Siamaya Chocolate
Marco Baccioli’s longstanding relationship with Siamaya Chocolate Company has resulted in an astounding 18 product packages, along with a few additional gift boxes and merchandising items. Originally commissioned by the company’s CEO, Neil Ransom, Marco...
Capital One
Lucy Rose was commissioned to design and illustrate the keyframes for Capital One’s “All Aboard” animation. Lucy’s illustrations are brought to life in the animation discussing the variety of options for money management while traveling. Scroll...
Deloitte Foundation
Ryan Olbrysh provided illustrations for The Deloitte Foundation Accounting Scholars Program. This program is part of Deloitte’s MADE (Making Accounting Diverse and Equitable) commitment. Click here to learn more about their program and commitment...
Danii Pollehn
Developing themes and imagery that celebrate the natural world and the female form, Hamburg-based illustrator Danii Pollehn works in various media, creating paintings, printed editions, digital illustration, and pattern design. Free from cliches, her visual work...
Planted for Buffalo Games
Hannah Bailey designed and illustrated the game box, board, game cards, and resource tokens for Planted by Buffalo Games. Hannah, being a junior horticulturist herself was able to take inspiration from the pots and plants she has in her home. Hannah shares, “My...
Kimberly Morris
Kimberly Morris is a freelance illustrator based in the beautiful city of Bath, UK. After graduating from Norwich School of Art and Design, Kimberly gained many years of experience in graphic design and illustration, specializing in editorial, branding, and packaging....
Maggie Roman
Maggie is a London-based illustrator focused on bold colours, loud statements, badass vibes,and positivity. She loves drawing proud people, strong role models colourful landscapes, and the occasional lettering piece. She is always curious about the new and...
Best Of 2021
2021 was a year of hope and moving forward. Our artists have submitted outstanding pieces of work from advertising, packaging, editorial, publishing, and toys, plus a few interesting personal projects for our Best Of 2021. Before we say goodbye to 2021 for good,...
The University of Arizona
Luis Pinto was commissioned to design and illustrate the keyframes for the animated story of Jocelyne Rivera, ’21, NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholar. Jocelyne is part of The University of Arizona’s Wonder campaign, celebrating exceptional scholars. See more of...
Where Do Diggers Trick-or-Treat?
Christian Slade was commissioned to illustrate Where Do Diggers Trick-or-Treat? Joining the “Where do” series (Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night), little ones can join all of the vehicles as they dress up on Halloween for a night of trick-or-treating! See...
The Progressive Magazine
Rocco Baviera was commissioned by The Progressive Magazine to illustrate their August/ September cover. This issue touches on the future of schools post-pandemic, from remote learning to critical race theory. See more of Rocco Baviera’s work...
Abbott Medical
Lucy Davey was commissioned by the pharmaceutical company Abbott Medical and the design agency Attention Global to illustrate three children’s books which raise awareness of Diabetes. The first book Billy and the Bionic Badge follows a basketball-loving boy named...
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...
Hugh Syme: Music
Hugh Syme is a graphic artist best known as the man responsible for all but the first 2 of Rush’s album cover art. He also created Rush’s famous starman logo. Other musicians he has designed and created artwork for include Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Def...
Katt Phatt
With influences ranging from the Rococo and Victorian era to steampunk, South African illustrator and art director Katt Phatt specializes in CG products, 3D typography, and decorative art. He creates work in all spaces within image-making: retouching, compositing, 3D...
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...
Kevin Rechin
Kevin Rechin, a native of the Washington, DC area, enjoyed a childhood shaped by a cartoonist father, whose creativity was only surpassed by a mother juggling seven kids, of which Kevin is the youngest. After receiving his BFA in Communications, Art and Design from...
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....
The New York Community Trust
Arthur Mount was commissioned by The New York Community Trust to create the art and styleframes for an animation explaining the Trust’s mission. The New York Community Trust is a grant-making foundation that helps generous New Yorkers support non-profits to...
Little, Brown and Company
Sarah McMenemy was commissioned by Little, Brown and Company to illustrate the book cover of Murder in Miniature at Honeychurch Hall, written by Hannah Dennison. See more of Sarah McMenemy’s work here.
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...
MIKA
Laurindo Feliciano was commissioned by the world famous singer MIKA to illustrate a poster for his project Restoring Colors to Paris, an open-air exhibition featuring 10 artists in 2500 public locations in Paris. Laurindo’s artwork is inspired by the surrealism...
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Maren Schabhuser was commissioned by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy magazine to illustrate the cover and two interior images for their February 2021 issue, “A New Framework for Future Relationships,” about Brexit’s...
Snap Galleries
Ben The Illustrator was commissioned by Snap Galleries to illustrate an ongoing series called In My Room, where he creates customized illustrations of the gallery’s clients in their homes with their favorite records and even their pets. See more of Ben The...
The Guardian
Tofunmi Yosola was commissioned by The Guardian to illustrate the article, “As a Black Lord of the Rings fan, I felt left out of fantasy worlds. So I created my own.” See more of Tofunmi Yosola’s work here. Read The Guardian article...
Echo Tango
Rachael Saunders was commissioned by the creative agency Echo Tango to create a short animation for the Department of Children & Family Services in Louisiana. The animation helps parents who are considering relinquishing their baby under Louisiana’s Safe Haven...
UW Medicine
Rocco Baviera was commissioned by UW Medicine to illustrate an ongoing campaign appearing on billboards, transit and print ads in the Seattle area. See more of Rocco Baviera’s work here.
Irving & Co.
Lucia Gaggiotti was commissioned by Irving & Co for Rummo Pasta to create a series of 3 posters to promote 3 different types of pasta by Rummo. See more of Lucia Gaggiotti’s work here.
SNCF
BlindSALIDA was commissioned by the French rail network SNCF to create a series of illustrations for their various media channels. See more of blindSALIDA’s work here.
Puffin Books
Rachael Saunders was commissioned by Puffin Books to illustrate the book Fidget the Wonder Dog written by Patricia Forde. The story is an epic tale of love, loss, reunion and adventure on the high seas, told through the friendship of a girl and her dog, Fidget. See...
Creative Boom Featured Illustrators
Creative Boom Magazine annually releases a list of illustrators they predict will make a big splash in the new year. We were excited to read that two of our illustrators are featured in this year’s roundup, “30 awesome illustrators to follow for inspiration in...
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.
UCLA Health
Lucy Rose was commissioned by UCLA Health to illustrate their feature, “The Day After,” which explores what will happen after Covid-19.
See more of Lucy Rose’s work here.
Read the UCLA Health article here.
Harvard Business Review
BlindSALIDA was commissioned by the Harvard Business Review to create an animation for their explainer video titled, “How Industry Competition Theory Can Help Fix U.S. Politics.”
See more of blindSALIDA’s work here.
Visit the Harvard Business Review website here.
Deloitte
BlindSALIDA was commissioned by Deloitte Insights to illustrate the cover to their 2020 Digital Transformation Survey, “Uncovering the Connection: between digital maturity and financial performance.”
See more of blindSALIDA’s work here.
Mattel
Jeff Mangiat was commissioned by Mattel to illustrate the backgrounds to their Monster High Skullector It Pennywise and The Shining Grady Twin dolls.
See more of Jeff Mangiat’s work here.
Deloitte
Rocco Baviera was commissioned by Deloitte Insights to create the cover illustration for their “2020 Deloitte -NASCIO Cybersecurity Study.”
See more of Rocco Baviera’s work here.
See the Deloitte Insights report here.
PepsiCo
PepsiCo commissioned Alexis Marcou to illustrate the packaging for their limited edition Game Fuel cans celebrating Mountain Dew’s partnership with Team Optic and showing love to the gaming community. This packaging design won the Iron A’Design award.
See more of Alexis Marcou’s work here.