For Marty Blake, a recent commission from Doubleday was particularly resonant: "As a teenager I studied French and literature and loved Arthur Rimbaud’s poems,” she explains. “I was pleased to work on a fictitious biography of the man.”  (more)  

Marty Blake’s latest image has us thinking about the non-thinking consumer: do we sometimes bury our heads in all the things we buy and miss what's really going on? (more)

For the past few months, Marty Blake’s steady client of many years entrusted her with a complex project of utmost importance: the graphics for her daughter’s wedding. Both mother and daughter wanted each and every article in the wedding package (of which there were many!) to be distinct. (more)

Every winter Marty Blake teaches a five week illustration Concepts class at Syracuse University. This year the assignment was to design playing cards or Tarot cards: two suits with two face cards and a pip card in each, for a total of six, theme and variation. (more)

Marty Blake designed and illustrated the cover of a box of recipe cards to be given as the gift to guests at an upcoming wedding. The bride and groom celebrated their love of fine foods, and each other, by sharing their favorite dishes within. (Names have been changed to protect the innocent lovers!) (more)

Here is a piece Marty Blake did recently for Family Circle magazine to illustrate an article about eating a healthy breakfast. (more)

Recently, Marty Blake did the cover of The New Republic on a topically dicey issue. "I think it came out well: the Pope nervously watches an innocent wingless cherub tumbles from the sky." (more)