Melinda Beck

Melinda Beck

@melindabeckart.bsky.social

74 Followers 37 Following 23 Posts Joined Feb 2025
2 weeks ago
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I had a great time running the Illustrated Lettering workshop at @svabfadesign. The students created some fantastic letter drawings and beautifully illustrated words!

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1 month ago
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NO MORE PERIODS!
The final piece in a series of illustrations I did for D Magazine's Complete Guide to the Glorious Joys of Menopause.

#menopause #menopausehealth #illustration #editorialillustration #graphicillustration

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1 month ago
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AI44 winner @melindabeckart.bsky.social
#artdirector @gailycurl @MTA
@svanyc.bsky.social

Exploring one's creativity and imagination is at the heart of art education and the classes I teach at the School of Visual Arts.
#schoolofvisualarts#subwayposters #womenwhoillustrate

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1 month ago
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Night Sweats!
(one of my personal favorites)
Part of a series of illustrations I did for @d_magazine Complete Guide to the Glorious Joys of Menopause.
#menopause #menopausehealth  #illustration #editorialillustration #graphicillustration

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1 month ago

studio@melindabeck.com

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2 months ago
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Hot flashes and brain fog!
Part of a series of illustrations I did for D Magazine's Complete Guide to the Glorious Joys of Menopause.

#menopause #menopausehealth #illustration #editorialillustration #graphicillustration

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2 months ago
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I am honored to receive a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators @soi128 . The Gender Q: Gen Z is forcing a reckoning over traditional ideas of Male and Female. This illustration was part of a special issue of @brownalumnimagazine that was planned and delivered by four graduating seniors.

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3 months ago
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Today is the last day to receive 15% off signed and numbered archival Giclée prints from my artistic collaboration with the band Quicksand.
@qsnyc 
15% off with code HOLIDAY25: through Monday December 1st.
Link to shop: melindabeck.bigcartel.com

#quicksandband #quicksandnyc

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3 months ago
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30 years ago, Quicksand released Manic Compression. To celebrate, I am selling hand-signed artist prints of the iconic cover art. and other Quicksand art goodies.
Link to the shop: melindabeck.bigcartel.com

15% off with code HOLIDAY25: through Monday December 1st.

#quicksandband #quicksandnyc

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4 months ago
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Cramming Elon Musk's oozing brain into these illustrated borders. A feature article about billionaires for Rolling Stone Magazine. 

#elonmusk #billionaires #crypto #editorialillustration #politicalillustration

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4 months ago
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My Abortion Prom graphics and a fantastic night of fundraising for reproductive rights and abortion care with @aisfororg.

#reproductiverights #reproductivehealth #abortionishealthcare

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6 months ago
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Armor vs.Underwear
When companies merge and their cybersecurity does not match.
Another fun one for Brunswick Group
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#businessillustration #editorialillustration #cybersecurity

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7 months ago
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How Coloradans Are Fighting Sexism in Health Care.
My latest illustration for 5280magazine.

#illustration #editorialillustration #womenshealth #menopause #equalrights

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8 months ago
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What You've Suspected is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
My illustration for @Rolling Stone.
Exorcising my feelings about our current reality.
#editorialillustration #politicalillustration

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10 months ago
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Taking a moment to breathe, enjoy the spring, and read a good book. My Illustration Harvard University Law Bulletin. My 150th illustration for Ad @ronncampisi.bsky.social !

#magazines #illustration #alumnimagazines #editorialillustration #summerreading #reading #booksbooksbooks

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10 months ago
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Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Edible LA Magazine generously shared her story of losing her family's home in the L.A. fires. Pieces of her story made it into my art.
Thanks to @loripedrick for commissioning me. This story hit close to home, as I, too, have friends who lost their homes.

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11 months ago
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Abortion storytellers are putting the struggle for reproductive freedom into powerful new words. Thank you, AD Robert Best, for asking me to create art that gives a visual presence to their voices for the Nation Magazine.

#womensreproductiverig#abortionishealthcare #prochoice #AbortionJustice

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11 months ago
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Thanks so much to the judges of @communicationarts Illustration Awards! It is an honor to receive this Award of Excellence for the murals I created for Le Paradis Des Angles, a French immersion daycare here in Brooklyn.

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1 year ago
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The Obscene-Literature Teacher
Lee McCarthy’s landmark First Amendment case against censorship resonates with painful relevance today.

My portrait of Lee McCarthy for @altajournal.
Thanks @goecke for asking me to create this art

#freespeach #literatureteachers #womenteachers
#illistration

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1 year ago
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Voting with my wallet #cancelamazonptime

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1 year ago
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My @sva workshop with students from Japan. Making zines and looking at the zines at the @sva library

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1 year ago
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#AbrahamLincoln

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1 year ago
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Fun with buildings!
My series of images for the 2025 Commercial Real Estate Outlook.
Illustration for @sbuzelli and #chiefinv

#businessillustration #editorialillustration #illustration #melindabeck #soojinbuzelli #realestateinvesting #comercialrealestate

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1 year ago
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I had so much fun creating this bright, colorful, block-long mural for Le Paradis Des Angles, a French immersion daycare here in Brooklyn.

#murals #illustration #kidtart #artforchildren #childrensbookart #brooklynbusiness #brooklyn #smallbusiness

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