Point of Interest – Process
Point of Interest
2013
H 1189 x W 841 mm
1 colour screenprint on 120 grams/m2 Natronkraft paper
20 signed and numbered prints out of 40 prints total
Detail @ 100%
Ed Fella‘s final lecture at CalArts… Can you imagine the man ever to stop?
When asked to do a poster announcing his farewell party, without a doubt, I knew I wanted to work with something we both love: driving through America…
Source: Signs from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) instruction manual (left), and a 1956 roadmap from Jon Roma’s roadmap collection.
Source: If ‘Exit Level designer’ Ed Fella (as he calls himself) is the ‘skunk of graphic design’ (my interpretation), it seems appropriate to use details from a student drawing (artist unknown) I photographed during a previous visit to CalArts in 2006…
Source: Javelina, ‘skunk pig’ or peccary, shaped after Mobil Oil’s classic pegasus logo. Photographed in New Mexico, 2009.
Source: Ed fella’s trusted Bic 4-Colour® ballpoint pen…
… put to use inside his ongoing sketchbooks.
Source: Doesn’t Woodsy Owl, the US Forest Service mascotte promoting outdoors cleanliness, look a bit like Ed?
One of Ed Fella’s After The Event Flyers proving a rich layer of content, plus unsurpassed grainy texture…
See also Point of Interest – Sequence
See also De Visuele Achtbaan van Ed Fella
See also To California 5 – Sources & Process