Marvel Legends Retro Toy Packaging
Jude Buffum worked with Hasbro to create a packaging illustration for action figures from the Marvel Legends Series. The action figures are based on the Sentinels from the 1992 X-Men arcade game, and Jude’s pixel art style pays tribute to the retro gaming roots...
May 2025 Newsletter
We hope you’ve all had a lovely Spring so far! Read on for our exciting news from this season. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, subscribe on LinkedIn! Nick Wroblewski Welcome, Nick Wroblewski This month we welcomed woodcut artist Nick Wroblewski to...
Sanibel Tile Game
Hasbro Games/Avalon Hill commissioned Dahl Taylor to create the key art for their upcoming new game, Sanibel. This laid-back, meditative tile placement game is inspired by game designer Elizabeth Hargrave’s days on Sanibel Island, Florida, hunting for shells...
Sweet Takes
Hasbro Games commissioned Luke Lucas to create iridescent lettering and detailed candy renders for their new strategy card game, Sweet Takes. Luke’s artwork is used on the box and all the cards in this fast-paced game of tricks and treats.
Life in Reterra: Moonrise Expansion
Hugo Cuellar, illustrator of Hasbro’s world-building strategy game Life in Reterra, has also created the artwork for the game’s recently released expansion pack. The Moonrise Expansion deepens the story of the core game with fresh events, rewards,...
Play-Doh Sets
Amanda Lima recently created illustrations for a handful of new Play-Doh play sets from Hasbro. Her scenes, characters and designs have been used for Play-Doh play mats, stickers, and decorative labels for play sets. School Play Set: School Activities Play Set:...
Best of 2024: Kids, Toys & Games
As we look forward to all that 2025 has in store, we’re reflecting on our favorite collaborations from the past year. One of our specialties is artwork for toys, children’s products, and games for all ages. Our artists create imaginative characters and designs...
February 2024 Newsletter
To receive this newsletter in your inbox, subscribe on LinkedIn! We made it through February, it’s the home stretch of winter (hopefully!), and we have some exciting work to share from these first two months of 2024. Read on! Black History Month Spotlight:...
Life in Reterra
Hugo Cuellar worked with Hasbro on artwork for their brand new strategy game, Life in Reterra, which simulates rebuilding civilization in a future world. Hugo illustrated a view of this world for the game box art, and also illustrated characters, vignettes and icons...
Star Wars Young Jedi Action Figures
Jim Talbot worked with Hasbro on packaging illustrations for new Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures action figure sets. The illustrations depict the characters Kai, Lys, Nubs and Nash from the Disney animated series that released in 2023.
Piggy Piggy Card Game
Alexandra Zutto created adorable, snack-loving character illustrations for Hasbro’s new family card game, Piggy Piggy! Players use food cards to try to steal the most pigs, and watch out for the hungry goats. Zutto’s illustrations are used on the cards and...
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Orlando Arocena has worked with Designer Allen Pan-Long at Hasbro on key art and product packaging celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Mighty Morpin Power Rangers, and the recent premiere of ‘Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always’ on Netflix....
Best of 2022: Toys and Games
Art for games and toys is a specialty of many Mendola artists, and we worked on a lot of fun projects in 2022 featuring wonderful storytelling and character design. Here are our top picks! Illustrated patterns from Ana Jaks are featured in Hasbro’s re-release of...
Hasbro: Hands Down
Ana Jaks created a packaging illustration for Hasbro’s re-release of the classic game, Hands Down! The fast-action, hand-slapping card game was first created in 1964.
Steve Anderson
Steve Anderson has been in the art business for over twenty-five years and has been an official Star Wars artist for Lucasfilm Licensing and some of their licensees for the past seventeen. He has created licensed artwork for six Star Wars movies, the new animated...
Kenny Kiernan: Editorial
Children’s Illustrator • Toy & Game Illustrator & Packaging Designer • Vector Characters for Licensed Properties, Brand Assets, Style Guides & New Character Development • Logo Design • 2D Animation…and selected for Mojo Nation’s Top 100...
Bill Ledger
Bill Ledger is an English London-based 2D and 3D cartoon illustrator and animator. His character design has led to working relationships with Disney, Hasbro, Mattel and many more. His designs for Nickelodeon’s ‘Those Scurvy Rascals’ won 2 British animation awards and...
Kenny Kiernan
Children’s Illustrator • Toy & Game Illustrator & Packaging Designer • Vector Characters for Licensed Properties, Brand Assets, Style Guides & New Character Development • Logo Design • 2D Animation…and selected for Mojo Nation’s Top 100 Most Influential...
Andrey Gordeev
Andrey Gordeev is a talented ilustrator and designer who has worked with toy companies (Hasbro, Playmonster, Spinmaster), as well as advertising clients (Taina Coffee, Panasonic, Toyota). His skills include character design and animation and concept art....
Kim Neale
Kim Neale is an Australian artist based in Sydney. She works closely with her clients to design and illustrate a diverse array of subjects. Her love of character design has resulted successful collaborations with international brands such as Disney and Hasbro. Having...
Highlighting our Women Illustrators
Over 50 of our illustrators and 60% of our employees identify as women, making women crucial to the success of Mendola Artists. Although we celebrate their hard work and talent all year round, we are highlighting a few of our women illustrator’s greatest...
Hasbro
Julia Green was commissioned by Hasbro to illustrate the packaging for the Go Green edition of their classic board game Monopoly. See more of Julia Green’s work here.
Artist of the Month, August 2020: Michael Crampton
British-born illustrator Michael Crampton studied illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He spent six years as the Executive Art Director at Neiman Marcus corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas, before moving to New York City to pursue...
Artist of the Month, April 2020: Zutto
Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, the Russian creative Zutto is a prolific illustrator and animator. Zutto, meaning “endless” or “a list of things” in Japanese, truly reflect her limitless imagination. Zutto’s distinct style can be characterized by her...
Hasbro
Andrey Gordeev and Steve Simpson both created illustrations for Hasbro’s new RISK Junior board game. Andrey Gordeev illustrated the game’s box cover, and Steve Simpson illustrated the board game’s playing board. The board game’s pirate theme has kids moving their pirate ship tokens around the board, competing for treasure and control of the islands. This game introduces young kids to the strategy gameplay of Hasbro’s classic RISK board game.
See more of Andrey’s work here.
See more of Steve’s work here.
Check out the board game here.
WOMEN OF ILLUSTRATION
We are lucky enough to represent an incredible selection of innovative and diverse women illustrators. We are celebrating Women’s History Month and last week’s International Women’s Day with a look at how the following women of illustration push the...
Russell Benfanti | Packaging Portfolio
Dynamic packaging for kids focused products generates interest, awareness and sales. Russell Benfanti has a proven track record with a variety of national brands. Safeway has hired Russell for numerous product lines including all their kids cereals. ...
The Happiness Project: Commissioned Work
We asked our artists to submit the image they created in 2017 that made them the most happy. We received an outpouring of wonderful work and the following is a virtual gallery of commissioned images. Fantastic illustrations from publishing, packaging,...
Best of 2015!
The Mendola Artists Best of 2015 is back. Our artists submitted a terrific selection of work from advertising, packaging, editorial, publishing, and toys, plus some interesting personal projects. Please take a few minutes to look back to find some...
Dan Sipple
Raised in the blue-collar suburbs of Detroit, the lure of sunshine and the big city proved too much for Dan and he moved to Los Angeles where he now resides in the shadow of the beautiful San Gabriel Mountains. Dan is an illustrator/designer with the ability to solve...