Construction #1 (personal work)

Artist: Gil Martinez, RGD
I've been hard at work developing a new illustration style which will combine my drawings (Like the Tighty Whitey poster I made recently for PWA) with my collage work. This is my latest—using original 1840's fashion plates, a vintage niche I bought at an outdoors antique market, and old porn.


Whores3 (Babylon)—2010
18.5 cm x 31 cm
Antique engravings, vintage porn, paper, silk, painted plaster statue, rolled paper, wood veneer, antique niche.

Sexy pro-bono for a good cause

Art Director/Designer/Illustrator: Gil Martinez, RGD

This poster for PWA advertised their annual car-wash extravaganza. Hunks galore raised more than $7,000 for a very worthy cause. And they wore my poster! yay!

We're not getting any younger, but are we really old?

Art Director/Designer: Gil Martinez, RGD

For those of us that don't like the partyin' anymore, Pride has formed the 40+ committee, which is the new 80 in the gaytto. It was to be promoted with this flyer, but we ended up distributing it electronically.

Pride Gala—A theme and some variations

Art Director/Designer: Gil Martinez, RGD
These are the poster, tickets and program for Pride Toronto's Gala and Awards for this year. Apparently people richer than I contributed significantly to the success of this year's festival. Yay!

Why not?

Art Director: Tom Browne, RGD
Designer: Gil Martinez, RGD
These headers for a possible green newsletter have gone from the predictable to the wacky. Aside from the dew-sprinkled grass and the requisite clouds, why not the off-the-grid recycling superhero?

Emerald Awards at the Ministry of the Environment

Art Director: Tom Browne, RGD
Designer: Gil Martinez, RGD
These logo tries for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment were a lot of fun to work on. The final choice made for some fun diplomas!

Pride Toronto Brand Update

Art Director: Gil Martinez, RGD

Pride Toronto has grown up a lot since 2008. No more design on a whim or by committee. Now we actually think about what we are trying to achieve, and one of the results is this fresh new logo. On the image you can compare both the old and the new marks.

Pride Toronto Guide

Art Director/Designer: Gil Martinez, RGD

Pride Toronto 2009 was promoted with this printed programme.

Promotional Cards, Pride Toronto

Art Directors: Gil Martinez, Marisa Boffice
Photographers: Lee Sandler for Lensgirl.com; Kevin Lam; Dean Tomlinson.
Photo retouching: Erick Pasibi
Demographics: The GLBTTIQQ2S Communities in Toronto and abroad

These are the cards that we're using to promote Pride Toronto. The design brief asked for a campaign that could be used to promote the festival abroad, within the GLBTTIQQ2S community in Toronto, and to members of the community who might be disenfranchised and looking for support.

Help wanted—Pride Toronto

Art Director/Designer: Gil Martinez

Check out this ad for Pride Toronto. Not bad for a rush job done in under 2 hours. I wrote the copy as well... We're looking for volunteer designers, so if you know someone who might be interested pass it on.

TechSoup Canada Art Installation

Art Director: Gil Martinez
Artists: Gil Martinez, Donnie Claudinho

This series of four mixed media panels and one mural were made for TechSoup Canada to mark the occasion of their website launch. The temporary panels, which showcase significant dates in TechSoup Global's history, were made using recycled materials. You can see the way the art fits the space, as well as a detail of panel no. 4.

Crafts series for preschoolers, EDE (2008)

Art Director/Designer/Illustrator: Gil Martinez
Technique: Vectors

These four crafts books for preschoolers were entirely made in Adobe Illustrator, and the covers are good examples of how I handle vector graphics. In 2009, the books won the prestigious Editorial Excellence Award in offered by the CANIEM, the National Chamber for the Editorial Industry.

Holiday Card, EDE/Celtic Publishing (2008)

Art Director/Designer/Illustrator: Gil Martinez
Celtic Publishing Characters originally created by: Lourdes Guzmán
EDE Characters originally created by: Luis Banuet
Technique: Vector illustration

Ediciones de Excelencia and Celtic Publishing share marketing materials. This is their 2008 reversible Holiday Card. The original characters used in the Celtic Publishing side were originally conceived by Lourdes Guzmán. Those on the EDE side were created by Luis Banuet.

De como nació la memoria del bosque—How the memory of the forest was born (2007)

Designer: Gil Martinez
Illustrator: Rocío Martínez
Technique: Watercolor and gouache

Fondo de Cultura Económica holds an annual contest for the best illustrated children´s book, and gets entries from all over the world. The winner for 2007 was Rociío Martínez, who conceived, wrote and illustrated this exquisite album.

Selected book covers, A la orilla del viento Collection (2007)

Art Director/Cover Designer: Gil Martinez
Redesign of the collection: León Muñoz
Illustrators (top to bottom): TRINO, René Almanza, Heyliana Flores, Martha Avilés, Agustín Comotto, Ayax & Mariana Barnes.

Here are six selected covers from the Fondo de Cultura Económica´s A la orilla del viento collection after it was redesigned are good examples of my art direction. I art-directed the first two covers from the conception of each project, and designed the next four from scans of the original paperbacks, since some of the illsutrators have moved, died, or were otherwise engaged, and the original film was lost. You can see three of the covers before the redesign, and the difficulty of negotiating type and logos when I retouched the images. The spines are color coded according to reader level.