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WHO? INFO DOB: March,16 1965 Born: Evanston, Illinois, USA Nationality: British American Movement: Stuckism Known for: painting,Illustra tion, Typography
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CLIENTS Nike Converse Adidas Uniqlo GQ The Washington Post The New Yorker
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The New Republic The Financial Times ESPN Magazine Variety Magazine The Hollywood Reporter Wired Icon Magazine Fast Company Google Inc.com Soho House Polk Audio Adobe BBC VW Seat Mercedes AWARDS / PRESS AOI Images 35 Design Award 2011 Flair Illustration Award May 2010
Veer Creative Catalyst Runner-up LINKS Instagram: @thisismadeup Twitter: @thisismadeup F acebook: MadeUpIllustration Prints: madeup.tictail.com Behance.net/madeup BlindSpot
AOI Images 35 Design Award 2011 Flair Illustration Award May 2010 Veer Creative Catalyst Runner-up
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Bull, Leaping
Bull, Leaping on pg 12 is a series of Bull, turning on pg 13. He used a monotone and tertiary color in each bulls. It is created as very simple illustration and iconoic. It is not an typography work, but very interesting that it seems like he used this concept in to typography.
“‘Made Up.’ His innovative style is intricate and detailed, vector based illustrations and typography that challenges existing ideas.” - Charles William
Bull, turning
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Why Charles Williams?
Charles William is one of the outgoing modern and futuristic typography I have ever seen so far. He has a unique uses of color and flow of pattern in his works which are not often used for the typography. He does not appear much in the social network that there is not much information about him, but he uses SNS to post his works and make connections between the views and other artist which is one of my theme I was
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working on that I felt connection in his works. Also, Charles William’s works are not only digitally done, but by hand crafted. Since he is a freelance he have posted many works done for the company and I found that unlike the other artist he kept his own unique style of using horizontal lines and colors in the typefaces. He is a member of the Stuckist art group which promotes figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art. It is one of the popular types of art used in protest and reality narrative arts that focused on
the modern time. Another reason I chose his work is because I could see how his works are very active and futuristic and fun that it is a style I would like to try for another challenge.
Soho House London / New Year’s Eve
Color of christmas and white to balance it out of New Year, using white color made this piece stronger otherwise the viewer would only felt the christmas and not New Year. The white is a color of pure and innocent just like starting new yer with fresh minds. Also breaking the page by using lines streaming from top to bottom, but personally feel it’s little boring by looking at the color that has already used too much. The type face is interesting and something very unuqie I am not fimilar with. The big gap inside of the V really takes away the nice sharp edges and smooth flow from other typefaces.
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Interview What were your first steps in the arts? Have you always been naturally creative? I was always into drawing when I was a kid. In primary school I was second best after a boy called James – my nemesis. I remember the day I worked out how to make words look 3-dimensional – I’ve basically being doing that ever since. After graduating I helped start a magazine with some friends. It was in 2005 before the internet and TV, so people had time for magazines back then.
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How would you describe your artistic style? Precise. I like to work with shapes, looking at how they can interact with each other to form a bigger picture. Is the interaction with other people interested/working in the arts something you find important/think is important? Yeah, definitely. When you spend all your time working on your Jack, it’s great to communicate with other humans, especially ones who are similarly focused/ obsessed. Is your work influenced/inspired by any other forms of art, i.e comedy, music etc? Not so much. I’m more inspired by weird buildings, random groupings of colours you might see in the street, overheard snippets of conversation, a flock of parakeets above, the smell of a kebab wafting across the street.
- From Express Yourself Through The Creative Arts
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The Book Club / I’ve Got You On My Radar
The New Yorker / Steve Carell, and wrestling
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Again, used a unique lines in his typeface and the monotone to make sure the only typeface pops out the most. In each typeface he add a pattern that he used in the background to give a connections thus, not seperate from background and typeface like 3D feeling. The spere shapes around the type faces flows around the whole page and gives a movement and active also rich and deep colors in typefaces.
Monotone are used for each object and it is easily noticable the color choices are from the traditional wrestling outfit using difficult lines and shapes to create an overlay object is highly skilled in personal opinion. even though it is monotone and many lines are arounded it leads my eyes to flow all over the picture .This is not a typography work, but this type of skills are used in his typography many times.
Vanila Pod / Collective
Using dark background to stand out the typefaceusing complementary color. Also the light sketched background makes it very interesting and futuristic feeling through the unique style of his work. some way it is hard to read the word “COLLECTIVE” but definately get the feeling of words are collected piece by piece, well expressed while little complicated.
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The over going lines vertically, very active and motivated to go all over the page. the balance has been done eaually done it right by third colums. The black negative spaces on each side of the page and put all the positive space on the middle of the three coulmn. The complicated lines in the middle takes the audience attention, but it is very hard to describe what word is created by the rope. Even I wasn’t able to find out untill I looked in closely. Because there is so many action is going on that typefaces are taken away from the complicated rope. Blending in the end of the rope gave equal feeling of balances and not giving a feeling of locked in the middle of the page.
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What Goes Around Comes Around The rythme, balance, and movement, and texture are included in this type face. Bending the typeface can be kind of like distorting a typeface which is a typecrime. In this typography, very nicely done by balancing through having only text on the left and have same amount of negarive space on the right. Also the usage of only white and black made it very simple and those two are the color that can never be wrong thus, the type stands out very well. Only problem I had looking at it was the wavy action brought me a curiousity, but had a hard time figuring out what it says on there. 21
using lines going out of the photo defineately shows the strong action on the typefaces just like it is saying “act now.” only four colors are used including blakc, the colors are the tertiarry color again, but in different tint. The line leads to the
Simple, iconic, and hidden typography are used to create a face. It is interesting how the face is towards the right, but feels it is towards the left because of the line is spreading to down left. Again, he used tertiary and complementary color and limited to five colors.
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curiousity and confusions and this includes the all formal relationships which are the contrast, scale, balance, rhyme, texture, and repetition in the typeface.
This typeface definately includes the rhytme and repetition just like the other two on the left. Unlike the “Now” the background radial shape takes more
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attention than the type faces it self. Also because it is in circular motion around the type face that eye ONLY flow around the INSIDE of the photo. On the other side, it make sences to havemotion that looks infinite to correleate the meaning of typeface.
Charles Williams is the Line, Balance, and color. It is shown in every his typography, even in his illustration art works. The most thing he would always have duplicate is the line, rather it is radial, horizontal or linear every single of his art work includes the line in variety ways. The way he balancing his typographies
are putting them all in direct center or using third columns. While going through his art work it gets to the point you will start understanding what he always uses in his art work. Also the most of his typefaces are blended in to the background or with the line he created. For the last, the color choice of his art works are very repeatable and more of monotone colors. He often uses tertiarry, monotone, and
limiting the uses of colors. For the background often uses black and white but very a lot in the typefaces. I mentioned that he limits the usage of color, but uses a lot ;For example, he would choose red, blue, and green and alternated in to monotone for each RGB colors that it seems to be all the different color, but actually it is the same, but different tint.
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“There is something fascinating in Charles works- the physical construction, the dimension and depth and thought through color pallets all draw you in.” “His work has been published in a numerous of magazines such as Typography Today, Typography Now, The Little Book Of Typography, Computer Arts Projects, Digital Arts, Digital Arts Adobe Supplement, Advanced Photoshop Magazine and Mac User. He has also participated in many exhibitions. Charles recently published an amazing series of animal prints. I loved the colors he used but mostly the forms that shape each animal.”
“He recently broke out from the screen with a range of beautiful, three dimensional hand crafted works of art that retained the depth of his digital work. Both styles have enticed an impressive client list that includes Nike, ESPN, GQ and many more.”
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