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Over 40 years of storyboards

Another group of frames from a storyboard series done for a Chicago ad agency. Over the years I have done thousands of these frames for ad agencies in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Pittsburgh and even in Paris and Vienna.




Never missed a deadline, came close though, a couple of times.

Ah, the smell of markers

Another batch of storyboard frames done for a Chicago ad agency, I can't remember which one. From 1996 through 2004 I did a lot of work out of Chicago through my rep Bob Fischer, my main clients being FCB, Cramer Krasselt, Lois Chicago and A. Eicoff & Company. I occasionally got assignments from several other Chicago agencies. It was a busy time for me as I also had active clients in New York and Detroit.






These renderings were the usual 5 x 7" size done with markers on high quality layout paper and, of course, had a tough deadline.

Retro furniture >> Retro Sofas & living-room Furnishings

RETRO FURNITURE

Sofas & living-room Furnishings

Sofas and chairs will be low, sleek designs with mahogany tree or woods veneer finishes and textured fabrics or leather upholstery. A floor lamp with a chrome end and iced field glass globe for the shade will complement your retro furniture living room interior decoration.

Whenever you actually would like to make a living-room focal point that will be a great conversation piece, try using a vintage or breeding 1950s entertainment centre, featuring a radio with dials and knobs and a vinyl album record player RETRO FURNITURE!

You can also find reproduction 1950s phones in bright plastics, complete with a dial instead of the keypad. You may still want to hold on the cordless handy for daily use!
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Retro furniture >> Retro woods Kitchen & Dining Room

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Kitchen & Dining Room

Formica and chrome dining boards are the way to go! You can still get originals at garage sales and 2nd deal stores or have a breeding set in brightly 1950s colorises alike cherry, sunshine yellow or blueberry bush blue.

Since enamelware was all the rage in the fifties, try getting original details alike a bread box, chocolate pot or afternoon tea kettle to show in your kitchen. Add colorise with a good collection of fiesta ware bowls and dishware. If you can not get originals, you will find plenty of breeding enamelware and Fiestaware items internet or in speciality stores.

You can even find retro furniture kitchen appliances like refrigerators, stoves and toasters.

To make a little bit wall artwork for your retro furniture room, try framing some 1950s magazine advertisements or posters.
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Retro furniture >> Bedroom Retro Furniture Ideas

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Bedroom Retro Furniture Ideas

You will not find a fancy canopy or sleigh bed in a retro furniture style retro bedroom. Simple-minded lines and geometric shapes were the style of the daylight in retro bedroom furnishings. Woods veneer fabrics with Rosewood were favorite for beds, dressers and nightstands.

You could use a vintage chenille bedspread to cover your retro furniture bed. For your window treatment you may try Priscilla curtains with frivolous wide ruffles and pulled back to the roots. Apply a shagged white country carpeting to add texture.

A groovy accessory item you can arrest is an breeding version of the vintage 1950s Big Ben Moon Beam alarm clock for your nightstand.

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Retro furniture >> Vintage Retro Furniture Designers

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Vintage Retro Furniture Designers

Retro Furniture styles in the home during this era can range in quality from junky mass-produced items, to extremely high end collectable new furniture pieces fashioned by the like famed designers like Pieff, George Nelson, Robert Heritage and Merrow Associates in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Europe, as well as American designers like Hans & Firenze Knoll, Milo Baughman, Charles & Ray Eames and many other people.

These designers eschewed illusion ornament and extremely ornamental designs in favour of geometrical shapes, clean lines, functioning apply and New forms. You are able to learn more active a lot of these known mid-century retro furniture designers over at r20thcentury.com.

Thanks to the post war American manufacturing boom out, affordable factory-made retro furniture style furniture is still widely available in speciality retro furniture stores, garage sales and internet at eBay and other online sources.

The more sought after designer retro furniture however, makes become quite collectable and then innovative pieces will often fetch extremely high prices at auction.

A number of designers and manufacturing business also offer breeding details and so you are able to get fresh, New retro furniture with that 1950s or 1950s retro furniture look without giving comfort and features.
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Retro Furniture is usually formed by American 1950s and 1960s trends

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Retro furniture Whether you're conceiving redecorating your bedroom, kitchen, living-room or some early room in your interior, retro furniture is definitely "in" these days. Perhaps it's a trust to return to the era our parents or grandparents lived on stylish and which we associate to more simple-minded times, the birth of Jazz and Rock and Roll music, jukeboxes and classical diners, that draws us back to the “retro furniture” style of retro furniture and decor.

Retro furniture is usually formed by American 1950s and 1960s trends and nostalgia, which are typified by the apply of chromium-plate, cracked vinyl radical, Naugahyde or other simulated leather, woods veneers and genus Formica, bright plastics and similar materials and finishes.

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Free retro vectors pack download

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Deviantart homes some extremely talented people. They're not only if gifted and quirky but vastly generous too. However else would you've access to these spectacular free retro vector packs that would enable you to bring free retro vectors alive on your screens? Continued on with our focusing about all things "free retro vectors" this month, we present you with 25 funky and free retro vector packs that have quirky free retro vectors images ranging from cassettes and polaroids to boomboxes, records, rockets and Rubik’s cube. They've been gracefully made available for download from their respective designers, so make sure to leave them a fresh commentary or 2 and please check their terms of use before you apply them. These should be pretty fun to designing with.
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Layout rendering techniques book

In my last few posts I have shown a lot of marker renderings done for advertising. In case you have an interest in this area of commercial art, I wrote a detailed instruction book on the subject in 1983 covering all phases of this part of the business. ADVERTISING LAYOUT TECHNIQUES is long out of print but you can easily find copies on the internet at places like Amazon.com. The book is full of information on rendering storyboards, ads, catalog and brochure design as well as the the tools to use.






The two above layouts are from an American Motors Renault catalog that I designed while living in Paris. The assignment came from the Wayne Alexander Company in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, an ad agency that I did a great deal of work for before to moving to Paris. Wayne frequently brought assignments over to me in Paris and enjoyed a vacation while I cranked out the work, he was a great client.


One of a series of ad comps that were done for a French ad agency. The sketch at the top was done by the art director to show me what he wanted in the final comp rendering.
Even seasoned rendering artists will probably get a kick out of ADVERTISING LAYOUT TECHNIQUES as quite a variety of assignments are discussed in detail.

Modern retro clothing >> 60s and ‘70s original modern retro clothing designs

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Look what I found out! Kate and Kass! It is a agate line that takes me back to the ‘sixties and ‘seventies, having line up, empire-waist and baby-doll modern retro clothes that we are featured in biography and Look mag, on ‘The Ed Sullivan present’ and in films like ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘2 for the Road.’ Gloria Gloria Steinem and Jackie O were famous for wearing this modern retro fashion styles.
Kate and Kass’ modern retro collection takes ‘60s and ‘70s original modern retro clothing designs and updates them with modern retro fabrics. These aren’t vintage dresses, can you dig it? It is a gas, man, these chicks’ threads are really groovy.
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Retro clothing >> High collar retro style Black

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These coat accepts an unbelievable amount of detail including adjustable retro buckles about the cuffs and buckle fashion belt out. It's made from a hundred% wool and ended with a high collar to insure you're going to look fashionable. As this jacket are limited company variant and genuinely unique it really does stand out from the other bunch of coats on the market. Looks groovy with skinny blue jean or combat trousers.
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More storyboards for Y & R NY

Another group of storyboards done for one of my best New York clients Y & R, the Art Director was Michael Brenecke. Again, these are all rendered with markers on high quality layout paper. To get good results you must use the best materials and be able to work well under the pressure of the ever present deadlines.






I enjoyed this assignment and had fun with the lighting and color, keeping the sequence dramatic.

Storyboards for Delphi

A series of storyboards done for Wayne Graydon, Art Director at McCann Erickson in Troy, Michigan. It was a fun assignment to do, most likely had the usual tough deadline.


These frames were all rendered with markers on high quality layout paper, I think they measured 5 x 7 inches.

Cool retro ornament & garland decorate for christmas card

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santa retro card

Cool retro ornament & garland decorate of this retro Christmas tree. Inside "Merry Christmas!"
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Time is the enemy

Here are a few frames, part of a larger group that were done under the stress of an overnight deadline. The deadlines are actually good in a sense, they taught me discipline and how to plunge in and work when I least felt like it. Discipline is something all artists need, especially in the fine art field, no one is going to force you to paint or experiment, this is something that is up to you, artists must be self motivated.


On this assignment I hardly had time to do sketches, you can see how loosely done these preliminary drawings are.


The drawings, as loose as they were, still worked out well as underlays for my final renderings. Most Art Directors will forgive your looseness considering the time limitations, as they appreciate your efforts to have something for them to show their client at an early morning meeting.

Twelfth painting in my new series

Here I have drawn the image on a 30 x 30" canvas with a Design Art Marker pen. I did several computer sketches for this painting and have taped a couple of them to my drawing board.


I begin as usual by painting in the background. This color may change as I cover the blank canvas with the other colors.


Here I paint the figure shapes in.


Other colors are then painted in, gradually building up the painting.


The colors go through quite a few changes before COY NUDE is finished. A darker purple worked much better on the figure shapes and the black shapes help the overall design a great deal. I don't actually just duplicate my original sketches, but use them only as a starting point for these paintings. Most of these paintings can be seen at the Craig Smith Gallery in Harbert, Michigan. Craig took COY NUDE to his Oak Park, Illinois gallery

More ad comps

I used to do tons of ad comps when I was taking advertising assignments. These usually still had tough deadlines,were larger and had to be rendered tighter than storyboards. These always came in a series and frequently had overnight or weekend deadlines as well.







I don't recall the ad agencies or Art Directors on these assignments but each one was part of a series of several ad comps. The first one was done for a Chicago ad agency and the others were done for New York agencies.These were all done using markers on high quality layout paper. For best results I use Bienfang 360 layout paper, but I use the reverse side as the markers work much better on that side.

Today's the day !

Don't forget to attend the charity event that several local galleries are having today in Michigan's Harbor Country.




Gloria, a Mary Kay representative, will be there with cosmetics and you can also see her book "50 Ways To Find Romance After 50" as well.

80's retro clothing are realy put some people

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Do not over do the retro. Some people are really put on the 1980’s with these tights and pumps and belted shirts.
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