Keith Haring was born on May 4, 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He developed a love for drawing at a very early age, learning his basic cartooning skills from his father and the popular culture around him, such as Dr. Seuss and Walt Disney. Haring moved to New York City and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts (SVA). In New York, Haring found an art community that inspired him to begin participating in exhibitions and performances. As a student Haring experimented with various media until he found a highly effective medium that allowed him to communicate with the wider audience he desired.
Since a little kid he knew that he wanted to be an artist, so he left high school to attend the Arts Student League, where he learned the technical skills on which he applied all through his career. In 1916, when Rockwell was just 22, he painted his first cover for The Saturday Evening Post, a magazine that had another 321 covers created by Rockwell, including the Triple Self-Portrait. Created in 1960, The Triple Self-Portrait shows three different views of himself, three different sides of him, created after a long and hard process. The picture shows pencils on the floor, a trash full of drafts and smoke, and on the left corner of his canvas there are five little self-portraits in different positions; all these elements showing what a hard time he had to come up with the painting. At the right corner of the canvas, there are pictures of four of the greatest artists that created self-portraits in history: Durer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Picasso.
He used to paint signs for his father’s grocery store as well as for school events at P.S. 109 in very young age. Timeline When he was a student, he works for a part-time position creating stock images for a syndicate that supplied graphics to various newspapers and magazines. Between his class assignments and his work, Rand was able to amass a fairly large portfolio, largely influenced by the German advertising style Sachplakat (ornamental poster) as well as the works of Gustav Jensen. To camouflage Jewish identity telegraphed by ‘Peretz Rosenbaum,’ shortening his forename to ‘Paul’ and taking ‘Rand’ from an uncle to form his new surname.This is his first corporate identity he created.
After college, Allen spent time traveling Indonesia. The time spent in Indonesia helped to ignite his passion for photography. During the 1990’s Allen began a part-time diploma program in photography. For his first major project Timothy joined an aid convoy to Bosnia in order to cover the issues there. After six months he dropped out of college.
In particular, his widely imitated aesthetic defined the so-called "grunge typography" era. He was born on September 8, 1954 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Since then he has lived in and traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe and lectured frequently around the world. Carson's first actual contact with graphic design was made in 1980 at the University of Arizona on a two week graphics course, taught by Jackson Boelts. He attended San Diego State University as well as Oregon College of Commercial Art.
You could say that was the start of his career as a composer. Menken attended Rochelle High School in his home town and after graduation went to Pre-med school to become a dentist. Lucky for us he later changed his major to music. After college Alen attended the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop in New York where he worked at local clubs writing jingles and songs as an accompanist. Alen Menken got his first big break in January of 1979 with Howard Ashman in the Off-Broadway production “God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater.” Three years later he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Music in his Off-Broadway Production “Little Shop of Horrors” and from that in January of 1987 Menken was given his first Oscar nomination for a song with in it called “Mean Green Mother from Outer Space.” In 1990 Menken was nominated for three Oscar nominations and three Golden Globe Nominations and went on to win two of each for his work in the Walt Disney production “The Little Mermaid”.
At the age of eleven his step father gave him his first camera. But his interest in photography began when he was traveling to Peru when in college. Then this changed from social commentary to a narrative based/fashion photography while he was studying his degree at the University of Brighton located in the United Kingdom. When he was making his opportunities in London with his college portfolio, he got introduced to Mario Testino, then soon joined Testino in Paris as an his assistant. While traveling the globe with Testino for the 4 years he, Lubomirski, managed to get many test shots while got seen and immediately published in “The Face” by Katie Grand.
Paul Rand Though he would become one of the premier graphic designers Paul Rand was born Peretz Rosenbaum on August 15, 1914 in a strict Orthodox Jewish home in Brooklyn, New York. He started painting and designing as extracurricular activity in public high school, went on to earn an art certificate at Pratt Institute, and attended classes at Parsons School of Design and Art Students’ League, but was largely self-taught in design. From reading European art and design books and magazines, he brought European modernism to his own work and eventually introduced its influence to the graphic design industry as a whole in the United States. He established the so-called Swiss Style in the United States. Paul Rand began his professional career as an illustrator of stock advertising images for Metro Associated Services in 1934, but expanded his design portfolio through freelance work and an apprenticeship for package and industrial designer George Switzer’s studio.
Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since." This concluded his love for art in a tremendous way that he began exploring with imagination from an early age, eventually reflecting it in a lives work. Niemeyer was schooled in the city's Escola Nacional de Belas Artes after graduating, while he also worked on his father’s typography house for a short while. Then throughout the years he got internships working with architects and did projects all around Rio de Janeiro. From the 1940’s to the 1950’s, Oscar started working on his own designing and developing his own design trademarks.
He first started writing in magazines in New York but he also wrote several stories in his early times like A Perfect Day for Banana Fish. He also enrolled in Ursinus College at Collegeville Pennsylvania. As he got older he eventually had to leave the United States to go fight in World War 2. After the war J.D. Salinger came back to New York began to write for the New York magazine.