[flickr]http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaykay109/4259842240/[/flickr] The Graphic Artists Guild LA Area Meet & Greet went swimmingly, thanks to everybody who attended! I’ve created a Flickr group for Graphic Artists Guild events: [flickr-gallery mode=”photoset” photoset=”72157623049163609″]
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Manzanar Sign Follow-Up
Categories: Rants
After I posted my article about the Manzanar War Relocation Center’s entrance sign, I received this email: Josh: I ran across your Dec 24 entry regarding the Manzanar relocation sign. My father, who was interned there, painted the sign. He passed away four years ago but was a graphic artist who did a lot calligraphic […]
LA Graphic Artists Guild Meet & Greet
Categories: General updates
Click to download a print-friendly PDF of this flyer! On Friday, January 8, 2010, at 7:00PM, the Graphic Artists Guild is holding a Los Angeles Area Graphic Artists Meet & Greet at Dinah’s Family Restaurant1 near LAX. Guild membership is not required; in fact we’d love to have graphic artists of all kinds attend. […]
What’s in a Font—The Manzanar War Relocation Center Sign
Categories: Rants
Update (January 5, 2010): After posting this article, I received an email from Mark Matsumoto, whose father, Akio Matsumoto, was a commercial artist interned at Manzanar during the War. According to Mark, Akio Matsumoto was the person who painted the sign. Needless to say, this information drastically affects my original theories about the sign’s lettering! […]
Holiday present: A.M. Cassandre Photoshop Airbrush Tutorial
Categories: Case studies
A reader wrote to me today to find out more about how the airbrush effects were achieved in the Gallatin “Listening to Wine” poster design. The design had been based on the feel of many wonderful posters by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, whose dramatic shading effects defined an era of 20th century advertising posters. As a […]
Dan Reisinger Brussels Exposition Poster, 1958
Categories: Inspiration
Just scored this wonderful Dan Reisinger poster on eBay, from the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. It even came with the original envelope in which it had been mailed to Sarkes Tarzian, Inc. / WTTV in Bloomington, Indiana, from Brussels, Belgium in 1958. According to Wikipedia, Mr. Reisinger won first prize for this poster design for […]
Star Waggons Holiday Card 2009
Categories: Case studies
We just put together this year’s Star Waggons holiday card. It’s yet to be printed1, so enjoy this 3D pre-visualization instead. We’re also dangerously short on snow here in Los Angeles, but if it were 30° colder outside, today’s rain storm would look something like the simulated North Pole shown above. Actually it’s been printed […]
NYU Stern Orientation Program print photos
Categories: Case studies
This project has been previously detailed, but I recently photographed the actual booklets for posterity. Here’s how they came out.
Am I right, or am I right…
Categories: Rants
Just caught wind of this video posted two days ago on YouTube—a simultaneous parody of Lady Gaga and the font-of-the-decade, Neutraface. Nevermind the comedians’ unenlightened pronunciation1; it certainly proves that Neutraface has ascended to a cult status almost comparable to that of Helvetica. Thanks to Angela of Normal Modes for pointing me towards this. It […]
More vintage matchbooks
Categories: Inspiration
After the last treasure trove of matchbooks I came across, the idea of starting a collection of my own has been on my radar. I found a few on eBay that were from Torrance, California, the current location of three steps ahead and a subject of particular interest to me. The same seller had a […]
