Interview with Christopher Doyle

Check out the full version of Chris Doyle's Identity Guidelines: Christopher Doyle_Guidelines.pdf (1.04 mb)

Chris Doyle is a Sydney based designer at Moon Group and recently produced a set of identity guidelines based on himself which is an instant classic. I tracked Chris down to find out more about the project ....

Hello Chris, I’ve seen your brilliant identity guidelines featured on numerous blogs recently, what has the public response been?

To be honest I have been completely overwhelmed by the response. People seem to have genuinely enjoyed the piece. I have had emails and text messages from all over the world, all just people writing to say they enjoyed it. I had a phone call from a guy in New Zealand who called to say how much he enjoyed it, that he felt compelled to call. That was so satisfying for me. From the start I was far more concerned with the idea and making it funny, than I was with it being a cool or fashionable piece of design. For so many people, designers or otherwise, to find it funny or clever, that's more than I could have hoped for.

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Homage to Jeanne-Claude

http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/

Artist Jeanne-Claude (née Denat de Guillebo) died in New York Wednesday evening of complications from a brain aneurysm. Along with her husband and artistic partner Christo, whom she met in 1958, she undertook an international series of large-scale outdoor installations, modifying landscapes with industrial strength cloth ballooned, wrapped, and tied. In a tale that legends are made of, the pair were born on the same date, the 13th of June in 1935, and allegedly in the same hour. Of note is the fact that all of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s projects are self-financed — meaning a pretty significant initial outlay for, say, 1.076 million square feet of aluminum-coated fabric to cover the entire façade of the Reichstag in Berlin. In honor of Jeanne-Claude’s legacy in the realm of environmental art, we’ve compiled a visual primer of the duo’s oeuvre after the jump.

As reported in the LA Times arts blog Culture Monster, Jeanne-Claude’s professed to keep no favorites among her many influential works: “We always say that each one of our projects is a child of ours, and a father and mother who have many children will never tell you which one is their favorite. If people insist that we have to have a favorite one, then we say, ‘Okay, you are right, we do have a favorite one and it’s always the next one.’”

Geza M. Tot - KEDD Animation Studio

		Born in 1970. Hungarian artist, animation filmmaker Geza M. Toth has been working also as a tutor at several animation film institutes such as the Animation Department of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, the Royal College of Art, London, the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad (India) and Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg (Germany). Founder and managing director of the KEDD Animation Studio. In the past years has created approx. 120 animation signals, commercials and short animation films. His productions were successfully screened at different international festivals all over the world. In 2007 his short film, 'Maestro' was nominated to the American Academy Awards in the Best Animated Short Film category.

Creative Industrial Design : Literalist Product Packaging

naoto fukasawa

was born in yamanashi prefecture, japan, in1956.
he graduated from tama art university's product
design department in art and 3D design in 1980.
until 1988, fukasawa worked as a designer at
seiko-epson corp.
in 1989, he left japan for the united states.
in san francisco he joined a small office that had
employed 15 persons - ‘ID two’, the predecessor
to ‘IDEO’, which now has 450 staff in san francisco,
palo alto, boston, chicago, london and munich.
after eight years fukasawa returned home.
in 1996, he helped set up ‘IDEO’ in japan - a team
of eight designers working mainly for the japanese
market. he stayed with it until december 2002.
naoto fukasawa he went independent and in
january 2003 he established ‘naoto fukasawa design
in tokyo. fukasawa joined the advisory board of the
japanese company ‘MUJI’.
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UCSD educator artfully elevates eccentricity

Professor Ernest Silva wants aspiring artists and dabblers alike to dive in, 'get dirty'

By David Coddon 2:00 a.m. May 24, 2009

An admittedly “eccentric interview style” helped artist Ernest Silva get his job teaching in the Visual Art Department at UCSD.

How eccentric? He brought a garment bag with him to the Washington, D.C., interview for a one-year position. Inside: a selection of men's suits he had painted. One of his interviewers that day, UCSD faculty member and artist Eleanor Antin, “saw it as a sort of mini-performance,” Silva recalled with a smile. Not long afterward, the Providence, R.I.-born Silva – who'd received his BFA from the University of Rhode Island and MFA from Temple University's Tyler School of Art – found himself in San Diego, joining a prestigious faculty that included not only Antin, but also the likes of Manny Farber, Patricia Patterson and Allan Kaprow. “An incredibly diverse and exciting group,” Silva said. Read more...

Designer Renato P. Lotfi - Saatchi Australia

My name is Renato Lotfi. I'm a designer and this is a brief introduction to my work since I started back in "98. Enjoy.

CONNECTIONS NYC

The date is set, over 2000 guests are on their way, the champagne is being chilled, and the time to connect is only a few weeks away...From high end clients ranging from Apple, Armani, Coty, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, Nike, Nordstrom's, LVMH, etc - to international advertising agencies ranging from Euro, RSCG, Grey, JWT, Leo Burnett, Ogilvy, Publicis, Saatchi, Y&R - top decision makers from the world over have registered to attend CONNECTIONS, to review talent and develop new relationships. LE BOOK presents CONNECTIONS NYC

Wednesday, June 17th + Thursday, June 18th at the Chelsea Art Museum (556 West 22nd Street)

CONNECTIONS Schedule - Wednesday/Thursday, June 17th and 18th:

* Noon to 6pm - Portfolio Viewing open to all CONNECTIONS guests from the international creative community

* 6pm to 9pm - open wine tasting and creative mingling during Portfolio Viewing

The Time To Connect Is Now.

artists: www.lebook.com/connections

A conversation with artist Shepard Fairey

A conversation with artist Shepard Fairey in Art & Design on Monday, February 2, 2009

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Delighted when we heard that the arch manipulator was heading our way, his inaugral London exhibition ‘Nineteeneightyphoria’ didn’t disappoint. Alluding to the surveillance culture of Orwell’s 1984, Fairey brought large scale media installations and screen prints to Brick Lane’s StolenSpace gallery, all of which scrutinised and distorted the narrative of the modern American Dream.

Fairey’s exploration into the genres of graffiti, illustration, comic books and tattoo art has led to the creation of bold and captivating works that mix parody and protest. His unique style has led to collaborations with DJ Shadow and the poster art for the Johnny Cash biopic ‘Walk the Line.’

As well as his foray into Hollywood, Fairey has commanded kudos amongst fellow urban artists such as illustrious Banksy who is ‘absolutely positive that Fairey has made more reaches than any graffiti writer in history has done or ever will.’

Hina Aoyama - decoupage

je fais decoupage avec des petits ciseaux.
duree un mois au deux mois pour decoupe tableau de 1m sur 1m.
il y a album slide show de decoupage.click ici

Campana Brothers

Fernando and Humberto Campana have shaped the look of contemporary design for more than two decades. Celebrated for their whimsical furniture and lighting, the Campana Brothers have received the 2008 Designer of the Year at Design Miami/.

Blind n: a multimedia design studio

Never comfortable resting on their laurels, the Blind team has done it again with accolades from the 2008 Create Awards!
Blind n

Winners of the 2008 Create Awards!

Jessica Hische - Illustrator

02.25.08

Jessica Hische

Staff: Me, my computer and about a dozen, half-filled sketchbooks.

Education: BFA in graphic design, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia.

Cultural Influences: Popsicle-stick jokes, terribly wonderful action movies, hearty meals, trashy celebrity news, my friends, Victorian and other vintage type, paper, books on tape.

Environment: I work from my loft apartment, which is constantly under construction, at a desk covered with half-filled cups of coffee, candy wrappers and random knick-knacks. I’m surrounded by technology, life ephemera and thoughtfully gifted art that is mostly taped and tacked to the walls.

Philosophy: “I ain’t got time to bleed” —Jesse Ventura, Predator

“Cover for a quick tips book about integrating a cat into your life. The interior was also designed and illustrated by me.” Alethea Morrison, creative director; Storey Books, client

Parochial High Schools. “One of several illustrations for the ‘Best Private High Schools’ showing one of the first things people associate with private schools (particularly parochial): uniforms.” Grace Saunders, art director; Cincinnati magazine, client

“Hand-lettering for an article about water-related summer activities in Boston.” Emily Reid Kehe, art director; Boston Globe Magazine, client

“Endpapers for a tutoring service’s promotional brochure. The brochure was designed and illustrated by me at Louise Fili Ltd. All type is hand-lettered.” Louise Fili, art director; Bespoke Education, client

All Girls Private Schools. “One of several illustrations for an article titled ‘Best Private High Schools’ explaining the varieties of private schools and which work for each kind of student.” Grace Saunders, art director; Cincinnati magazine, client

Eight Maids-a-Milking. “One of twelve cards (each representing a different day of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’) sent as a self-promo. Printed offset in a limited run of 250.”

“For the cover of Broker Dealer Journal about small companies quickly becoming large and successful. All type is hand-lettered.” Helen Steiman, art director; Qualified Media, client

“An editorial illustration for Wired magazine’s ‘Posts’ section about a high-end dog hotel offering spa treatments and individual suites.” Christy Sheppard, art director

Aaron Koblin - Artist|Designer|Researcher

Aaron Koblin is an Artist|Designer|Researcher focused on creating and visualizing human systems. Currently working out of San Francisco, California, Aaron creates software and architectures to transform social and infrastructural data into artwork. Koblin's work has been shown internationally and is part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Aaron Koblin played a significant role in the creation of this summer's widely viewed interactive Radiohead music video "House of Cards." Koblin was the Director of Technology on the project. You can interact with the video and even see the technology behind the work.

Welcome to DaniDraws.com!

This site is mainly a blog where various articles and tutorials dealing with art and illustration are posted regularly.

Tutorials - My main goal for this site is to help other artists. Most of these tutorials deal with Photoshop, but I also deal with other topics in both digital and traditional illustration.

Videos - I occasionally record my painting process and post the videos here. See my paintings being done from start to finish. Most of these will also have a “Video Notes” post to go along with them to help explain what I am doing.

Articles - I will also post various tips and tricks that don’t necessarily deal with painting, but are still important to every illustrator.

Christoph Niemann's illustrations

Christoph Niemann's illustrations have appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and American Illustration. His work has won numerous awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Art Directors Club and American Illustration. He is the author of two children's books, "The Police Cloud" and the forthcoming "The Pet Dragon," which teaches Chinese characters to young readers. After 11 years in New York, he moved to Berlin with his wife, Lisa, and their sons, Arthur, Gustav and Fritz. His Web site is christophniemann.com.

Arquitecture is a language

The phrases 'contemporary architects' and 'contemporary architecture' have obvious meanings but like 'modern architects' and 'modern architecture' the terminology is open to interpretation - shades of meaning.

Modern Architects
Modern Architecture became linked to a certain genre of building and thus over time wasn't really 'modern' anymore. Contemporary Architecture currently has less baggage, it is not affected by fall-out from the reign of a certain style.
Modern Architecture - the 'International Style' - was associated with some great architects and some powerful countries and companies. It became the equivalent of the Classical Style in the Georgian period, ie the establishment architecture, the status quo. Some key Modern Architects include Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Since the seventies architecture styles have become more fractured and we have - amongst what could be termed contemporary architects - post-modernists, neo-modernists, deconstructivists, contextualists, expressionists and so on.
‘Contemporary Architects' suggests a position that is anti-vernacular, comfortable with new materials and non-local materials & forms, using architectural language that is not generally steeped in past typographies or traditions.

Famous World Architects - Contemporary

Santiago Calatrava
David Chipperfield
Terry Farrell
Foster & Partners
Future Systems
Frank Gehry
Zaha Hadid
Michael Hopkins
Steven Holl
Toyo Ito
Henning Larsen
Daniel Libeskind
MVRDV
John McAslan
Rick Mather
Richard Meier
Enric Miralles
Rafael Moneo
Jean Nouvel
Cesar Pelli
Renzo Piano
Richard Rogers
Moshe Safdie
Alvaro Siza
Snohetta
Bernard Tschumi
Ruy Ohtake
Oscar Niemeyer

Illustration - Blu

Blu is an Italian Artist Specializing in Murals and Urban Design.
blublu.org

The artist BLU from Bologna is known for his very large, often surreal and aggressive but always strong pictures in the public space. His very playful and comic-style pieces often carry an ethnic, political or moral statement, yet without being patronising. Next to his works in the public space, he draws a lot and uses the pictures in animation films. In Wuppertal, his central theme was the daily information overkill in the public space. He worked with so-called 'for free' magazines which are forced on us at every street corner. They hardly ever contain any interesting or relevant content, but instead are completely packed with adverts. For the project, BLU produced and distributed 6.000 of those "for free" magazines himself. BLU chose this format and published his pictures anonymously and without any commentary, explanation or further information. At the same time he designed various walls in the city and with that created a reference to the drawings and his extensive pieces in the public space.

What's the idea behind your project?

6.000 books of drawings placed everywhere around central streets, train stations, bus stops, traffic lights and any other place where people usually walk. A gift for all the people who were going to work or school the day after. It is a kind of "street art take-away" exhibition; if you like the piece, you can take it home. The magazines were completely anonymous and I think most of the people will never know that I did it. read more...

Illustration: Marshall Arisman

Marshall Arisman’s paintings and drawings have been widely exhibited both internationally and nationally, and his work may be seen in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, and the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, as well as in many private and corporate collections. Chairman of the M.F.A. degree program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Arisman was the first American invited to exhibit in mainland China, and he is the subject of Tony Silver’s full-length documentary Facing the Audience, The Arts of Marshall Arisman.
Arisman has written and illustrated a new children’s book The Cat Who Invented Bebop (Publishing date Spring 2008). His previous children’s book The Wolf Who Loved Music was published in 2004. He is the co-author of three books with Steven Heller including The Education of An Illustrator, Inside the Business of Illustration, and Teaching Illustration (Allworth Press). They are currently working on a fourth book entitled "The Future of Illustration".

NIGHT WATCHMAN HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO TALK SHOP WITH THE LEGEND THAT IS MARSHALL ARISMAN. (sep 2005)

NW: Yeah. It also helps because there is never much information available about illustrators, as far as interviews and things like that, unless you can find something in an illustration or design trade magazine. It’s a shame. There seems to be a real stigma against illustrators, as far as whether or not they are "real" artists. And yet you have been able to straddle the worlds of illustration and fine arts. Do you see a difference between the two?

MA: Not in outcome, meaning that a bad painting on a printed page is equally bad on a gallery wall. I think the illusion for most people who don’t know what illustration is, is that they think it is highly directed by an art director who tells you what to do. And my experience in illustration has not been that at all. Art directors, in essence, call me for what I do. So I see publishing as they are trying to use me, and I am trying to use them. I’m trying to take what I do and get it into print, and it doesn’t seem to me that the printed page itself is a bastardization of the art process. But that dilemma is an old fight, and it’s not over. It’s just a misinformed perception of something; particularly the fine art world, in terms of what that is and how it operates. The art direction I get is primarily emotional. They send me an article, it’s about cancer, and basically say to me, "We don’t know how you illustrate this." (laughs) "Our hope is that there would be some feeling in this." And that’s the kind of art direction I get. No one has ever asked me to put a suit on anybody or put anybody behind a desk or anything. read more...

Dialogues - Museum of the Moving Image

Pinewood Dialogues Online is an archive with downloadable audio and transcripts of conversations, including Robert Altman; Wong Kar-wai; Jennifer Jason Leigh (pictured); Daniel Day Lewis and more.

Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria, NY, advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts; screening significant films and other moving-image works; presenting exhibitions of artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences; and offering educational and interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public.

It's all art - Paul Rand

First Paul Rand Virtual Documentary Video Festival

(The film is by Imaginary Forces for Rand's induction into the One Club Hall of Fame)

Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996) was a well-known American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Rand was educated at the Pratt Institute (1929-1932), the Parsons School of Design (1932-1933), and the Art Students League (1933-1934). He was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design. From 1956 to 1969, and beginning again in 1974, Rand taught design at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Rand was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1972. He designed many posters and corporate identities, including the logos for IBM, UPS and ABC.