I found an artist by the name of ThinkLuke in my search for logo artists. Like the vast majority of my other artists I found him on the site Deviant art. All of his images are vector based and he has a very crisp style. on his personal website he has a gallery of logos that he created for other companies, and they are pretty fantastic. He received an award in 2009 for best portfolio of advanced level USC Design students, so this guy is basically a prodigy!
![]() Ed Hardy started out as a tatoo artist in California. He is well known today for his graphic designed t-shirts and apparell. Him and his wife formed Hardy Mark Publications in 1982. They first began publishing five book series on tattoo time. Not only did his book publish about his own tattoo work but also of sailor Jerry's work. I think it is pretty awesome that he started out doing tatoo art and now he is so well known for his graphic tees. One thing that makes his designs so intriguing is how he mixes his colors with his unique pictures. Don Ed Hardy graduated with a Bachelors in the Fine Arts in printmaking. A fun fact about Hardy is that he was Sailor Jerry Collin's student and was able to study tattooing in Japan in 1973. One reason why his art is so noticeable is because he was able to incorporate Japanese tattoo aesthetics and technique into his American style work. Mr. Barclay was an American artist of pin up art. He was born in St. Louis in 1891 and studied art at the Art institute of Chicago and then went to the Art Student's League in New York City. When he was 21 he worked for a few magazines, one commonly known today as Cosmopolitan. One thing that I noticed while researching this artist that I found pretty cool is that during the 1930s he worked in Hollywood studios designing movie posters and became a superstar in the movie industry. Another fun fact about him is that he used his wife as one of his models when she was 19 years old and she became well known and used on different billboards across the country. A little about his art that I like is how he moves his letters in a diagonal form on the first picture I posted. I also like the fact that he actually used a black man for a poster back during the war. Also on some of his war posters he uses a nice strong text and will throw in a curve like text as well! I don't know why I like it but it catches my attention! Also the color choices he used makes the posters feel very patriotic and fits quite nicely to the theme of these posters! I am not sure just yet what I want my project to be, but I definitely got inspired by the text and the choice of colors!
Justin Gammon is one of the designers for the album covers of the band KMFDM, which all share a similar tone of propaganda inspired imagery. The only text that shows up on the album covers is typically the band name KMFDM and the title of the album. KMFDM is an acronym for "Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid" which translates roughly to "No pity for the majority," and the propaganda styled imagery of their albums support their fiercely politically-based lyrics and messages that the band is known for. The color scheme typically consists of only two or three tones, on top of an explosive or emotionally charged comic book type of theme. Each image usually has some element of a shadowy repressive figure commiting acts of repression, judgement, or control over the subject depicted in the image.
I chose to share cigarette propaganda because I think the tobacco industry approaches consumer marketing very aggressively and I find cigarette smoking interesting in itself and the reasons people start and how they usually can't stop. I'm not a cigarette smoker myself but I still find the smoking community intriguing - as weird as that sounds. Much of the cigarette propaganda that I found was very bold and contrasting, they also used large text to display brand name and specific reason why to smoke it- for example the Dentist recommending Viceroys and all the Doctors who prefer Camels apparently . Even Santa Claus smokes... ![]() James Montgomery Flagg created one of the most recognized U.S. recruitment posters. I am interested in recruitment as a theme from our new class project and so I am hoping to take inspiration through recruitment propaganda. He uses various sizes of text to get his message across. He has a strong use of color, mainly red and blue with white as a filler, in order to catch the audience's eye. The people in his posters are lacking strong facial features so that they look like the average American citizen, helping his or her country. These are very strong examples of propaganda. ![]() Rockwell was a propaganda artist for the Saturday Night Evening Post and is know as one of the best propaganda artists. The paper was to spread the word of patriotism and show you how great America is. Rockwell focused on the events at the time, with this image he wanted to share how women made a huge impact in WW2. Women worked with ammunition and other supplies the war needed. This just shows how women were just as involved in WW2 as the men were. He also concentrated on the racism in America. The image below is named "The Problem We All Live With" It was about integration in schools,and how wrong this was. He was trying to show the dark side of American Culture at the time. How corrupt people were, how things need to change. It is a very political image with little to no words, but it speaks volumes. I believe he was a great propaganda artist and his legacy still lives on. -JULIA JAMES These are two pieces of propaganda that I found. They are both real which only serves to make them even funnier given Hitler's pop vulture status.
The first propaganda poster I listed is done under the Works Progress Administration during World War II. Initially, The United States had no propaganda going on during World War II, but then the Roosevelt government got itself in the game. A major propaganda tool during this time was the WWB, Writers' War Board, which was government funded. The WWB was so active to the point it has been called the "greatest propaganda machine in history." The second propaganda poster I listed is done under the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, a domestic propaganda campaign. It is designed to "influence the attitudes of the public and the news media with respect to drug abuse." The goal of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign is to prevent drug abuse of the youth of America. This propaganda poster is a more current one of the U.S., being made in 2000.
-Amena Kamel ![]() by Ariel Nichols In World War II, the British perfected the use of radar and used it to take down German planes at night, but instead of letting the world know their secret and to prevent the suspicions of the Germans, carrot propaganda was created. The Ministry of food set forth the rumor that eating carrots would help their people see better during the blackouts not only to keep the Germans off their trail, but to make use of the surplus of carrots. As a result, carrots replaced many fruits and ingredients in recipes during the war and a myth that withstood the test of time. |
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