Non-Commercial Art

Personal Work
"To create this dreamy blue, we used in-camera effects by mixing lights with different color temperatures."
Jiaxi & Zhe
Communication Arts
Advertising Annual 57

The photo above is interesting because it's not a large departure from some of the sculpture and product photography Jiaxi & Zhe have done for clients. What's cool though is this photo is a study in technique. It's an interesting insight into how they use color and light, as well as how they went about achieving it.

Personal Work
Owen Gent
Communication Arts
Advertising Annual 57

The subject matter seems to be consistent with his work for clients, abstract landscapes and people forms. The thing that strikes me as different is there is quite a bit of color contrast and there isn't a real defined purpose in this image. The mid-movement figure and suspended block of matching color, suggests there's been some recent turbulence of unknown cause.

Symbolic Color

• The and Partnership,  New York
• Dan Beckett, Isaac Silverglate
• Micaela Gallino
• Jonathan Horner
• Molly Cranna
• Jennifer Tran
• Ceara Teixeira, Erica Simon
• The Wall Street Journal

I really enjoy the symbolic color of green in this piece. It has what I feel is multiple meanings, first being one of survival in the wilderness. Second being that simply of money (at least for americans). The dual meanings play very well with the contents within the imagery.

Color Discord

found in Workbook 37 Illustration | Fall

These pieces above are fantastic, even though they don't strictly follow color rules. They are clearly intended to be playful, and the compositions are pretty surreal and wild. The variation and contrast of colors help sell the frenetic arrangements. It also doesn't hurt that I'm somehow reminded of Where's Waldo.