We are looking for someone with a strong interest in M.I.S.S who is looking to be part of the “Crew.” We’re seeking graphic design interns.
REQUIREMENTS
Graphic Design Intern
We are seeking a design intern with Photoshop and Illustrator skills such as:
-photo resizing
-light photoshop skills – touch up, adding M.I.S.S. stamp
-creating layouts
-creating flyers
-this is a “mobile” position – you can be anywhere – all assignments are given online
The positions are unpaid but full of perks. A high school diploma is required and please send resume to MISSINTERNS@GMAIL.COM with INTERN as the subject AND answer the following questions:
1. How did you learn about M.I.S.S.?
2. Favorite fashion and non-fashion magazines?
3. Favorite websites?
4. Most recent music downloads?
5. Favorite brands?
6. What do you want to be when you grow up?
If you know someone that may be interested in these positions, please spread the word. We look forward to hearing from you!! Good luck!!
Bio: Martina Fugazzotto is a Brooklyn-based artist specializing in web design, graphic design, and illustration. She would like to tell you that she is interested in teen girl media, cute drawings, style and fashion, comic books and comic strips, women in comics, and colors.
M.I.S.S. Paper Dolls @ FIFTY24LA: Martina Fugazzotto
BIO: BrandenCollins is a freelance artist of all mediums, from illustration, to graphic design, to art direction, to photography. He graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design. He is currently the illustrator for “The Big Up!”. Seeping wih the talent and personality without the pretentiousness most artists are associated with, Branden has the physical presence of a well-worn cadillac. His musings consist of traditional values and progressive sentences prefixed with “what if people…”
Sense of community, as well as collaborative art inspire this young maverick.
Congrats Yee! The Editors at M.I.S.S. appreciate everything you do and we think you deserve some shine!
Name: Yee Astrological Sign: Capricorn Hometown: Oakland, Ca. Location: Antioch/Hayward, Ca. Short Bio:
Real & solid. Addicted to retail especially Jordans, skinny jeans & bamboo earrings. Loves watching movies, messing around with Photoshop, shopping & going out.
M.I.S.S. Department: Graphic Designer Intern Favorite M.I.S.S. Column/s: Women Making History, Paper Dolls & Beauty Tip Of The Week!
www.herhustle.net (Personal domain but under construction…check back soon!)
Where all of Yee's graphic design magic happens...
M.I.S.S. hit the Cut and Paste Global Championship last week (the first-ever Global event!) at the Hammerstein Ballroom to check out the event and get inspired about art. I was most excited about Cosmo Baker djing the event, but then again, I can’t even maneuver Photoshop. If you are not familiar with the event, it is described as the following on the website: “Cut&Paste is proud to present the culmination of Digital Design Tournament 2009 – the first-ever Global Championship. With the broad geographical reach of an Olympic event and the nervy psychological gamesmanship of the X Games, the championship takes the tournament’s international approach to design as spectator sport and amps it up like never before.” Basically, it’s a like a cipher, or a rap battle, but with design nerds. And it was awesomely good.
There are rules to the competition, as captured by some of my photos. The designers all had a theme (duality) and had 20 minutes on a PC or Mac to design an original graphic art piece. There were other design parameters, and a panel of judges (including a dude from Kid Robot) deciding who had the winning designs. There were several heats, or rounds, before the final design-off.
I stayed through the first round, and stood behind the mom and family of a designer named Neil. She was wearing a sign with his face on it! Despite the support for Neil, he did not make the cut for the first round. Gabriel Smetzer and another contestant were the top choices of the round, with designs of a monster next to a house and another design of a pigeon-like bird regurgitating colored blocks. According to the results, the champions were: 2nd Design – Janee Meadows, 3rd Design – Gabriel Smetzer, Motion Design – Jake Guttormsson. The event was sponsored by 55DSL and Converse, and there was popcorn and PBR being served (Pabst Blue Ribbon, for all ya’ll who don’t live the Brooklyn lifestyle hahaha).
Lucy & Mark Mulroney Closing Party@ Ever Gold Gallery
Lucy and Mark Mulroney are a husband a wife duo whose show “Can you believe it, we almost got divorced” has been showing at the Ever Gold Gallery since September 3, 2009. The closing reception will be held Thursday, September 24, 2009 from 6-9 pm. There is wonderful work still for sale and priced to sell! Each order over $200 comes with a free hand-silkscreened Ever Gold t-shirt. If you’re in the San Francisco area, stop by Ever Gold Gallery and check out this team’s awesome work!
Thursday, September 24, 2009 from 6-9p.m.
Ever Gold Gallery
441 O’Farrell St., between Taylor & Jones
San Francisco, CA 94102 http://evergoldgallery.blogspot.com/
Retna x Mac: Vagos y Reinas at the Robert Berman Gallery September 26 - October 18, 2009
The dynamic duo Retna and Mac are back again and even better than ever with their new collaborative exhibit Vagos y Reinas showing September 26-October 18, 2009 at the Robert Berman Gallery. The title of the show, which translates to “vagrants and queens”, brings together the street-infused styles of Retna, who is best known for his abstract embellishments and calligraphic font, with Mac who is well known for photo-realist approach and use of spray paint. These large scale pieces document their journey together with beautiful depictions of women and homage to neighborhood pride. The two have collaborated on more than 20 murals in the past, but this will be their first ever exhibit together. In the world of art (especially graffiti art), collaborations are almost always a good thing. Retna and Mac bring some of the most memorable and incredible street art indoors with this exhibit. If you’re in Santa Monica, be sure to check it out!
“Gracias a la Vida” by Retna & Mac
September 26 – October 18, 2009
Retna x Mac: Vagos y Reinas
Robert Berman Gallery 2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite C2/D5
Santa Monica, California 90404 http://www.robertbermangallery.com/
Cassette Rainbow Print by Matt Whitwell
Matt Whitwell is young artist from Wellington, New Zealand finishing a BFA at Massey School of Fine Arts. He is heavily influenced and inspired by reducing, reusing, recycling, and reappropriation of materials. His print Cassette Rainbow is evidence of that. This print brings back memories of sitting in front of the boom box being surrounded with dozen of tapes just like the ones pictured above. This print is now available at L’Affiche Moderne’s website.
Music Listography: Your Life in (Play) Lists book featuring illustrations by Michael Gillette
Michael Gillette is a San Francisco based graphic designer and artist who describes his first love as music. I certainly can relate to that! He’s worked for some of the world’s biggest clients including Urban Outfitters, Capitol Records, Greenpeace, and Levi. He’s made designs for various apparel as well as working on exhibitions and limited prints. One of his latest works has been providing the graphics for Lisa Nola’s Music Listography: Your Life in (Play) Listsbook. This book is loaded with music-inspired list topics with awesome images to match. Gillette’s pop art style with a realistic approach brings the pages of this book alive! You can order it through Chronicle Books’ website.
Adam Isaac Jackson’s print Sweat It Outis now available for purchase. It is a 2 Color Screenprint on 100lb. Cougar Smooth Cover, signed and numbered. Edition of 50 available now at www.phoneboothgallery.com
Joel Meyerowitz's Talk & Book Signing, Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks
Master photographer Joel Meyerowitz will be having a talk and book signing to mark the occasion of the release of his new monograph Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks. The event will take place on Tuesday, September 29 at Aperture Gallery. This is a unique opportunity to hear Joel Meyerowitz discuss his stunning new book commissioned by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to document, interpret, and celebrate the nearly 9,000 acres of parks in the five boroughs that have been left or returned to their most natural state. Coinciding with this publication, a companion exhibition of this work will open at the Museum of the City of New York on October 9, 2009 and remain on view through March 7, 2010.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 @6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor (between 10th and 11th Avenue)
New York, NY 10001
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and elusive graffiti artist Banksy have been brought together for the video of Thom’s new solo single “The Hollow Release” The film was directed by US filmmaker Raymond Salvatore Harmon and features images of Banksy’s graffiti work. The single became Available on September 21st 2009 on 12′ Vinyl LP as the flip side to FeelingPulledApartbyHorses. Visit radiohead.com for more info.
Complex Magazine's October/November 2009 Issue: Clipse featuring artwork by KAWS
Complex Magazine has once again teamed up with art icon KAWS for the newest issue which hits newsstands everywhere on October 6, 2009. KAWS is a New York-based artist and designer whose limited edition toys and clothing have taken the art world by storm. For the cover, KAWS turns Hip Hop underdogs Clipse into real life action figures with vivid and eye-popping colors. Clipse’s third studio album ’Till The Casket Drops will be coming out soon. For more info, you can visit the following websites. http://www.complex.com/ http://www.kawsome.com http://www.clipseonline.com/
Upcoming Art Events in San Fransico, CA
Thursday, September 24, 2009 Deborah Oropallo: New Editions
Gallery 16 is pleased to announce the release of three new original print editions published with Deborah Oropallo.
Gallery 16 501 Third Street @ Bryant
San Francisco CA 94107 http://www/gallery16.com
Thursday, September 24, 2009 Somethin’s Happening Here: Bay Area Rock ‘n’ Roll 1963-73
This exhibit charts the Bay Area rock scene from the folk-infused early ‘60s to the last days of the Fillmore West. Museum of Performance & Design
401 Van Ness Avenue, 4th floor
San Francisco, CA 94102 http://www.mpdsf.org
Friday, September 25, 2009 San Francisco Dump Artist In Residence Program Exhibition
This Sugar is Raw by David Hevel and Systemic Obsolescence by James Sansing. Each artist will exhibit a body of work created during their residency at San Francisco’s city dump.
SF Recycling & Disposal, INC.
503 Tunnel Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94134 http://www.sfrecycling.com/index.htm
Friday, September 25, 2009 New Paintings by Bryn Craig
Bryn Craig´s oils are rich with luminous color.
Gallery Bergelli
483 Magnolia Avenue
Larkspur, CA 94939 http://www.bergelli.com
Sunday, September 27, 2009 The Peanut Gallery Presents: Artist Talk With Kevin Zupancic And Rye Purvis
The Peanut Gallery SF
855 Folsom St. #108 btwn 4th-5th
San Francisco CA 94107 http://thepeanutgallerysf.blogspot.com/
In every male dominated scene there are always a few females who run alongside the boys. Some folks like to front like these chicks are just skipping along with the crowd, but the chicks who can hold their own keep up with the pack and sprint full speed ahead, forging their own singular paths to success. In the graffiti world, one of these birds is artist and graphic designer Andrea von Bujdoss, aka Queen Andrea, a native New Yorker who came up alongside some of the city’s legends and greats.
I first saw Queen Andrea’s talent 16 years ago in a high school cafeteria in The Bronx, as she flipped me through her latest flics – extremely colorful and vibrantly painted graffiti murals on sides of buildings like I saw every day from the elevated subway. At the time, I knew a bunch of guys who “wrote,” and certainly left their mark with hundreds if not thousands of throwies and fill-ins all over the city, and she totally caught me off guard. Her work was bigger and better than anything they’d ever done and the realest deal I’d ever seen.
Fast forward a decade and the Parsons School of Design graduate has parlayed her skills in precise lettering and explosive use of color across many forms of art and media, from curating art shows across the city to designing toys for Kid Robot, contributing art to Missbehave and Art Direction at Mass Appeal Magazine, and designing limited edition footwear for Osiris and Etnies.
What woman, besides your mom or grandmother, do you find inspirational?
Marilyn Monroe because she was such an enigmatic bombshell. Her combination of sassy, smart, swag and determination is inspiring. She was a natural talent. These days, so many people are trying to be famous or be internet superstars, so it’s refreshing to remember raw talent and ambition which transcends self-promotion and twitter-style self aggrandizing! Also, her fuller figure made her look like a real woman, it’s unfortunate how the model industry is distorting healthy female body images. And I love her quotes… “Good girls rarely make history” and “If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere”…
Queen Andrea can most definitely hold her own!
How did you get your start?
My passion for graffiti art was sparked when I was a pre-teen growing up in downtown Manhattan. I became determined to try and master lettering and have my own style. At that time in the early 90’s there was so much inspiring underground culture happening downtown, and the graffiti scene pre-Guliani was alive and well. Many things attracted me to graffiti, the rebellious energy, the humor, the subversiveness, the secret societies of graffiti crews and of course the mastery of lettering, color, characters and can control. I’ve definitely paid my dues at this point, having practiced in countless blackbooks, perfecting handstyles, painting on walls and large-scale productions, and maintaining crew loyalty and respect. My graffiti art developed into complex letter studies on canvas, and then I expanded that visual vocabulary by adding design, signpainter lettering, characters, illustrative motifs and larger themes. My current artwork is further explorations of lettering, design and cartooning highlighted by my signature bold color palette and fluorescents.
My career in Graphic Design started after I graduated from Parsons as a young adult and it’s been going strong ever since. I’m a passionate and versatile designer. Typography, design and graffiti have similar roots and I’ve been lucky enough to have some clients who appreciate an urban aesthetic. Because I fiendishly practiced graffiti letters as a teenager, my hand-lettering game is tight, and I’m often commissioned for custom lettering from corporate clients/brands. One of my pivotal professional accomplishments was when I was the sole Art Director/Designer for Mass Appeal magazine for 2 years. Mass Appeal was an amazing work experience because I was steeped in urban culture, and collaborating with incredible editors, photographers and artists. Nowadays I keep my skillset diverse, so during any given week I’m working on varied projects including illustration, lettering, websites, brand identity/logos, and of course painting.
Some of Queen Andrea's personal work
What’s your favorite piece of art (and or graphic) that you’ve created?
One of my recent limited edition screenprints that says in bold, futuristic lettering, “Now or Never, All Or Nothin’, Fresh to Death” is a favorite. I enjoy art with direct and bad ass verbal messages. Another signpainter lettering style work from my recent art show called “Hot Shit, Fame Game” is a favorite.
Who do you want to work with?
There are so many artists I admire. I’d love to collabo with Mr. Cartoon, I love his flavor and I’m a cholo script/gang lettering junkie. The design duo Morning Breath is amazing. Also Hydro74, Shepard Fairey, Siloette, Fafi, Ewok. For brand collabos, Nike, Adidas, Alife… it’s a long list. I’ve been lucky enough to have collabos with Etnies, Osiris, Missbehave magazine, Rayban, JanSport and Kid Robot under my belt so far.
Queen Andrea for Ray Ban
What part of painting (and or graphic design) is the most challenging and do you dislike the most?
I really love what I do and feel lucky to have a strong work ethic, but the deadlines can be unreal and insane. If I’m not getting hefty freelance/brand collaboration assignments, I’m trying to out-do myself artistically, creating larger and more ambitious works. So the deadlines and heavy workloads are not-stop. You’ve gotta love it though, if you don’t challenge yourself to produce and set big goals, you can’t accomplish as much. Most of all, for me, consistently pushing myself creatively is the most rewarding challenge. The all-nighters can be gruelling but definitely worth it
Precise lettering and explosive use of color—Queen Andrea is one of the illest in the game!
Queen Andrea keeps it SUPER FRESH at www.superfreshdesign.com!
For all you designing women out there, here’s an opportunity to show your skills: The 55DSL Logo Remix Contest!
With the imminence of 55DSL’s 15th anniversary in 2009, 55DSL is ready to celebrate the unique mix of attitude and aesthetics it has made all its own. To do so, 55DSL has turned to the input of design company Cut&Paste’s own culturally diverse, design-savvy, and urban-centric global audience through the 55DSL Logo Remix contest.
THE CHALLENGE: to revamp the iconic 55DSL Shield logo, spinning it into a visual remix that reflects 55DSL’s culture and spirit.
Contestant’s designs submitted to logoremix.55DSL.com will be evaluated by a distinguished panel of 8 international judges, ranging from acclaimed graffiti artist Emit to 55DSL’s very own creative director Andrea Rosso, who will select the top 5 submissions. The Grand Prize winner will receive a receive 1,055 Euros award and see his/her logo design produced by 55DSL on a T-shirt for the 2010 Spring/Summer collection.
There will also be a People’s Choice Price for the contestant whose design receives the most votes via the online gallery who will win a special 55DSL goodie bag filled with items from 55DSL’s limited edition collections.
All entries must be submitted no later than 11:59pm PST on December 5, 2008 and online voting will remain open through December 12, 2008.
One of my favorite graphic design/fashion/inspiration blogs is Nubbytwiglet.com. Aside from a super-fantastic blog, Nubby also has a super-fantastic online shop where she has made available some of her simple yet chic designs; her latest additions being a red lipstick tee and poster.
Here are a few of my favorites (although, they’re all pretty darn lovely!):
Dr. Romanelli has launched a “Farm Fresh” collaboration with Fruition for Spring 2008. Some of you may have already seen the clothing. The Doctor’s familiar hodgepodge aesthetic of fleece – meets track jkts – meets crazy quilt – is amazing of course. I know we talk a lot about clothes on this blog. However, I would like to focus on the graphic design surrounding this collabo. I find it quite ingenious, and would like to give praise to whomever was responsible for design directing and executing the graphics for this “Farm Fresh” collaboration. Inspired by vintage signage and fruit crate labels, the images creatively blend the advertising of yesteryear with the Romanelli-Fruition flair. There was thought and obvious flawless talent put behind this presentation. It’s extremely refreshing to see that it does not fit the mold of the majority of streetwear graphics that are currently flooding this industry. I work in the design field and I am surrounded by graphic/fashion design every day. When I see artwork executed like this, it makes me remember why I got into this crazy biz. Read the full story
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