Copycat © #41

…let me explain.

Copycat © #49

…let me explain.

Tabloid #1 of many I hope

It’s a crappy image, but I think you get the idea.

Tabloid #1
acrylic, latex, oil, ink, pencil, and newspaper on hinged canvases
2002

I gotta make more of these! This is a deconstruction of a tabloid newspaper. I boiled it down to its base design elements and iconic imagery.

I am a media and news junky. Politics and society really flick my switch. I gotta do more of these.

Today’s Pick

Untitled
1940s

Joseph Cornell
American, 1903–1972

wood, metal, paper, paint, glass, smalt, and rubber
3 5/16 x 7 7/8 x 11 1/2 in. (8.4 x 20 x 29.2 cm)

Gift of The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation

Signed:
on bottom of box, u.c.,
handwritten in black crayon (?): [Joseph Cornell]

Today’s Pick

Alexander Rodchenko

Maquette for the poster for the film ‘Battleship Potemkin’, by Sergei Eisenstein

Courtesy Unique Art Gallery, London

© A Rodchenko & V Stepanova Archive / DACS 2009

World War I Propoganda

Chilling…

Today’s Pick

Alexander Rodchenko
Poster for the Film ‘The Sixth Part of the World’, by Dziga Vertov 1926
Collection Merrill C.Berman
© A Rodchenko & V Stepanova Archive / DACS 2009

Amanda

Hey all,

I haven’t bragged on my wife in awhile. She’s become an amazing photographer and I am immensely proud of her.

http://www.amandaroese.com

She also runs a blog of her work:

http://midwesternlovely.blogspot.com/

Tavis Coburn

Graphic designer Tavis Coburn designed the program covers for this year’s BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards, and they’re retro-cool! Each one features elements from the nominees for the Best Picture Award.

Here’s the cover featuring Up in the Air:

This was an incredible movie and an incredible graphic treatment of George Clooney.

He also did one for Precious:

I haven’t seen this movie yet, but it’s on the list.

Today’s Pick

The Stenberg Brothers.

General.

1929.

Offset lithograph.

42 3/8 x 28 1/8″.

Batsu Art Gallery, The Ruki Matsumoto Collection, Tokyo.

Is it just me or does the guy in the poster there look like Christopher Walken?