ARTIST NEWS

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 ...

more >>
02/03/2012

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 ...

more >>
12/05/2011

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 ...

more >>
11/23/2011

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 ...

more >>
11/11/2011

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 ...

more >>
10/13/2011

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 ...

more >>
09/27/2011

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

more >>
09/02/2011

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 ...

more >>
08/25/2011

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 ...

more >>
08/15/2011

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

more >>
08/09/2011

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 ...

more >>
06/27/2011

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. ...

more >>
06/23/2011

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 ...

more >>
06/22/2011

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 ...

more >>
05/12/2011

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, ...

more >>
03/21/2011

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 ...

more >>
02/03/2011

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 ...

more >>
12/23/2010

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 ...

more >>
12/20/2010

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 ...

more >>
12/16/2010

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, ...

more >>
12/06/2010

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

more >>
11/26/2010

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 ...

more >>
11/23/2010

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!

more >>
11/02/2010

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.

more >>
10/27/2010

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 ...

more >>
10/14/2010

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!

more >>
09/20/2010

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 ...

more >>
09/14/2010

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. ...

more >>
08/05/2010

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

more >>
08/03/2010

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, ...

more >>
07/27/2010

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

more >>
07/13/2010

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!

more >>
05/27/2010

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 ...

more >>
05/14/2010

"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 ...

more >>
04/26/2010

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 ...

more >>
04/22/2010

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 ...

more >>
04/14/2010

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.

more >>
04/13/2010

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

more >>
04/12/2010

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.

more >>
04/08/2010

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 ...

more >>
04/07/2010

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 ...

more >>
03/29/2010

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 ...

more >>
03/17/2010

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 ...

more >>
02/05/2010

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

more >>
02/01/2010

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

more >>
11/03/2009

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 ...

more >>
07/28/2009

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

more >>
07/08/2009