{"id":9651,"date":"2009-12-21T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=9651"},"modified":"2009-12-20T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T01:09:39","slug":"da-kings-artist-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9651","title":{"rendered":"Da Kings Artist Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"263\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bAjAvn2jE7g&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bAjAvn2jE7g&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"263\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So Sacramento\u2019s kinda full of Kansas City emigres. <\/p>\n<p>Many graphic design studio owners came from there, having studied under the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cofa\/a_ah\/rrk\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Roy Kelly<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcai.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Art Institute.<\/a> And it may be only a matter of time until <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9595\">DJG<\/a> ends up in Sac (I&#8217;m just guessing).<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Kings moved to Sacramento in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sacramento_Kings\" target=\"_blank\">1985.<\/a> And recently, I found out a few of my students have been designing Kings billboards on the side.<\/p>\n<p>Part of a campaign headed up by Sacramento Kings creative director Heather Vaughan \u2013 the handmade, graffiti-themed billboards have been appearing all over town. Not prints, but the actual handpainted art. The project has garnered national publicity appearing as a &#8216;Coast to Coast Best Practice&#8217; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\"><em>Sports Business Journal.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time-lapse video, above. Work (by students) below. More details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/kings\/news\/kings_local_artist_2009.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pix.kingsconnect.com\/archives\/738\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/KINGS_001.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/kings\/news\/unique_kings_billboards_washington.html\" target=\"_blank\">Demetris Washington<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pix.kingsconnect.com\/archives\/747\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/KINGS_002.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/kings\/news\/unique_kings_billboards_price_bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Price<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pix.kingsconnect.com\/archives\/732\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/KINGS_003.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/kings\/news\/unique_kings_billboards_mendez_bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Mendez<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LyndsieRoss\" target=\"_blank\">Lyndsie Ross,<\/a> Kings design intern<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Da Kings Artist Project\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9651\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Sacramento\u2019s kinda full of Kansas City emigres. Many graphic design studio owners came from there, having studied under the legendary Rob Roy Kelly at the Kansas City Art Institute. And it may be only a matter of time until DJG ends up in Sac (I&#8217;m just guessing). The Kansas City Kings moved to Sacramento [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,50,49,51],"tags":[58,123],"class_list":["post-9651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design","category-education","category-illustration","tag-graphic-design","tag-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9651"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9717,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions\/9717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}