Friday, April 28, 2017

Tolerance in Sarajevo

The Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina, just announced the opening of the Tolerance poster show on Monday, May 8th.

The show will opened by: Lars-Gunnar Wigemark (Chief of the EU Delegation in BiH), Marina Finci (Dean of the Academy), and myself, at 12:00 pm in front of the Academy building.
More information about the show here

Casey Ruggles by Warren Tufts

I just got myself two Warren Tufts "Casey Ruggles" Daily Comic Strip from 1953.
These great strips are from the master draftsman himself. I'm mentioning this because he always had trouble meeting deadlines. Despite the fact that he had help from numerous assistants and ghosts: Nick Cardy, Ruben Moreira, Al Plastino and Alex Toth.
Warren Tufts created the comic strip "Casey Ruggles" in 1949.
Sadly he was killed in 1982, in the crash of an airplane of his own design that he was piloting.

More about "Casey Ruggles" here.



I also have an early original of Warren Tufts' "Casey Ruggles" daily comic strip dated 2-9-1950.
Humble beginning this is drawn a year into the creation of "Casey Ruggles." It's not a very impressive drawing considering how over time Warren became more refined and tight and almost graphical in his style.

Friday, April 21, 2017

The National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia

A few weeks ago I was pleasantly surprised with the announcement by The National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia that they will have an exhibition of posters I designed. The posters are a donation to the library by the American, Aliis Inserviendo Consumor Foundation.

The show will open in the Library’s grand lobby on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, at 12.00.
Unfortunately I will not be in attendance but if you're there I hope you can make it. More about the show here.

Monday, April 17, 2017

National Portrait Gallery

By pure chance, I just found out, I have 15 of pieces of art created for Time Magazine from the 90's in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Collection.
Among others, a cover art portrait of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.

Tolerance Poster Show at Fluid Forum.

We're excited to announced that the traveling Tolerance poster show will be traveling to the 5th annual Fluid Design Forum, in Montenegro.

April 26th to May 16th 2017, at Njegoseva Street (Ministry of Culture)
The show will be opened by Yuko Shimizu April 26th 2017, at 12:30pm.
Yuko is one of the participating artist featured in the Tolerance poster show.

Be sure to follow the Fluid Expo at fluid-forum.me, fb.me/fluidForum, and @Fluid_dizajn

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Tolerance is More Than Just Tolerating

Steven Heller on his blog The Daily Heller on printmag.com has published a piece on the Tolerance Poster Show.
"Tolerance is easy to say and often hard to do." You can Read 'Tolerance is More than just Tolerating' by Steven Heller here.

Monday, April 3, 2017

'Skyping' with "Flash Gordon"

I just got myself these two surprisingly small daily comic strips of "Flash Gordon" featuring Prince Barin and Emperor Ming 'skyping' each other.

The comic strips were created by Dan Barry and Bob Fujitani in 1985.