God of Steel

The publishers of the French magazine "irreverent" asked me to provide them with my illustration of "Questionman" for their 8th issue´s cover on the topic of God. The illustration had to be grayscale so I turned back to my original ink drawing and scanned it again.
> irreverent magazine

Making of "Exhibit 1-5"

Materials: Powder-coated MDF, polymer clay, chicken bones, thread, wire, hot glue. Colored with acrylics, spray paint and clear varnish. What you can´t see here are gallons of sweat drops.

Evolution of Type, Exhibit 1-5

I recently came across the book "The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering" (1918) by famous type designer Frederic W. Goudy:

"Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous. Letters, like men, have now an ancestry (...) indeed, it has been said that the invention of writing is more important than all the victories ever won or constitutions devised by man (...) A letter should possess an esthetic quality that is organic, an essential of the form itself and not the result of mere additions to its fundamental form nor to meaningless variations of it."

So I altered some letters to suggest living organisms. For the full rationale and more pictures see my Behance portfolio.

Jane

This is my newest summerjob: "Jane". My earlier papercuts "Byrne & Boyle" were done with colored corrugated cardboard purchased in an art supply store. But for Jane I used industrial packaging cardboard with a rougher surface and bigger grating. It is harder to cut than art paper but gives a more handmade look and I could do a bigger size (70x100cm/28x40in). I was tempted to spraypaint the whole image in gold or light blue but decided to leave it with the original cardboard look. See bigger images in my behance gallery.

Webshop Opened

After going through some efforts of finding the right paper, a good printer and a nice shop host I finally opened my Art Prints Shop on bigcartel.com. Check it out: andischeiger.bigcartel.com

FFFFOUND!

Oh joy! FFFFOUND, the most comprehensive of all graphic design bookmarking sites has ffffound a whole collection of my designs.

Evolution of Type, Fig. 1-6

For some of the last century´s most famous type designers the alphabet was the greatest achievement of mankind. To me all single members of the alphabet are similar to organic substance. Type always has been transformed not only according to fashion and style but also to prevailing political and philosophical mindset.

For your inspiration

Graphic hub "Lava360°" encludes 2 of my designs in their list of inspirational vintage style posters. Great artworks all along this listing. Thanks Lava360°!

Questionman

Having managed to survive for numerous decades Supie nowadays seems so hopelessly outdated by X-Box heroes and the like. What does a modern superhero have to look like?

One Day, Part 1

My latest piece. This time I drove the moral pen - the title says it all. On their list of endangered species the World Wildlife Fund lists the polar bear as an iconic animal, a flagship species, that provides a focus for raising awareness. Because of melting ice the polar bear is forced to swim large distances and the first drowned bears already have been discovered. In my drawing the polar bear wears a bathrobe to illustrate this cruel fact.

I recently rediscovered this order form for merchandise included in my 1978 Commodores´LP album "Natural High". And I fell immediately in love with the blue T-Shirt (with silver metallic print!).

Splendid! Formatmag.com, picocool.com and existingvisual.com feature my papercuts and top it with a nice description. To see what this is about check out my "Objects" album on Flickr and the feature on formatmag.com, picocool.com and existingvisual.com.

Revelation

“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." (Tennesse Williams)

JF

My second virtual engraving, this time it´s young Jane Fonda, actress and peace activist. Jane´s hair gave me a bloody hard time, next time I will try with Telly Savalas.

Major

Finally, after endless tries, I have managed to recreate engraving style line art from regular grayscale images. It is a complicated process and my respect for old age engravers grew with every single "Undo"-command. By carefully placing lines of varying weight, scale, curvature and distance to each other an engraver was able to simulate color, surface, depth and dimension with striking accuracy. This art is almost totally lost today.

The Photo Shoppe Toolbox

Best of both worlds - DTP and vintage print. I just had to experiment to see if this goes together.

Tag Clouds

Yet another addictive tool for all keyboard droolers. Cloud your tags at: http://www.wordle.net

Sell, Seal, Ship!

Sell, Seal, Ship. The "Big S" is made of carton packs I collected at my local China market.

The Quick and A Lazy

"The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The lazy Dog" is a "pangram", a sentence which contains each letter of the alphabet at least once. Pangrams are used to display typefaces. Apple and Microsoft use the fox-pangram with their font management software, which makes this particular pangram the most famous. The shorter a pangram the better it is considered. This one contains 35 letters and enthusiasts claim to replace the second "the" by "a" to make it shorter. This is what my newest collage is about.