About illoz
illoz is on the world wide web to provide art directors with a curated site, that keeps the number of illustrators low and the level of professionalism high. Illustrators that are here have a known track record of delivering on time and curiously on point.
The site was originally programmed by two guys, Zimm and Josh Carpenter back in 2006. The version you're looking at right now was programmed entirely by Zimm in 2018.
There are currently 55 contributors here, displaying 10,599 illustrations in 446 individual portolios
The illoz logo was designed by Leo Espinosa!
What illoz has under the hood
There's a pretty nifty invoicing system here too that can send HTML invoices to clients that are viewable here online and printable.
There's also a newsletter feature that allows contributors to create and distribute HTML newsletters to their subscription list.
In the back room, stats are stored on all image views. It's just a running count of how many times things are looked at.
Dork Stats
The total number of visits for the month of April so far has been 34,230 and the most visted site this month so far has been Johanna Goodman.
The last thing searched for here was russo. The search resulted in a visit to Anthony Russo
illoz only counts visitors to each contributor once daily, so multiple visits to the same contributor on the same day are only counted once. This is accomplished with a server session and not a cookie placed on the visitor.
Geek Stuff
There's a lot of javascript in play here as well and much of that runs on JQuery, as well as just plain old vanilla javascript.
The server is Apache, the operating system is Linux and the server itself is located in Los Angeles, California.
Privacy Policy
There are contact forms here for each contributor. If you use one of those forms, illoz doesn't store anything. Those forms just send an email and that's the end of that.
You can subscribe to any contributor here. That email is stored in a database that belongs to the contributor. They may from time to time distribute a promotional or informative newsletter to you using that list. illoz doesn't do anything with those email addresses except keep them locked down in an airtight database on the server.
There's no advertising here, because the site is paid for on a subscription model by contributors.
What that means is, illoz doesn't need to know anything about visitors.
The exception to cookies mentioned above is the image tag feature. Above an illustration you'll see a ❤ symbol. Clicking that does store a cookie on your browser. This allows illoz to create a library of tagged images for you, but that's all it ever does.
Hopefully that covers everything about privacy.
Pete Reynolds
Chris Buzelli
Christopher Serra
GĂ©rard DuBois
Nancy Stahl
Daniel Pelavin
John Cuneo
John H Howard
Douglas Fraser
Bill Mayer
Joe Ciardiello
Brandon Reese
Anson Liaw
Wilson McLean
Greg Clarke
Yuko Shimizu
Bob Staake
Anthony Foronda
Tim O'Brien
Marc Burckhardt
Thomas Fuchs
Paul Rogers
Steve Brodner
Victo Ngai
heidi younger
Chris Lyons
Steve Wacksman
Kirsten Ulve
David G Klein
Kathryn Adams
Hal Mayforth
Doug Chayka
Jon Krause
David Goldin
John S. Dykes
Eleftheria Alexandri
Robert Hunt
Jeff Moores
Carl Wiens
Edel Rodriguez
Hanna Barczyk
David Gothard
Scott Bakal
Brad Holland
Michael Cho
John Jay Cabuay
Anthony Russo
Dave Calver
Jeffrey Smith
Thom Sevalrud
Anita Kunz
Teresa M Fasolino
Mark Matcho
Greg Newbold
Rick Sealock