This is not a blog about music, though I personally am a huge music fan. Given today’s anniversary I’d like to point you all towards His New Knees and their track Never Forget.
Filed under: Inspiration | Tags: Art, artist, bacteria, glass, installation, light, live art, luke jerram, sculptor, sculpture, swine flu, UK, viruses
Luke Jerram, a UK-based installation artist and sculptor, was recently brought to my attention for for his glass sculptures replicating “famous” bacteria and viruses. THe set of these most recent works can be viewed here. Also worth taking some time to peruse is his website: LukeJerram.com
Filed under: Art | Tags: 1920's, abstract, Art, constructivism, design, geometric, propoganda, russia, shapes
Abduzeedo has a great collection of Russian Constructivist art/design work. I really love this style, expecially the angular and blocky typography associated with it. Check it out here. Happy Friday everybody and have a great holiday weekend.
Filed under: Art | Tags: armstrong, Art, figure drawing, figures, girl, ladies, paint, painting, pin up, pin up girl, pinup, rolf, woman
From Wikipedia:
Rolf Armstrong was born in Bay City, Michigan on April 21, 1889 to Richard and Harriet (Scott) Armstrong. His father owned the Boy-Line Fire Boat Company, which included a line of passenger ships. Some were deployed in Chicago for use at the Chicago World’s Fair there in 1893. However, the father’s business and family were struggling, and the family homestead was lost to foreclosure. A few months later, the family moved to Detroit, Michigan.
Rolf’s father died in 1903, and a year he and his mother moved to Seattle, Washington, following the footstep of his oldest brother, William, who haved there a year earlier. By now Rolf’s artistic interests were emerging to more than a part-time pleasure.
He moved to Chicago in 1908, where he later studied at the Art Institute. He then went on to New York, where he studied with Robert Henri.
After a trip to Paris in 1919 to study at the Académie Julian, he returned to New York and established a studio. In 1921 he went to Minneapolis to study calendar production at Brown & Bigelow.
During the 1920s and 1930s, his work appeared on many pieces of sheet music, as well as on the covers of many magazines. Many stars posed for his portraits, including Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo, and even Boris Karloff.
Armstrong’s work for the Pictorial Review was largely responsible for that magazine achieving a circulation of more than two million by 1926. A year later, he was the best selling calendar artist at Brown and Bigelow. In 1930, RCA hired him to paint pin-ups to advertise their products, and in 1933 the Thomas D. Murphy Company signed him to produce a series of paintings for their line.
Rolf Armstrong died in 1960, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii as one of the best “pin-up” artist of the first half of the 20th Century.
Filed under: Art | Tags: Art, doodle, draw, drawing, heart, ink, inking, old, paper, personal, sketch, sketchbook, sword, wing, woman
"Woman"
From my personal sketchbook. Ink on paper circa 2005??
Filed under: branding | Tags: bible, branding, chosen instrument, gospel, hip hop, identity, logo, music, note, positive, productions, R & B, rap, uplifting, wing, youth
I recently completed the identity for Chosen Instrument Productions. The following is from the logo proposal I provided the client:
Chosen Instrument Productions is a youth-focused, not-for-profit music organization that is passionate about using music to convey a positive message. Through the creative and recording processes of Spoken Word, Hip-Hop, Rock and Gospel music, Chosen Instrument aims to foster a positive atmosphere that allows artists to express themselves in ways that serve to better themselves, their community, their region and beyond.
It was with this spirit and message in mind that the Chosen Instrument Productions logo was crafted. The logo is comprised of the Chosen Instrument Productions text and the “Winged Note” logo mark. The main text and mark were crafted in a graffiti-style that captures the energy and vibrancy of youth while maintaining professional sensibilities such as legibility. The overall appearance of the logo is edgy and yet accessible and is very much geared towards the youth demographic that Chosen Instrument is driven by.
The “Winged Note” icon was crafted to represent the idea of creating music that is upliftng. The “Winged Note” represents the power of music to “fly above” the typical negative stereotypes associated with hip-hop and rock music and reinforce the idea that Chosen Instrument creates music that is thematically and philosophically positive.
The Chosen Instrument Productions logo speaks to and reflects the ideals of the organization; it represents music as a powerful force through which creative and inspired youth may cultivate, create and record a unique, positive message.
