KAKO finally showcases all his beautiful illustrations for the book "A Donzela sem Mãos e outros Contos de Fadas" (The Girl Without Hands and Other Fairy Tales), written by Helena Gomes and published by Escrita Fina Edições. Donzela is the first of three books we plan to deliver in the next few years and contain five tales: ...

KAKO wows us once again with a series of illustrations for Mondo Tarantino! These ilustrations were commissioned by the agency Agência Clic for the Mondo Tarantino official website, a film festival organized by CCBB, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, and shown in Sao Paulo and Brasilia, featuring the movies Reservoir Dogs, ...

KAKO'S "Donzela" lands in Dubai! The Visual Arabia Design Yearbook 2013 just arrived, featuring two of the illustrations Kako made for the book "A Donzela sem Mãos." The book is very interesting, full of great work and killer interviews. Good job everyone! And a big thanks to VA creative director Kamil Roxas, for inviting ...

KAKO never ceases to amaze everyone that he can work on a rush animation job. I just don't know how he fits it into his intense schedule.  This animation was done for Publicis Brazil for "Menino de Ouro." "Menino de Ouro. Um Conto de Fadas no País do Futebol" is a two minutes animation to promote SBT's new reality show ...

We are thrilled to announce that KAKO is up for a Kenneth R. Wilson (KRW) award for his image for Canadian Grocer Magazine. Canadian Business Press (CBP) is pleased to announce the finalists in 24 categories for the 59th annual KRW Awards, honouring excellence in Canadian business-to-business magazine publishing. The article ...

KAKO releases part 2 to "Righteous Rides...and the dudes who drive them." Today insidetherockposter blog featured both pieces that Kako did for the exhibition -- Le Mans Porsche 917K Movie Poster by Kako a Righteous Rides World Premier Exclusive (the copy below) "In 1971 the movie Le Mans staring Steve McQueen made it's ...

KAKO is part of an exhibition next week at the Hero Complex Gallery in Los Angeles called "Righteous Rides...and the Dudes Who Drive Them! -- a show focusing on the exhilarating...and often creative ways...of getting around. From skateboards to spaceships, anything that rolls, races, flies, or crashes can be counted in ...

The girl is here! And so begin's KAKO's introduction to his book (finally out!) "A Donzela Sem Mãos e Outros Contos de Fadas" (The Girl Without Hands and Other Fairy Tales) written by Helena Gomes and published by Escrita Fina Edições It took Kako a lot of time to finish this book, way more than one could expect. Tough ...

It's finally out of the bag and KAKO delivers three new illustrations for Piraquê's Carioca potato chips new packaging (Agency: 100% Design). The images pay homage to the city of Rio de Janeiro showing some of its numerous landmarks: A panoramic view with the Pão de Açúcar mountains, the Copacabana promenade and the Maracanã ...

Amazing! KAKO just got the invitation to be part of the final round jury for the 10th Brazilian Graphic Design Biennial. From a total of 1910 submitted projects, 725 made into the final shortlist and now it's the juries turn to take a good look at them. To Kako's friend Bruno Porto and to everyone at ADG, thank you! It's ...

KAKO catches the wave with this new illustration for Canadian Grocer Magazine about the new methods of mobile payment -- the pros and cons, the banks and telcos' race to win the market and what should the retailers expect after the first impact of the system's implementation.  

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KAKO turns out another great illustration for Heineken! This time around, this was for Heineken's homage to the 30th anniversary of Michael Jackson's album Thriller, published on their official Facebook page, featuring the artist in the album's three video clips: Billie Jean, Thriller and

KAKO illustrates an incredible piece on the movie Zero Dark Thirty, published by Entertainment Weekly in its 2012 Best & Worst Issue. It was Kako's first job for the magazine and for Steven Charny (HOORAY!!!), and although the job begun as a real challenge at the time due to the lack of images and information related ...

KAKO delivers a beautiful Illustration of The Town Musicians of Bremen tale published by Edições SM on the book Coletânea de Recontos - Irmãos Grimm. The art will be exhibited on the 8º Prêmio Barco a Vapor de Literatura Infantil e Juvenil 2012, during the bicentennial festivities of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's book ...

Artist KAKO delivers a beautiful rendition of "Crime & Punishment" for The Graphic Canon, The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals edited by Russ Kick. This book is about contemporary artists and illustrators reimagining the great works of literature from around the world.

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO illustrated a new infgraphic for Mundo Estranho Magazine about the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans Grand Prix, showing details about the race, the track, the different categories and the pit stop. For this illustration we used the 2011 champions of each category: Audi Sport Team Joest's ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO selling limited edition prints below of image "Polychrome Sound System." See below for details!

We are thrilled to announce that Levy Creative Management artist KAKO was accepted into the Latin American Illustracion. Kako's work was one of only 20 images selected to be included in this premier collection. The 20 winning Latin American Illustracion images will be presented in New York City at two events: American Illustration ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO is showcased in Japan in the new Illustrators File Vol. 10 Illustration Annual. Hear what Kako has to say about being featured in this great catalog of talented artists! A couple of weeks ago I received the long waited

Ubisoft Brasil and BrasilART open the first Brazilian game art contest for the award winning game Assassin's Creed and invites Levy Creative Management artist KAKO, a long time fan of the game series and a total history buff, to be part of the jury! The idea is simple: How would it be if the Assassin's Creed story was set ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO is featured today in "Who's Who" for Lurzer's Archive. Don't miss this interview, it begins like this: "I find it quite cheap when someone implies that I'm 'just the illustrator'..." Click here for the full article. Freelance illustrator, Kako, lives and works in São Paulo. His work ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO creates a beautiful series of illustrations for an article about the Order of the Temple, from its creation to its extinction in the 14th century: their vows and organization, the main battles and their part in the Crusades, their rivalry with other orders, the new financial techniques ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO creates a stunning illustration for Mondo Estranho's Top 10 List, featuring 10 soldiers that showed in battle valour beyond the call of duty. The complete list of heroes is Simo Häyhä, Lachhiman Gurung, Thomas Alfred Jones, Robert Cain,

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO'S Malaria Exhibition travels to France. It's the exhibition that keeps on traveling.

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO is part of another group show called DROP 2 - Exposition Graphique Urbaine! No colors, No grays, just the pure black and white. For the second time, Kako has been invited to be part of Drop 2, a urban culture exhibition in Lausanne, Switzerland. Kako decided to work in an old piece and ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO is awarded the Highly Commended Seal by FNLIJ for Demônios. Every year the FNLIJ - Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil receives the first editions from all Brazilian publishing companies of their published children and young adults' books . After careful analysis, the titles ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO is participating in two exhibitions in April, one in Sao Paulo and one in Bogota! See below for details and if you are in the area, definitely check them out! Exhibitions in Sao Paulo and Bogota This month I've been invited to be part of a couple of exhibitions in ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO's War Of The World poster is featured at the Mondo Gallery Opening. The gallery opened several weeks ago in Austin, TX during the SXSW with the Sci-Fi Show. Prints featured there include Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan, War Of The Worlds and more. Mondo is the collectible boutique arm of ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO creates a stunning new series for SpaceJunk Media's rebranding launch. Kako got the opportunity to create a portrait for every staff member for their new website, over 20 portraits were created for this launch. They look stunning together so make sure to check out SpaceJunk Media's website ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO got to illustrate Sarah Palin for The Washington Posts's recent story about the new HBO show "Game Change." This was for the Style's Section preview of the highly anticipated campaign dish-all show. "Starring Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson and Ed Harris, HBO Films’ GAME CHANGE follows ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO releases another amazing piece from the illustration vault for NIKE! This illustration called "Wolf Pack" was created for a Nike football t-shirt. It was originally done back in 2009 if you can believe it -- the original brief and goal for this piece was "The strength of the wolf is ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO is currently featured at the Society of Illustrators (SI) 54 Annual Exhibition in the new Winsor McCay Screening Room -- for his comic art for the music video "Oh Well, Oh Well" by MayDay Parade.  The music video was accepted into the Sequential/Series, Moving Image & Uncommissioned ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO at long last can finally show off his "Eye of the Tiger" illustration for Nike. This illustration was commissioned back in 2010 and we've been waiting this long to be able to post it. Unfortunately we have 3 other images that are in the vault but soon enough we will show them to you ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO gets accepted into the Society of Illustrators 54 Annual Exhibition in the Sequential/Series, Moving Image & Uncommissioned show. The exhibition award ceremony will take place on Friday, January 6, 2012 at the Society of Illustrators in NYC. Mayday Parade - Oh Well, Oh Well from ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO is featured once again in the 2nd Brazilian Film Festival and the Broadway Cinematheque MOMA in China on November 18th. This poster exhibition is called "Discover the Brazilian Cinema." Kako's piece "Foco Brazil" was originally created for "Discover the Brazilian Cinema" show, exhibited ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO creates a stunning new video with his comics for Mayday Parade's new song "Oh Well, Oh Well." The song premiered on Friday on MTV and received 34,000 hits over the weekend on YouTube. This project goes down as one of our favorite projects of the year and likely beyond, not only because ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO is featured in Inspired Magazine's 50 Inspirational Typographic Poster Designs. This poster was a collaboration with Kako & Graphic Designer Carlos Bêla. Carlos created the typography. "The art of the typeface, from the typographer who creates them down to the designer who meticulously ...

Levy Creative artist KAKO gives us the backgound of FODA and Ideafixa. Thank you for sharing Kako as we always love your stories and elaborations. :) 5 years of Ideafixa Much more than a frame. I have little to say about

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO will be featured live on radio Audiopapo tomorrow August 26th. Kako, Julius Wiedemann and Glauco Diógenes will be talking to host Fabio Rubira about illustration and the release of Taschen's Illustration Now! Portraits in Brazil. So if you are in Sao Paulo, if you like illustration and ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO is part of a great exhibition called IllustraBrazil! IllustraBrazil! is a special edition of the Society of Illustrators of Brazil - SIB's annual event IlustraBrasil!, that will be presented for the first time in Asia by the Consulate-General of Brazil in Shanghai. Held in São Paulo ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO is participating in Taschen's book signing today. If you happen to be strolling around São Paulo today, August 9th, please come by to our book signing at Livraria da Vila! We'll be releasing Taschen's Illustration Now! Portraits and if you

Levy Creative Management artists KAKO creates 3 powerful images for Dirt Rag Magazine. In “Brain Sprain” (issue #153) we examined the after-effects of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and Post-Concussive Syndrome (PCS) from a medical standpoint. That’s only half the story—Jason Carter shares his first-hand account of living ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO illustrates two brilliant pieces for ODU-USA. These ads were a great dream job for Kako as he had a lot of artistic freedom to create a vision of what the art director was originally looking for. For a very serious theme, Kako was sent to take the ad into a fantasy/sci-fi environment. ...

Levy Creative Management artists MICHAEL BYERS, KAKO, RORY KURTZ & JORGE MASCARENHAS are featured in the new Taschen book Illustrated Now! Portraits. We hope that the book will arrive soon so we can share the pages that our artists are featured on. Also don’t forget to check out KAKO’S portrait of editor Julius Wiedeman ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO illustrates a beautiful graphic image for Playboy Magazine's May Issue. This assignment turned into one of the most fruitful research projects about the theme. The article is about Playboy's own Indonesian editor Arnada who was arrested for "indecency" for publishing Playboy. As art ...

Levy Creative Management artists featured in Lürzer's Archive new title 200 Best Illustrators 2011/12! In this latest Archive Special, they showcase the work of 200 of the world's best illustrators in a volume numbering 320 pages. Congratulations to the following Levy Creative artists: Kako, Orit Bergman, Michael Byers, ...

Levy Creative Management artists have yet another great day in competitions with 4 artists getting into Communication Arts Illustration Annual 52, coming out May/June 2011. Congratulations goes out to KAKO (Advertising); MIKE BYERS (Advertising); RORY KURTZ (2 pieces in Editorial) & CHRISTOPHER NIELSEN (Advertising ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO is participating in an eBay auction of his artwork for the fundraiser SPACENITE 2 - A Tribute to comic creator Bill Mantlo, who wrote every issue of ROM, as well just about every other Marvel title in the 80?s. This show was organized as a fundraiser for Mantlo, who was injured in ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO gets the privilege to illustrate the cover of the The Washington Post Magazine for a rather interesting yet disturbing article on preacher William M. Drumheller III. Below you will see the cover art and interior final. The headline for the cover reads "We let a wolf in': He seemed like ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO has the great honor of illustrating Julius Wiedenmann's portrait for Taschen's upcoming book edited by Julius, Illustration Now! Portraits. It is a great honor for Kako to be chosen to illustrate Julius' portrait not only because Kako is featured in this book as a portrait artist but ...

Levy Creative Management showcases another beautiful series by artist KAKO! This time for Minnesota Monthly's December issue. This is about Minnesota's most baffling, bewitching, bloodcurdling, befuddling and just plain bizarre...UNSOLVED MYSTERIES. From the Kenzington Runestone to the fact that Joe Mauer is still single, ...

Levy Creative Management is once again pleased to announce that another artist gets into Society of Illustrators 53 Show. Congrats to KAKO for getting his sequential series "Itadakimasu" into the show along with "The New Super Spy" that was originally done for Playboy Magazine. Here are the images: [caption i

Levy Creative Management is thrilled to announce that Communication Arts Advertising Annual 51 is officially out & we are so excited to have our Brazilian artist KAKO as a feature artist in this issue. This is an incredible spread on Kako so worth picking up the magazine and worth the read. Read all about where Kako's ...

Levy Creative Management congratulates artists KAKO, KYUNG SOON PARK & KOREN SHADMI for being featured in ILLUSTRATION NOW! 2011 Taschen Calendar. For those who need to get organized, there are three versions of the calendar so order them here!

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO earns huge kudos for his accomplishment! Congratulations KAKO for getting into Luerzer's Archive "200 Best Illustrators Worldwide 2011/2012." We are so proud of you! Below are the pieces that will appear in the book. We will update you when the book comes out.

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO takes on his graphic novel/comic approach in "Coaching Tactics" for ESPN The Magazine. This is for an article about how the Arizona College Football coaches decide what play to call and how the process works of getting the play executed. When I asked KAKO to send me a blurb on what he ...

Levy Creative Management artist KAKO blows it out of the park with this new illustration for The Washington Post. "Boardwalk Empire" is no 'Sopranos,' but it's full of corrupt men we'll love to hate." Guess we'll all have to watch it to find out! Here is the layout along with the final illustration!

Levy Creative Management artists make a splash in the upcoming Taschen book Illustration Now! Portraits. Congratulations go out to the following 5 Levy Creative Artists: Kako, Mike Byers, Rory Kurtz, Robin Eley & Jorge Mascarenhas! We are so very proud of all of you! We are thrilled to be part of the Taschen family ...

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At long last we are allowed to publish these great illustrations for KAKO that were done for Microsoft. This was an amazing project that kept adding illustrations. Below you will see the final product in completion. This was an illustration campaign to promote a new technical training course to high school and college students. ...

Photographer Adam Nadel and illustrator KAKO collaborated to create a graphic novel depicting malaria  transmission for the Malaria Consortium. The series won an award of excellence from Pictures of the Year I

COMPUTER ARTS UK FEATURING LEVY CREATIVE ARTIST KAKO! by Nick Carson About Brazil: How would you describe the Brazilian creative scene at present? How do you think it compares with other global design hubs? I think we’re getting there. I wouldn’t say we already have a scene like Europe, Japan or US always had, ...

KAKO featured in Communication Arts Magazine Online today on Insights. Read more below of click here to see the link directly. Thinking About Other Things When Ideas Show Up If you have a degree in what field is it? No degrees. After a couple of frustrated attempts to get into cinema school when I was

Here is a great new image by KAKO for ESPN'S Fantasy Football Preview. It's an illustration of Adrienne Johnson of the Texans, the opener for the Wide Receiver Section. We hope to get the printed copies of it next week so stay tuned!

KAKO's artwork in Football Heroes Gold 2010 is out - hot off the presses - the entire Brazilian team illustrated by KAKO!!! Click on the link to see this beautifully illustrated book page-by-page http://herzglut.com/books/football-heroes-gold-fussballhelden-gold/. This book is about the 150 greatest players in World Cup ...

"The New James Bond" for Playboy Magazine. In the days of Ian Fleming, spies were recruited from the halls of Oxford and Cambridge. Today's spies blend in on foreign streets. Meet the increment. This is a new breed of spy that's recruited from the native country in which we are spying rather than being from the US or ...

Malaria: blood, sweat and tears I was truly honored to be present at this amazing Exhibition Opening with inspirational speeches about from the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium. If you haven't seen this magnificent exhibition, don't miss out as it closes ...

AMAZING Brazil Tee by KAKO @ 55DSL Galactic Battle of Foosball. To prepare players and consumers for the enormous launch, 55DSL and PANINI have created a tees pack inspired by the world’s top football countries. Comprising 10 t-shirts created in collaboration with 10 different international artists and 1 collaboration ...

KAKO is part of an exhibition called DROP - A Black and White Urban Graphic Art Exhibition in Lausanne, Switzerland. See http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=107943742576972 for details.

KAKO featured in the NY TIMES LENS blog about Photography, Video and Visual Journalism for his work on the exhibition "Malaria: Blood, Sweat & Tears" currently on exhibition at the United Nations. Click here to see the blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/showcase-148

We're pleased to announce that KYUNG SOON PARK and KAKO will be featured in Taschen's limited edition of calendars and diaries from Illustration Now! We can't wait to see them and will share when we get copies.

FOOTBALL HEROES GOLD | Fussballhelden is a series of books released on major worldwide soccer events. This book focuses on the best players from every World Cup. KAKO was asked to create the whole 1970 Brazilian team. This is the only team that will appear with all players in the book. Their first book FOOTBALL ...

Kako is part of an extraordinary exhibition at the United Nations Headquarters Secretariat Gallery in NYC. Malaria: Blood, Sweat and tears is an exhibition of portraits by Adam Nadel and Illustrations by KAKO. www.malaria-bloodsweatandtears.com Malaria will kill at least 700,000 children this year. In 2009, a minimum ...

For those of you who speak Portugeese (and there are a few out there that I know!) Enjoy KAKO'S blog from the Brazilian & Culture Art Magazine ZUPI! http://www.zupi.com.br/index.php/site_zupi/view/entrevista_com_kako/. I have a translation if anyone is interested. Como foi participar da HQ Roland Garros? Como ...

Kako's image Roland Garros was selected to be in Communication Arts Illustration Annual 51. This is a story about tennis player Roland Garros for This is France comic book. Released in 2009 in Brazil, the comic book anthology includes 30 Brazilian and French artists, each one producing a one-page story with a unique theme ...

“Lightening Lap” – vintage race poster for Car & Driver Magazine.

KAKO is interviewed at Vectortuts+. Check it out here. Vectortuts+ is pleased to bring you an interview with Kako from São Paulo, Brazil. This highly talented illustrator has an extensive portfolio ranging from editorials to advertisements to comics

Image Comics’ COMIC BOOK TATTOO, featuring KAKO’s short story Marianne, was a great winner in 2009. The book, which is made up of fifty-one stories inspired by songs by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, not only received the EISNER AWARD of Best Anthology at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con but three months later also received ...

Kako is featured in the July 6th edition of Fortune Magazine. Page 54 - article on Derivitives: The Risk That Still Won't Go Away.