Ben Kirchner

2011-04-28T05:41:00.000-07:00

My portraits are featured in the new Taschen book: Illustration Now! Portraits. More here

Kitsune Noir

2010-07-20T00:24:00.000-07:00

Today I was really pleased to find my illustrations on Kitsune Noir which is one of my favourite design blogs. Many thanks to Bobby Solomon for featuring me!

Reader's Digest - Word Power

2010-07-16T05:43:00.000-07:00

Reader's Digest - Word Power feature, this month focusing on Jewish music and Jewish words. The top illustration is for the word 'schmooze', meaning to charm someone with an eye to advancement.

benkirchner.co.uk

2010-07-08T14:53:00.001-07:00

I've just uploaded my new website, and fingers crossed, it should be visitable here:www.benkirchner.co.uk/index.html
so please drop by and have a browse!

All work and no play ...

2010-06-21T02:02:00.000-07:00

For the Daily mail about the positive side to obsession.

Green-eyed monster

2010-06-19T02:05:00.000-07:00

In today's Guardian, Work supplement, about jealousy in the workplace.

Washington Post

2010-06-18T02:55:00.000-07:00

For an article about the negative effects of Google Maps & GPS on our brains: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/04/AR2010060402030.html

2010-04-06T15:03:00.000-07:00

Cover for Boston Globe, Food supplement. Type/layout/concept by Greg Klee.

Mescalito

2010-03-16T14:27:00.001-07:00

Puma Boy!

2010-03-16T14:24:00.000-07:00

For a book about children's dreams that Roger Omar is putting together. Mine was about a boy who dreamed he changed into a puma, and rockets came out of his shoes and he was late for school. More of the illustrated dreams can be seen at Roger's Flickr page here:www.flickr.com/photos/76372693@N00/

2010-03-16T14:23:00.000-07:00

Hell's Angels

2009-11-27T14:50:00.000-08:00

Bacon Sandwich

2009-11-19T03:54:00.000-08:00

Jake Blanchard asked me to submit an image for part 2 of his alphabet zine project: Zine B, to be published imminently. It was great fun to do, thanks Jake. You can see a load of his beautiful illustrations (and order the Zine) here: http://torpress.co.uk/

2009-11-19T03:52:00.000-08:00

Word Power

2009-11-19T03:44:00.000-08:00

These are for a monthly feature in Reader's Digest, commissioned by Martin Colyer (who is a really nice guy if you ever get the chance to work with him). The 1st image refers to the fact that war has resulted in many new words, the 2nd image is to illustrate 'Petrichor', which is the smell that the ground gives off when it starts to rain.

Shopping

2009-10-16T02:06:00.000-07:00

Needs more people

2009-10-08T06:42:00.001-07:00

Happy 4th Birthday, Isaac!

2009-09-19T01:02:00.000-07:00

She's got the devil in her heart!

2009-07-31T08:45:00.001-07:00

Gibbon

2009-06-19T01:31:00.001-07:00

Groove Out!

2009-06-19T01:30:00.001-07:00

2009-03-24T09:19:00.000-07:00

Cover for the Boston Globe's Real Estate supplement. Type by Josue Evilla.

2009-01-30T08:43:00.000-08:00

I was fortunate enough to have this featured on the excellent design blog It's Nice That

2009-01-23T16:08:00.001-08:00

2009-01-14T02:27:00.001-08:00

This is the artwork I did for Rory McGrath's new book. The type is not mine.

2008-11-02T01:58:00.000-07:00

For a piece in The Telegraph on modern slang. It means:

Zonk n.2 [ZONK v., i.e. one's foolishness is the result of a lit. or fig. blow to the head] [2000s] (NZ) a fool.

2008-11-02T01:03:00.000-07:00

This was for Power Magazine in Hong Kong and was about a guy's relationship with his iphone. The article mentioned Super Monkeyball so I thought it'd be fun to draw it in the style of that game.

2008-10-20T08:27:00.000-07:00

2008-10-03T03:02:00.000-07:00

This is a portrait of The Band, playing at their famous home, Big Pink.

2008-09-19T07:56:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Isaac! 3 today.

2008-09-18T02:12:00.001-07:00

2008-09-18T02:12:00.000-07:00

Illustrations for a recent Guardian Weekend article about what certain celebrities were like at school.

2008-09-12T01:14:00.000-07:00

This was a commission for the Marine Conservation Society about the effects of trawling on the ocean floor. I wanted the fishing nets to look like a giant hand scraping the seabed, like fingernails on a chalkboard.

2008-09-11T04:29:00.000-07:00

Portraits of Michelle and Barack Obama I drew recently for The New Republic in the US.

2008-09-11T03:52:00.000-07:00

Lemurs!

2008-09-11T02:59:00.000-07:00

A drawing I did for the same project as the picture below. It's based on the famous Stooges album cover.

2008-09-11T02:18:00.000-07:00

This was for a self-initiated project about monsters. I wanted to try a style that resembled paper cut-outs.

2008-09-11T02:14:00.000-07:00

I find self-intitiated illustrations the hardest to do. As soon as you get going, some work comes in and the picture never gets finished. I have a few unfinished images like this and it seems a shame that no one ever sees them so I thought I would post them here. The idea for the image above was some sort of safari park with a family driving through it. I really like the tiger and want to do another picture of him.

2008-09-10T08:25:00.000-07:00

A selection of portraits drawn for the A Peek at the Diary Of... column by Marina Hyde, that appears in The Guardian Weekend magazine:

2008-09-10T08:16:00.000-07:00

I was inspired by Barney Hoskyns' book Hotel California about the singer-songwriter music scene in LA in the 70s. I wanted to draw a picture of Joni Mitchell and David Crosby playing by the pool in their Laurel Canyon pad.

2008-09-10T07:55:00.000-07:00

This image was commissioned by BBH for the recent Vodafone campaign. The ad was for a flat-screen phone so BBH wanted me to create a flat world. The ad ran in Europe, but not the UK, as far as I'm aware.