Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Two of my favorite artists Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin are up on a poster at the National Portrait Gallery in the Ballyhoo! exhibit. I think back to the songs I sang with them. Not many people my age have their albums on vinyl, but I do. I admire them, so it is hard to [...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
My visit to Ballyhoo Poster gallery was a good experience. I had never visited a graphic design gallery with a variety of older and newer poster designs before. This gallery was featuring sixty posters about American movies. There were also some other interesting non movie posters, like a reward poster for John W. Booth for [...]
Among the variety of posters on exhibition in Ballyhoo! at the National Portrait Gallery, “America Needs McGovern” responds with a strong connection in context of current politics. The presidential election confronts many Americans about the importance of voting. We all want a better life and country; better education for our children, cleaner environment and fuel, [...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
I have to admit that I was not interested in the Ballyhoo! exhibit. Go see a bunch of movie posters as an exhibit in a portrait museum? No thanks. Not my thing. Boring. I understood the idea and educational value of going, but honestly, I’d rather go look at the posters in the hallways at [...]
As a graphic designer, I found the Ballyhoo! Poster show at the National Portrait gallery very worthwhile. It gave credibility to design as an art form, as the show was surrounded by the elaborate oil paintings of famous musicians, presidents, and just plain wealthy people that are without a doubt considered art. To have posters [...]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Imagine walking into an exhibit filled with comic book-like posters. They are not quite the Pop-Art of the famous Andy Warhol, they are much more typographic. The Ballyhoo Poster Exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery features celebrities of the past and present. It can be difficult not to jump into the question of whether or [...]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
I’ve always thought Clark Gable was awesome. He is one of the most recognizable faces in American movie history and rightly so. A winner of an academy award for best actor, and nominated for three other academy awards, Gable was referred to as “The King of Hollywood” during his prime. With all these achievements under [...]
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
It is bright and bold! Something of this nature is hard to miss when your eyes cross over it for the first time. The canary yellow poster I spotted in the distance of the Ballyhoo! Gallery is called Nightclubbing, and it grabbed my attention right away when I walked into the exhibit. When you walk [...]
Monday, September 29, 2008
A lot of thoughts go through your head when your surrounded by you’re enemies, not knowing their next move, or your own for that matter. Your skill and wit may have gotten you out of this situation before but this time, there wasn’t enough time to figure out a logical means of escaping the predicament. [...]
Saturday, September 27, 2008
You might think that a poster featuring Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, two of the most recognizable 60’s rock icons, would include the flamboyant colors and embellishments associated with their music. There is, however, absolutely nothing psychedelic about the L&S Productions poster, Winner? Created in 1970, the year Hendrix and Joplin died, both of overdoses, [...]