Last month, David Foldvari was included in a round-up of Advertising Age’s 10 best magazine covers of 2011. Created for Bloomberg Businessweek, David’s dark portrait of Muammar Gaddafi ranks alongside nine other iconic covers selected from the magazine of 2011. Above, we show the portrait before the magazine title was applied. To see the final product, click here.

19 January, 2012 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, David Foldvari, Illustration | | Permalink

Last night David Foldvari’s first solo exhibition opened at London’s The Outsider’s. The exhibition, called Trouble, features both large and small-scale drawings. The focus of this exhibition is on David’s interest in the self-conscious within the social context and the result is a continuation of his eyeless men placed in classical portraiture poses.

The exhibition runs until 30th July.

08 July, 2011 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, David Foldvari, Illustration | | Permalink

David Foldvari is now showing several new drawings at the launch of The Outsiders Gallery, 8 Greek Street, Soho, London, W1.

06 July, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, David Foldvari, Illustration | | Permalink

These books are not easy reading and need some investigation to get beneath the surface. For ‘Invitation To A Beheading’ the idea for the illustration is centered around the ‘violin in a void’ statement, which appears quite early in the text, combined with the prison / isolation theme that runs throughout the book. The violin is representative of the main character, who is, in a sense, imprisoned by his own past.

The illustration for ‘The Eye’ is fairly self explanatory – it is about lost identity, and the events that lead to it.

These two new Penguin editions, illustrated by David Foldvari and designed by Pentagram, are now available from all good bookshops.

28 June, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, David Foldvari, Illustration | | Permalink

Over the past few months David Foldvari has been doing a regular piece for Italian GQ Magazine. The result is a set of beautifully drawn portraits cementing his reputation as one of the foremost draftsmen in the business. Here is a selection of the best.

02 March, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, David Foldvari, Illustration | - Tags: David Foldvari GQ Magazine Italy | Permalink

Here are couple of new illustrations by David Foldvari, this time for The Observer in the UK.

10 July, 2009 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, David Foldvari, Illustration | - Tags: David Foldvari The Observer | Permalink

David Foldvari recently collaborated with T-Post, probably the only subscription based, current affairs T-shirt brand operating out of Sweden - check out his “Death Penalty Economy Measure” design…

01 May, 2009 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, David Foldvari, Illustration | - Tags: David Foldvari, Illustration | Permalink

If video games are going to ever be as popular as TV they’re going to need to exploit our humblest fantasies suggests Charlie Brooker…

15 March, 2009 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, David Foldvari, Illustration | - Tags: David Foldvari, Illustration | Permalink

Read this week’s Charlie Brooker. Apparently 95% of us have lied about reading the great works of literature to make ourselves appear more sexy. Charlie says we needn’t have bothered….

09 March, 2009 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, David Foldvari, Illustration | - Tags: David Foldvari, Illustration | Permalink

David Foldvari offers some carefully chosen words of insight in his personal blog. If you’re studying illustration or hope to take up working professionally – TAKE HEED – stop staring blindly at what everyone else is currently creating and start absorbing the world around you for inspiration. As David points out in his piece “…your tutors have a responsibility to educate you properly, and if they’re making you reference nothing but contemporary illustration, they are failing massively. It’s your degree, you should demand more…” Smooth words David – our sentiments exactly.

05 March, 2009 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, David Foldvari, Illustration | - Tags: David Foldvari, Illustration | Permalink