Thursday, April 16, 2009
















Ellen Lupton-“Think more design less.”
Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design and Contemporary Culture (1996), Letters from the Avant-Garde (1996), and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002).

She recently has focused on bringing design awareness to broader audiences. Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography directed at everyone who works with words. D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006), co-authored with her graduate students at MICA, explains design processes to a general audience. D.I.Y. Kids (October 2007), co-authored with Julia Lupton, is a design book for children illustrated with kids’ art. “It’s never too early,” they explain, “to talk to your child about design.”
Ellen Lupton has contributed to various design magazines, including Print, Eye, I.D., and Metropolis. She has a regular column, “The El Word,” in Readymade magazine. Her editorial illustrations have been published in The New York Times. A frequent lecturer around the U.S. and the world, Lupton will speak about design to anyone who will listen.

Other exhibitions she has curated and co-curated include the National Design Triennial series (2000, 2003, 2006), Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500–2005 (2006), Solos: New Design from Israel (2006), and Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age (1999), all at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
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Tim Biskup
Born September 21st, 1967 in Santa Monica, California is an American artist generally considered to be a part of the group that has been dubbed " pop surrealism

. Biskup's character driven style is inspired by mid-century modern design infused healthy dose of punk rock energy. With roots in animation, graphic design and fashion, his work is precise and colorful while expressing movement and intensity Abstract character creations and funky monsters show a fun side to these technically strong illustrations. Playful, yet with a slightly 'dark' edge. Influenced by cartoons, fine art and animations.

. Since the mid-eighties, he has produced a constant stream of limited edition prints, clothing, toys, books and other publications. He’s collaborated with artists Mark Ryden and Gary Baseman and organized art auctions and exhibitions. His highly sought after original paintings and sculptures have been shown

He works with playful and vibrant psychedelic imagery in the pop-design genre through such diverse media as silk screening, textile production, and rotocast vinyl. He is also a significant contributor to the GAMA-GO clothing line.
GAMA-GO is a unique apparel gifts and art company that was started in 2000 by Greg Long and Chris Edmundson. The pair began silk-screening t-shirt with artwork from their friends in Long’s San Fransisco garage. They wanted to help promote the San Francisco art scene and distract from their day jobs. Shortly after starting,
Tim Biskup joined them, and printed shirts with Biskup’s Gama-Goon characters such as The Yeti, DeathBot, Tigerlily, Sqiddles, Dirty Bird, and Bling-Bling, the designs fall into place with the pop art movements. The three of them together took the basement hobby and turned it into a company

worldwide, including galleries in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Kyoto and Melbourne.

He works with playful and vibrant psychedelic imagery in the pop-design genre through such diverse media as silk screening, textile production, and rotocast vinyl. He is also a significant contributor to the GAMA-GO clothing line.
GAMA-GO is a unique apparel gifts and art company that was started in 2000 by Greg Long and Chris Edmundson. The pair began silk-screening t-shirt with artwork from their friends in Long’s San Fransisco garage. They wanted to help promote the San Francisco art scene and distract from their day jobs. Shortly after starting, Tim Biskup joined them, and printed shirts with Biskup’s Gama-Goon characters such as The Yeti, DeathBot, Tigerlily, Sqiddles, Dirty Bird, and Bling-Bling, the designs fall into place with the pop art movements. The three of them together took the basement hobby and tu
rned it into a company

Tim’s popular “100 Paintings” series, published in a hard bound volume of the same name by Dark Horse Books, is being followed-up with a new series of 500 paintings.

Bispop Gallery
In September of 2004, Biskup opened his own store/gallery in the center of Old Town Pasadena, Bispop Gallery exhibits and sells original paintings, hand painted objects, clothing, toys, books, cards and store exclusive items.

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http://www.timbiskup.com/about/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Biskup

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

designer 2...milton glaser






Glaser was educated at New York City's High School of Music & Art (now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts), graduated from the Cooper Union in 1951 and later, via a Fulbright Scholarship, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna under Giorgio Morandi.[2]
In 1954 Glaser was a founder, and president, of Push Pin Studios formed with several of his Cooper Union classmates.[3] Glaser's work is characterized by directness, simplicity and originality. He uses any medium or style to solve the problem at hand. His style ranges wildly from primitive to avant garde in his countless book jackets, album covers, advertisements and direct mail pieces and magazine illustrations.[4] He started his own studio, Milton Glaser, Inc, in 1974. This led to his involvement with an increasingly wide diversity of projects, ranging from the design of New York Magazine, of which he was a co-founder, to a 600 foot mural for the Federal Office Building in Indianapolis.[5]
Throughout his career he has had a major impact on contemporary illustration and design. His work has won numerous awards from Art Directors Clubs, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Society of Illustrators and the Type Directors Club. In 1979 he was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and his work is included in the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Israel Museum and the Musee de l'affiche in Paris. Glaser has taught at both the School of Visual Arts and at Cooper Union in New York City. He is a member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI)
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