Jaymi: Sniffin' Glue

The Punk subculture in the 1970’s had a distinctive attitude and style. Such elements as fetish clothing, ripped and torn items a radical rejection of conformity, DIY ethic, not selling out and were against mainstream culture. The punk aesthetic was influenced by the music and graphic design was found on record sleeves, publicity, posters and in ‘zines’.
One of the first and most famous music fan zines was Sniffin’ Glue, started in 1976 by Mark Perry after hearing and seeing US punk band, the Ramones. In fact the name is derived from their song "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue." NME acclaimed Sniffin' Glue as "the nastiest, healthiest and funniest piece of press in the history of rock'n'roll habits" a true account of the early days of Brit punk rock.

Sniffin’ Glue pioneered the DIY punk ethic. The publication was roughly put together with found material, collage, photocopies, hand written and drawn graphics. Sniffin’ Glue contributed to the distinctive punk graphic design style in the UK. Initially issues only sold 50 copies but circulation soon increased up to 15000 but fearing absorption into the mainstream music press, Perry ceased publication after one year.

One issue in 1977 famously included drawings of three chord shapes, captioned, "this is a chord, this is another, this is a third. Now form a band".

http://www.markperry.freeuk.com/index.htm

cathy 70'sart and fame and sticky fingers

The 1970’s; a decade characterized by social experimentation and where focus was shifting away from the social activism of the 1960’s to social activities for one's own pleasure, except for environmentalism, which continued to be high on the political agenda. The writer Tom Wolfe dubbed the 1970’s the "Me Decade." Feminism, Gay Rights and the Vietnam War are all synonymous with the decade and have been affecting world views since. Of particular significance was the changing perception of the established institutions of the nuclear family, religion and trust in one's government. Major developments of the sexual revolution included the impact of the contraceptive pill, an increase in divorce rates, single parent households, and pre-marital sex.

Amongst this decade of socially challenging politics, art and media were at the cutting edge. Following in the wake of the 60’s and often using shock value artists profoundly broadened perceptions and continued to challenge “the powers that be”. Two iconic legends of the 1970’s were Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones, with their outrageous performances and explicit reference to drugs and sex in the lyrics of their songs, and pop artist and radical personality Andy Warhol. Warhol began his career as an illustrator then became famous for his paintings of popular celebrities (see above & left, Warhols portraits of Jagger), icons (supermarket brands such as the Campbell’s soup cans and Brillo steel pads) as an avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, an author and controversial socialite.
It was the union of these two creatively “out there” greats that produced what was to be the "No.1 Greatest Album Cover" of all time. It was at a party in New York in 1969, that Andy Warhol casually mentioned to Mick Jagger that it would be amusing to have a real zipper on an album cover. A year later, Jagger proposed the idea for the "Sticky Fingers" album cover, the Stones' most drug-drenched album. The artwork, including a working zipper that opened to reveal a man in cotton briefs (rubber stamped "This is not etc.”), was designed and photographed by Warhol and released in March 1971. It featured a close-up of a male in tight jeans, one of Warhol’s hip enclave, not Mick Jagger as a number of fans thought.


"If you stand back from that cover," it was said by the producer of the album Craig Braun at the time "you can actually see the guy's dick” and it was not surprisingly banned from certain department stores. The cover was later parodied by American band Motley Crue on their debut album “Too Fast For Love”. The album also features the first usage of the "Tongue and Lip Design”, a caricature of Jagger’s lips and tongue designed by John Pasche and used since as a classic symbol or even “logo” for the band. This legendary album cover propelled the Rolling Stones into a more sexual mode and all involved in the project gained notoriety from this infamous image.


And thus, a 1970’s legend was borne.

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%27s
http://www.superseventies.com/ac2stickyfingers.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_Fingers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol

Brittany > Polaroid SX - 70 CAMERA

Polaroid SX – 70

The Polaroid SX -70 was introduced in 1972.
It was the first motorized Polaroid camera as well as the first foldable SLR design.
It was also the first camera to use non-peel a part self-contained, self-developing film.



The most revolutionary feature of this camera was that it was a folding SLR.
The Polaroid Corporation discontinued the line of cameras despite them being very popular.
Collectors, Artists and Polaroid photographers still continue to use this camera today.

The SX – 70 has been known as an icon of industrial design (and of photography too).

The film that the SX – 70 had was easily manipulated once developed and artists were able to create surreal images, similar to impressionist art.



URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SX-70

Kim-Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi and Saatchi is an advertising agency and creative ideas company that started in the 1970’s by brothers Maurice and Charles. They now have nearly 7000 workers in 153 countries and work with over 50 of the worlds top 100 brands. Saatchi and satatchi believe that ideas can change the world and that nothing is impossible. They aim to to be revered as the hothouse for world changing ideas that create sustainable growth for their clients. The agency has revolutionized the way they handle their projects by calling them Lovemarks. As defined on the saatci and Saatchi website….Lovemarks form a key pillar in what we believe. Lovemarks are super-developed brands that inspire loyalty beyond reason. The relationship Lovemarks have with the people who buy them is not built on function, but on emotion....and function.
Saatchi and saattchi have won over 3500 awards in the last 5 years and are continuing to bring about ideas and advertisements that will change the world if only a little at a time.
Some of the past ideas include:
• Following a single appearance in the press, an advertisement seeking an astronaut for the Russian space programme attracted 15,000 applications and lots of attention from the world’s media. It led to Helen Sharman becoming the first Briton to make it into space
• They were the first agency over the Berlin Wall. In fact, they advertised on it just before it was dismantled. This made front page news all around the world.


http://www.saatchi.com/worldwide/who_we_are.asp
www.saatchidesign.com.au
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saatchi_&_Saatchi

Fe. 60's Bob Masse

Bob Masse is from Canada’s west coast ahd has been producing concert posters since the 1960’s. He produced posters for bands such as the Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and Steve miller. Bob says that he was greatly influenced by the art and music scenes in Los Angeles ans San Francisco, His brilliant colour palette reflects the emerging psychedelic art of this era. Bob also says the his designs reflect his interest in the art nouveau movement and particularly the work of Alphonse Mucha. My question would be is Bob Masse another Alphonse Maria Mucha or is he just good at tracing (Plagiarism). You be the judge.



Alphonse Mucha (Princess Hyacinth)

Bob Masse (Women Rock 1960's)
Bob Masse isn’t the only person to of ever plagiarized Mucha’s work. Jan McRae (known as “Tamar”), a member of the Children of God cult, released a Flash animation slide show in 2003. There was a striking similaritie between her work and the work of many different artists including Mucha. Dance by Mucha was used as her inspiration even though she claimed to be inspired by “the Lord”.
While Bobs work is undoubtedly beautiful these few examples make me wonder where the rest of his work is copied from.













Alphonse Mucha (Iris 1898)




Bob Masse (Tori Amos 1960's)

ELLICE: Norman Rockwell, Illustrator (1940-50's)

As a 20th Century Painter and Illustrator Norman Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades.

In 1943, during the Second World War, Rockwell painted the Four Freedoms series, which was completed in seven months and resulted in his losing 15 pounds. The series was inspired by a speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had declared that there were four principles for universal rights:
Freedom from Want, Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Fear.
The paintings were published in 1943 by The Saturday Evening Post. The U.S. Treasury Department later promoted war bonds by exhibiting the originals in 16 cities. Rockwell himself considered "Freedom of Speech" to be the best of the four.

Rockwell's ability to "get the point across" in one picture, and his flair for painstaking detail made him a favorite of the advertising industry. He was also commissioned to illustrate over 40 books including the ever-popular Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Illustrations for booklets, catalogs, posters (particularly movie promotions), sheet music, stamps, playing cards, and murals (including "Yankee Doodle Dandy") rounded out Rockwell's ability as an illustrator. In his later years, Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter when he chose more serious subjects such as the series on racism for Look, considered by many critics to be one of his masterpieces. His most popular of calendar works was the "Four Seasons" illustrations for Brown & Bigelow that were published for 17 years beginning in 1947 and reproduced in various styles and sizes since 1964.

Rockwell employs the formal elements of design to communicate crisp messages with a variety of purposes and to create stories without words.
He was very prolific, and produced over 4000 original works, most of which have been either destroyed by fire or are in permanent collections. Original magazines in mint condition that contain his work are extremely rare and can command thousands of dollars today.

He is called an "illustrator" instead of an artist by some critics, a designation he did not mind, as it was what he called himself. Yet, Rockwell sometimes produced images many considered powerful and moving. One example is The Problem We All Live With, which dealt with the issue of school integration. The painting depicts a young African American girl, Ruby Bridges, flanked by white federal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti. It is probably not an image that could have appeared on a magazine cover earlier in Rockwell's career, but it ranks among his best-known works today.
Due to his own technique of using a special compound between layers of paint, some of his originals have yellowed with age, but the aging hasn't diminished his popularity nor the demand for "anything Rockwell."

ELLICE: M.C. Escher (1930-40's)

M. C. Escher (Maurits Cornelis Escher) was a Dutch graphic artist known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints which feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, and architecture.
Escher, during his lifetime, made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and over 2000 drawings and sketches and apart from being a graphic artist Escher illustrated books, designed tapestries, postage stamps and murals.

Lithography is a method for printing on a smooth surface. It can be used to print text or artwork onto paper or another suitable material. Modern high-volume lithography is used to produce posters, books, newspapers, and packaging (includes just about any smooth, mass-produced item with print on it.)

Escher’s artistic expression was created from images in his mind rather than directly from observations and travels to other countries.
In his graphic art, he portrayed mathematical relationships among shapes, figures and space featuring irregular perspectives. Additionally, he explored interlocking figures using black and white to enhance different dimensions. Integrated into his prints were mirror images of cones, spheres, cubes, rings, and spirals.
Esher created an artwork called Ascending and Descending, in which lines of people ascend and descend stairs in an infinite loop. They are on a construction which is impossible to build and possible to draw only by taking advantage of quirks of perception and perspective.
Escher printed Metamorphosis I in 1937, which was a beginning part of a series of designs that told a story through the use of evolving shapes and pictures. These works demonstrated a combination of Escher’s skills to incorporate mathematics into art.
This is an example of Metamorphosis I. He transformed convex polygons into regular patterns in a plane to form a human motif. This effect symbolizes his change of interest from landscape and nature to regular division of a plane. It was so successful that he went on to create part two and three of this particular artwork.
Another well known example of his work includes ‘Drawing Hands’, a complex artwork in which two hands are shown, each drawing the other.
Eschers method of art features etchings of several patterns and shapes that fade and blend onto one another. It can be said that Escher created another unique dimension of art.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher