Okay, no, I didn’t actually make a drawing that required this much erasing. I just didn’t have the proper tools. I made an india ink and rubber cement reduction painting, and don’t have a rubber cement eraser here (it’s in my studio on the other side of the country). Just goes to show that the proper tools make all the difference (this was a brand new eraser ten minutes ago). (oh and as to the outdated Apple technology, interns never get the newest anything. Trust me at home I’m living in this century!)
Okay, since I mentioned I Love Charts earlier, of course I got trapped in it :). Anyway, I pulled out some that made me laugh so you don’t have to spend as long on their website as I did. Sorry for the small ones, I have no control over that. Hope you can read them!
Well I was on I Love Charts and I stumbled across something wonderful: The Moleskine Roundup Chart. I would categorize myself in a few of these categories, but you can decide! I have my current notebook and past miscellaneous arbitrary drawings, paintings, and sketches from past notebooks, many of which were Moleskine Brand. I usually prefer the one called sketch book (periwinkle), though I have used plain (lime green) before too. I tend to have one or two stocked up in advance. I have collaged in a few of them, and once I bought the watercolor one (fuchsia) and never unwrapped it because the spine is on the short side and when it’s open, it’s a weird format.
Not to depart from graphic design, but Style.com has some really beautiful pieces in the Pre-Fall 2012 collections that caught my eye. I will explain why I am making you look at fashion: 1) patterns 2) composition of the photographs 3) textures 4) colors 5) movements in art and style bridge fields and influence each other (see last images of Warhol, Yves Saint Laurent, and Mondrian).
Christian Dior
Christian Dior
Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani
John Galliano
John Galliano
Roberto Cavalli
Yves Saint Laurent
Lacoste
Then the part I explained to you: Below are the portraits of Yves Saint Laurent by Andy Warhol, and the De Stijl Dress of Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrian Color Block Shift, and Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Shift, all from the late sixties, all borrowing from each other, all expressing an art movement in a different way.
Yves Sait Laurent Mondrian Shift
Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup Shift
Portraits of Yves Saint Laurent by Andy Warhol
To be fair, to those not from the Bay Area, here is a really cool mapping information project actually. Alpha Designer Strange Maps — “Mapping Stereotypes.” It’s a different and humorous approach to information graphics, as well as being a(n), albeit exaggerated, look into people’s opinions. PS there aren’t just “The (blank) according to Americans,” there are “The (blank) according to (blank)s” too, (aka other genres of people/locations/whatevers.) Go check it out and see a few more images. PPS you can make the images bigger on the link above, AND this is a calendar! so you can buy it! Oh and since there are 2 calendars, that means 24 maps, not just the 4 shown below! Go take a look!
(oh one more PS, just because I am American, does not mean that I am in any way as prejudiced as these generalizations. It’s good to laugh at yourself too. Also, I’m not American, I’m Californian and Proud of It Baby! I once sat through a dinner in Europe with their conversation centered around ‘how fat and loud all Americans are!’ where here I was, tiny, quietly and meekly eating an undressed salad and water, trying not to point out the irony while they ate potatoes with cheese, mayonnaise, and bread and soda. Also, to be fair (again), I love the people that I have met during my travels; these two people were an exception to the tolerable human rule, nationality aside. We’ve all met some of them, and actually most of the ones I know are American. Also, there are only about three people in the whole world who I actually consider to be intolerable. I like most people, generally. Okay longwinded. So generalizing maps are meant to be humorous not hurtful! Enjoy!)
Then as two last little funny things:
This New Yorker image by Steinberg: (beautifully drawn!)
and this funny map (poorly drawn)
stream of consciousness 