Five entries in "Illustration"
Raking Leaves in the Wind
CREATE BERLIN will host the exhibition Raking Leaves in the Wind, an exhibition by Berlin-based Canadians Julien Vallée, Eve Duhamel and Brent Wadden, featuring playful graphics, drawings, paintings, animations, and paper installations. The show will be up from October 29th through November 28th.
Monday October 13, 2008 - 1 month ago
Posted by Duane King / Filed under Exhibitions, Graphic Design, Illustration
Illustrative Zurich
From October 17th to October 26th Illustrative’s 4th forum of graphic arts will take place in the Zurich Messehallen. Conceived in 2006 by Pascal Johanssen and Katja Kleiss in Berlin, Illustrative is an annual forum, and the only one of it’s kind worldwide to present the latest inclinations which run the gamut of illustrative and graphic art in one exhibition.
The main exhibition features over 400 works by 35 artists and gives an international overview which represents the various facets of illustrative art. The exhibit features well-known artists such as German illustrators Olaf Hajek and Martin Haake, Spanish comic-artist Jorge Fabian Gonzalez Varela, American illustrators Eric Sandberg, Vincent Hui and Edwin Ushiro, as well as Japanese Artist Yoh Nagao.
Tuesday September 30, 2008 - 1 month ago
Posted by Duane King / Filed under Exhibitions, Illustration
Hot Rods and Hairy Beasts
Hot Rods, Hula Girls, Hairy Beasts, Himalayan Head Hunters and the Holy Bible are just some of the subjects under discussion by illustrators Linzie Hunter, Rod Hunt, Nishant Choksi and Allan Sanders. No subject is too small for this group of seasoned professional illustrators and adventurers. With clients spanning the world of advertising, publishing, design and editorial this band of battle scarred buccaneers are prepared for the eventuality of just about anything.
Hot Rods and Hairy Beasts is showing at the Coningsby Gallery beginning today until Saturday, October 4th 2008.
Monday September 29, 2008 - 1 month ago
Posted by Duane King / Filed under Exhibitions, Illustration
Champion Don't Stop
The always inspiring Geoff McFetridge, an artist and designer based in Los Angeles, recently relaunched Champion Don’t Stop. Geoff was once the art director for the Beastie Boys’ Grand Royal Magazine and went on to launch Champion Graphics in Atwater Village where he has developed designs for posters, t-shirts, textiles, motion graphics, advertising and film production. Amongst his recent ventures; a wallpaper company called Pottok Prints and a skateboarding company by the name of The Solitary Arts. Geoff is also a member of The Directors Bureau.
A prolific designer, Geoff’s minimalism and playfulness is reminiscent of the of the work created at Push Pin Studios by Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser. Clever concepts are communicated quickly through a refined graphic simplicity. Geoff probably puts it best when he explains his process as follows, “Invention must be countered by consistency, complexity with simplicity, decoration with purpose.”
Follow developments with his work though his blogs at Pottok Prints and The Solitary Arts.
Sunday June 29, 2008 - 4 months ago
Posted by Duane King / Filed under Art, Graphic Design, Illustration
Ronald Kurniawan
Ronald Kurniawan graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Inspired by ideograms, syllables, letterforms, beasts and heroic landscapes, he slowly but surely continues to create a visual language where the wilderness and civilization could merge happily together. With the belief that the sublime and nuclear age could coexist, he paints romantic environments and breaks the quiet scene with juxtaposed imagery taking the shape of icons and letterforms. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles where he paints meticulously and happily accompanied by his pug Ruffles, an avid artist himself.
