Steph's brief history of: Art Kane (1925 - 1995)

Arthur Kanofsky "Art Kane", was a fashion and music photographer in NYC from 1950s - 1990s. He started his career at Esquire magazine and then went on to become the Art Director for Seventeen magazine (the youngest Art Director of a major magazine at the time). In the 1950s he became the prodegé of Alexey Brodovich.

Perhaps his most famous photo, "Harlem" features 58 of the greatest legends in jazz:

15 minutes of CSS fame!

Found out today that the last design for my website made it onto ccscollector.com :)

Steph's brief history of: Henry Wolf (1925-2005)

 Henry Wolf was born in Austria but made his fame in America. He became Art Director for Esquire in 1952 and the succeeded Alexey Brodovich (see post below) when he became the Art Director for Harper's Bazaar in 1958.

I really like the way Wolf has created both a facing and portrait image of his subject using a glass of water - something only a fantastic photographer would think of doing.

In 1965 he joined McCann Erickson producing advertising for Coca Cola, Alka Selzer and Gilette amongst others.

In 1971 he launched Henry Wolf Productions where he worked for 30 years producing over 500 tv commercials.

Wolf was certainly influenced by Brodovich, his work feels like an extension for that of Brodovich.

Steph's brief history of: Alexey Brodovich (1898 - 1971)

Brodovich was born in Russia but fled to France in the Revolution of 1920.This Bal Banal poster started his career as a Graphic Designer when he entered it into a competition, beating a drawing by Picasso:

As Paris started to lose its design flair, Brodovich decided to move to America where he would create his most famous works for magazine, Harper's Bazaar:

Hi work emits movement, energy and modernity. He turned blocks of text into elegant and abstract forms:

He assigned cover illustrations to avant-garde artists such as A.M. Cassandre, Herbert Beyer and Salvador Dali.

Steph's brief history of: Milton Glaser (1929 - pres.)

Milton Glaser has to be one of the most respected Art Directors. Being a spring chick when it comes to advertising, I find it hard to imaging the industry without computers and Glaser's work is a beautiful example of analogue times. The work of Milton Glaser Inc. even now has a feeling of being artwork as opposed to computer generated work.

I can't help but feel that perhaps something like this Zero7 cover art would be a computer-made version of Glaser's Bob Dylan poster... 

Nice little Lego ad

Weetabix Spoonsize

Weetabix - Dancer from Tonic Music on Vimeo.

Maybe it's just me but I think this fashion for dubstep might have gone a little bit too far...?

V&A Power of Making exhibition

The Power of Making exhibition at the V&A showed me what we can achieve if we just put our minds to it and apply a little bit of patience. Pieces such as the gorilla made of coat hangers was a perfect example of this. The sculpture is simple in structure, the most astonishing thing is the amount of concentration and commitment that it must have taken to produce it.

The following piece is a japanese-style "wheelchair" designed with Stephen Hawkin in mind.

 I had never really seen the produce of a 3D printer before so this urn really impressed me:

 

Crochetdermy bear, Shauna Richardson:

 Fantastic glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly:

Cool Beans

I had no idea mother nature had created these! I swear some of the most creative things are right underneath our noses...

Beans prepared by hand by yours truly!

British Museum

This week I visited the British Museum in London. I was quite surprised that hardly any of the artifacts were British but nevermind!

I couldn't resist taking a picture of the magnificent roof:

And comparing it to that of Westfield shopping centre:

I really like the swirls and patterns in this vase:

This fella is just awesome:

This just doesn't look 1000s of years old, incredible: