Art Hound

A History of Graphic Design For Rainy Days and Hyperactivitypography by Studio 3 via Pikaland. Studio 3 is an in-school design agency consisting of 15 3rd year graphic design students at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo. I am enamored with the concept of giving kids (and curious grown-ups) opportunities to interact with graphic design and typography. These books look so fun, don’t they?

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Robert Montgomery’s WORDS IN THE CITY AT NIGHT and hijacked neon signs via design work life. Appropriation is a big theme in the British artist’s work – he is known for hijacking advertising space around cities and plastering his own politically-charged poetry on top.

I love his message here.

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Look familiar? This is an exact replica of  the iconic “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada” sign.

Gallery Hijinks is a gallery out in LA that I really admire. Right now they have a show called The Letter Collector which runs through March 26th and celebrates typography (specifically letters) in artwork. A bunch of cool artists are participating including Ryan De La Hoz, Lisa Congdon, Morgan Blair, Erik Otto, Catherine Ryan and many others. Most pieces are small and on the cheaper side. Definitely check it out.

Clockwise from top left: Andrea Wan, Bo Heimlich, Louise Chen, Ryan De La Hoz.

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Clockwise from top left: Pakayla Biehn, Catherine Ryan, Seth Neefus, Catherine Ryan.

These paintings by the German-born, Minneapolis-based Ute Bertog are bold, modern and in-your-face. There’s a rawness and rebellious energy we associate with street and underground art which I assume are key influences. Letters and words are fragmented, juxtaposed and layered conveying messages about youth, urban culture and social constructs. The artist is in a group show at grayduck Gallery that opens Jan. 14th.

I am a painter intrigued by abstraction and its reluctant relationship to language. I paint text – not to make transparent works, rather to create opportunities for meaning to slip into other guises…

…Covering, rewriting, tracing, scraping, cutting are all procedures that slowly transform a given text extracted from popular media until the ability to read is either severely undermined or completely taken away. This is where imagination and play come in and readily fill in any gaps, offering the chance to undermine and confuse original content.

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