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  • Guy Billout

    Part-time Associate Teaching Professor

    Email
    billoutg@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Guy Billout

    Profile

    1941: Born in France.

    1962-1969: Art education in school for the applied arts in Beaune, France. Illustration and graphic design for advertisisng.

    1062-1969: Worked in ad agencies in Paris as a graphic designer.

    1969: Becomes an illustrator with a portfolio of 12 illustrations, published in New York Magazine (Aug. 1969). Art director: Milton Glaser.

    Published in American magazines and newspapers: Redbook, McCall's, Vogue, Time, Life, Newsweek, Fortune, Playboy, Glamour, The Oprah Magazine, The Reader Digest, Psychology Today, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Wall Street Jurnal, The Los Angeles Times, etc.

    1982-2006: Regular four-color feature, every other month, in The Atlantic Monthly, with total editorial freedom. Art director: Judy Garlan.

    2001-2011: Illustrates the articles of Seymour Hersh about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in The New Yorker. Art director: Chris Curry.

    Advertising campaignes: The Boston Consulting Group (USA & France), The national Westminster Bank (London), JP Morgan Chase, Northern Telecom, etc. 

    Annual reports: JP Morgan, Mobil, San Francisco Airport, Metropolitan Life, KPMG, Salomon Brothers, Schlumberger, Comcast, Herman Miller, LG, etc.

    Degrees Held

    BFA and MFA equivalent in France (graphic design)

    Professional Affiliation

    Member of the Society of Illustrators, New York.

    Recent Publications

    2020: interviewed by Janine Kotwica under the title: "Philosophical Humor" for Les cahiers dessinés magazine (France) in the issue #7.

    Performances and Appearances

    One man shows:

    1998: The BFB gallery, Paris.

    2002: Médiathèque Jean Jaurès, Nevers, France,

    2003: Palais Ducal de Nevers, France.

    2006: Centre Culturel de Decize, France.

    2012: Petits Papiers gallery, Paris.

    2015: An Girard gallery, Paris.

    2016: Ecole Estienne, Paris.

    Research Interests

    illustration

    Awards And Honors

    Recipient of 3 Gold and 3 Silver medals, Society of Illustrators, New York.

    2013: recipient of the Hamilton King Award, Society of Illustrators, New York.

    2015: inducted to the Hall of Fame, Society of Illustrators, New York.

    Portfolio

    www.margarethe-illustration.com

    Current Courses

    Explorations in Drawing
    PSAM 1800, Spring 2024

    Future Courses

    Children's Book Illustration
    PSAM 3731, Fall 2024

    Past Courses

    Children's Book Illustration
    PSAM 3731, Fall 2023

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