Texas Monthly, Entertainment Weekly, Billboard, GQ, Fortune, The Progressive, V-Life, Runners World, Random House, MacMillan, Universal Music, Wired, The Marketing Arm, Momentum Worldwide, Official Playstation Magazine, Computer Gaming Magazine, Field and Stream, Plan Sponsor, Global Custodian, Continental Airlines, Lipton, CNET, Macromedia, Leo Burnett, Abelson-Taylor, DDB Worldwide, Business Life, Santa Fe Reporter, City Pages, GuidepostTeens, The Santa Barbara Independent, Intelligent Enterprise, The Human Rights Campaign, State of New Mexico, Mazda USA, Florida Trend, CSO Magazine, Narnia Productions, Perfect Data, Juxt Interactive, BrainTrust Media, Discovery Science Center, Ability Magazine, Dayle McIntosh Center, Pacific Craft Show
Online:
Little Chimp Society
Design Taxi
Underspray
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Magazines:
Territory (Vol. 8)
Advanced Photoshop Magazine
Advanced Photoshop (Turkish version)
3x3 Magazine
Mac User
Computer Arts
Bant #35 (Turkish art magazine)
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Cover artist for the Graphic Artists' Guild's Directory of Illustration #23, Communication Arts Illustration Annuals 2003 and 2006, Applied Arts Photography and Illustration Annual 2004, 3x3 Illustration Annual 2006
After studying design at the University of California at Los Angeles, and an eight year career as a freelance graphic designer, Olson has returned to his first love. With only four years under his belt as a professional artist his work has been accepted into the Communication Arts Illustration Annual twice (America's largest illustration competition), Canada's Applied Arts Photography and Illustration Annual, and 3x3's illustration annual. He has also been featured as a spotlight artist in MacUser, Computer Arts, and Taxi Design. In 2006 he was chosen as the cover artist for The Graphic Artists' Guild's Directory of Illustration #23.
Alongside Olson's intricate style of illustration he has also developed a mixed media technique for his personal and experimental work, which he is now showing in galleries. Combining elaborately designed digital artwork, giclée printing, and acrylic paint he creates otherworldly entities and structures that beg for exploration.
Education:
University of California at Los Angeles, BA in Design, 1989 - 1994 |
