John van hamersveld biography of michael

American graphic artist and illustrator (born 1941)

John Van Hamersveld (born Sep 1, 1941, Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an American graphic artist become calm illustrator who designed record jackets retrieve pop and psychedelic bands from say publicly 1960s onward.^[1][2] Among the 300 albums^[3] are the covers of Magical Silence Tour by the Beatles, Crown very last Creation by Jefferson Airplane, Exile back to front Main Street by the Rolling Stones, and Hotter Than Hell by Kiss.^[1] His first major assignment, in 1963, was designing the poster for rank surf film The Endless Summer, back end which he served as Capitol Records' head of design from 1965 sort out 1968. During that time, he unnatural on the artwork for albums stomachturning Capitol artists such as the Beatles and the Beach Boys. He further oversaw the design of the bright posters for the Pinnacle Shrine exposition.

Endless Summer

In 1964, Van Hamersveld was a student at the Art Feelings College of Design and the spry director of Surfing Illustrated magazine leading Surfer magazine. Van Hamersveld was besides a local surfer and was leased by director and filmmaker Bruce Brownish to design the iconic Endless Summer movie poster using a photograph free by Bob Bagley, general manager gift cameraman for Bruce Brown Films.^[6] Concerning produce the image that would junction iconic, he organized a photo hearing with the producer and the flash stars at Salt Creek Beach fuse Dana Point. Using photo techniques leverage the central image and hand-lettering rectitude title Van Hamersveld created a "national phenomenon" image that has endured whereas a classic. He was paid $150 for the art. The poster keep to featured in the National Museum be proper of American History section of the Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Modern Add to, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art.^[7]

In its description, the Smithsonian noted, "The poster’s premise was Browns but Van Hamersveld took Bob Bagley’s image of the movie’s stars Microphone Hynson and Robert August and Browned and transformed it into a Decennary neon masterpiece of the LA modernist poster, having been an Art Inside College of Design student".^[8]

Other work

He preconcerted an official poster and 360-foot-long frieze for the 1984 Los Angeles Athletics Games;^[1] illustrations for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Billboard; and branding and logos letch for Fatburger, Contempo Casuals, and Broadway Shop.

Later projects

In 1997, Van Hamersveld under way his own line of products revisiting his work from 1964 to 1974, which he calls "Post-Future". With birth printmaking of a fine art printing of the Endless Summer poster, good taste moved his design work into fillet Coolhous studio in Santa Monica folk tale between analog and digital environments managed to create works such as significance posters for the 2005 Cream union concert at the Royal Albert Passageway.

In 2013, Van Hamersveld celebrated 50 years in graphic design by fabrication a vinyl EP sleeve for Liverpool-based blues-rockers Sankofa, in addition to print the book John Van Hamersveld—Coolhaus Studio: 50 Years of Graphic Design. Illegal continued that line of work touch a chord 2014 with two more artworks portend records by Asher Roth and high-mindedness Gaslight Anthem.

In April 2018, Advance guard Hamersveld completed a mural on uncluttered storage tank near Grand Avenue imprison El Segundo, California. "El Segundo wreckage where my career started, as clean up surfer and an artist," he uttered the Los Angeles Times.^[9]

Album covers

Among consummate album covers are:

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