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 68 contributors here, displaying 11,425 illustrations in 506 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 August so far has been 11,163 and the most visted site this month so far has been Edel Rodriguez.
The last thing searched for here was abstract business . The search resulted in this image by Kirsten Ulve 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.
David G Klein
David Goldin
Kathryn Adams
Thom Sevalrud
Christoph Hitz
Daniel Pelavin
John S. Dykes
Stacy Innerst
Gérard DuBois
Jeffrey Smith
Steve Brodner
Randy Glass
Jim Paillot
Anson Liaw
Brandon Reese
Paul Rogers
Hal Mayforth
Doug Chayka
John Cuneo
Anthony Russo
Tim O'Brien
Anita Kunz
Carl Wiens
Victo Ngai
Jeff Moores
Edel Rodriguez
Michael Cho
Jon Krause
Nancy Stahl
Dave Calver
Joel Castillo
Chris Lyons
John Jay Cabuay
Martha Rich
Ross MacDonald
Hanna Barczyk
Kirsten Ulve
Brad Holland
David Gothard
Yuko Shimizu
John H Howard
Bill Mayer
Bob Staake
Greg Clarke
Joe Ciardiello
Matthew Leake
Mark Matcho
Graham Smith
Scott Bakal
Rick Sealock
Greg Newbold
Robert Hunt
Marc Burckhardt
Owen Smith
Larry Ross
Chris Koehler
Anthony Foronda
Randy Jones
Teresa M Fasolino
Chris Buzelli
Eleftheria Alexandri
heidi younger
Wilson McLean
Thomas Fuchs
Matt Mahurin