Jess Rotter is an illustrator who lives in Brooklyn. Not only does she run a successful t-shirt line, producing shirts with her own illustrations based on vintage record covers, but she is also the head of publicity at the music label Mexican Summer. Through her job, she travels to shows and music festivals around the [...]
Category Archives: Illustration
Rotter & Friends x Dossier
October 16, 2011 – 10:03 am
Dossier‘s most recent issue features T. Cole Rachel in conversation with the legendary Stevie Nicks. In the interview, among other things, Stevie talks about the long-running NYC event Night of a 1000 Stevies, a costume ball full of ethereal Stevie Nicks gypsies. To accompany the feature, Brooklyn-based illustrator Jess Rotter has collaborated with Dossier through [...]
If I Ran The Zoo
August 27, 2011 – 4:14 pm
How would you draw something you’ve never seen before? The Unseen Bestiary is an online, collaborative project created by Lindsey Carr in which she solicits descriptions of creatures, insects, and plants from participants and creates a series of etchings and paintings based solely off of the explanations. Carr explains on her website, “Bestiaries (a compendium of [...]
Sweet As Sugar
August 15, 2011 – 3:54 pm
The University of California, Berkeley’s School of Journalism is currently working on a project to redesign the nutrition facts food label affixed to prepackaged foods across the country. The competition is informal, but the visual concepts presented may make their way into the US Food and Drug Administration’s current revamping of the label and its [...]
Big Bang Big Boom
July 13, 2010 – 3:15 pm
After his very impressive stop-motion film “Muto“ and after releasing several teasers over the last weeks and months, everybody’s favorite Italian Blu is back with his new film “Big Bang Big Boom.” This time he takes on the theory of evolution and shows you where life might have come from, what steps it has gone [...]
Into the Void
February 12, 2010 – 2:59 pm
Entry by Saunders Architecture Contemplating the Void, Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, opening today at Frank Lloyd Wright’s swirly conch shell up town is an absolutely delightful thought experiment. Simply put, what would you do to the great cavity within the museum if money were no object? The answers to that question, submitted by some [...]
We Manifest
February 5, 2010 – 2:37 pm
Detail of a collage by participating artist Derek Gores Operating on a template similar to their wildly successful grass roots get-out-the-vote campaign during the run up to the ’08 election, ManifestEquality is a progressive public art project aimed at raising awareness about the discrepancy in social rights for the LGBT community in America. A call [...]
Failedrockstar now online
August 15, 2009 – 5:35 am
Richard and Robert Phoenix and Andreas Laszlo Konrath, whose portrait of Edmund White will be in Dossier #4, have just launched an online version of their zine failedrockstar. Like the zine, their website features interviews with a wide-range of visual artists, including Mr. Bingo, Richard Ardagh, and Freya Douglas-Morris.
X: The Multiples Exhibition at Glowlab
July 30, 2009 – 5:50 am
Tonight Soho’s Glowlab is holding the opening reception for its latest production, X: The Multiples Exhibition, from 7-9. The group show will function as a tapestry, threading together the work of thirteen artists by concept and medium (including photography, screenprinting, sculpture, performance, and publication). As its title suggests, the exhibition examines the intersection of thirteen separate [...]
