by The Editors on February 29, 2008
We all know him from his work with Girl and Lakai, but designer Andy Mueller has been doing some bigger projects lately, most notably all the illustration work for the print and outdoor advertising campaign for the 2008 Los Angeles Marathon. Creativity interviewed Andy as well as RPA copywriter Eric Helin and senior art director Nathan Crow about the campaign.
We wanted to try to come up with about 10 solid L.A. based locations that could get up and run (or ride a bike for the Bike Ride portion on this event). I drew up these 10 roughs, and we then narrowed it down to the six strongest visual locations. . . I think the simple drawing approach works really well with this idea. It gets to the meaning without too much stylist interference. I also think the simplicity allows people of all ages and skill levels to relate to the Bike Tour and Marathon. It’s a very involvement-based sort of message, not just one person from a certain neighborhood or area running, but rather everybody running. It’s very warm and friendly.
For the rest of the interview click the link.
[Link: Creativity Online]
by The Editors on February 14, 2008
The San Francisco Chronicle profiled Ian Johnson today mentioning that art school dropout has work being “featured right now at San Francisco’s White Walls Gallery, another show is coming up in Tokyo in May and a book on his art is due in August.” And Ian says he owes it all to skateboarding.
“Skateboarding is entirely responsible for where I am right now with my art career,” says Johnson, who is known for his detailed portraits of authors and jazz music icons from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. “I’ve always been into art but never really considered it as a career until Western Edition launched.”
Click the link for the rest of the story.
[Link: San Francisco Chronicle]
by The Editors on February 11, 2008
by The Editors on February 10, 2008
We missed the opening reception on February 9, 2008, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to miss the show at The LAB’s Artery Gallery in Costa Mesa, CA. The show is called human resource and features work from Randy Labourne, Craig Metzger, Ran Stucky, Aaron Martinez, Todd Francis, Filipa Da Silva, Trevor Girard, and Chad Eaton. And, the best part: it runs until March 2, 2008. So Check it out.
by The Editors on February 6, 2008
Geoff McFetridge will be showing some of his drawings and graphic design along side the work of Ed Fella at Redcat (631 West 2nd Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 USA) in a show titled Two Lines Align. The opening reception is Wednesday February 20, 2008 from 6-9 PM.
Two Lines Align is an exhibition about the evolution of graphic design in the context of massive changes in our visual culture. As guest curator Michael Worthington notes in the catalogue essay, the exhibition explores “the shifts in the perceived cultural worth [of art and graphic design] over time…by placing Ed Fella’s and Geoff McFetridge’s design careers end to end to make one chronological line, one lineage. While Fella’s career reflects how graphic design has historically struggled to define itself in relationship to art, McFetridge follows a path wherein the integration of art and design is taken for granted.”
Check it out if you’re around.
[Link: e-flux]
by The Editors on January 31, 2008
by The Editors on January 26, 2008
by The Editors on January 22, 2008
Kevin Connolly was born with no legs. He is three-feet one-inch tall and is a film student at Montana State University. He has a new art show called The Rolling Exhibition featuring photographs he’s taken of people staring down at him as he rolled around on his skateboard.
Connolly feels he’s just as able-bodied as anyone. But he never quite adjusted to people’s stares. . . On a European trip last year he got tired of it. In what he admits to being a passive-aggressive response, Connolly looked the other way, held his camera at hip-level, and snapped a starer’s photo. . . . “I wanted to stare back at that guy, to let him know that, ‘Yeah, I catch you looking,'” he says. “And the way I did that was with my camera.” . . . Afterward when Connolly looked at the photo, blurred from both the movement of the camera and the movement of the man, he was surprised to find he liked what he saw. And the seed was planted for a major creative project.
This Christian Science Monitor story is probably the best one we’ve seen on Kevin and his art project. Check it out.
[Link: Christian Science Monitor and The Rolling Exhitibition]
by The Editors on January 15, 2008
Rossignol, in one of the most insanely misdirected marketing ploys ever, has hired skater/artist Steve Caballero to design the graphics for a pair of their new S7 twin-tip powder skis. How’s that for a collab? Talk about trying to suck some life out of skateboarding. They’ve also enlisted Andy Howell to wave his magic skateboarding art wand over another pair of skis. Is this for real? No wonder Bob McKnight is “anticipating continued weakness.”
[Link: Seven Artistic Sins via Source]
by The Editors on January 13, 2008
We all know him from his work with Girl and Lakai, but designer Andy Mueller has been doing some bigger projects lately, most notably all the illustration work for the print and outdoor advertising campaign for the 2008 Los Angeles Marathon. Creativity interviewed Andy as well as RPA copywriter Eric Helin and senior art director Nathan Crow about the campaign.
