Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Tim here, Tyler’s dad, with some of the art and design that I really love!
Tyler’s mom, Penny, and I are in New Orleans through Mardi Gras busy eating, drinking and exploring. We ride in the Krewe of King Arthur and really enjoy our time here during carnival season. Folks here certainly know how to put on a big party (there’s a festival almost every weekend of the year) and they use art to great effect when they do!
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Andrea Mistretta is well known for her Mardi Gras posters.
George Rodrique for his blue dog series.
Terrance Osborne for capturing life in NOLA.
Simon’s art is now ubiquitous in town.
A fabric artist from Michigan, but we first saw her work up close in New Orleans at her gallery in the French Quarter. Part whimsy, always joyful. The intricacy and handwork of her pieces are amazing. (Yes, we own one!)
I inherited quite a few albums, issued in the ’50s, from my parents, which at the time of course were played on a “hi-fi stereo.” The Jackie Gleason albums of the era seem to revolve around alcohol and perhaps available women. There is an outlier, however, the cover designed by Salvador Dali!
Some of my favorite NHL team logos: the Bruins “face-off circle”, Buffalo’s pictogram of the team name, Hartford’s whale tale and Winnepeg’s hockey stick. To me, there has been a higher level of creativity in the hockey art/design than other North American sport.
Moving “across the pond”, Nigel Emery is a painter and collage artist we first met when we were living in Brighton England when he had a small gallery on the seafront. His collages are a mix of paint and other media, and sometimes it takes a moment to register their complexity and intricacy. The sheep in the image below are cut from newsprint. His works really capture the essence of why we loved living in East Sussex.
Since I’m a mass transit geek, I really love the London Underground posters from the ’20s and ’30s which helped encourage people to use the Tube (which was still in its infancy at the time.) These posters by Alfred Leete, Charles Paine, and Horace Taylor are evocative of the genre.
And finally, David Thompson is an illustrator living in Portsmouth, England. For me, his images evoke tourism and travel posters from yesteryear, from the art deco or art moderne eras. His work is strong, intriguing visually, and compels me to go travel to these places!
