Annie Park 02 : Samuel John Butcher

Samuel John Butcher

He is an American artist widely known as the guy behind the Precious Moments.

He was born in 1939 in a very poor family, and he spent most of his childhood days for drawing and sketching. His friends and family members soon recoginzed his talent but could not afford any drawing materials for him since they were so poor. So Sam used to go to a factory dump to search for papers to draw on.

His grandmother used to tell him Bible stories all the time, and even from his earliest childhood, he painted scenes from the Bible. He studied in California College of Arts & Craft and also went to a Bible College after that. Precious Moments were first created by Sam to tell bible stories to friends and family, then introduced to the public in 1975 on inspirational greeting cards and posters, and in 1978 the first Precious Moments figurines were unveiled.

Everything is about love, hope, and more love. I just absolutely love his work; they are so warm and extremely cute of course, but more than that, I admire him in the way how he used his talent to influence many others in such a good way. I hope my works to be always encouraging and positive, too, and be inspring people in the future in a similar way.

Here are some of the figurines made by his drawings. Enjoy :)

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Annie Park 01 : George Simhoni

George Simhoni

George Simhoni is a Toronto-based photographer.
I first noticed this photographer about just two years ago when his butter campaigns were all over the billboards around the city of Toronto.

I find his work beautiful especially for the high-contrast, vibrant colors
since I think those colors with the sharpness together create some kind of freshness. Some of them look a bit like 3D graphics although they're not, and that's quite attractive to me as well.

According to his website, art directors have portrayed him as "a story teller in a single image, having the ability to bring life and humanity to his work." His work has been described as "rich, in layers of emotion, humor, irony, and even mystery."

His philosophy is that if you plan the shoot well beforehand, you have the time to "allow the magic to happen." Says George, "If I can stop someone and give them a momentary thoughtful pause, a smile, or a thought, then I have accomplished my mission."

He has won numerous world wide awards and he is currently working in Toronto as a member of Westside Studio. Well.. since I do not have much knowledge about photography (yet :p), my explanation won't be enough to tell you guys exactly why I think he's great.

Now I'll just let you guys look at the photos and enjoy yourselves :)

Collections including Landscape, People, Travel etc.

spiderman goes golfing!

notice there's a couple of sheep on the left :D

this one looks like a painting little bit

bug lamps

smoking ballerinas

Campaigns

sony camera

Wal-Mart

Toyota Yaris

Cadillac

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter; an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author and a public figure known for his presence in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.

A controversial figure during his lifetime (his work was often derided by critics as a hoax or "put-on"), Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books and documentary films since his death in 1987. He is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

my 2 favorite Designers---Suhyang Jung

Ron Dias is one of today's outstanding animation artists, who over the past 45 years, has contributed to almost every animation studio in Los Angeles. His work has appeared on television, in commercials, feature films and educational films.

Favorite Project: Secret of NIMH

Favorite Art Film: Bambi

Most Influential Mentors: Claude Coats; Eyvind Earle; Paul Julian and Dick Kelsey

Hobbies: Swimming; model ship building and fine art painting

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, after graduating high school, he perused his childhood dream receiving formal art training at The Honolulu Academy of Art and the Famous Artists Schools in Westport, Conn.

In 1956 Ron won a National contest for his design of a U.S. postage "Children's Friendship" stamp. He was given a jet flight to Washington D.C. and a meeting with President Eisenhower, The First Lady, the acting Postmaster General, and Lady Butterfield, who sponsored the contest.




















































Ron began his animation career with Disney Studios in 1956 where he worked as an inbetweener and clean-up animator on "Sleeping Beauty". Ron's desire to become involved in animation was sparked when, at the tender age of 6, he saw "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". He was so taken by the film and its beautiful art that he decided, then and there, that he would someday become an animation artist. Ron appeared as the guest speaker on Disney animation at the City of Kawaguchi's World Festival, on July 25th, 1998, in Kawaguchi, Japan.

While Ron started his career in animation, he made his mark on this art form and has spent the bulk of his career painting beautiful backgrounds for some of our favorite animated features and TV shows. Over the years Ron has contributed to so many feature and TV projects for so many studios, it is best to highlight a "short-list" of his work through the years.

Columbia Pictures, 20th Century-Fox, Warner Brothers Pictures, and M.G.M. Pictures employed Ron's talents between 1958-60.

EDUCATION

Roosevelt High School, Honolulu, Hawaii

Art School - 4 1/2 years formal Art Training from: Honolulu Academy of Art

Famous Artists School, West Port Connecticut.

Linn Olofsdotter

As Sara, I decided to choose a woman designer as my second post, because there are so many guys in this blog! And, what a coincidence, Linn Olofsdotter is also from Sweden! So many talented people there...

Well that's how her website goes: "The artist has explored many mediums before solidifying her career in the illustration field. After getting her education in both advertising and graphic design in Europe and the US, she moved to Brazil to start up a motion graphics studio along with her husband and creative partner. More recently Linn worked as a senior art director at a Boston advertising agency. During the beginning of her career she used her skills as an illustrator to help brand TV networks such as Fine Living, MTV and Anime Network amongst others. Nowadays Linn works independently creating artwork for a number of clients in the Fashion, Advertising and Editorial fields such as Oilily, La Perla and Bon Magazine."
As she has so many works and also motion pieces, it would be interesting if you guys could check her website

It was difficult to choose among her works, but I just loved the first piece about love. The second one was for a katalogue with "XL" theme...it is called "XXL Love", i don't know how she managed to be funny but respectful at the same time. That's why I liked it. Also I decided to show you guys a board design she did for an exposition (as we had the same task in class). Apart from that, I selected her designs for a Norweigian helporigansation for refugees, Xgames, Divine chocolate and for the Samsung television (in this one, the aim was to show the importance of black in an image in order to bring out the other colors).

I hope you like them!
Andrea

Favorite Two - Sara Cheung

Name: Kyle Cooper
Career: Graphic designer, director, producer.

Kyle Cooper is a graphic designer that has directed over 150 title sequence for feature films. Since Saul Bass’ death in 1996, there was only one designer who was able to catch the public’s attention in title design. It was Cooper’s title sequence for David Fincher’s film “SE7EN”. One of the most interesting aspects about the title sequence of ”SE7E” is the use of type. Letters may seem unimportant but it show how important it is for Cooper. Instead of seeing letter as type he saw it as an actor. Cooper's titles for Seven transformed the written word into a performer.

Cooper was one of the first designers to apply trends in print, advertising and record industry graphics to the conservative film industry.

Other ground-breaking opening title that Cooper directed are "Spider-Man", "Mission Impossible", The Island of Dr. Moreau", "Arlington Road", Mimic", "Dead Presidents" and "Donnie Brasco".

(Title sequence: One Hour Photo)

Cooper’s work has received numerous awards and honors from organizations across the globe, including a Gold Medal and a ”Best of Show Award” for graphic design at the New York Arts Directors Club Awards, and a ”Designer of the Year” 1996 nomination by the CSD (Chartered Society of Designers). Cooper also received two Emmy Nominations and the 74th Academy Awards show (2002).

(Title sequence: The Island of Dr. Moreau)

Copper is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and holds the honorary title of Royal Designer for Industry.

(Title sequence: The Mummy)

Cooper is also the founder of two internationally recognized film design companies, Imaginary Forces and Prologue Films.

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Name: Paula Scher
Born: 1948 in Washington DC
Career: Graphic designer, artist.

Paula Scher is one of the most famous female graphic designers. Scher is most known for her typography work. Scher developed a way of treating letters forms in an illustrative way that is easily identified as hers and has made her very a successful designer.

Scher began her career creating album covers for CBS Recordings in the 1970’s. She moved on to art direction for magazines at Time Inc., and in the 1980’s formed her own boutique firm, Koppel & Scher. Scher created visual identities for Citibank, The New York Public Theater, and the American Museum of Natural History.

One of Scher’s best-loved and most recognized work is the musical posters Bring In ´Da Noise, Bring In ´Da Funk.

Over the past few years, Scher has been painting giant, colorful maps filled with densely packed letterforms that spell out names of cities, states, ZIP codes, and, in some cases, voting statistics.