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 30,536 and the most visted site this month so far has been Edel Rodriguez.
The last thing searched for here was CLAY. The search resulted in this image by Dave Calver 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.
Daniel Pelavin
John S. Dykes
Dave Calver
Jeffrey Smith
Marc Burckhardt
Graham Smith
David G Klein
Ashley Holt
Thom Sevalrud
Yuko Shimizu
Eleftheria Alexandri
Greg Clarke
Anthony Foronda
Steve Brodner
Scott Bakal
Jeff Moores
Kirsten Ulve
Anthony Russo
John Cuneo
Julia Breckenreid
Hal Mayforth
Steve Wacksman
Joe Ciardiello
Chris Lyons
David Gothard
Matthew Leake
Paul Rogers
Brandon Reese
Robert Hunt
Matt Mahurin
A.Richard Allen
Martha Rich
Gérard DuBois
Hanna Barczyk
Jim Paillot
heidi younger
Victo Ngai
Randy Glass
Anita Kunz
Christoph Hitz
Chris Buzelli
Bill Mayer
Doug Chayka
John Jay Cabuay
David Goldin
Joel Castillo
Mark Matcho
Owen Smith
Greg Newbold
Brad Holland
Anson Liaw
Chris Koehler
David Plunkert
Kathryn Adams
Edel Rodriguez
Teresa M Fasolino
Larry Ross
Bob Staake
Michael Cho
Thomas Fuchs
Jon Krause
Ross MacDonald
Randy Jones
Wilson McLean
Stacy Innerst
Christopher Serra
John H Howard
Tim O'Brien
Nancy Stahl
Rick Sealock