Month: October 2011
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Steve Jobs typographical portrait by Dylan Roscover
In his wonderful typographical (and topographical) portrait of Steven Paul Jobs, designer and artist Dylan Roscover defined Jobs’ face and hand in words taken from the “Here’s to the crazy ones…” Apple ads, in typefaces associated with Apple graphic design. The ads, part of Apple’s famous “Think Different” campaign created by the Los Angeles offices…
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David J. Teter
In his most recent work painter David J. Teter takes a particular interest in the rough textures and muted colors of the industrial landscape. Subjects like rusty sheet metal structures, corroded storage tanks and weathered railroad abutments give his compositions a strong geometry, and his controlled palette, often emphasized by the low value contrasts of…
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Sketchtravel completed
Sketchtravel is a project started by illustrators Gérald Guerlais and Daisuke (“Dice”) Tsutsumi in 2006 in which a single sketchbook has traveled around the world, being handed from artist to artist between 70 artists in 15 cities, each adding a single page to the whole. The project, which involves well known illustrators, animators and comics…
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Su Blackwell
Books, we are told, are on the way out — soon to be replaced by iPads and other widgets, complete with fake page-flipping gimmicks to assure us that we are in fact, still reading a book. We’ll forget for the moment that movies were supposed to be the death of books, just as surely as…
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Oldenberg’s Paint Torch at PAFA
When I was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the 1970’s there were two factions in the school, traditionalists and modernists. Those of us, both faculty and students, who were in the traditionalist faction thought the Academy, of all places, should be bastion of academic art tradition, steeped in the…