ArtWatch

Artists + Designers

Engraver, George Frederick Cummings Smillie was the designer who rendered a portrait of George Washington originally painted by the Artist, Gilbert Stuart. This rendering became the central design on the US dollar bill circa 1862. There are currently 14 Billion 1-dollar bills in circulation - enough copies for every human on the planet to have at least one.

Artists

Channelers of Substance

Art Means To See

Art: Chanelling of natural energy into harmonious raw material perceptible to the human senses.

Hieroglyph Inventors
Pyramid Architects
Leonardo Da Vinci
Salvador Dali
John Biggers
Shepard Fairey
Sanjay Patel
Kehinde Wiley
Barron Storey
Richard "Dick" Tahsin
Cryptik

Designers

Shapers of Forms

Design Means To Place

Design: To strategically coordinate art and pratical forms for better or more engaging use.

Hieroglyph Inventors
Pyramid Architects
Bobby Garnett
Ralph Lauren
Michael Mauer
Carsten Monnerjan
Franz von Holzhausen
David Rager
Pierre de Coubertin (olympics logo, 1913)
Carolyn Davidson (Nike swoosh, 1971, student)
Marc Echo
Kanye West
Pharrell Williams
Virgil Abloh
Enensa Amen

Greatest Symbols

Creating "Brain Tattoos"

Speak volumes, most simply

Hierolyphs, talismans, amulets and logos are all symbols that transform vast volumes of thought into a universally effective package for communication.

Utchat
Aungkh
Paut Neteru
Her em Akhet
Flower of Life
Nike Swoosh
Olympic Rings
Jordan Jumpman
Puma Cat
Wu Tang W
Polo Horse

Greatest Campaigns

How do you communicate with One Billion People?

Art x Design's Finest

Art and design are both mutually exclusive and naturally complementary simultaneously. Grand-scale ad campaigns has been a premiere forum for bodies of work that combine the two.