Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Washington Post Interview: 'Twitter Bird' Artist Simon Oxley

Japan-based illustrator Simon Oxley is not a cartoonist, but rather a brilliant artist with a truly comic sense of humor. He has created thousands of whimsical illustrations, yet most of the world over, there is a particular one that is iconic to millions. (And for which, we must note, he was paid a grand sum of less than seven bucks.) The image? The Twitter bird.

Oxley, who grew up in England, has created countless bright, engaging images for the stock-library company iStockPhoto, using Adobe Illustrator and "vector-based" images. Oxley, who lives with his wife, Noriko, and family in Fukuoka, recently discussed his work in far more than 140 characters: voices.washingtonpost.com/comic

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