Lucha Libre L.A.
I was wondering through Olvera Street downtown one day and this display of lucha libre masks caught my eye.
Award Winning Publication for UCLA Health
Congratulations to our client, UCLA Health. Their Physicians Update publication received a Bronze Award recently from the Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Association, the leading organization for healthcare marketing, communications, PR and business-development professionals in Southern California. D&A designs and art directs this publication.
Joe Goode at Michael Kohn Gallery in LA
Another one of my favorite artists — I recently acquired an early charcoal drawing. “Joe Goode has long made pictures designed to be looked through, not at. His work is deadpan, and seemingly innocuous. The LA Times critic William Wilson, in 1971, called it ‘neutrality-style art’. Perhaps this mildness is why he never got quite as much attention as his childhood friend Ed Ruscha, who also does deadpan but who usually cuts his neutrality…
Mrs. Beasley’s
In 1979, two of my oldest and dearest friends asked me to help them come up with an idea for a baking business they wanted to start and Mrs. Beasley’s was born. I created a fictitious character who was loosely modeled after my friends’ grandmother. The name came from a popular show at the time, “Family Affair.” Mrs. Beasley was the name of the favorite doll of the little girl character on the show….
Jeff Koons Retrospective
If you are planning a trip to NY soon, make sure you visit the Whitney Museum of American Art and see the Jeff Koons Retrospective. Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most important, influential, popular, and controversial artists of the postwar era. Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade (an obvious nod to Marcel Duchamp), tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits…
The Cooper Union
This cool building in New York houses one of the country’s top design schools. Ironically, it was designed by a Los Angeles architect – Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architecture. The structure features unconventional architectural details, including a full-height Grand Atrium, prevalent interior windows, a four-story linear central staircase, and upper-level skyways, which reflect the design intention of inspiring, socially interactive space for students and faculty. In addition, the building’s design allows for up to…
Cappuccino & Tattoos
I was in New York recently to help my son set up his apartment on St. Marks Place in the East Village. Couldn’t help but notice this shop down the street. A classic example of those odd juxtapositions that one finds every so often. Are they trying to take a more refined approach to the tattoo parlor? I love it!