His images play with different meanings. Everyday objects take on a unique significance, often used as a means to represent himself.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Isidro Ferrer
Isidro Ferrer (Madrid, 1963) is a Spanish illustrator and graphic designer trained in drama. He was a stage actor before guiding his career toward illustration and graphic design.
His images play with different meanings. Everyday objects take on a unique significance, often used as a means to represent himself.
His images play with different meanings. Everyday objects take on a unique significance, often used as a means to represent himself.
David Christiana
Born in Huntington, New York, Christiana has illustrated more than twenty picture books for children and authored four for international publishers such as Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Harcourt Brace; Little, Brown; Henry Holt; and Scholastic. Reviews of his work have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, People Magazine, Publishers Weekly, etc. He currently teaches Illustration at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Subversive Style Project 3
For the third project in my Subversive Style elective course at PCA&D, Students were required to read the short story 'PIG' by Yann Martel (author of Life of Pi, now a major motion picture) and create a full page illustration for it. This short piece of fiction originally appeared in STORY magazine in 1996. It is a dark story about organ transplants, from pigs to humans, and their effect on people in a certain society.
Students were provided a pdf template to drop their illustrations into. Here are a few of the results...
Students were provided a pdf template to drop their illustrations into. Here are a few of the results...
click images to enlarge...
Graey Erb
Monique Connett
Andy Morrissey
Kurt Hershey
Jake Peck
Hannah Brooker
Rachel Little
Alyssa Davis
Teesha Moore
Teesha Moore is a mixed-media artist, creating visual journals, and a true entrepreneur. She created Zettiology, a line of rubber stamps and collage sheets featuring her work. In 2000 she hosted the first Artfest as we know it today, in Port Townsend, Washington. From that success, she has also organized Fiberfest and Journalfest, now in its third year.
Marc Bourlier
Born in Saigon, Marc Bourlier spent his youth moving between Africa, South America, and Asia. After watching the light passing through so many landscapes, he developed an eye and appreciation for the colors and textures of the natural world. He first became a painter, admiring the work of Calder, Miró, Braque, and Leger. Even when working with paint, it is said that he has always had a gift for letting the material "show its own face."
After a show in Brussels in 1986, he began a period where he worked exclusively with corrugated cardboard for almost ten years. The style of Bourlier’s work that we see now seems to be the product of random chance: one day in 1995 while sitting on the beach in Normandy, a small piece of driftwood caught his eye, and he used it to make his first driftwood piece. This act of appropriation marked the transition of the artist from color to non-color, and from painting to “almost” sculpture. The only common thread from his previous work to now is the human element at the heart of his approach.
With each intervention of the sculptor, each point dug out from the wood, an expression arises from a minimal gesture – each asserts its own expression of tenderness, humor, sadness, complacency, indifference, even seductiveness. At its core, Bourlier’s work creates his little beings as metaphors for ourselves, bearers of hope who grew from their original gnarled stems into strongly defined people.
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After a show in Brussels in 1986, he began a period where he worked exclusively with corrugated cardboard for almost ten years. The style of Bourlier’s work that we see now seems to be the product of random chance: one day in 1995 while sitting on the beach in Normandy, a small piece of driftwood caught his eye, and he used it to make his first driftwood piece. This act of appropriation marked the transition of the artist from color to non-color, and from painting to “almost” sculpture. The only common thread from his previous work to now is the human element at the heart of his approach.
With each intervention of the sculptor, each point dug out from the wood, an expression arises from a minimal gesture – each asserts its own expression of tenderness, humor, sadness, complacency, indifference, even seductiveness. At its core, Bourlier’s work creates his little beings as metaphors for ourselves, bearers of hope who grew from their original gnarled stems into strongly defined people.
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Subversive Style Project 2
Students in my Subversive Style elective course at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design were required to design and illustrate a 12" LP cover, front and back.
Prior to the advent of the Compact Disc (and prior to digital downloads), record albums were packaged in cardboard sleeves, which often showcased the art and photography of top name illustrators, photographers and artists. Some of these were incredibly complex, with multiple images and lengthy commentary, both front and back, and often with even more illustrated information on the inside.
Here are some of the results of the project.
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Prior to the advent of the Compact Disc (and prior to digital downloads), record albums were packaged in cardboard sleeves, which often showcased the art and photography of top name illustrators, photographers and artists. Some of these were incredibly complex, with multiple images and lengthy commentary, both front and back, and often with even more illustrated information on the inside.
Here are some of the results of the project.
click images to enlarge...
Sara Goetter
Cesar Buchanan
Graey Erb
Rachel Little
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Hannah Brooker
Michelle Furbush
Alyssa Davis
Andy Morrissey
Monique Connett
Shana Flynn
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