Planet Yang and James Yang Illustration are now the same address. Why Planet Yang? This new site will provide a richer source of information about various illustrations, projects, and news.

Both  http://www.planetyang.com and http://www.jamesyang.com will bring you to the new site.

(AD for cover illustration, Soojin Buzelli)

The Planet Yang book is a 32 page book featuring a variety of projects and illustrations. My agent, David Goldman, has been wanting me to do a book like this for some time.

Ironically, I couldn’t figure out the book until starting Planet Yang. Afterwards, everything fell into place.

If you would like to buy Planet Yang, please visit here.

Illustration for this Sunday New York TImes Business Section titled, How High Will Real-Time Search fly?

Cover done for Environment Yale magazine in 2007.

The editor, David DeFusco, sent a rough scribble of a globe face with water being squeezed from the head.

Sometimes it is hard to see the idea through someone else’s scribble. Occasionally, it becomes more difficult to come up with a solution.

Not this time.

The Environment Yale cover is one of my favorite covers.

Sculpture designed for the Smithsonian Museum of American History. I provided an illustration and the Smithsonian created the sculpture.

When they first called, they mentioned the sculpture would be part of a temporary exhibit.

I asked how temporary.

They said 25 years.

Clockman was created for the “On Time” Exhibit and is part of the museum’s permanent collection.

Animated Website for Moye White LLP. The client is a firm in Denver,Colorado specializing in commercial law. This is part of a campaign including advertising and collateral.

Series of children’s products created for Galison Mudpuppy.

Clockwise from top left: robot stickers, Space coin bank, robot folders, robot pencil holder

To buy, please click here.

Lampshade design for “Enlighten”, an art lamp exhibit in Los Angeles on November 21st. This exhibit will help support arts education. Tornado Design is the curator. The design is based on illustrations called the Robot Bunny series.

The lamp is available for purchase and part of the proceeds go to Inner City Arts based in LA.

To pre-order the lamp, please click here.

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Video exploring the lives of  illustrators who live the global life. Director Greg Nemec and I did this for the ICON Conference in New York City. Interviews with Hanoch Piven, Michael Bartalos, Fernanda Cohen, Nate Williams, Monika Aichele, Ingo Fast, and Laurie Rosenwald.

(thanks to swissmiss for the image)

This was a cover and fold-out for the Directory of Illustration 2009. Dave Plunkert of Spur Design is the designer. When I first turned it in, it had a more complex background. Dave liked the art, but I asked if there was anything he would change.

He said no.

I asked again if he was sure.

After working with the type, he suggested a black background.

David is a very smart guy.

p.s.  This is the first post on Planet Yang. Hopefully this will be the first of many.