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 70 contributors here, displaying 12,380 illustrations in 532 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 May so far has been 35,305 and the most visted site this month so far has been Edel Rodriguez.
The last thing searched for here was GOLF. The search resulted in this image by Greg Clarke 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.
Greg Clarke
Edel Rodriguez
Jon Krause
Chris Buzelli
Daniel Pelavin
Jeff Moores
Hal Mayforth
John S. Dykes
John Jay Cabuay
Joel Castillo
Martha Rich
Dave Calver
Matthew Leake
Wilson McLean
Anthony Russo
Christoph Hitz
Yuko Shimizu
Steve Brodner
Anthony Foronda
Rick Sealock
John H Howard
Nancy Stahl
Stacy Innerst
Eleftheria Alexandri
Doug Chayka
Hanna Barczyk
Tim O'Brien
Victo Ngai
Marc Burckhardt
Christopher Serra
Mark Matcho
Kirsten Ulve
Bob Staake
John Cuneo
Greg Newbold
Randy Glass
heidi younger
Brad Holland
Joe Ciardiello
Chris Koehler
Michael Cho
Thom Sevalrud
Ashley Holt
Julia Breckenreid
Anita Kunz
Teresa M Fasolino
Jeffrey Smith
Ross MacDonald
A.Richard Allen
Matt Mahurin
Kathryn Adams
David G Klein
Anson Liaw
Graham Smith
David Goldin
Jim Paillot
Gérard DuBois
Owen Smith
Bill Mayer
Paul Rogers
David Gothard
Chris Lyons
Brandon Reese
Robert Hunt
Larry Ross
Steve Wacksman
David Plunkert
Scott Bakal
Thomas Fuchs
Randy Jones