Guy Billout
Part-time Associate Teaching Professor
Email
billoutg@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street
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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