints, animations, web, or social media projects. We are privileged to represent some of the best Illustrators in the industry today. In order to guarantee an exceptional service, we are located in Houston (TX) and Mexico City. Our Illustration agency prides itself on evolving everyday to meet the requirements of the communication industry and to understand any business demand. We are very excited to hear from you! Now, we proudly introduce you to our admired and talented friends.
07
Mr. Kone
Styles: Animation & Motion Graphics, Character Design & Licensing, Hand Lettering & Typography, Vector & Graphic Art. Techniques: Ink, pencil, silkscreen, and digital. ricoillustration.com/mr-kone mrkone.com
Mr. Kone is part of Design and Visual Experimentation Studio, founded in Mexico City in 2002. His work is a mix of innovative ideas and pop influences. Mr. Kone is the alias of mexican graphic designer César E. Bautista, Art Director and CEO of this successful and international renowned design studio. Mr. Kone enjoys to create funny and clever characters to help engage and communicate any kind of project.
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Mr. Kone believes in dreams and he works daily to make them come true. His studio has worked for brands like MTV, Nickelodeon, Nike, Adidas, CocaCola, Pepsi, Lipton Europe, Brisk, Mini Cooper, and local brands.
09
"I am devoted to my children, my family, and my neighborhood. They are my first and most valuable source of inspiration. I also get brilliant ideas from old cartoons, japanese anime and contemporary graphic novel as well. Everything is inspiration: anything that comes to your way and your senses are able to perceive." 10
11
Luis San Vicente Styles: Children's Illustration, Teen & Young Adult, Animation & Motion Graphics. Techniques: Ink, acrylic, and digital. ricoillustration.com/luis-san-vicente luissanvicente.blogspot.mx
Luis San Vicente is an acclaimed illustrator and graphic designer. He has published several prized children’s books and produced a series of animated shorts for TV. He has won UNESCO’s prestigious NOMA Encouragement Concours Prize for Illustration. His work has been exhibited in recognized forums: Tokyo Art Forum (Japan, 1999), Bratislava Illustration Biennale (Slovakia 1999), Queretaro Municipal Museum (Mexico, 2007), and Club Jeunesse Book Fair (France, 2009), among others.
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Suplemento Cultural de Reforma • Domingo 16 de Enero del 2011 • Nº 864
> Escalera al cielo
Guadalupe loaeza ‘invita’ al cine 4
Ideas
Domínguez y la poesía en tiempos de la Red 3
Nowadays, he coordinates the Photo-Art Department for the prestigious newspaper Reforma in Mexico City.
Luis San Vicente
Serie
Sergio González Rodríguez analiza el fenómeno de Wikipedia, que llega a su primera década con más de 400 millones de lectores 2
dEn este año que comienza, la agenda editorial y cinematográfica está marcada por reediciones, homenajes, rescates y remakes
novedades de Musil, Petrovic y Vonnegut. Su editor, Diego Rabasa, adelanta la llegada de un volumen hasta ahora inédito en español: Sobre las teorías de Mach, de Mu-
una de las novedades más esperadas, los dos primeros volúmenes de la trilogía 1Q84, de Murakami, quien con el título alude al 1984 de George Orwell. En japonés, la letra q y el número 9
libros con mayor tiraje del año. El brasileño presenta El aleph, mientras que la chilena una novela que aún no tiene título. Entre las novedades narrativas más importantes para es-
13
"The illustration universe is a place where people materialize what they think. Illustrators are in charge of creating images that someone else will understand. We belong to the Magicians kind, because we wisely transform the shape, light and color of the world, and I truly believe it is a gift"
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Estudio Zoveck Styles: Animation & Motion Graphics, Collage & Mixed Media, Murals & Street Art, Visual Communication. Techniques: Collage, block printing, silkscreen, and digital. ricoillustration.com/estudio-zoveck zoveck.com
Zoveck is an illustration and design studio integrated by Sonia Romero and Julio “Valiente” Carrasco. This magical partnership is responsible for the creation of a new baroque visual style that has been commissioned for editorial, corporate communication, web, and illustration projects in Mexico, US, France, and Spain. Their work has been recognized by HOW Magazine, IDN, and Taschen’s Latin American Graphic Design, among others.
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Sonia and Julio like to develop workshops to share their fascination for image creation process and the unpredictable taste of mexican pop culture.
17
"What has mostly inspired us —and we think it has much influence in our creative process— is surrealism. The stories we create come from our inner world, a dream world. And we have discovered that collage is the natural way to access this world. When you enter this magical realm, you don't know what's going to be like, what ideas are you going to find. You just need to be ready to collect all kinds of treasures." 18
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Luis Pombo
Styles: Animation & Motion Graphics, Collage & Mixed Media, Politics & Current Affairs. Techniques: Pencil, crayon, tracing paper, ink, acrylic, and digital color. ricoillustration.com/luis-pombo luispombo.com
Long time recognized illustrator, specialist in Politics, Current Affairs, and Literary publications. Luis has a Masters degree in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in Mexico City. He graduated with honors. He lives in Houston TX, and he loves all kinds of side businesses.
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Since 1998, he has explored various styles and techniques. He's always pursuing the perfect balance between concept and image.
21
"I believe in Appropriation as a legitimate way to achieve any visual communication endeavor. Today's culture is a messy map full of subtexts and pop references. It would be a shame to waste all these data and visual information. Besides, I was never good at drawing"
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RICO ILLUSTRATION AGENCY • Houston, TX • Mexico City www.ricoillustration.com Contact information: t. (+1) 832-321-3996 e. [email protected]
