Kaffe Fassett Kaffe Fassett was born in San Francisco in 1937. Kaffe is a bestselling author, has hosted his own TV series and was the first textile artist ever to have a separate show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 1988. Kaffe ventured into the world of colourful yarn on a visit to a Scottish wool mill with fashion designer Bill Gibb. Inspired by the colours in the landscape, Kaffe was thrilled to find the same colours in yarns. His first designs where featured in Vogue kitting magazine as a full page spread.
The rise to prominence of Albert Speer is characterised by the manipulation of relationships to advance his personal ambition. Speer’s rise to prominence was a culmination of his accent in architecture, politics and as an internationally significant figure. Albert Speer’s initial prominence came from ability to adapt his architecture to his temporal context. In 1926 traditionalist architect Heinrich Tessenow tutored Speer at the Institute of Technology Berlin. It was here; at a campus where over 60% of students voted for the Nazi Party in student union elections in 1930 that traditionalist and Nazi ideology began to influence Speer and his architecture.
BIOGRAPHY Matthew Barney was born in 1967 in California, and with 6 years old moved with his family to the state of Idaho. When he was 12 years old, his parents divorced and his mother moved to New York, where he had often visited her, and where he was exposed to contemporary art. He worked as a model after high school, and left Boise to attend Yale University, in Connecticut. Initially he signed up for a premed course wanting to be a plastic surgeon, but after two semesters he switched to art department. Due his dedication and originality, he could study in School of Art while still undergraduate.
OCR Nationals – Unit 1 – Skills for Business AO4 – Design and create business documents using word processing or DTP software EVIDENCE REPORT FRAME Name: Johnny Humes Class: 9y1 Teacher: Ms Wardman Date: 14th January 2011 Target grade: ? There are page breaks on this document to keep items on separate pages Task 4a: Your logo – Place a copy of your logo here & explain why you designed it the way that you have I made this logo when I was doing the AO3 work on the Longridge Music Festival. I made it like this because of the subject I was creating it for. It was a music festival so I put a microphone on. Task 4b: Document names – you need to know the 9 different types and what they do – give a brief description [use word or publisher or Google to find out] Term
While at Northwestern, Hall attended classes with a fellow student named Carroll L. Griffith who would later go on to become the founder of Griffith Laboratories. After graduation, Hall earned a graduate degree from the University of Chicago. Hall was soon hired by the Western Electric Company through a telephone interview. When he showed up for his first day, however, he was told by a personnel officer that "we don't take niggers." Recovering from this slight, he began working for the Chicago Department of Health as a chemist and was promoted in 1917 to senior chemist.
Second, he negotiated an agreement with a sales representative to handle sales in the western part of the United States. Third, he initiated an advertising campaign, by means of direct mail and announcements in trade papers, stating that the winders would be ready for delivery on June 1 that year. Process of Mr Krause found the potential sources Mr. Krause’s preliminary survey indicated that four companies were interested in undertaking the work: Bullock Art; Webster, Inc., and Hershey Associates (the two concerns specializing in the production of technical manuals): Analysis of the four companies Mr Krause must analysis the four companies must could prepare approximately 180 illustrations and technical drawings and have the manual ready for the printer on the first of May Analysis of Webster, Inc, which was the largest art concern in the city, employing approximately 150 artists and book designers. The company had excellent facilities, including the latest art and layout equipment and its own photographic laboratories. The operations of the company appeared to be efficiently organized and well managed But Krause learned that approximately 80 percent of its business had been with one large manufacturer that had recently informed the
Carlos Schwabe Part A Carlos Schwabe was famous symbolic artist which he was born on July 21st, in 1866 and died in 1926. When Carlos Schwabe moved to Geneva in Switzerland from Altona he started studying art which he got brief success there which his talent was later unlocked when he moved to Paris while he was still a young man. He developed considerable graphic skills. He soon became active in Symbolist circles winning, favour as an illustrator of mystical religious themes. His highly refined drawings and watercolours accompany texts such as Le Reve by Emile Zola While working as a wall paper designer he became familiar with symbolist artists which then lead him to usually painting mythological and allegorical topics.
After his move back to the states he landed a job at the New York Times working as a graphic designer in the promotions department. After discharge from the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Eric returned to his job at the New York Times and later landed the job title of the art director over an advertising agency (Eric Carle). The launch to Carles’ career as a children’s book illustrator and author happened when he joined forces with Bill Martin and came up with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Carle is also well known for some of his other books such as The Grouchy Ladybug and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which has been translated into more than thirty different languages ("Biography Eric Carle."). Among the many awards Carle has received for his books is the “Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the Association for Library Service to Children, American Library Association, 2003” (Awards list).
Paul Taylor “He’s been dancing since before he could walk!” A saying that lots of proud parents brag about their children. Paul Taylor’s parents however, thought that their son wanted to be a visual artist and had know idea that one day his name would be synonymous with one type of American dance. Today, at 77, Paul Taylor may be the most sought-after choreographer working today, commissioned by leading companies, theaters and presenting organizations the world over. Taylor was born July 20th, 1930, in Edgewood Pennsylvania. After growing up in Depression-era America in and around Washington, D.C., Taylor studied painting at Syracuse University.
Thomas Nast was born September 27, 1840, Landau, Bandan, which is now Germany. He was the son of a musician in the 9th regiment Bavarian band. His mother took him to New York in 1846. He studied art there for about a year with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design. After school (at the age of 15), he started working in 1855 as a draftsman for Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper; three years afterwards for Harper's Weekly.Nast drew for Harper's Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886.