ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: George Pfromm II

Known as HonoluluDogFight on skineart.com, George Pfromm II is definitely one of my favorite artists on the moleskin aficionado blog. His retro 1940/50s cartooning style is simple yet dynamic. He uses simple lines and shapes to make quirky little characters, which he features in his moleskin-comics. I especially love his thick brushstroke inking style, a far cry from what we all see in current Marvel/DC comics. Although he's not the first to use this look in his work, I admire it nonetheless. Here are some of my favorites from his moleskin sketchbook:

Check out his website for more illustrations. 

Steve DeFrank Documentary

Hey everyone! So I come today to share something awesome I stumbled across today through my journey along the interwebs. While studying at SVA a few years ago, I had one professor that truly embodied what it was to change someone for the best. His name? Steve DeFrank. This man was my sculpting professor and pushed my limits beyond anything imaginable. I never took to 3 Dimensional art, nor did I understand it, until him. He made me realize what an amazing artform it was and how I could translate the imagery I had in my head into a solid and intriguing structure to share with the world. His teachings are ones I will never forget. It's for this reason that today, I googled him in attempts to see what he had been up to, hence arriving to the following videos on his work.

Check out his process in creating 'Lite-Brite' Paintings here:

The Second Job

Even government dogs don't get paid enough sometimes...

A&E's new logo

PID will be back shortly...

We've all been busy at work with no time to post these past few days. But despair not! We'll be back in June with new art and opinions. Word. 

-Alexandra

Sex And The City Illustrations

In honor of the movie coming out this month, Entertainment Weekly came out with a special double issue dedicated to them and all their Manolos. I can care less for the show, BUT I thought these illustrations were really neat. The first two are by Jillian Tamaki, and the last one by John Hendrix.

George

this is a guy I know from back when I started in the signage/entertainment industry, he was an artist disguised as a vehicle wrap vinyl mural installation guy, cuban mixed, was bombing billboards. one day he left NYC to Spain, and look what he's up to. good guy. -eGO

Post-Its

Procrastinating at work, I've used my post-its as mini canvases and made marker paintings.

Animating the desktop

MUTO

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Painting Session

Getting in some practice painting with gouache. And painting birds makes my soul giggle.

Interview with SheOne

Via Wooster

Banksy - The Cans Festival

A flickr stream of a Banksy show in London. Pretty awesome.

Via Wooster

'Once On This Island' Poster

Here's a poster I made to help a friend who works for the Theatre Company presenting the show 'Once On This Island' in the city.

A Design Classic: Updated

When Massimo Vignelli re-defined the New York Subway signage in the early 70's, he also provided a matching map, which can only be described as an abstract piece of public art. In my opinion, his original map was great...almost perfect. It matched the (then new) Helvetica-clad signs throughout the system, and more importantly, tied together the system with a common visual identity. Sure, it lacked real geographic accuracy, but who cares!



The NY Times has a great article about how Men's Vogue has commissioned Mr.Vignelli to update his design to match the system as of 2008 (which includes deleting, changing and adding lines- like the new AirTrain). They have an "OK" version of it on their site for viewing, but if you want the real deal, you need to pony up $300 for one of 500 limited edition prints.



I am really in love with this map. Especially compared to the current Subway Map disaster:



Though, it's also worth mentioning this map, which was linked to in the Times article:


The above is an indy map made by Kick Design, Inc, which seems to me to be an interesting combination of the two maps above....it's not perfect (seems a little heavy and "chunky" to me), but it would be a nice breath of fresh air from 'THE MAP'.