Methane Studios'
Mark McDevitt and Robert Lee
with Michael Ouweleen
SCAD ATLANTA
Tue, Sep 28 7 pm - 9 pm
This is a FREE event.
Register for this event online.
Methane Studios got its start in 1998 when Mark McDevitt and Robert Lee formed a partnership to produce silk screen posters for the East Atlanta club The Echo Lounge that featured some of the best independent bands in the late 1990s.
The roots of this partnership started in the mid 1980s at Columbus College of Art and Design located in Columbus, Ohio. Robert and Mark,both from small Ohio towns, majored in Illustration and bonded over bad 80s haircuts, corndogs, good music and creating art to form a friendship that would transcend into creating award winning artwork recognized worldwide. Our status as well-known designers has led us to win awards in design competitions in How, Print magazine, and the Graphis poster annual. In college we learned in a more traditional way which allowed us to explore techniques that we use today. We never let our posters look computerized. We use the computer like a pencil or paint brush. The computer has allowed us to speed things up and to explore more options for sure, but we still belly up to the drafting table often. We draw inspiration form many artists be it musical or visual and our work tends to have a vintage influence.
Today we exist as a two man studio creating package designs, logos, and posters for clients such as Turner Broadcasting, Honda, Liberty mutual, Blue Q, Dave Matthews and many other of your favorite bands. Recently featured on CNN, you can also find our work in many books that feature designs relating to t-shirt, music packaging and of course posters. We dig David Stone Martin, Jasper Johns, Ralph Bakshi, Mort Drucker, Robert Rauschenberg, Warhol, Edward Ruscha, Push Pin, Alex Steinweiss and countless others. Our goal was always to tell a story, convey a message, and to make someone stop and think a little with our designs. We have a sense of humor as well and it's important to not take ourselves so seriously all the time.
Michael Ouweleen, co-host of POLITELY DISRUPTIVE on WMLB, is Sr. VP, Creative Director of Cartoon Network On-Air, and writer-creator of HARVEY BIRDMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Spirited Calligraphy: Texts Marks and Meanings - East & West
October 7 - November 19, 2010
Drawing and calligraphic mark-making are as essential in Western art as they are in Eastern art. Evident in the works of early American abstract expressionists, calligraphic mark-making continues to be a significant component in contemporary art across all media produced in the East and the West. Today American, Asian and European artists employ drawing and mark-making methodologies outside the formal, figurative, and representational art approaches and aesthetics. Some integrate new media and digital technologies while others consider more direct applications using a variety of media, materials and production processes. Explore contemporary interdisciplinary and multimedia drawing and mark-making applications in this exhibition.
October 7 - Opening Reception & First Thursday's Downtown Arts Walk
5:00 pm - 8:00pm in the Welch Gallery Lobby
10 Peachtree Center Ave. Atlanta GA 30303
October 8 - Calligraphy in Action Performance & Symposium
11:00am – 2:30pm in the Alumni Hall Auditorium
30 Courtland St. Atlanta GA 30303
Speakers:
Kevin Hsieh - "Origin and Stylistic Development of the Chinese Writing System"
Craig Drennen - "The East West Fusion"
Calligraphy Performers:
Tsai YuLung (China) - "Heart Sutra"
Michiko Hamazaki (Japan) - "Taichee-Integrated Calligraphy"
Sogen Hirano (Japan) - "Sumi Ink & Brush Performance"
Moderator: Junco Pollack
All gallery events are FREE and open to the public. Free evening event parking in the United Way bldg. @ Auburn Ave & Courtland St.
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery
Drawing and calligraphic mark-making are as essential in Western art as they are in Eastern art. Evident in the works of early American abstract expressionists, calligraphic mark-making continues to be a significant component in contemporary art across all media produced in the East and the West. Today American, Asian and European artists employ drawing and mark-making methodologies outside the formal, figurative, and representational art approaches and aesthetics. Some integrate new media and digital technologies while others consider more direct applications using a variety of media, materials and production processes. Explore contemporary interdisciplinary and multimedia drawing and mark-making applications in this exhibition.
October 7 - Opening Reception & First Thursday's Downtown Arts Walk
5:00 pm - 8:00pm in the Welch Gallery Lobby
10 Peachtree Center Ave. Atlanta GA 30303
October 8 - Calligraphy in Action Performance & Symposium
11:00am – 2:30pm in the Alumni Hall Auditorium
30 Courtland St. Atlanta GA 30303
Speakers:
Kevin Hsieh - "Origin and Stylistic Development of the Chinese Writing System"
Craig Drennen - "The East West Fusion"
Calligraphy Performers:
Tsai YuLung (China) - "Heart Sutra"
Michiko Hamazaki (Japan) - "Taichee-Integrated Calligraphy"
Sogen Hirano (Japan) - "Sumi Ink & Brush Performance"
Moderator: Junco Pollack
All gallery events are FREE and open to the public. Free evening event parking in the United Way bldg. @ Auburn Ave & Courtland St.
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery
Sunday, September 19, 2010
ITC Legacy
The University of Georgia's Professor of Art Ronald Arnholm's ITC Legacy Square Serif Pro font has recently been nominated for the Federal Republic of Germany Design Award 2011. This prestigious award is one of the highest to receive for design excellence in Germany.
Inspired by Nicolas Jenson's 1470 Eusebius typeface, Arnholm designed a revival of that typeface for his MFA thesis. In the early 1980's, he revisited his design and began to expand the original to become ITC Legacy. The family was first released in the early 1990s, and Arnholm has added more to the family since.
The family includes sans, serif, and square serif as well as serif condensed with each including several weights.
Arnholm is a graphic design professor at the university. He received his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA at Yale where he studied with Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, Alvin Eisenman, and Herbert Matter.
Nomination for German Design Award
ITC Legacy
Inspired by Nicolas Jenson's 1470 Eusebius typeface, Arnholm designed a revival of that typeface for his MFA thesis. In the early 1980's, he revisited his design and began to expand the original to become ITC Legacy. The family was first released in the early 1990s, and Arnholm has added more to the family since.
The family includes sans, serif, and square serif as well as serif condensed with each including several weights.
Arnholm is a graphic design professor at the university. He received his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA at Yale where he studied with Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, Alvin Eisenman, and Herbert Matter.
Nomination for German Design Award
ITC Legacy
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