Dan Lisowski has maintained a 20-year illustration and visual communications practice alongside full-time professional roles, developing strong client collaboration, project management, and creative problem-solving abilities. He manages projects end-to-end, including contractual agreements, conceptual development, client collaboration, revision stages, final artwork delivery, and financial invoicing. He curates and manages this digital portfolio. He showcases and sells original artwork, fine art prints, and self-published art books in galleries and cultural venues.

Selected Professional Clients: Discovery Channel, HBO, Lori Goldstein, Paramount Pictures, Paul Smith, Pepsi.

Click this link to purchase Dan’s self-published art books on Amazon.

Please reach out with feedback, project requests, or to learn more, and thanks for looking! [email protected].

Selected Professional Client Work:

HBO:

Illustrations featured on the HBO TV Series “How To Make It In America”. These images I created were printed and hung up as posters, decorating a character’s apartment.

DISCOVERY CHANNEL:

Illustrated magazine spreads advertising a Discovery Science Channel television show. I created the drawings, typography, and hand-drawn logo treatments. These images were featured in multiple months of Popular Mechanics Magazine.

PAUL SMITH:

Large scale mural painting on the walls of English fashion designer Paul Smith’s wholesale showroom in SoHo, New York, above the Paul Smith retail store. I painted the mural and original “cartoon Englishmen” characters on additional canvases for display across the showroom space.

PARAMOUNT PICTURES:

Six-foot painting of a “magical gramophone” I created in promotion of Paramount Pictures’ motion picture “The Soloist”. I painted a portion of this piece during a live event at Lincoln Center, New York, accompanied with music performed by a Juilliard string quartet.

LORI GOLDSTEIN:

Logo and website type treatments for fashion designer Lori Goldstein’s website, online presence, and business email signatures for her brands Lori Goldstein, Logo Layers, and LBGold.

PEPSI:

Storyboard illustrations for a Pepsi television commercial.

LEAD GRAFFITI:

Greeting card designs produced in partnership with Lead Graffiti letterpress studio.

Self-published art and poetry books:

I have self-published four art books, available on Amazon: “Song of the Ashcan Gypsies”, “Atop Rain Glow Mountain”, “Void Roam Episode One: Treasure Toad Fiasco”, and “Void Roam Episode Two: Moonstone Shimmy Upbeat”. These books combine my drawings with handwritten whimsical, imaginative poetry.

“Song of the Ashcan Gypsies” and “Atop Rain Glow Mountain” are printed in black and white. “Void Roam Episode One: Treasure Toad Fiasco” and “Void Roam Episode Two: Moonstone Shimmy Upbeat” feature black and white and color images, but these two volumes are a bit shorter, as costs go up when you’re printing in color!

All four books are fine springboards to leap into playful and fantastical cartoon worlds, if you’re so inclined! Collect them all!

Jade Dungeon, independent project:

Jade Dungeon is a magical underground cartoon universe I have been patiently developing. I combine poetry about monsters and adventurers in the spirit of Shel Silverstein with fanciful cartoon drawings. Jade Dungeon will eventually be published in book format. I’ve included a few samples below.

“Are you brave enough to explore Jade Dungeon, whatever’s around the bend? Who will you find? What are you looking for? Where will you be at the end?”

Void Roam – meditative video art, independent project:

Click the YouTube link below to enjoy 15 minutes of my relaxing and meditative video art. Let your imagination roam across my visual collages and mixed media animations.

Weird Visions Society – a 1980’s-inspired independent horror movie:

Weird Visions Society is a feature length film that I co-directed, co-produced, and co-wrote with Ryan Petrillo. I also acted in it as a few of the victims and a few of the monsters! It is an earnest love letter to 1980s Italian horror and practical-effects creature-feature monster movies. We filmed it over three years in and around Philadelphia and New Jersey with a self-funded budget and with the help of many beautiful people. It’s an experimental science-fiction/horror anthology movie. We recorded ALL the audio sound effects and dialogue in post-production, like the Italian genre films did back in the 1980s, giving the movie a distinctive and surreal audio quality. There are homemade monster costumes. There is lots of homemade slime. The soundtrack is all original music. It was a labor of love and makes my inner-child jump for joy!

If you’re curious about what a couple of monster movie fans can do with a camera, a few bucks, and a boatload of blood, sweat, and tears, give Weird Visions Society a watch. Every dollar we make goes into production on our follow up feature length monster movie, which we are filming now!

Visit our store for Weird Visions Society Blu-rays and merchandise!

I also painted the cover art for the movie:

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