September 24th / Todays posts
1893 book cover and wonderfully crazy lettering (other than that, senseless) illustration page inside.
September 18th / Todays Post(s)
Past RR stuff…a thrift store flash photograph, a cut-up history book collage, and last; an old comic postcard with some 1910 train compartment shenanigans.
September 16th / Todays Post(s)
One of my best projects was the design and lettering for a Plazm Magazine cover and contents page back in 1998. 15 years later I think it’s still so “90’s” and so um… cool !
September 12th / Todays Post(s)
Top: A collection of creatures on an old zoological page, no actual date, but overtly styled as early 19th century, followed by a “poetic collage” of my own using reconfigured bits from 2 Charles Dana Gibson drawings, circa 1900. (…reproductions of course; would that I actually had the real drawings of the “king” of pen and ink. I surely wouldn’t be cutting them up !)
September 9th / Todays post(s)
Caption for work in the “Now In Production” exhibition in New York… originated at the Walker last Spring and opening at the Hammer in Los Angeles this October. Who would say no to a free design show, even if you could only get there by boat?
September 4th / Todays Post(s)
Photo blog: edfella.tumblr.com Click on it, check on it, cull on it, concur with it. Or “can it”…
July 24th / Todays Post(s)
Cape Cod photos with those I-Photo adjustments I always find so irresistible .
July 21st / Todays Post(s)
My logotype, flyers, and Polaroid photographs as part of a larger exhibition of California designers (curated by Jon Sueda) in Brno, Czech Republic, at the Moravian Gallery. www.workfromcalifornia.com
Friday the 13th of July / Todays Post(s)
2005 drawing and collage on xerox background.
Collage with drawing from a 2010 sketch book.
July 9th / Todays Post(s)
2006 flyer with an illustration style sheet containing work done in Detroit from 1957 to 1987. Click on either one for close-up look !
July 7th / Todays Post(s)
This is a 1962 painting by Howard Whims (1905-2002), a Michigan artist who worked as an illustrator during the 70s and 80s in the same Detroit studio I also worked at. The picture is in the collection of Steve Magsig, another former illustrator from the same period, now a painter of note. See the painting below and Myartspage.blogspot.com for more.
July 3rd / Todays Post(s)
I saw the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at the Chicago Art Institute and found the coolest paintings he did were from the mid-50s, before he discovered big half-tone dots. On the other hand, had he continued with these, he wouldn’t be having any exhibitions in the 21st century.
Another Chicago painting, this one on the sidewalk outside the museum, which I wish I would have done back in the late 50s
Small painting I bought in an antique mall in Iowa. Not the best photo of it, but you can’t beat that twist in the tree.
July First / Todays Post(s)
Thanks to Tanner Woodford and gang for a wonderful exhibition during June at the Chicago Design Museum. 50 flyers (fronts and backs) and 5 large posters, smartly hung in a series of rooms in a “pop-up” museum, with hopes and aspirations of permanence.
