For our last studio task for Richard before our practical sessions begin, we must create a list of 5 designers that relate to each context of practice lecture we have had throughout first year on the programme. We have 9 topics; modernism, postmodernism, street art/graffiti, film, high culture vs. low culture, typography and the history of type, media specificity, advertising and communication.
Media Specificity
Jason Munn
Jason Munn is an American Graphic and Poster Artist. He is best known for creating posters for many Indie-Rock bands. His posters can be found online and at many music festivals around the United States, in modern art museums, and as well as the covers of CD albums. In 2010, Chronicle Books published a book called "The Small Stakes" that focuses on Munn's poster work form 2002-2009.
Jason Munn was born in Neenah, Wisconsin. At a young age, Jason Munn was drawing all the time. As a teenager Munn began skateboarding, and started noticing his love for art and design. He was influenced by skateboard graphics, and the covers of CD cases. Jason Munn went to school at University of Wisconsin-Madison for graphic design. In 2002, Jason Munn moved to Oakland, California. He started as an amateur designer making collage-based flyers for the small Berkeley club The Ramp, when he first moved to California. Jason Munn's artwork started getting recognized after the band Death Cab For Cutie, asked him to create posters and t-shirts for them. He went on to create striking pieces that have become a part of the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Denver Art Museum.
Jason Munn's style is silk-screen poster art. He uses bold, geometric designs to create images that in a way represent the band, or the festival he is creating it for. His early work used a lot of found imagery or combined multiple pieces of abstract imagery to create something new. Munn rarely use abstract imagery now, but he does work with a lot of common objects, changing them in some way to get a different meaning from the objects and to relate them to the bands. His work usually consist of the same objects; records, cameo-style profiles/heads,nature images, television, telephones. Munn uses these same objects to create continuity in his artwork.
Jason Munn now lives in Oakland, California. He designs under the pseudonym "The Small Stakes", which is also the name of his design studio. He continues to do create poster work for bands and festivals. In the near future he will begin collaborating with the graphic artis Dirk Fowler.
http://jasonmunn.com/posters.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Munn
http://grainedit.com/2007/11/01/jason-munn-interview/
Walton Creel
Walton Hardy Creel (born November 12, 1974), also known as Walt Creel, is an American artist who lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama. Creel is best known for his seriesDeweaponizing the Gun, which focuses on firearms.
Walton Creel has created art with the use of a rifle given to him by his father as a present. Deweaponizing the Gun is an ongoing series where Walton puts an accent on his subject matter and creates pictures of animals which are traditionally hunted.
His first experiment came about by creating a hole on a surface through canvas, though that was too stressed, so he moved on to aluminum, while also understanding how far apart his shots would need to be to create these amazing pieces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_Creel
http://www.waltcreel.com/
Rob Ryan
Jason Munn is an American Graphic and Poster Artist. He is best known for creating posters for many Indie-Rock bands. His posters can be found online and at many music festivals around the United States, in modern art museums, and as well as the covers of CD albums. In 2010, Chronicle Books published a book called "The Small Stakes" that focuses on Munn's poster work form 2002-2009.
Jason Munn was born in Neenah, Wisconsin. At a young age, Jason Munn was drawing all the time. As a teenager Munn began skateboarding, and started noticing his love for art and design. He was influenced by skateboard graphics, and the covers of CD cases. Jason Munn went to school at University of Wisconsin-Madison for graphic design. In 2002, Jason Munn moved to Oakland, California. He started as an amateur designer making collage-based flyers for the small Berkeley club The Ramp, when he first moved to California. Jason Munn's artwork started getting recognized after the band Death Cab For Cutie, asked him to create posters and t-shirts for them. He went on to create striking pieces that have become a part of the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Denver Art Museum.
Jason Munn's style is silk-screen poster art. He uses bold, geometric designs to create images that in a way represent the band, or the festival he is creating it for. His early work used a lot of found imagery or combined multiple pieces of abstract imagery to create something new. Munn rarely use abstract imagery now, but he does work with a lot of common objects, changing them in some way to get a different meaning from the objects and to relate them to the bands. His work usually consist of the same objects; records, cameo-style profiles/heads,nature images, television, telephones. Munn uses these same objects to create continuity in his artwork.
Jason Munn now lives in Oakland, California. He designs under the pseudonym "The Small Stakes", which is also the name of his design studio. He continues to do create poster work for bands and festivals. In the near future he will begin collaborating with the graphic artis Dirk Fowler.
http://jasonmunn.com/posters.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Munn
http://grainedit.com/2007/11/01/jason-munn-interview/
Walton Creel
Walton Hardy Creel (born November 12, 1974), also known as Walt Creel, is an American artist who lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama. Creel is best known for his seriesDeweaponizing the Gun, which focuses on firearms.
Deweaponizing the Gun is a series of large scale "drawings" created by shooting complicated patterns through 6x4' white painted sheets of aluminum with a .22 caliber rifle given to him by his father as a present.[The images used in this series are of southern wildlife and include: Deer, Owl, Bunny, Opossum, Squirrel, and Wren.
When asked how others view his work Creel states, "Whatever view a person already holds on guns is the view they project onto me. If they love guns and think gun ownership is a God-given right, then they see my work as reinforcement of that view. If they think guns should be banned, they see my work as an ironic protest."In 2008 Creel recorded an audio companion for Deweaponizing the Gun, Shooting / Loading. It was released as a limited edition vinyl record and documented the sounds of his creative processes in the field. "Sonically, it’s reminiscent of pop guns, or firecrackers, or a screen door slamming, not the huge roar and bang you hear in movies or on TV, instead, the sound is actually slight, tinny, high end, the shots fired create a strange spare soundscape of not quite rhythms, the recording hissy and lo-fi, adding texture and grit, not the easiest listening, but still pretty fascinating, in both concept and execution."
Walton Creel has created art with the use of a rifle given to him by his father as a present. Deweaponizing the Gun is an ongoing series where Walton puts an accent on his subject matter and creates pictures of animals which are traditionally hunted.
His first experiment came about by creating a hole on a surface through canvas, though that was too stressed, so he moved on to aluminum, while also understanding how far apart his shots would need to be to create these amazing pieces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_Creel
http://www.waltcreel.com/
Rob Ryan
Rob Ryan is a British visual artist who specialises in papercutting and screen-printing. He is now most famous for his detailed paper cut outs.
Ryan was born in Cyprus in 1962 to Irish parents. He is the youngest of three brothers and his father was an RAF mess hall officer. He studied at Trent Polytechnic and has a Master of Arts in printmaking from the Royal College of Art/ He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1987.
His artwork has featured in Vogue, Elle, and Stylist. He has also collaborated with fashion designer Paul Smith.
He has illustrated book and album covers, including John Connolly's novel The Book of Lost Things, Erasure's album Nightbird, Chambers Lost Crafts by Una McGovern and Dara Horn's novel The World to Come.
Ryan's first book, This Is for You, was published on October 4, 2007 by Hodder & Stoughton; it consists of a fairy tale told through his paper cut-out art and explores themes of love and loneliness. Ryan also creates the Global Gift greeting cards for the charity Trocaire.
He currently lives in London with his wife and two daughters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ryan_(artist)
http://www.misterrob.co.uk/
http://rob-ryan.blogspot.com/
Thomas McWilliam
Whilst research universities before making my decision to come and study here at LCA, I went to Edinburgh to visit their graphic design degree show, and will always remember one piece of work my Thomas McWilliam.
Biography "I graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA Hons in Graphic Design in Summer 2010. I see myself as an all-round graphic designer with an interest in many areas of design. I am now based in London and looking out for freelance work as well as other opportunities."
Received 2010 D&AD Best New Blood award
D&AD Brief – Inspire a new wave of change in peoples homes by promoting the IKEA 2011 Catalogue.
Response – I created the IKEA Challenge with the idea being to get people involved with IKEA in a different way. The IKEA Challenge is a competitive event that would be held at IKEA stores on certain days of the year to increase numbers of customers and promote IKEA.
D&AD Brief – Inspire a new wave of change in peoples homes by promoting the IKEA 2011 Catalogue.
Response – I created the IKEA Challenge with the idea being to get people involved with IKEA in a different way. The IKEA Challenge is a competitive event that would be held at IKEA stores on certain days of the year to increase numbers of customers and promote IKEA.
http://www.thomasmcwilliam.co.uk/
http://oneadaydesign.blogspot.com/2010/06/eca-degree-show-2010-graphic-design.html
Christoph Ruprecht
Biography "Over the past nine years I have been working across different design areas, such as
Typography, Print & Online Design, Logo-making or Illustration and have learned to put these skills together into an Art/Creative Directing Position.My expertise in projects ranges from simple Brochures, Corporate Identities, Screendesign/Animation Concepts and Storyboards to developing bigger Campaign Ideas that work across various media. I have worked for national and international clients, in both, B2B and B2C areas and gained experience in sectors such as modern technology, communication, culture, non profit work, health, beauty, finance, insurance, automobile, new media, sport and music.Since 2010 I am part of an digital-interactive-art-collective by the name of Futura Epsis 1 where my responsibilites include creative concepts and art direction for projects than range from mobile devices, or installations to state of the art websites and applications.
Professionally I work with Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, while having basicskills in Dreamweaver and Flash, and I am currently learning my way around Cinema 4D.My work for me, is a constant balancing act between the freedom and beauty of art and the opposing conditions found in classical graphic design."
http://www.behance.net/christophruprecht
http://www.crispycrystal.com/
Media Specificity Imagery: Jason Munn, Walton Creel, Rob Ryan, Thomas McWilliam, Christoph Ruprecht
