Peter Doig - I Like the Singleness of Being a Painter

Peter Doig Speaking to Louisiana Channel about his work and practice.

The Windshield Wiper in Full

The Windshield Wiper, a short film from Alberto Mieglo won an Oscar for Animated short in 2022, and was published for view on YouTube that same year. I only just found this out. Apologies.

I'm Finding Out ... I am in Love with the World

Some inspiring words from Maurice Sendak — reflecting on aging, beauty, life and death

Wind in the Willows - Inga Moore

The Wind in the Willows is classic book, with some incredible illustrations in various editions. Wholesome and cozy a delightful for a century.

Marathon Announcement Teaser

Bungie release a teaser trailer for a new project Marathon, a pvp extraction shooter that is bright and stylish and mysterious.

Tracey Emin Speaks with Jerry Saltz at NYAA

photo Mauren M Evans for Financial Times.

Last week I got to attend an artist talk with Tracey Emin at New York Academy of Art as she was interviewed by writer and critic Jerry Saltz. It was wonderful to see her in person and hear how her life had been affected by cancer, and how she is motivated, a fire under her, to make the most of her remaining productive years.

Read the article here on Isadore&Dunn Gallery.

I’m Here, I’m Alive — Financial Times

Margo Sarkisova — Of War and Peace

Isadore&Dunn Art Gallery, (for whom I am a co-founder) put up a show this season from Margo Sarkisova, an Assyrian artist from Ukraine who has had to deal with life under attack from Russia’s full scale invasion in February. The work reflect the anxiety of an artist whose world is on its head, from a time where her future and her safety were very uncertain.

We thank her for sharing these prints and her experience in the hopes that it sheds more light on the real human experience of living through such a difficult situation.

See the show here.

Walk Like You - Mike Mignola

An appreciation of Mike Mignola. Always a pillar of inspiration for character, form and a graphic striking style

Bicep - Saku David Bertram

A wonderful execution of a simple premise in this music video from David Bertram

Ignasi Monreal

Ignasi Monreal is a Spanish illustrator based in Lisbon, who paints some really inventive and fantastical images that incorporate classic themes and mythology with modern fashion and personal observation.

it seems to be he’s thinking through concepts of beauty and absurdity mostly, recalling Hieronymus Bosch (15th century) or finding the divine (perhaps timeless) beauty in some modern person passed out on a couch, or checking her makeup on public transit. These small moments are elevated and shown in a format we associate with classical painting typically reserved for Gods or Cathedrals. And in a way allows us to imagine that maybe Michelangelo, in painting Gods and Angels and epic scenes, was probably also incorporating current things around himself that he found beautiful or sexy. Bringing this very human touch to the divine world.

Gucci Halucination - Production Company: The Line.

Meets Gucci

Additional interview with It’s Nice That

Ahmed Aldoori – Dune V Lawrence of Arabia

Ahmed Aldoori recently put out a reaction and artist critique video of the recent Dune trailer from Denis Villeneuve. I thought the trailer looked interesting, I hadn’t seen any visuals from this new film yet and I have really loved Villeneuve’s work in the past.

Mr Aldoori had some criticisms, specifically about the use of color in the film grade. He brings up the point that overall the feeling is grey and muted down. And that while this is supposed to be a stark dry desert planet, that doesn’t necessarily mean ‘colorless’. As a counterpoint he shows many examples from the 1962 masterpiece, Lawrence of Arabia. Also in the desert, also stark, also dry. But because of the film stock, and the realities of a real desert location. Colors lighting that could be easily missed by a very green screen-heavy, matte-painted, digital filmmaking process.

He also takes issue with the reluctance current digital filmmakers tend to have at avoiding black and silhouettes. People shoot raw, they have details in the shadows, and theres a tendency to want to keep that information because its there. And also people all down the line from directors and DP’s to post production artists are more used to seeing this footage where even in the blacks, there is detail. And that affects the final grade.

Ahmed talks about blacks, and their use in a composition to lead the eye. As a way of making a photograph bold and graphic.

RIP Ron Cobb

Ron Cobb, American/Australian illustrator designer and concept artist died on the September 21, in his 80s.

Ron was know most for his work on the ships and logos and iconography in Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien. He also worked on Back the the Future, Total Recall, The Abyss, Dark Star, Star Wars…

More information on his life and history here at We Are The Mutants.

The Semiotic Standard

Alien is one of the best lived-in-future worlds in all of cinema. It is dingy and rough, old and broken down. Tactile and utilitarian. In addition to the objects and interiors, there is also a very plausible graphic system for the ship indicating various safety warning. These types of symbols exist in a lot of hazardous workplaces and this version looks clean and futuristic, but also looks like it could have been in use at any point from the 40’s onward. They are completely usable and believable.

Political Comics

Cobb served in the Vietnam war and when he returned he got back to work as an artist, creating many gorgeous and brutal political cartoons for the Los Angeles Free Press. They are critical of the government handling poverty, race, the draft, nukes, environmentalism and police brutality. These comics are an amazing time capsule of the anti-war and politically conscious era and are incredibly relevant today. Sadly we haven’t solved really any of these problems.

Sundance 2020 Identity – Studio Lowrie

For 2020, the Sundance Film Festival employed Studio Lowrie to rebrand with these striking and op-art glyphs and typography based branding. Its simple and powerful, and stands out amid the visual noise of Park City during the festvial. As a system it uses a pared down color pallate and is meant to function across a variety of media and applications, and both static and in motion. It also takes cues from four musical pilars: Jazz, Rock, … Italo-Disco.

Looks almost a bit like navajo art or camera test and focus patterns. The Studio themselves mentions the circular shape is referential of film projectors, eyes dilating or contracting, and the sun.

Branding from Studio Lowrie

Typeface La Nord by Raoul Gottschling

Motion by Connor Campbell