ILLUSTRATION & GRAPHIC DESIGN BLOG: Karen Justl

BIO: Karen Justl is an illustrator and graphic designer. She holds an MDes (Masters of Design) from the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, Ontario. She is a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba where she received her BFA Honors in Painting at The University of Manitoba. She is also an interdisciplinary visual artist researching caricature, facial expression, body language, illustration techniques and Freud's theories of slapstick humour & the uncanny. Her illustrations have been published across Canada in Applied Arts, subTerrain Magazine, Chesterfield, Kiss Machine, Herizons MB, Pilot Project and Crow's Toes. She teaches in the Digital Lab at the Toronto School of Art and in Continuing Studies at OCAD University.

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illustrations, animation and design of
WordPress website for CAOS
the Calgary Animated Objects Society








published on the cover of subTerrain Magazine,
Vancouver, BC




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















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




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

website







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




published in Herizons Magazine
for an article about women with autism

alternative image:



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.



















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










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











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

















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