entries Tagged as [illustration]
So what really happened
Change to Win’s animate of ‘The End of the American Dream?’ – done in the style of RSA Animate.
Found via Occupy San Francisco
Dark Into Light
Video for AM & Shawn Lee’s Dark Into Light. Directed by Christian Borstlap and animated by Paul Postma.
Kolb’s Space Oddity
‘The tale of doomed Major Tom plays out in Kolb’s bright and retro animation style, giving a face to the legendary Bowie character and making the conclusion that much sadder’
Illustrated just for fun. The work of Andrew Kolb.
David Bowie: Space Oddity
Found via ComicsAlliance and Badass Digest
Chewbacca the Bear!
More posters from my room.
In early 1977, Marine World Africa USA was giving away these Coca-Cola promo posters. Their elephants were used in the first Star Wars movie as the banthas – and I ended up with some free wall hangings.
Knew nothing about the movie and I knew nothing about droids, the old guy with the Jesus circles around his head or why something was called a ‘SEE-THREEPIO.’ Also thought Chewbacca the Bear seemed a bit odd.
A few months later, went to the drive in and saw Star Wars. The previous year, saw Logan’s Run at the drive in. Star Wars was something much different.
‘They’re so small they’re evading our terrible lizards’
In 1977, this poster hung on my bedroom closet door – and was eventually eaten up by use of that same door.
It came as an extra large ‘freebie’ in the Star Wars soundtrack, which I bought thinking it was this album. It wasn’t. It was the symphonic score; for me, an introduction to classical music. What I learned from the free poster – as a young impressionable creative – is abstraction, when done right, looks great.
It was painted by artist John Berkey – who used quick brush strokes that up close were a gloopy mess, but at a distance create energy and implied motion.
Berkey’s work influences me to this day.
And for my iTunes-loaded tracks of the Star Wars radio program, I’m using some of his art as my ‘album covers,’ below.
As for Star Wars’ ‘terrible lizards,’ these are them.
Poster found via KlaatuCarpenter
Jacaranda, Colours
One of my favorite bands from the 1980s is Yes. And former Yes guitarist/vocalist Trevor Rabin has a solo album about to drop, cover painted by Hannah Hooper.
Hooper is in Grouplove with Trevor’s son Ryan. Below, video for Grouplove’s Colours.
Stenciled mehallo
‘Drop caps not bombs’
An anonymously-created stencil interpretation of myself – spotted last quarter on the wall at the Art Institute of California Sacramento.
(Okay, I know which student made it, but I ain’t tellin)
Orange Terry
‘terry richardson stencil new york city meatpacking district’
Street art snapped by Daniel Rolnik.
Found via Argot & Ochre
Occupy, the posters
‘I’ve been doing posters for tons of cities across America’
In the past few weeks, one of my former students has found herself cast as the visual heart of the Occupy movement. Raina Dayne started with offering to do a poster and it’s blossomed into something much bigger.
Raina’s images can be downloaded for use at the Occupy Together website. Facebook page here, shirts here.
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