Frank Owen Gehry

Canadian-American Pritker Prize-winning architect, Frank Owen Gehry was born February 28, 1929 in Toranto, Ontario. His works is considered one of the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey. He was labeled “The most important architect of our age” by Vanity Fair. His best known words include MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Ontario Art Gallery in Toronto; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; MARTa Museum in Germany and Dancing House in Prague. But his work started out using paper known as paper architecture before he began building the buildings. He used to build cities out of scraps of wood with his grandmother, adding in chain link fencing and other material whenever he visited the hardware store. 

 

He studies at Los Angeles City College and graduated from the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture.  His style is said to be Deconstructivism or DeCon architecture because it departs from modernism in its societal and functional necessity. He has be called “the apostle of chain-link fencing and corrugated metal siding” His work can come under some criticism because it wastes structural resources by creating functionless forms, the buildings often overwhelm its intended use and the buildings are designed without accounting for the climate. The building also does not seem to belong to their surroundings. In spite of the criticism his work has come through, his work stands through as an innovation to think outside the box instead of following the predefined form.

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Saul Bass

American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Saul Bass, is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences. He was born on May 8, 1930 in New York City and died on April 25, 1996. He studied at the Art Students League in Manthattan and then began taking classes at Brooklyn College.He worked for some of the greatest filmmakers, including Otto Preminger, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock. He designed the logo of AT&T Bell System logo, AT&T's globe logo and Continental Airlines 1968 jetstream logo. One of his famous title sequences are that for Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm. His goal was to enhance the audience experience by contributing the mood and theme of the movie within the opening moments. Instead of just a plain opening displaying only the credits, he tried to convey the mood of the movie in the opening to draw interest into the film.

He employed kinetic typography, an innovation that made Bass revered as a graphic designer. He later began to move away from the optical technique into a more computerized title. For 40 years he developed title sequences. He designed the Student Academy Award for the Academy of Picture Arts and Sciences. He made storyboards for Hitchcock’s Psycho production, receiving credit as Pictorial Consultant and Title Designer. He directed The Searching Eye, a short film from 1964, directed a montage sequence in the 1966 Grand Prix film and made Why Man Creates, a short documentary that won an Academy Award in 1968. Over the years he created his work, his works inspired many.

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Frank Shepard Fairey

Frank Shepard Fairey who was born on February 15, 1970 is an American contemporary artist, illustrator and graphic designer.  He was born and raised in Charlestone, South Carolina and became involved in art 1984 by drawing on skateboards and T-shirts.  He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration. His “André the Giant Has a Posse” (…OBEY…) was how he became known. He became more widely known for his Barack Obama “HOPE” poster in 2008. He has been arrested several times for “tagging”. Although he continues “tagging”, his work now shifts towards a political side. Alongside his book, his first art museum exhibition was in Boston at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the summer of 2009. He created t-shirts and sticker silkscreens when he founded a small printing business in Providence, Rhode Island after graduation. His business was called Alternate Graphics. His work was documented by American filmmaker Helen Sickler, premiering in the 1995 New York Underground Film Festival, the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and seen internationally in more that 70 festivals and museums. Along side Dave Kinsey and Phillip DeWolff, Fairey was a founding partner of the design studion BLK/MRK Inc. from 1997-2003. He developed a series of “anti-war, anti-Bush” posters alongside Robbie Conal and Mear One. He continued to collaborate with others and producing t-shirts, stickers, prints, CDs, posters, cover art and graphics. In June 2007, he opened his show, “E Pluribus Venom, at Jonathan LeVine Gallery. It was featured in the New York Times. Fairey’s work has become an influential part of our lives.

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