All roads have been leading me to read up on the Situationists in relation to theorizing stickers, including a new book I picked up last week at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge entitled Viva La Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape. (Waugh, I’m not a theorist….) However, in the spirit of the new year, here’s a picture of me at the Pictoplasma character design art conference in Berlin in 2009! Happy happy!
Motomichi Nakamura
Today through Friday, the Japanese-born, Brooklyn-based, and internationally renowned artist Motomichi Nakamura is at SLU in conjunction with the exhibition Picto This!. Motomichi is best known for his inventive character animations, prints, skate decks, and urban toys. Many sticker artists work in other genres like decks and toys, which is why I have “08 Character Design” as a category on this blog – listed along the right hand column. Matt Siren and Dalek, for example, are sticker artists represented in both the Picto exhibition with beautiful silkscreen prints and in the street art in Berlin exhibition with vinyl toys. Motomichi…
Quick status report
1. Oli and Nada head home to Berlin tonight. (Boo.) I heard from them today that they weren’t sure which was better during their trip to NYC — standing in front of paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat or happening upon a photo shoot in Central Park with Chris Rock. That’s a tough one, but after seeing CR on TV this past week, I vote for CR. Oli and Nada leaving SLU. Don’t you love this pic? 2. I’m listening to stories about the mid-term election results on NPR tonight and had a brief warm fuzzy about U.S. politics. Democracy in action. …
Character Design
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I’ve added a new category of links to this blog listing artists who work in character design. Many of these artists overlap with those who do contemporary street art and stickers. The Pictoplasma conferences in Berlin are probably the best place to find artists who create digital illustrations, animation, comics, skateboard designs, plushies and vinyl toys. My favorite plushie and toy artists are Friends With You and Dalek, but check the links on the bottom right for more character design artists. Plushie toys are difficult to describe, but Wikipedia provides this outline: A stuffed toy An enthusiast of stuffed toys,…