30 American's Exhibit @ The Corcoran School of Arts Museum

Strange Fruits by Hank Willis Thomas was the exhibit that I found most interesting at the 
30 Americans Exhibit. 

“Ball and Noose”

This is a picture of an African American basketball athlete hanging from a noose. He is wearing Nike
basketball shorts and a pair of Nike basketball shoes with no shirt on. The noose is around his right wrist
as well as a basketball in the palm of his right hand. The background of this composition is all black and
there is very little lighting projected onto the subject. The hanging male’s back is facing towards the
viewer and he is centered in the picture. With the male being centered in this picture, the black
background space is distributed evenly throughout the rest of the picture. This also causes direct emphasis
on the subject. This picture depicts that the present day athlete is a modern-day slave to its respective
association or league. This composition was created in 2011which is also during the time of the current
NBA lockout. The lockout is synonymous of the slave master enforcing his power upon his workers. 

“Branded Head”

This is a picture of a profile view of a shaved African American’s head with a Nike logo branded on the side. The face of the subject is cut out of the picture and the bottom of picture stops just at the top of the man’s shoulder. The lighting is directly on the Nike logo in the head on the man. The background of this composition is all white. This picture is symbolic of the strong-hold that the Nike brand has on the African American community. The company offers highly respected athletes large sums of money to wear nothing but their product while they are in the spotlight. This in-turn gets the youth to also wear the product for the mere fact that his/her favorite athlete is always seen wearing this logo. So not only do they brand the athlete with their logo, they are also branding the African American community. While these companies may not physically brand our bodies, they brand our minds. 

Complete Toy/ Package Design Pt. 2

Complete Toy/ Packaging Design

Toy Packaging

Front

Back

These are the Front and Back of the packaging for "The 3rd Eye"

"The 3rd Eye"

This is a 3D Turn-around of the toy I created

Magazine Ads

These are two Magazine Ads for a fictional toy and toy company that I Created. The company is called Third Element Toys and the toy is called "The Third Eye".

"The Broken" and "Small Ideas" movie posters

  

These are two different movie posters using the same core picture. The premises of this project was to converge a human with a non-human object. In this case, the boy's head was merged with a broken glass bottle. 

3rd Element Toys Logo Types

These are the different logo types of Third Element Toys. 

The Cone Collection

Defying popular taste, the sisters followed their instincts and purchased paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints from Matisse. As years passed, the citizens of Baltimore became more accepting of “modern art,” and in 1950 the Cone sisters’ splendid collection of paintings of Matisse and other modern masters was given to The Baltimore Museum of Art for the world to enjoy. Thanks to the Cone sisters’ devotion to Matisse and their passion for his work, we are able to savor the artist’s unique sensibility and creative vision.

Humpty Dumpty 2011

This is a short remake of what the modern-day Humpty Dumpty story would be. This was created for a class a few semesters ago using iMovie... Enjoy...

Julian Beever Street Work

Julian Beever

Julian Beever has been creating his infamous chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the early 1990’s. He uses a technique called anamorphosis, a projection technique, to create an illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle. He works internationally as a freelance artist and creates murals for companies, in which he also uses paints with acrylic paints. In 2010, Beever released a book Pavement Chalk Artist, which includes photographs of many of his works from around the world. Julian Beever is another artist that I discovered on youtube. 

Paint Jam by Dan Dunn

Dan Dunn

 Dan studied at Sam Houston State in Huntsville, Alabama where he specialized in oil painting and watercolor and also enjoyed sculpture and life drawing. His painting professor would tell him “you can paint until the day he drop. When your hand gets a little shakey, just tell them it’s a new technique.” Dan paints in a very unique style where he uses his hands and brushes combined. His canvas is usually on a vertical wheel that spins in either direction, and his painting style is known as “speed” painting. He didn’t receive worldwide attention until his teenaged daughter posted a video of one of his sessions, known as “paintjam”, on youtube and a few social networking sites. This boosted Dan’s showcases globally and he has since appeared on The Jimmy Fallon Show, the Superbowl XLIV Pre Game Show, The Ellen Show, The Carson Daly Show, The CBS Early Show, Good Day New York, Fox News Morning Show, (New York), as well as television shows in the Middle East, Turkey and a Japanese prime time special. He sometimes jokingly states that the three fastest forms of communication are: telephone, television and tell a teenager!

The Nike Brand

THE NIKE BRAND

Background/ Origin

Nike, originally known as "Blue Ribbon Sports", was founded by University of Oregon track athlete Philip Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman in January 1964. The company initially operated as a distributor for Japanese shoe maker Onitsuka Tiger (now ASICS), making most sales at track meets out of Knight's automobile. The relationship between BRS and Onitsuka Tiger was nearing an end. BRS prepared to launch its own line of footwear, which would bear the newly designed Swoosh by Carolyn Davidson.  In 1978, BRS, Inc. officially renamed itself to Nike, Inc. The company takes its name from Nike, the Greek goddess of victory.  Nike sponsors many high profile athletes and sports teams around the world, with the highly recognized trademarks of "Just do it" and the Swoosh logo.

Logo

The Swoosh was first used by Nike on June 18, 1971, and was registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on January 22, 1974. The Nike swoosh was inspired by the Greek goddess Nike, the winged goddess of victory. The swoosh symbolizes her flight.  The Swoosh was first used by Nike on June 18, 1971, and was registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on January 22, 1974. Throughout the 1980s, Nike expanded its product line to include many other sports and regions throughout the world.

Marketing Schemes

By 1980, Nike had reached a 50% market share in the U.S. athletic shoe market, and the company went public in December of that year. Its growth was due largely to 'word-of-foot' advertising (to quote a Nike print ad from the late 1970s), rather than television ads. Nike's first national television commercials ran in October 1982 during the broadcast of the New York Marathon. The ads were created by Portland-based advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy, which had formed several months earlier in April 1982. Together, Nike and Wieden+Kennedy have created many print and television advertisements and the agency continues to be Nike's primary today.

Sponsorship

Nike pays top athletes in many different sports to use their products and promote/advertise their technology and design. Beginning with Ilie Nastase, the first professional athlete to sign with BRS/Nike, the sponsorship of athletes became a key marketing tool for the rapidly growing company. Nike's first professional athlete endorser was Romanian tennis player Ilie Nastase, and the company's first track endorser was distance running legend Steve Prefontaine. Prefontaine was the prized pupil of the company's co-founder Bill Bowerman while he coached at the University of Oregon.

Slogan

 It was agency co-founder Dan Wieden who coined the now-famous slogan "Just Do It" for a 1988 Nike ad campaign, which was chosen by Advertising Age as one of the top five ad slogans of the 20th century, and the campaign has been enshrined in the Smithsonian Institution San Franciscan Walt Stack was featured in Nike's first "Just Do It" advertisement that debuted on July 1, 1988. Wieden credits the inspiration for the slogan to "Let’s do it", the last words spoken by Gary Gilmore before he was executed.