Ian D. Marsden
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Illustrator
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, cartoonist
Cartoonist
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, designer
Designer
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and artist
Artist
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. Born in Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village
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, (New York City
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) Currently he resides near Montpellier
Montpellier
-Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....
Southern France
Southern France
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with his wife Sheryl and their three daughters. Ian previously lived, studied and worked in Zurich, Switzerland / New York
New York
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/ Paris, France / Barbados
Barbados
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, West Indies, Santa Monica
Santa Mônica
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and Culver City.
Marsden has sold cartoons and illustrations to various international publications including Mad Magazine, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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and many others and his artwork has been seen in advertising campaigns and even on Coca Cola cans. He was nominated for the National Cartoonist Society New Media
New media
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award in the New Media category in 2002.
He one of the very first Google Doodle
Google logo
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creators for Google.com starting in May 2000 with the abduction of the Google Logo by aliens and also designed the character of the Kangaroo Doodle which ran on Google during the Olympic Summer Games in Sydney, Australia.
As a character designer he created Smoony the official mascot for the Alpine Ski World Championship 2003 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He was also contracted by Expo.02
Expo.02
Expo.02 was the 6th Swiss national exposition, which was held from 15 May to 20 October 2002. The exposition took place around the lakes of Neuchâtel, Bienne/Biel and Morat/Murten. It was divided into five sites, which were called Arteplages, due to the proximity of the water...
- the 6th Swiss national exposition - to design the official mascot and entire character worlds for each of the arteplages.
His first cartoons were published at age 16 in the Swiss satirical magazine Nebelspalter. He also wrote and illustrated a TV show at the same age for Swiss Television DRS and maintained an atelier in the old town of Zurich, the Niederdorf for several years. He has worked as an art director
Art director
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, illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
and multimedia artist
Multimedia artist
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internationally since then. In 2006 Ian was invited to draw the U.S. soccer team for the Football Heroes book project which encompasses over 700 individual player portraits from current and classic soccer teams drawn by 50 illustrators from 17 different countries released in time for the 2006 FIFA World Cup
2006 FIFA World Cup
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in Germany
Germany
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.
As the creative director for Beverly Hills based Ja-Tail Enterprises, LLC (distributed through Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group
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) he has designed album covers and websites for artists such as La Toya Jackson
La Toya Jackson
La Toya Yvonne Jackson is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, television personality, actress, businesswoman, philanthropist, activist and former model. She is the fifth child of the Jackson family...
.
Ian studied graphic design
Graphic design
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, illustration
Illustration
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and in 2001 graduated from the animation
Animation
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department Academy of Entertainment Technology, Santa Monica College
Santa Monica College
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.
Exhibitions
Ian has participated in many group exhibitions internationally. Some of Ian's large scale pop artPop art
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canvases depicting the likes of John Wayne
John Wayne
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, Clark Gable
Clark Gable
William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...
, Judy Garland
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
and Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
were on display at the historic Culver Hotel
Culver Hotel
Culver Hotel is a historical landmark situated in downtown Culver City, California. It was built on the site of Culver City's first movie theater on September 4, 1924, with local headlines announcing: "City packed with visitors for opening of Culver skyscraper." Originally named Hotel Hunt, and...
where Ian used to have a studio on the second floor. (As a footnote: The hotel bar 'Duke's Hideaway' was also designed by Ian.)
Books
- Zürich, my little town (1988) ISBN 3-85819-124-8 http://aleph.sg.ch:80/F/4VHDICJH64IS22JKVBDB288JXQISIBUATM3NCBBLR9VHH6BJFA-00511?func=full-set-set&set_number=047460&set_entry=000009&format=999
- Football Heroes (2006) ISBN 978-3-9523088-0-6
- Willkommen im Kollegenzoo ISBN 978-3-426-64568-0
- Footballheroes See Red! ISBN 978-3-9523088-7-5