Youth Olympic Vote

My former illustration professor Jamie Franki, who pretty much taught me everything I know about illustration is an amazing artist and even better person. You want to see some of his work? Just look at any nickle made in recent years as well as the “Order of Ikkos” medallion... that's Jamie.

Well now he is back at it again...the Youth Olympic Metal. I think his design is amazing. If you do as well, please show him some support and vote for his design at medaldesigncompetion.com.

The Atrocity of Water book cover

Here is a book cover I've been working on for an upcoming book of poetry by poet and professor Kirsten Hemmy. This is the first illustration I've done in a long while. I had allot of fun making it...so much fun I decided to post a bit of the process, from conception to completion.

inspiration

I've been looking for something to inspire me latley...and here it is.

Tim Burton at MOMA

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Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton (American, b. 1958) has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering for himself an international audience of fans and influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics. This exhibition explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film. It brings together over seven hundred examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs, moving image works, concept art, storyboards, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera from such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, and Beetlejuice, and from unrealized and little-known personal projects that reveal his talent as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer working in the spirit of Pop Surrealism. The gallery exhibition is accompanied by a complete retrospective of Burton’s theatrical features and shorts, as well as a lavishly illustrated publication.

Burton's films include Vincent (1982), Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), The Nightmare Before Christmas (as creator and producer) (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and Sweeney Todd (2007); writing and Web projects include The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories (1997) and Stainboy (2000).

Chile Estyle

Chile Estyle: A Group Exhibition of Chilean Urban Art, Curated by Pablo Aravena

Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary ArtOpening Reception: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 7-10 PMExhibition Open Through December 23

For the first time in North America, Chile Estyle will showcase work from several of Chile's finest contemporary urban muralists, including Cekis, Inti, Horate, La Robot de Madera, and the duos Aislap and Agotok.

From the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in the early 90’s until now, Chilean street art has literally exploded into a highly developed style, bearing strong influences from Mexican muralism, 60s – 70s political mural brigades, wildstyle graffiti and Brazilian graffiti and pixação (a unique stylistic cross-pollination with street art from Sao Paulo in the mid-90s). These influences, paired with Chile’s distinct history of propaganda art and muralism dating from the 40s, give rise to the myriad of strongly developed personal visual languages and artistic self-expression seen on the streets of Santiago, Valparaiso and other cities in Chile. The exhibition will consist of new works on canvas as well as site-specific individual and group mural installations in the gallery.

Helvetica Documentary

Here's the trailer to the documentary Helvetica. If you didn't know Helvetica is the most widely used font in the world...here's proof. It's all around us. Helvetica is like the swiss army knife of fonts.

FYI this post was done in Arial however... the don't have Helvetica on Blogger

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