fresh illo.

New (to me) fresh illustration. Jen Corace. i like the dense patterned ones under fine art.

Career Investigation

Graphic Design

• Collegeboard: Graphic Design Career
• Collegeboard: Graphic Design Major
  

• What is graphic design? - short video/article
• Who becomes a designer?
  
• What goes on in design school?
• What designers need to know
• Examples of Graphic Design. Choose some of the categories and it narrows it down for you.
• Check out the design "label" on the side here for more design goods. look for career stuff especially.

Illustration

• College board: Illustration Career
• choose the label on the right called illustration and click through some of the sites linked. these are mostly portfolio websites. be sure to look into the bio sections to learns about the education and background of the artists, so that you can learn about their careers a bit.
  

Collage examples

hey AP artists,

here are some links to artists who work with collage.

• Silja Goetz - her collage looks simple but shows off beautiful drawing skills
• See the Portfolio section of this painterly illustrator: Jenny Kroik
• Sara Fanelli - seemingly simple
• lots of layers of images...Tim Marrs
• Anthony Freda

I tried to give a variety of styles: some complex with lots of intricate drawing and some very simple. be inspired to try something new!

-miss J.

Celebrating Colour

First there was the Sony Bravia bouncy ball ad, then the paint ad.

here's the making of.

i love the performance-art nature of these. and of course that they celebrate color.

painter out in CA

ever heard of the L.A. River School painters?
check out these landscapes. nice color.

(HT: Drawn)

NYC subway map designer

interesting article on the NYC subway map design. especially the history - how the public reacted to maps in the 70s causing them to change them. the complexity of the NYC subway would make this a hard problem to solve. i like his point that a map can't do everything - it is limited and needs to interact with signage etc.

photographer

you can learn a lot by perusing photographer Jeremy Cowart's portfolio online.

Its a great lesson in composition. puzzle over why these are so strong. a few hints: look for negative space, point of view, and balance.

I'm sure theres lots to learn about photography here too. but i'm too busy trying to learn those myself to divulge them here. maybe somebody can enlighten me.

tasty design

• have i posted Design*Sponge before? its hip, fresh design.

• check out these custom, make your own hand bags: freddy&ma. very fun.

• and i found this wallpaper designer, dan funderburgh. wow! LOVE the drawing here.

on Target

Bringing hip design to the masses, here's a good article re: Target. i esp. appreciate the convo about creative risk.

design thinking

Nice design article about the pervasiveness of design.

i found this at richard florida's blog, which i now frequent, called the Creativity Exchange. Florida wrote the book The Rise of the Creative Class. which i like. he writes about how creative folks choose where to live and how to live.

i also am interetsed in Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind why Right Brainers will Rule the Future, who has some similar ideas but is more about creativity in the person...thats not a good explanation. i skimmed through the book from the library but should invest in my own copy. i like it that he spoke at the big recent art education conference in NYC. about the importance of art education.

Thomas Friedman who thinks the World is Flat also overlaps with these guys. he speaks of globalization and it makes me think of the the implications for design education.

ya some great brain candy...

Portrait Party

i love it that Rama Hughes has made a blog called the Portrait Party.

in college we called them drawing parties. "because drawing is always a party" was the often mentioned tag line. in art II this year we've called them drawing deuls. at the martins house i would often do this on art night.

whatever you wanna call it, sitting around drawing my friends drawing is one of my favorites things to do in life.

illustrator Irina Troitskaya

An illustrator named Irina Troitskaya. i love finding new and fresh compositions. like this diver. her flickr is super too. check out this marker usage. sweet. check out this pink sketchbook...

industrial design

Development of Apple Industrial design at The Digital Design Museum, as discussed by their industrial designer, Jonathon Ive.

Fresh Inspiration

I love finding a new to me interesting artist through Drawn and then looking through his links and network of relationships to find other great artists.

• Like this guy, Matthew Leake, who uses scratchboard digitally for his illustration.
• lead me to this artist, Stephanie Dotson, who layers intricate papercut outs into her collages.

(from Nov 05)

illustrators i'm admiring

rama hughes - one of the best draw-ers i knew in college. i'm still a fan.

Daniel krall
Okan art super marks and lines!!
Paul pope

Brian rea see an illustrator's design

Gina triplett

design n business

design thinking in business

D-school

design books

blue note

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
–Alvin Toffler

gig poster convo.

typography I - lupton's syllabus

Alex Katz

at the Jewish Museum: Alex Katz paints Ada, his wife and apparent muse. nice paintings.