KAREN JUSTL

2012-01-27T07:35:00.000-08:00

2012-01-12T19:36:00.001-08:00

subTerrain Magazine, strong words for a polite nation. I illustrated & designed the layout for 'Chance', issue #58. Bellow are some of the editorial illustrations and the cover/back of the magazine and 'Chance' folio insert!

2012-01-05T10:23:00.000-08:00

Photoshop/Illustrator
Class 1 of 2012
Tuesday, January 10th, 1pm, Digital Lab
Celebrity Brushes Tutorial

sign up for DIGITAL LAB CLASSES at TSA!
THE PARTY IS OVER! It's time to get back to school.
THE DIGITAL LAB @ TSA NEEDS YOU!
Please forward this to potential students!

Toronto School of Art was founded in 1969 as an independent, alternative fine art school – one of the oldest in Canada. Committed to providing a positive environment for artists to acquire a visual arts education, TSA is also an ideal place for curious beginners to discover the rewards of art-making under the encouraging eye of professional artists. Its faculty and programs reflect a balance between traditional skills and their relation to contemporary issues, ideas, and practices.The Digital Lab at TSA delivers classes, workshops and tutorials in Digital Art, Design, Illustration, Blogging, Web Design, Collage, Book and Zine Layout, Portfolio Presentation, Digital Photography, 3D Modeling, Animation, Video Editing AND MORE! The TSA Digital Lab boasts small classes and one-one-one instruction. PLUS opportunities to participate/show in group exhibitions, open houses and fundraising events! GET INVOLVED!

For more info:
TSA
www.tsa-art.ca

DIGITAL CLASSES
FACEBOOK GROUP

design: K. Justl

2012-01-02T22:21:00.001-08:00

Pete Criss published at The Little Chimp Society
AND at CARGO COLLECTIVE

Meet Pete Criss
Born to a poor family in the Himalayas with connections to Toronto's vibrant Tibetan community in Parkdale. Made his fortune early. He was sold into slavery by his parents to Royale Tissues as a Soft Touch Kitten in 1970 for a campaign created by a Toronto ad agency (now Saatchi & Saatchi). Booze, drugs and kitty nip were the obvious temptations, but he kept his eye on the mouse...and pursued an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and Phd in law from Harvard University. Now a successful animal rights activist.

2011-12-03T13:41:00.000-08:00

NEW WORK
DICKIE BURTON'S HENHOUSE DIARIES
&
DOLCE VITA DAYS w/RONA AND SPENCER IN NEW ORLEANS

2011-12-03T08:33:00.000-08:00

Three new characters:
Gargantua, Now.
Pete Criss.
Gumby, Now. & Gumby, Screen-Test.

2011-11-30T08:38:00.000-08:00

2011-11-28T17:26:00.000-08:00

The Toronto School of Art
The Toronto School of Art (TSA) is Toronto's longest running independent art school and contributor to Toronto's cultural and artistic fabric. TSA guides artists through all phases of their artistic development and is open to anyone interested in hands-on studio courses, our programs and drop-in life drawing & painting without instruction. One of Toronto's Hidden Gems for over 41 years, TSA has been providing a solid visual arts program combined with advanced levels of artistic training all led by professional artists. TSA offers students a unique opportunity for hands-on studio learning and exposure to emerging artistic trends by exploring galleries, artist run centres and cultural centres. Courses are offered throughout the year. Approximately 1200 students attend TSA each year. Expert instruction is provided by 50 faculty members who are professional artists with local and international reputations. Our student base includes individuals from 14 to 80+ years and is representative of diverse cultures and persons with disabilities. Our space is wheelchair accessible. TSA was Approved as a vocational program under the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005

TSA save the date!

design: K. Justl

2011-11-19T06:44:00.000-08:00

NEW WORK

2011-11-04T07:58:00.000-07:00

My new illo called Charlie's Pipe Dream can be seen at Illustration Friday
My lovely Hoot Owl was published at The Little Chimp Society

2011-10-14T16:19:00.000-07:00

Job Complete....Upside Consulting Group Inc.
I am the logo designer, website designer & illustrator and Business Card Designer. Check out the site here.

2011-08-17T10:32:00.000-07:00

PROMOTIONAL CARDS | POSTERS | WEBSITE for the TORONTO SCHOOL OF ART HIDDEN GEMS FUNDRAISER

2011-08-08T18:41:00.000-07:00

Virtual Tear Sheets from my portfolio....
recent logos/business cards I designed for a consulting firm, two filmmakers, one food stylist and an animation festival in Calgary.
Here is the list of clients' URLs:

http://upsideconsulting.com
http://ryecinema.com/
http://www.dirtcityfilms.com/
http://abeworno.com/

2011-07-07T14:07:00.000-07:00

Illustrator Class Assignment for my students at OCAD University and the Toronto School of Art

an Urban Poster tutorial for a week-long intensive class at the Toronto School of Art.

2011-07-04T06:54:00.000-07:00

singles for the summer....a project for LabSpace Studio, 2011.
Lalo Schifrin, Barry Adamson, Astor Piazolla, Harry Nillson, Nina Simone, Sun Ra, Paco De Lucia, Ennio Morricone/Edda Dell'Orso

2011-06-30T09:15:00.000-07:00

This is a Teaser for the Toronto School of Art's Fundraiser. I am working on a circus-theme print and interactive media package for them.

2011-06-30T09:08:00.000-07:00

BEFORE= inspiration | AFTER= finished product.
a T-SHIRTdesigned for Marah’s 2011 Tour through Spain
The band’s two brothers, Serge and Dave Bielanko, have reunited for this tour! They wanted a T-Shirt deisgn based on a comic book popular in Spain.
Here is a link to the band's website:
MARAH

(above) original comic

(below) new Marah t-shirt for tour in Spain

2011-06-24T11:07:00.000-07:00

Chianti Carnivore, project for LabSpace Studio, 2011

2011-06-23T12:05:00.000-07:00

new business cards. laser-cut pine. gorgeous & photogenic.

2011-06-13T09:18:00.000-07:00

Johnathan Gets Ready For His Party
a combination of watercolour and digital ink illo for you!

2011-06-12T10:36:00.000-07:00

(re) collection project: challenge #3-reveal something hidden
click link
Western Esotericism & the Signs of the Beasts
inspiration click link

2011-06-10T09:27:00.001-07:00

(re) collection project: challenge #2-make something old new.
click link
this morning: created recipe & baked quick bread | created illustration and layout of recipe card

2011-06-09T07:45:00.000-07:00

2011-05-27T11:26:00.000-07:00

subTerrain magazine is out today! Check for it in Chapters and other fine magazine stores across Canada. Distribution by Magazines Canada (Toronto).

It looks AMAZING!!!

about subTerrain
subTerrain magazine is published 3 times a year from modest offices
just off of Main Street in Vancouver, BC.

"We strive to produce a stimulating fusion of fiction, poetry, photography and graphic illustration from uprising Canadian, U.S. & International writers and artists.
If you crave provocative art & writing in your life, then get yourself a subscription to this sometimes subconscious, often in-subordinate, but never submissive literary magazine."

2011-05-21T16:04:00.000-07:00

I scanned a selection of rice paper from The Japanese Paper Place and turned it into a family affair!

2011-05-19T08:17:00.000-07:00

a HOW TO make that... poster series for Illustrator CS5 Classes at TSA & OCAD U. The Posters operate as notes.
Tutorials are presented in the classroom.

2011-05-18T18:37:00.000-07:00

Forgiveness
Sweeping Criticism or Judgment Under the Rug in respect of forgiveness.... to Divert a Breakdown of One's Intimate Relationships.

Whew!

sticking one's neck out

draft #5 & #3, for Herizons magazine (out in mid July 2011)....

2011-05-17T18:03:00.001-07:00

2011-05-17T06:35:00.000-07:00

spreads from the bird (cage)
a self published book
written by Sandy Groebner
illustrated by Karen Justl
buy the book!
printed on white linen

2011-05-15T09:51:00.000-07:00

new illo depicting the chances taken when one ignores nature...the deer symbolizes 'longevity'....the road is long....the sand in the hour-glass is surreal....

2011-05-15T09:21:00.000-07:00

new laser-cut business cards
limited edition of forty

2011-05-05T08:38:00.000-07:00

Please watch your local indie bookstore and giant chain for issue #58 of subTerrain Magazine. I was asked to create cover to cover illustrations and layout for their Chance folio!

2011-02-17T13:49:00.000-08:00

Concept Sketches & One Draft for Herizons magazine.
Forgiveness 1st draft! Not accepted. The article speaks to the price we pay when we forgive and forget...(maybe vengeance is a more productive scheme!)
Rip off those 'happy' masks & take aim!

2011-01-24T15:19:00.001-08:00

coming in May!....illustrations in subTerrain issue #58
this issue is packed full of thrilling literary and illustrative genius!

2011-01-24T14:56:00.000-08:00

Why not take a class at The Toronto School of Art or OCAD U? I teach illustration and layout techniques with Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.

Classes for the TSA summer include Digital Images for Painters (awesome class for expert painters/novice digitals), Digital Portfolio Design (print & web), Urban Poster Design, Beginner Blogging, Adobe Creative Suite, and Independent Tutoring & Zine Design.
Classes for the OCAD u summer include Intermediate Photoshop and Illustrator.
Check out the web links below.

Toronto School of Art
OCAD University

2011-01-06T16:00:00.000-08:00

A Recent Interview

What are your best methods for attracting customers to an online ad/banner/website?

K.Justl: To attract customers to an online ad/banner/website I would resort to their basest primitive impulses. This type of advertising relies on clean clear content to support the viewers' belief system mixed with a tiny charge of mystery to engage their interest. This will promote the viewer to engage with the ad/banner/website.

Where do you go for design inspiration?

K.Justl: Design inspiration for me is a blend of current design and 'the street'. I will voraciously scan the internet, OCAD U library and bookstore magazine rack for new design techniques in on-line content, new media, historical content, new published design.....but the best inspiration is to get out and walk around and see what people see in the street, in the papers and magazines left in the coffee shops. Design is everywhere. What are people seeing and ignoring? What typography is being used in the hip-hop party invitations at the local shoe store? What is happening with the colours people are wearing? What are they reading on the subway? What is going on out there?

Explain how you would start a new project?

K.Justl: I start any new project by asking questions about the identity/nature of the client and customer relationship. Who is my client? Who do they think they are? Do they have a mission statement? Do they have a target market? Who am I trying to engage, enlighten, attract?

What do you feel are the most important skills for a designer to have and develop?

K.Justl: Technical skills are extremely important. In order to be a 'designer' one must keep up with the current versions of industry standard software. Communication skills, however, may be the most valid. In order to fully understand a client's needs, one must be able to understand how people communicate with one another. This changes every time there are new social networks, new transportations for content. How are people communicating the important information about the client I am working for? Is it in print? Or is it on 'twitter'? What is valid for this project/client? What identity will last? Do they care?

If you could be any character in fiction, who would it be?

K.Justl: I would love to live for a year as Dr. Hal Lightman, played by Tim Roth, in Fox Television's Lie to Me.
I am an illustrator researching Paul Ekman's Facial Action Coding System. The fictional avatar of this real person intrigues me. I would love to solve criminal cases based on the accused parties facial expressions! OMG. This is the new Columbo! I want be him.

How would you describe branding to a 6 year old child?

K.Justl: Branding is a simple, unforgettable connection of identity between one thing to another. I would possibly try to describe branding to a six year old child as I was trying to explain the concept of 'mother', 'father', 'sister', 'brother'. That would make 'mother', 'father', 'sister', 'brother' seem shallow. I would counter that description with the mission statement of Walt Disney. Disney's mission statement is "To Make People Happy".

2011-01-04T18:49:00.000-08:00

new illos for Valentine's Day!
Have a happy day.

2010-12-20T11:50:00.000-08:00

owl test animation........Owls lost in the Brocade....click to view animation.

2010-10-28T16:05:00.001-07:00

Illos for Snow Ridinghood....a creepy children's storybook.

2010-08-20T18:43:00.001-07:00

Published in the folio section of Broken Pencil, Toronto quarterly magazine of zine culture and independent arts.

link:
Broken Pencil

2010-06-10T16:23:00.000-07:00

June 10th, 2010 published in The Mark
THE PEOPLE AND IDEAS BEHIND THE HEADLINES

link
THE MARK

2010-05-13T16:26:00.000-07:00

Karen Justl and The Ontario College of Art and Design
present
The Dolls in The Playground

a Masters Thesis Exhibition at Launch Projects Gallery, 404 Adelaide St West
June 10 – 13, 2010,
Opening Reception: June 11th, 7pm to 10pm

Rainer Maria Rilke laments that the one's fusion with the doll is a barren union that promises everything and delivers nothing,“dragged as companions into cots, abducted into the deep furrows of illnesses, appearing in dreams, entangled in the disasters of feverish nights -such is the nature of dolls”.

In my thesis exhibition of The Dolls in The Playground, the psychology of disruptive emotions, contemporary Gothic and, a Freudian uncanny is used to frustrate the man-made figure. Its proponents are a band of outsiders celebrating depression and antagonism. It is a grotesquery that greets one with a disembodied hand, a pail of hot oil suspended over the entranceway, the sound of laughing from behind the wall or under the floorboards, or an unmoving small menacing figure in a labcoat with a hatchet or scalpel.

2010-05-02T08:27:00.001-07:00

2010-04-26T05:04:00.000-07:00

2010-04-20T10:16:00.000-07:00

The fusiform face area (FFA) is a part of the human visual system

which might be specialized for facial recognition, although there is some evidence

that it also processes categorical information about other objects,

particularly familiar ones.

here are some new images of a face and a house (found object)

please click this link for web-site of my process photographs

2010-04-16T16:43:00.000-07:00

The Monstrous One

a collaboration

Alexei Vella | Karen Justl

OCAD Graduate Gallery

2010

to view more images: please click this link

2010-04-11T19:46:00.001-07:00

some past work

click link

2010-04-08T20:05:00.000-07:00

The Five Temperaments

New Work

click link to go to website

2010-04-08T10:28:00.000-07:00

puppet puppeteer

click image to go to animation

2010-03-28T12:54:00.000-07:00

Doll_head | 3d scanned image

the plan for this scan is to create large

facial expressions on molds of this face

constructed in the fabrication lab at OCAD

I am also collaborating with Alexei Vella on a sculpture called, "The Vessel"

our process photos are here: click link

We will replace the papier machier face with a plaster cast of this Doll_head
Here are more process photographs: click link

2010-03-17T13:10:00.000-07:00

New Work
process photographs, click link
1. skinheads and girlgang

New Work
process photographs, click link
2. the dolls in the playground

2010-02-16T21:11:00.001-08:00

2010-02-16T21:03:00.000-08:00

click the text to go to the link

new animation

introducing

the

grouchy puppet

2010-02-13T10:43:00.000-08:00

new animation!

click this link

to see the intro...

2009-12-30T22:21:00.001-08:00

Pilot Illustrated Literary Magazine is a Toronto-based periodical with a mandate to print primarily new storytellers, poets, and artists from Canada and beyond. Pilot has an expressly aesthetic approach. Each story and poem is illustrated by professional artists and illustrators. Each volume includes portfolio pieces from our contributors in beautifully rendered black and white.

Pilot is more than just a publisher. It is Pilot's contention that the work of artists and writers improves when supported by a strong community. We feel that you will enjoy the Pilot Portrait Pages, which replaces the traditional bio section with well-crafted written and pictorial portraits.

2009-12-13T12:59:00.001-08:00

2009-12-09T16:11:00.000-08:00

NEW!
dark gothic fantasy horror dolls and porcelain beings
and their uncanny self-enhancement (braces, unihorn, rhinoplasty)

2009-12-07T18:42:00.000-08:00

handmade dolls

that can't get enough of you

2009-12-02T14:46:00.000-08:00

my thesis project is called:
A Dangerous Stepping Stone to Darker Deeds

these are my research questions

2009-12-02T14:27:00.000-08:00

my colloquia presentation in November 2009

2009-12-02T14:17:00.000-08:00

midterm critique

2009-12-02T11:56:00.000-08:00

I Think She's Dead
a 1:1 test model for my thesis installation at OCAD in the Interdisciplinary Masters of Design.

chalkboard notes

2009-12-02T11:47:00.000-08:00

2009-10-23T10:58:00.000-07:00

Houses of Certainty

2009-10-22T04:55:00.000-07:00

web site for The Remedy
a short b/w film and story
by Malcolm Rogge

link to The Remedy website

2009-10-16T15:57:00.000-07:00

2009-10-08T10:33:00.000-07:00

Karen Justl
Title: I Think She's Dead (Little Criminals and the Theatre of Punishment)
The Music Gallery/ St. George the Martyr Anglican Church, Toronto
Opening November 24th, 2009 from 8 to 10pm
Viewing for the public November 26th to 28th from 12 to 4pm

(also potentially part of church service Sunday November 29th 9am and 10:30am)

with folk/experimental/soul band, Bruce Peninsula on November 27th and 28 8pm
http://www.myspace.com/brucepeninsula

Project Description:
I Think She's Dead (Little Criminals and the Theatre of Punishment)is an installation toying with the tactics of the panopticon.

The Tower-Man is The All Seeing See Being. The constituents of The City have Him in their constant view. They are never sure, it is unverifiable, that The Tower-Man is looking at them at any moment. But they are certain that he may always be so. While they perform their tasks, he is the surveyor of symptoms and the mapper of aptitudes. In hospital, school, factory, shopping mall and prison, life is reduced to its simplest expression in The City. The Tower-Man watches while they are working and according to their crimes and character they are separated in their small world each, a frame, an open house, a window. Who is the See Being, The Tower-Man, with his strange transparent material presence? Who indeed! It does not really matter, some say. Any one of them could operate the machine! It does not matter who he is or what motives animate him. The inhabitants of The City ponder the perversity of those who take pleasure in their purposeful occupation of spying and punishment.

The Forest surrounds The City and The Winged Guardian of The Forest keeps watch as The Lone One is hunted. She escaped last October.

The Inhabitants of The City reside in the Houses of Certainty. They are as follows:

The Praying Lady inhabits the High Hospital.
The Scholarly Brute inhabits the School of Sharper Focus.
The Faceless Workers inhabit the Factory of Much Mechanics.
The Acorn-Headed Fancy Dressed & Accessorized Lady with the hand-mirror inhabits the Shopping Mall of Many Goods.
The Blackguard inhabits the Long Prison and so also does the Caged Boy, his deft prisoner.

2009-10-08T10:26:00.000-07:00

preliminary maps of the project space

the players and the themes, theories and schemes

2009-09-29T20:07:00.001-07:00

2009-09-22T19:27:00.000-07:00

2009-09-15T11:56:00.000-07:00

2009-09-02T21:40:00.001-07:00

click here to view

the animation of K. Justl illustrations

2009-09-02T20:24:00.000-07:00

illustrations from:
The Bird (cage)

a new illustrated story
published, 2009

written by Sandy Groebner
Illustrated by Karen Justl

click here for the pdf

2009-09-02T20:22:00.000-07:00

New Herizons illustration
summer 2009

new subTerrain illustration
published summer 2009

2009-09-02T16:39:00.000-07:00

new paintings on wood
and a new puppet named Penny Arcade

2009-09-02T16:37:00.000-07:00

new drawings
facial expression and body language

and
Nick Cave, goth icon

2009-08-27T17:06:00.000-07:00

illustrations for 'Every Man Lamb' by Lee Sheppard.

published in Pilot Project, 2009

2009-08-02T19:44:00.001-07:00

poster

new images, two posters and one illustration

2009-07-23T14:21:00.000-07:00

illustrations, animation and design of

WordPress website for CAOS

the Calgary Animated Objects Society

website link

2009-07-23T12:29:00.000-07:00

published on the cover of subTerrain Magazine,
Vancouver, BC

2009-07-23T12:22:00.000-07:00

published in Herizons Magazine, Winnipeg Mb
for an article on alzheimers disease....

actually, this is the image that was published....

2009-07-23T11:01:00.000-07:00

Crawdaddy
WordPress website illustration and design for
freak show theatre troupe from San Francisco, Ca

website

2009-07-23T09:46:00.002-07:00

published in Herizons Magazine, Winnipeg Mb
article called Mad Men, Mad Women
about the advertising industry in the 1950s

2009-07-23T09:46:00.001-07:00

published in Herizons Magazine
for an article about women with autism

alternative image:

2009-07-23T09:45:00.002-07:00

People and Their Problems
published in Applied Arts Magazine, 2008

winner of series illustration award...

based on 'Alternative Realities: The Mystic and the Transcendent in Human Experience' by

Leonard George, PhD. Facts on File, 1995.

2009-07-23T09:45:00.001-07:00

(hopefully) to be published in geez magazine
a new religious publication

2009-07-23T09:44:00.000-07:00

published in subTerrain Magazine
for a story about gamblers gambling away their dreams...

2009-07-23T08:40:00.000-07:00

published in subTerrain Magazine
a story about a girl who is frustrated with her job in a cafe
she is also a trichotillomaniac...

2009-07-23T07:54:00.000-07:00

published in subTerrain Magazine
for a story about misfits on the golf course