AIGA Seattle Into the Woods
By Mark KaufmanMark those calendars! On April 20-27, 2007 AIGA Seattle will be presenting Into the Woods, a three day conference featuring designers, illustrators, artists and filmmakers from around the globe.The roster of featured speakers is taking shape, so far the heavy hitters that will be gracing our lecterns are the designers Angela Adams from […]
Dog + Pony Show
By Mark KaufmanAs I’ve written recently I have been very busy. Putting pedal to the metal on a number of illustration projects. Although I am itching to post some of these, I feel it’s only right to wait until they are published. So once again we are going back into the archives, here’s a piece […]
Another Resolution
By Mark KaufmanHere’s another in the series of year end illustrations I did for The Stranger. A portrait of the author and filmmaker Charles Mudede. You can find the original article here. You’ll have to scroll down a bit to find it. I don’t actually consider it a specialty of mine but when looking back […]
Rejected!
By Mark KaufmanHere are some thumbs from a fresh job for a magazine article on taquuerias. Unfortunately these ideas were all rejected. Which proves that even with the power of Lucha Libre/Frida Kahlo/Day of Dead imagery you can’t win them all. The end product came out well, but just without the stereotypically myopic small mindedness […]
Death of Gerald Ford
“History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”— Ambrose Gwinett Bierce By Mark KaufmanMy latest contribution is a piece on the Death of Gerald Ford on the cover of this week’s Stranger. See it here. And read the article by Paul […]
Squirrel Fluff
By Mark KaufmanI have been busy, busy, busy since before the Christmas holiday, Working through the night, weekends, and holidays. As the saying goes, idle hands are the devil’s playground. Here’s a small piece of I don’t know what that I did for The Stranger in Seattle. As soon as I have a free moment […]
Wacky Packages Turn 40
By Mark KaufmanIn one of my last posts of 2006 I wrote about UBU Web, the repository for Avant Garde art and sound for the last 100 years. So I want to start off 2007 with the fact that Topps Wacky Packages are now in their 40th year! The first set of Wacky packages diecuts […]
Happy Friggin’ New Year
By Mark KaufmanWell that’s it for me in 2006. Was it a good year? As always in some ways yes, in some ways no. And as ever there are no resolutions for the coming year, just the same old hopes and dreams, and a sincere wish for a happy and productive 2007 to all. Cheers.
UBU WEB WoW
By Mark KaufmanHappened upon UbuWeb today. A marvelous repository of Avant Garde film, sound cuts, art, poems, typography, manifestos and more. According to the fine folks there UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. From my perspective this is what the internets was made for. […]