Archive for the art-direction tag
Bodhi Oser has some beautiful skate/surf/snow tinged work. Art-Direction, Design and Photography are his domain and he does it inna fine style. His portfolio site is shortnsweet, exactly as it should be. His work appears effortless and minimal, deceptively so.
You’ll probably recognize Bodhi’s work from the Surf Life 32 to 02, Ron Church CA/HI 1960 to 1965 and Ron Church Surf Contest books published by Tom Adler’s book imprint. As well as work for Gravis, Quicksilver and a bunch of action sports related brands. Dude is heavyweight.
Further, I’ve written about Tom Adler before, his series of books are responsible for helping alter my perceptions of how surfing-related imagery can be presented. His approach to the subject has helped elevate surf photography to a high art level. Bodhi is a part of this process, these guys should be winning awards for their work.
Go drool, now.
A American Family Man: Re-Design: A Reader Poll
Vincent Skeltis was asked, informally, to re-design Foam (a surfing mag for girls). Skeltis has posted the brief, current/projected readers, the latest cover and a few of the covers from his re-design process. He’s asking people to comment on what he’s done so far (with the disclaimer that the logo is still very rough). Skeltis is letting us all in on his process, which is awesome. It can also be a double-edged sword, so in that sense he’s being very brave (and silently hoping no one skewers him, anonymously, in the comments).
Skeltis has some amazing photography and art-direction over at his portfolio site. I’m sure that whatever designs he ends up presenting, regardless of how they’re eventually implented (or not), his art-direction will be top-notch.
[via APE]
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Update: It seems that Foam had Skeltis pull down the blog entry. understandable. well, I guess i’ll leave this up for posterity sake.
gato heroi? we believe in hand making product ourselves applying our personal taste and flavor, putting an emphasis on color and design
I’ve seen the name “gato heroi” floated around the interwebs recently and didn’t really think anything of it. i guess the off-beat name just kinda bounced off the soft-tissue deflector shield. Last night I happened upon the website for this semi-faceless crew of shapers/boardriders. I was pleasantly suprised. I’m digging their whole aesthetic. low tech, intentionally vague and mumblingly wordy. I can’t speak on the boards, but I like the artistic direction they’ve chosen. It’s always nice to see someone pushing in a different direction.
