December 2009
19 posts
Pentagram by Kate Ross
Pentagram originated in London in 1972. Their main goal, like many design companies, was collaboration, but with a fresh outlook. Pentagram is known for being a firm of equals. Their system is known as a “flat” organization. There are no executive officers, no CEOs or CFOs; each of the 17 partner-designers shares an equal standing within the company. They have equal incomes and they each own an...
David LaChapelle by Kelsey Plantas
David LaChapelle first trained as a fine artist at the North Carolina School of the Arts. After moving to New York, he enrolled at the Art Students League and the School of Visual Arts. While he was still in high school, Andy Warhol hired him to shoot for Interview Magazine.
LaChapelle has photographed an endless list of celebrities. He’s photographed Tupac, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Elton...
Paul Rand, by: Paula Sosin
Paul (Rosenbaum) Rand, was born August 15, 1914. He was born an Orthodox Jew and as the creation of images that can be worshiped as idols was forbidden, his story takes on a new perspective, considering who he would soon become.
He was educated at the Pratt Institute, Parsons The New School for Design, the Arts League, and then began teaching at Yale University.
He became one of the originators...
Irving Penn by Brooke Boothe
A photographer whom was known for his portrait photography and fashion photography. His art began to flourish for the post World War II photographs, feminine chic, and glamour images. Within his realm of photography as an art he was on of the first photographers to capture an image in front of a simple colored backdrop. He allowed for his photography to be technologically sound as well as the...
Shynola by Chelsea Ness
Shynola consists of four artist, Gideon Baws, Jason Groves, Chris Harding, and Richard Kenworthy who got together at the College of Art and Design in Maidstone, Kent. After they graduated the moved to London and worked independently. It wasn’t long before these four were back together collaborating as Shynola. A college film they made gained a lot of recognition “The Littlest Robo”...
tim walker/
/ange davies
interview link. http://www.showstudio.com/project/infashion/films/36330
london based photographer tim walker seems to visit another world every time he composes a vision for his next shoot. his compelling images force the viewer to travel with him, to this world of pure perception, a world rich, alive, and full with the ability to evoke or re-voke the childhood fantasies and dreams...
Dave McKean by owen
Only being able to read quick, self-authored biographies found at the end of comics would tell a lot about what Dave McKean is like, without telling you much about him. For instance: “Dave McKean’s favorite toy was a woolen fish. It was called Fish. These days his favorite game is trying to get color copiers to do things they were never intended for, nor ever dreamed of doing,” “Spawned a goblin...
Heads Of State by Melissa Walters
www.headsofstate.com
Heads of State is a design studio lead by two designers, Jason Kernevich and Dustin Summers, who have been working together for about 7 years now. They both graduated from Tyler School of Art’s design program. They have a very simplistic and graphic style that sets them apart from others. They have collaborativly won awards from Communication Arts, American...
Lee Clow
Lee Clow is widely considered to be one of the most brilliant art directors of the past several decades, and perhaps one of the greatest of all time. He was referred to as “advertising’s art director guru” by Adertising Age, a reputable advertising magazine. Clow was born in Los Angeles, California in 1943. It wasn’t long before his potential as an artist was recognized...
Keri Smith//Hannah Lokken
Keri Smith calls herself an author/illustrator turned guerilla artist. How awesome would that be? She is a free lance illustrator so she has worked for many different clients from all around the world. For example, she has produced work for Random House, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Ford Motor Co., the Boston Globe, Galison/Mudpuppy Press, and Hallmark. Thats the kind of stuff she...
Contemporary Visual Artist: Annie Leibovitz by...
Annie Leibovitz is an outstanding photographer who has been photographed celebrities since the early 1980s. She has photographed people from John Lennon, Demi Moore, Julie Andrews and many more. She has created work that the public loved and even thought as a little too scandalous, but Annie doesn’t let anything get in the way of her ideas and creates a whole new world with just one photograph....
Christophe Gilbert
Christophe Gilbert is an amazing Belgian photographer whose work is nearly all self taught and very different from anything I’ve ever seen. He was born in Brussels in 1962 and studied photography only for a year, taking night classes at the Academy of Ixelles. He began his career assisting a well-known car photographer in the eighties, thus ganging himself a little credibility and more...
David Carson by Carolina DeGroot
A relatively new, yet highly influential person in the art and advertising world is graphic designer, David Carson. Carson was born September 8th, 1955 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He initially studied sociology at San Diego State University, and surfed professionally, ranking number 9 in the world. It was not until age 26 that he started exploring his interest in design. After participating in...
Lois Greenfield and Twyla Tharp_Salina Gatto
Throughout my entire life all I ever wanted to become was a dancer. Becoming an graphic designer and or illustrator was in the back of my mind when the music was turned on in my dance class. It was all i ever wanted to do and the role model that I looked to the most was Martha Graham and Twyla Tharp among many others. They were special to me due to their unique style and eccentric ways of thinking...
George Lois was born in the Bronx, New York on June 26, 1931. He went to the High School of Music and Art and later attended Pratt Institute, despite receiving a basketball scholarship from Syracuse University. Lois attending Pratt for only a year before he was drafted for the Korean War.
After returning from the war, Lois got a job at CBS working for the advertising and promotions department....
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Contemporary Artist Paper: William Wegman by Divya...
When people hear the name William Wegman, the first thing that pops into their minds is, “isn’t that the man with the dogs?” Even William Wegman himself knows this but there’s more to him than meets the eye. To all dog lovers and maybe even people who are interested in the weird and wacky, William Wegman is probably one of the most interesting people out there. He was born on December 2nd, 1943...