The first artist I chose was Glenn Jones. He is also known as Glennz because he is from Auckland, New Zealand (GLENN + NZ = GLENNZ). His website, store.glennz.com serves mainly as a place to buy T-shirts with his designs printed on them. All of the designs involve a funny way of looking at a commonplace notion. This seems to be the big idea that Glenn carries in his art. He makes sure to question the norm, and uses his alternate view of the norm to present a humourous look at these norms.
Title: Clownfish link
The above image shows a clownfish apparently being pied by another clownfish.
Title: Snake Charmer link
The above image shows a snake charmer charming the Snake from the popular arcade game.
I found this artist immediately inspiring because while the pictures more than evoked a chuckle from me, they also came across as simple as they could be. There was no extraneous use of effects, etc. As an engineer-to-be, this concept really appeals to me.
The second artist I chose was Keetra Dean Dixon. Her website is fromkeetra.com. The website where I harvested the images from is: Designboom - keetra dean dixon: just between you and me. Her big idea is one of co-dependence with objects that are not normally seen as needing two people to utilize.
Title: just between you and me
The above image shows a balloon that has two ends to blow air into.
Title: just keeping an eye on you
The above image shows a pair of glasses with three lenses with frames facing opposite directions.
The reason why her art appealed to me was I had never seen physical objects being transformed that way. Also, the idea of co-dependence really spoke volumes to me because my big idea was that we are all connected, and this really takes that a step further.
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