Alan Fletcher

Alan Fletcher the design firm Fletcher/Forbes/Gill with Colin Forbes and Bob Gill in 1962. An early product was their 1963 book Graphic Design: A Visual Comparison.
Clients included Pirelli, Cunard, Penguin Books and Olivetti. Gill left the partnership in 1965 and was replaced by Theo Crosby, so the firm became Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes. Two new partners joined, and the partnership evolved into Pentagram in 1972, with Forbes, Crosby, Kenneth Grange and Mervyn Kurlansky, with clients including Lloyd's of London and Daimler Benz. Much of his work is still in use: a logo for Reuters made up of 84 dots, which he created in 1965, was retired in 1992, but his 1989 "V&A" logo for Victoria and Albert Museum, and his "IoD" logo for the Institute of Directors remain in use. In last years he designed the logo for the Italian School of Architecture "Facolta` di Architettura di Alghero", University of Sassari.
He left Pentagram in 1992, and worked from the home in Notting Hill that he had occupied since the early 1960s, where he was assisted by his daughter Raffaella Fletcher, Leah Klein and Sarah Copplestone, and worked for new clients, such as Novartis. Much of his later work was as art director for the publisher Phaidon Press, which he joined in 1993. For him, life and work were inseparable: "Design is not a thing you do. It's a way of life." quoted in his obituary in The Times. He would continue working, even on holiday, drawing on a notepad with a pencil.

Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton was born on February 24th 1922. He is an English painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage titled Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? Was produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London. It had been considered by critics and historians to be one of the early works of Pop Art.

Richard Hamilton had grown up in the Pimlico area of London. He had left school with no formal qualifications. Hamilton got work as an apprentice for and electrical components firm. By working there he had discovered ability for draftsmanship's and then began to do evening paint classes at St Martin’s School of Art, which then got him an entry into a royal academy school. He eventually went to the Slade School of Art, University College London. After two being there Hamilton began exhibiting at the institute of Contemporary Arts. This is where he also produced posters leaflets and started teaching at the Central School of Art and Design.

In the 1970’s Hamilton enjoyed major international exhibitions that was being organised of his work. Hamilton had found a new partner Rita Donagh and together they set about converting the North End.

In 1992 the Tate Gallery in London organized a major retrospective of Hamilton's career with an accompanying catalogue, which shows a review of his whole career. In 1993 Hamilton represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale and was awarded the Golden Lion.

A quote written in a letter to the Smithson’s from Richard Hamilton

"Pop Art is: popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business".

Hamilton is also known as a expert in printmaker.

In February 2002, the British Museum staged an exhibition of Hamilton's illustrations of James Joyce's Ulysses that was titled as Imaging Ulysses.

Man Ray

MAN RAY

Emmanuel Radnitzky also known as Man Ray

Was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He was very well known in the art world for his avant-grade photography. Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painter above all. He was also a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Ray Man was also noted for his photogram’s which he had renamed it to be Raygrams. In 1999, ART news magazine named him one of the 25 most influential artists of the 20th century. He achieved this goal because of his ground breaking photography and also many other things that he did such as:

·         painting

·         sculpture

·         collage

·         assemblage

·         prototypes

This was eventually named as performance art and conceptual art.

 

Juan Francisco Casas

This is the work of Juan Francisco Casas. He has an amazing talent on creating the most realistic drawings with the only use of a ballpoint pen. I find him to be very inspiring, most of his images in my opinion look like professional photographers work. Its really well detailed drawings and every fraction of someones hair is drawn to it's most relistic standard it can possibly be.