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		<title>Send in the Clownfish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With one more week until the big gallery show in London, I decided the self portrait on my bio page needed an overhaul. I&#8217;m not one to toot my own horn (I hire immigrant laborers to do that. Dutch flugelhorn quintet, pay them in mayonnaise), but I think I did a heck of a job capturing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zackrock.com/blog/2012/01/30/send-in-the-clownfish/</link>
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		<title>Cover song</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The final piece of the puzzle before I head to London for my class&#8217;s gallery show at Foyles Bookstore. For the book cover, I wanted to strike a vintage chord without going too far overboard. I&#8217;m no Saul Bass. More of a Saul Guppy. I also wanted to introduce Melvin himself, give a sense of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zackrock.com/blog/2012/01/20/cover-song/</link>
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		<title>Red, woods.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Late last night, after spending a few days recovering from my big MA hand in and acquiring the world&#8217;s wussiest cold (if colds are jazz, I&#8217;ve come down with Kenny G), I realized I hadn&#8217;t done any actual work in days. So I gave myself three hours to draw something, and lo, this is what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zackrock.com/blog/2012/01/10/red-woods/</link>
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		<title>At last, the big day arrived!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[click for larger image] Two days ago, the final assignments for my MA were submitted to my professors. After a year and a half of dedicated study and work, I&#8217;m left torn between being super excited about finishing, and feeling a little lost. I have been wanting to get an MA in illustration ever since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zackrock.com/blog/2012/01/06/at-last-the-big-day-arrived/</link>
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		<title>Shop talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for Christmas, here&#8217;s the final version of the sketch I posted a few weeks back. I&#8217;m sure many of you can empathize with the condition these goats have found themselves in. Just wish I had the foresight to give one of the goats a canister of pepper spray. Initially, the goats were to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zackrock.com/blog/2011/12/19/shop-talk/</link>
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		<title>We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At long last, the first completed page of my picturebook! Here, Melvin&#8217;s adoration of music is introduced, as we see him experiencing a transcendent moment listening to Frank Sinatra&#8217;s &#8220;That&#8217;s Life.&#8221; You can tell it&#8217;s Frank Sinatra&#8217;s &#8220;That&#8217;s Life&#8221; because I got the score online and reproduced it (almost faithfully) on the scroll of notation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zackrock.com/blog/2011/11/28/we-are-the-music-makers-and-we-are-the-dreamers-of-the-dreams/</link>
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		<title>Cover me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I took a break from generating farm-based music puns for my picturebook (Radiohen! The Guess Moo! Pjörk! Please! Kill me!) to work on a cover illustration for the catalogue of the upcoming graduation exhibition for my MA course. All the students who&#8217;ll be featured in the exhibition were invited to create an original [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zackrock.com/blog/2011/11/25/cover-me/</link>
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		<title>Bird brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the final Nancy Drew adventure I worked on at Her Interactive, The Captive Curse, I was tasked to create an illustration for a card game featuring made-up folk tale characters. FOR SOME REASON, they assigned me the character named &#8220;Professor Sparrow.&#8221; Go figure. Given I basically only had a name to work from, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zackrock.com/blog/2011/11/08/bird-brain/</link>
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		<title>Remember the Something Something&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I created a shirt design for Shirt.Woot, an awesome t-shirt company that releases one design a day on discount to whomever is lucky enough to visit the site before it sells out. As you can see, my idea was a riff off the old Memory game, only with memorable historical events instead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zackrock.com/blog/2011/11/01/remember-the-something-something/</link>
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		<title>BaaaahhhhhhhooOOooOooOooooo&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Halloween!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zackrock.com/blog/2011/10/31/baaaahhhhhhhooooooooooooooo/</link>
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