Our two inspirational graphic design cover artists are Keith Haring and the Tropical Toxic brothers (Asaf and Tomer Hanuka). These artists are some of the best at designing album, magazine, book and game covers. Keith Haring not only designed covers but was the most prolific pop artist known, after his role model Andy Warhol's rein. Haring was born on May 4, 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania and was raised in the nearby Kutztown Pennsylvania. Keith learned early art techniques like drawing cartoons from his father and the popular culture around him such as Walt Disney and Dr.Seuss. By the time Haring graduated from high school he was already on his way to the Pittsburgh Ivy School of Professional Art, where he studied temporarily commercial graphic art. Later he decided that he had no interest in commercial graphic design and dropped out to persue his career on his own terms. In 1978 he held his own art exhibition in a gallery in Pittsburgh. Later on that same year he moved to New York and attended The school of the Visual Arts where he finally felt at home. While living in New York Haring found an alternative art community willing to except his ecclectic art work. While in college Keith experimented with installations, collages and concentrated on drawing. Haring soon discovered that using the outside world as his art piece would bring more attention to his work instead of holding regular old gallery openings. Unused metro billboards began to interest Haring as a good canvas for his drawings and paintings, which he later displayed his work to the public. These artworks over time made Keith Haring one of the most famous pop artists even though he had a very brief career that spanned the 1980s. His work was featured in over 100 solo and group exhibitions combined. In 1986 Haring was featured in over 40 newspaper and magazine articles. He collaborated with many famous stars and artists on different art projects. The Pop Shop his own personal retail store and gallery in Soho became a major attraction in New York for its residents and visitors. In 1988 Haring was diagnosed with AIDS, in which he later established a foundation for. While living with the disease Keith became a spokesman and advocate to prevent the spread of AIDS. He later died of AIDS related complications in 1990 at the age of 31.
Asaf and Tomer Hanuka are twins that were raised in different places but share the exact same genetic makeup. They are a two man recking ball team turning out all types of artwork and picking up awards left and right for their cartoon strips, commercial design work etc. Asaf Hanuka was born in 1974 and as stated previously he is a comic book artist and Israeli illustrator. Asaf and his identical twin brother makeup the design team Tropical Toxic where they do many art collaborations together.
Although the artists works differ in style they remain similar in quality, popularity and noteriaty. Their description and processes for Tropical Toxic seem to be an untold secret, due to intensive research no information could be found. It can definitely be assumed that once their initial drawings are completed they move to the computer using such programs as photoshop and illustrator. Keith Harings artwork process consisted of drawing, painting on canvas, using acryllic or oil paint to complete his pieces. Then his reproduction process took place once he opened the Pop shop that lead to mass commercialism of his original works on cups, bags, shirts etc.. The artists are different in their art processes because although Haring used the computer for mass reproduction it was not used for most of his original works. Toxic shock uses the computer more for their works once their original pieces are created to add depth and animation.
These artists influenced our group work by helping us develop commercial cover art using their original works as references and trying techniques used to complete our projects. Their styles and processes will stick with us so in the future we will be able to produce our personalart designs and art pieces to the public. We also learned the adversities that they may have encountered to get to their epitimies of fame and recognition. In conclusion this experience has given us the opportunity to have knowledge in what it takes to be a entrepeneur in the art world in different styles, shapes and forms.
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