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 53 contributors here, displaying 10,056 illustrations in 426 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 October so far has been 368 and the most visted site this month so far has been Nancy Stahl.
The last thing searched for here was typography. The search resulted in this image by Daniel Pelavin being looked at
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.
Bob Staake
Michael Cho
Robert Hunt
Joe Ciardiello
Dave Calver
Anthony Russo
Steve Wacksman
Gérard DuBois
Brandon Reese
John S. Dykes
Yuko Shimizu
Anita Kunz
John Cuneo
Wilson McLean
Brad Holland
Hanna Barczyk
Steve Brodner
Greg Clarke
David Goldin
Kirsten Ulve
Paul Rogers
Jon Krause
John H Howard
David G Klein
Mark Matcho
Thom Sevalrud
Chris Lyons
Greg Newbold
Chris Buzelli
Anson Liaw
Daniel Pelavin
Christopher Serra
Rick Sealock
Anthony Foronda
Hal Mayforth
Pete Reynolds
John Jay Cabuay
Teresa M Fasolino
Scott Bakal
Nancy Stahl
Tim O'Brien
David Gothard
Jeff Moores
Eleftheria Alexandri
Edel Rodriguez
Thomas Fuchs
Victo Ngai
Carl Wiens
Doug Chayka
heidi younger
Marc Burckhardt
Bill Mayer