entries Tagged as [illustration]
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.
Jobs: Making the world a better place
‘Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.’ –Steve Jobs
Intuition is very powerful, once one knows how to trust it. It involves turning off the insecurities of ego and concentrating on pure feeling. And it works wonders.
The news of Steve Jobs’ passing came in via social media. I saw a Facebook post right after I gave a design history lecture on early modern artists and how they’d managed to change the world.
I was fortunate enough to both go to school and work in and around Silicon Valley where Jobs’ approach reverberates and inspires. Playing it safe, following the status quo will not lead to new things, will not improve life as we know it – and Jobs knew how to get the best work out of Apple’s creative team.
He knew that details are excruciatingly important. Leveraging design, using good typography, giving us what we really want – instead of what we think we need – was all part of the package.
Thinking different makes the world a better place. That’s the legacy he leaves.
Image by Dylan Roscover, using Apple’s suite of fonts from over the years
Schelbert, West, Rietveld
‘handprinted and unique posters in A0 format, printed and digital invitations and adverts in various Dutch magazines . . . woodcut printed.’
E-flyer for Alban Schelbert and Christopher West’s End Exam Show at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. From 2009.
Found via manystuff
‘Wtf are you eating?’
‘Having many food and chemical sensitivities has been a largely trial-and-error process for what can be tolerated and what can’t, and has resulted in many creative kitchen science experiments’
Web designer/cartoonist (and former student of mine) Annie Hero has developed some major health problems. Recently, she’s taken to blogging about her approach to reclaiming her life from years of processed food intolerance.
Annie’s WTF are you eating? can be found here.
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a piano falls in old manhattan
tetro and typography
it’s typography: film, song and dance
ghosts of gustov klimt
the great times new roman controversy
picking fonts
kapitaal
defining terms: design is not decoration
garcia's 'pure design'
'enhance that image!'
magic highway remixed
the cynic
rad anthem
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Divinely Elegant: The World of Ernst Dryden
Jozsef Pecsi: Photo and Advertising
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art
Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art
Gaberbocchus Press: An Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979
Advertising Art in the Art Deco Style
Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture
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