JERRY UELSMANN

Telling a Different Kind of Story

                                 

"THE CAMERA IS ESSENTIALLY A LICENSE TO

EXPLORE."

A designer and photographer, Uelsmann has created many works of art that both inspire and awe.  He has an interesting style, a strong belief in his purpose in design, and a lot of renown in the creative industry.

For someone like myself who is a designer and photographer, what he is able to do with photographs is something special.  He basically did photoshop before photoshop was created, all of which was done in a dark room.  Most of his photographs are black and white, but I think that that just adds to the drama of his work.  I find his connection between objects and the things that he puts together to be really fascinating.  I love nature, but also can appreciate the beauty in man-made structures, so his pictures of trees turning into houses, men having robotic attributes, and mixing human and nature are really fun to observe.  

I think that what I find most interesting about him is his process.  To some people now it might seem old fashioned to still do work in 
the dark room, but I think that that just adds  to his passion and mission in design.  In the shorter video that I provide below, he expresses how he loves being able to take visuals and alter them because for him it creates an even better story.  

 

        

To learn more about this amazing designer and photographer click on "Telling a Different Kind of Story" to go to his website or visit the links to videos below:
     

Shorter video

click her for Longer video, it is worth it!!

Kate Moross

Editorial Illustration for The Ride Journal

I discovered Kate Moross about two years ago, and I thought that I would be fun to introduce her for my first blog post. Moross is a London based designer, illustrator and art director. When it comes to typography illustration, she’s a real pro! They are often very chaotic, but that’s what makes her style so interesting. I think it works very well in terms of catching people’s attention. They not only have vibrant colors, but the way the composition is made with support of certain object forms, lines, etc… it all just  pretty much screams out at you in an effective way. 

So in the example to the left, you can see there are tons of different typography illustrations that were used for each word of the sentences, and they’re all unique in their own way. They are either tall, short, cursive-like, all caps, all lower case letters and so on. Yet, even if it seems overwhelming you get a sense of balance here by how compact they all are and how they fit next to each other. Plus, each word is characteristically done to represent itself, so for example ‘rain’ has a few emphasized lines around the letters that look like rain drops, and it's in blue color which represents the water substance.

In 2012, Moross became the director of her very own Studio, called Studio Moross. It mostly deals with music based projects, but if you want to check it out there some cool designs; in the packaging tab you can find some neat CD covers. There are more of her personal works (mostly typographic illustrations) on her own website, Kate Moross.

Kate Moross Olympic Shoe for Adidas Consortium 2012

You can start to tell, after seeing a couple of her works, that she has a kind of style that sometimes repeat, such as the kind of lines she uses (squiggly, zigzag, vertical or horizontal, straight lines) as well as shapes; she’s very into 3-sided or triangular shapes. She has done many cover designs and illustrations for well known brands and products, such as Converse and Adidas. In fact, some of her typography and illustrations have been incorporated into the products themselves.  

On top of that, she’s also designed for charitable nonprofit organizations like the American Cancer Society. I think that she’s really pushed herself up the ladder of success at quite a young age (26 I think) and she serves as a great inspiration not only me, but to many other aspiring designers... and  hopefully you guys too. If you want to buy a T-Shirt, necklace or any other products with her designs on it, you can check out her webpage’s Shop. Hope you liked it!

The World of Mad Men in 2013: Advertisements Then and Now

So I came across an article on Designer Daily that I found particularly interesting titled "The World of Mad Men in 2013." This article contained a series of pictures from different advertising agencies today, which were compared to advertisements in the 60's. Funny enough, most of the ads mash-up quite well and are eerily similar. It seems that not only is fashion and music coming full circle to older decades, but graphic design is as well! Here are the advertisements from the article:

Shoe Art by Sloth

This is Timmy Hamm AKA SLOTH.  He is a young talented artist/designer from the north Phoenix area.  Sloth first started off as a graffiti artist hitting walls all over the valley and moved onto tagging trucker hats and shoes for his friends from school.  I first saw his work when I was into graffiti while living in central Phoenix years back and noticed his unique style and how different it was from all the other surrounding pieces.  I’ve followed this guys work for a few years now and watched him progress into a self made designer who has a brilliant way of marketing himself and landing amazing gigs designing for companies the likes of Vans and Red Bull (click the link to see his process of painting the shoes).  

His style is really unique and different compared to so many other designers of this day and age and his personality really shows through his work.  There is something inspiring about someone who found something they love doing and has turned that passion into a profitable business and has fun while doing it.  As a of recently he has become completely self employed as an artist and designer and is a one man army behind the Sloth tag and business.  Hope you enjoy his work as much as I do.

You can follow his blog here

My favorite artist: David Kinsey

I am a fan of David Kinsey because he has been able to become a successful graphic designer and fine artist. I love his style of art. His use of texture and color are really appealing to my eye.  His style inspires some of my art that I have worked on in the past. I love the faces he paints because of the expression he is able to get with a minimal amount of obvious detail. I also like the graphic and abstracted nature of his pieces. How he is able to make what looks like random colors in the background double as shading for the figures in the foreground is a skill I envy. 

On the graphic design side of things David Kinsey has made many recognizable ads and logos. Some of my favorites are the Apple ipod silhouettes, the new Mountain Dew logo, and the DC shoe logo. He has also created some really cool pieces of street art. David Kinsey can do it all. Another reason I like Kinsey is because he helped create the BLK/MRKT which is a branding agency designed to help a company connect with artists to help create logos and advertisements based one the style of the artist and the need of the company  He is also a bad ass. In a interview he tells about a time when he was in Paris Putting up some street art with friends. Kinsey and his friends were taken by French Police and questioned for hours. After he was released he when to the back of the police station and put up some of his art on the wall.

That's about it.

Enjoy.

http://www.kinseyvisual.com/