"Enric Bernat Enric Bernat (, October 20, 1923 – December 27, 2003) was the founder of the Chupa Chups lollipop company. Bernat was the child of a confectioner Catalan family in the third generation and started his working life in his parents' cake shop. In the early 1950s he went to north Spain to revive an apple jam factory. As he introduced later his idea of lollipops to the investors, they left. Bernat took over the company in 1958 and renamed it to Chupa Chups. In 1969 Salvador Dalí was paid a fortune to do the logo. In the 1980s"
"Charles Thorson Charles Gustav Thorson (29 August 1890 – 7 August 1966) was a Canadian political cartoonist, character designer, children's book author and illustrator. Thorson is best known as the man who designed and named Bugs Bunny. Thorson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, of Icelandic descent. Politician Joseph Thorson was his older brother. From 1935 to 1945, Thorson worked in American animation studios, including The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros. He created hundreds of cartoon characters, including Snow White, Elmer Fudd, Little Hiawatha, Sniffles the Mouse, 'Inki and the Mynah', The Lady Known as Lou, and Twinkletoes. In"
"Wesley Morse Wesley Morse (June 17, 1897 – June 20, 1963) was an American cartoonist who is most famous for his creation of the ""Bazooka Joe"" comic strip for the bubble gum company Topps in 1953. He also created the Copa girl, which was the basis for the Copacabana logo. Born Wesley Cherry Morse in Chicago in 1897, the son of Charles and Fanny Cherry (1870–1946), Wesley Morse eventually settled in New York City. In 1918, Morse joined the Army, spending a year in France in a field artillery battery.<ref name=""Morse/Taylor""></ref> Following his experience overseas Morse returned to New York,"
"million (€8.9 million). Duchamp works Essays by Duchamp General resources Audio and video Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century,"
"that new ones continued to appear for years after he died. Before marrying Lucy Olsen (1910–1951) in 1944, Morse dated extensively, including relationships with Ruby Keeler, Avonne Taylor, and Barbara Stanwyck. He had a son, Talley Morse, who was the inspiration for many of the ""Bazooka Joe"" strips. Wesley Morse Wesley Morse (June 17, 1897 – June 20, 1963) was an American cartoonist who is most famous for his creation of the ""Bazooka Joe"" comic strip for the bubble gum company Topps in 1953. He also created the Copa girl, which was the basis for the Copacabana logo. Born Wesley"
"Charles Kuhn Charles Harris Kuhn (March 20, 1892 – 1989), nicknamed Doc Kuhn, was a cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip ""Grandma"". He usually signed his drawings and comic strips Chas. Kuhn. Born in Prairie City, Illinois, he was the son of James B. and Minnie Harris Kuhn. His father ran a restaurant and proudly displayed his son's drawings in the eatery's window. At age 12, he decided to become a cartoonist when the sale of his first cartoon brought him 50 cents. Kuhn grew up in Bushnell, Illinois, and later remarked, ""I hope some of"
"authorship of the logo was a matter of some dispute as two graphic designers laid claim to creating the piece: Jerry Dior (working for the marketing firm of Sandgren & Murtha) and James Sherman, who is probably better known publicly as a comic book illustrator. In November 2008, ESPN writer Paul Lukas managed to clear the matter up and Dior's authorship is no longer in doubt. Upon closely examining the logo, Sherman declared: ""That's not my logo, and I was totally unaware that it existed... The logo I created was very similar, but I designed it in the early 1980s."
"Romano Scarpa Romano Scarpa (September 27, 1927, Venice – April 23, 2005, Málaga) was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics. Growing up in Venice he developed a particular love for American cartoons and Disney comics, that, at the time, were published in the big format of the Topolino Giornale which was then printing now classic Floyd Gottfredson's stories. In the Forties he opened an Animation Studio in Venice in which he produced his first works: some commercials, a short titled ""E poi venne il diluvio"" and another one titled ""La piccola fiammiferaia"" (1953, based on Hans"
"Percy Crosby Percy Lee Crosby (December 8, 1891 – December 8, 1964) was an American author, illustrator and cartoonist best known for his comic strip ""Skippy"". Adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show, Crosby's creation was commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp. An inspiration for Charles Schulz's ""Peanuts"", the strip is regarded by comics historian Maurice Horn as a ""classic... which innovated a number of sophisticated and refined touches used later by Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson."" Humorist Corey Ford, writing in ""Vanity Fair"", praised the strip as ""America's most important contribution to humor of the"
"Milt Neil Milt Neil (May 30, 1914 - October 18, 1997), sometimes known as ""the Duck Man"", was an American animator, toy designer and comics artist. . Milt Neil was born in New Jersey in 1914. He worked for Disney Studios from 1935 to 1944. He worked on ""Fantasia"", ""Dumbo"", ""Saludos Amigos"", and ""The Three Caballeros"". After leaving Disney he briefly worked for Walter Lantz. He was also active in advertising and redesigned the two mascots of Pea Soup Andersen's. They received their permanent names Hap-Pea and Pea-Wee through a contest. Neil became involved with the children's show ""Howdy Doody"","
"helps organize their charity art event. He is also the vocalist for Chupacabra, a Pittsburgh art rock band that has performed in such venues as The Rex Theater, The Heinz History Center, and The Gibson Guitar Showroom/CMJ Music Marathon/NYC. Michael Lotenero Michael Lotenero (born March 31, 1967) is an American artist, graphic designer, illustrator, and musician who emerged from the Pittsburgh art scene. He is known for his figurative abstracts, sculptures, and iconic heads. Michael Lotenero was born in Cleveland, Ohio and was raised there and Miami, Florida. In 1985 he graduated from Kirtland High School in Ohio. In 1988"
"Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings ""Campbell's Soup Cans"" (1962) and ""Marilyn Diptych"" (1962), the experimental film ""Chelsea Girls"" (1966), and the multimedia events known as the ""Exploding Plastic Inevitable"""
"George Papp George Edward Papp (January 20, 1916 – August 8, 1989) was an American comics artist best known as one of the principal artists on the long-running Superboy feature for DC Comics. Papp also co-created the Green Arrow character with Mort Weisinger and co-created Congo Bill with writer Whitney Ellsworth. George Papp began his comic book career with the occasional feature and cartoon in early issues of the Superman family of comics. ""Pep Morgan"" and ""Clip Carson"" were the first features he worked on for ""Action Comics"". Papp's comics work was primarily for DC Comics but he briefly worked"
"Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense"
"in Dolk's career, it was speculated that Dolk was a pseudonym for the well-known British graffiti artist Banksy. The two artists have several stylistic similarities, and especially Banksy's work ""Puppy Love"" from 2005 has been pointed out as resembling Dolk. Dolk made his own version of this work where both the name and the colors were identical with the original. The work ""Che"" from 2007 shows a cigar-smoking Che Guevara proudly pointing at his own t-shirt with the iconic portrait from 1960 taken by Alberto Korda of himself. Dolk's stencil is distinguished by many as the ultimate copy of this"
"Guido Crepax Guido Crepas (15 July 1933 in Milan – 31 July 2003 in Milan), better known by his ""nom de plume"" Guido Crepax, was an Italian comics artist. He is most famous for his character ""Valentina"", created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the 1960s. The ""Valentina"" series of books and strips became noted for Crepax's sophisticated drawing, and for the psychedelic, dreamlike storylines, generally involving a strong dose of erotism. A film based on his work called ""Baba Yaga"", featuring the character Valentina, was made in 1973. Besides his much better known activity as a"
"Ronnie Cutrone Ronnie Cutrone (July 10, 1948 – July 21, 2013) was an American pop artist known for his large-scale paintings of some of America's favorite cartoon characters, such as Felix the Cat, Pink Panther and Woody Woodpecker. Cutrone's paintings are colorful, lively, and less challenging than those of his contemporaries. As Andy Warhol's assistant at the Factory atop the Decker Building from 1972 until 1980, Cutrone worked with Warhol on paintings, prints, films, and other concepts, eventually co-opting Warhol's earliest work (pre-1960) as well as works by Roy Lichtenstein and others, until finally distilling those myriad influences into the"
"El Xupet Negre El Xupet Negre (""The Black Pacifier"") is a graffiti artist from Barcelona, Spain, who has painted a black pacifier/dummy logo since 1989. His biggest influence was mainly his family, art from all times, graphic design, all information that is around, traffic signs, and brands. Starting in 1991, El Xupet Negre painted 'Black Dummies' all over the city and everyone wondered who painted it and what was its meaning. This was the year he began to appear in magazines and in TV in Spain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and US. In 1998 he began to paint and sell"
"Irwin Caplan Irwin Caplan (May 24, 1919 – February 22, 2007), nicknamed Cap, was an American illustrator, painter, designer and cartoonist, best known as the creator of ""The Saturday Evening Post"" cartoon series, ""Famous Last Words"", which led to newspaper syndication of the feature in 1956. Caplan grew up in Seattle's Madison Park neighborhood where his parents took note of his drawings and enrolled him in art classes. As a teenager, Caplan won $10 in a citywide poster contest, and at Garfield High School, he illustrated the 1935 yearbook, ""The Arrow"". He painted murals of a circus and Paul Bunyan"
"his pictures on both wood and canvas. Though he still tags, the majority of his work done through painting big old walls in the city (with permission). El Xupet Negre El Xupet Negre (""The Black Pacifier"") is a graffiti artist from Barcelona, Spain, who has painted a black pacifier/dummy logo since 1989. His biggest influence was mainly his family, art from all times, graphic design, all information that is around, traffic signs, and brands. Starting in 1991, El Xupet Negre painted 'Black Dummies' all over the city and everyone wondered who painted it and what was its meaning. This was"
"and many more. TATS CRU has a strong bond with rapper Fat Joe and created many of his advertisement billboard for album releases in the 1990s. TATS Cru heavily paints murals of friend and deceased rapper Big Pun and are solely responsible for the Big Pun memorial wall in the Bronx, New York City. Wilfredo ""Bio"" Feliciano born April 20, 1966 in New York started his artistic career in the early eighties at the height of the New York City subway graffiti movement. Thirty years later he is considered to be one of the top stylists or letter masters throughout"
"Roger Schlaifer Roger L. Schlaifer (born February 23, 1945) is an American graphic designer, writer, inventor and licensing agent. He is best known for his creative development and worldwide licensing of Cabbage Patch Kids and the name and works of Andy Warhol. Schlaifer grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland where he attended Montgomery Blair High School, also the alma mater of Nora Roberts, Goldie Hawn, Ben Stein, Carl Bernstein and Connie Chung. Schlaifer is a 1967 graduate of Syracuse University with a BFA in illustration, and a master's degree in advertising. He took a leave"
"Atlanta, Georgia. Roger Schlaifer Roger L. Schlaifer (born February 23, 1945) is an American graphic designer, writer, inventor and licensing agent. He is best known for his creative development and worldwide licensing of Cabbage Patch Kids and the name and works of Andy Warhol. Schlaifer grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland where he attended Montgomery Blair High School, also the alma mater of Nora Roberts, Goldie Hawn, Ben Stein, Carl Bernstein and Connie Chung. Schlaifer is a 1967 graduate of Syracuse University with a BFA in illustration, and a master's degree in advertising. He took"
"Frank Wright Jr. Frank Boggs Wright Jr. (18 November 1912 – 21 February 2008) was an American commercial artist whose career extended from the mid-1930s to the late 1990s. A native of Madison Heights, Virginia, he was perhaps best known for designing the ChapStick logo (circa 1936). A longtime resident of Lynchburg, Virginia he produced many logotypes and designs familiar to the area, including the current and two past City of Lynchburg logos and the Lynchburg Community Market banner. From 1944 through 1997, Wright's firm, Wright and Williams Studio (later Frank Wright Studio), produced a prodigious amount of commercial art"
"Louis McManus Louis Manuel McManus (May 31, 1898 – April 17, 1968) was an American television engineer, film editor, and designer of the 1930s and 1940s. He is best known as the designer for the appearance of the Emmy award statuette and symbol for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. During the 1930s, McManus worked primarily as an editor and edited many films and shorts, including those featuring Laurel and Hardy and the ""Our Gang"" characters. In addition to editing, he also designed the title cards for many films. It was his work as a designer that inspired him"
"Winston Smith (artist) Winston Smith (born May 27, 1952) is an artist who primarily uses the medium of collage. He is probably best known for the artwork he has produced for the American punk rock group Dead Kennedys. He also designed the Motéma Music logo. Smith is particularly known for his collaborations with Jello Biafra (former Dead Kennedys frontman) and Alternative Tentacles, for whom he has done numerous covers, inserts, advertisements, flyers, and logos. He is responsible for the famous Alternative Tentacles logo as well as the well-known Dead Kennedys logo and six of their record covers. One of his"
"Chuck Jones Charles Martin Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, filmmaker, cartoonist, author, artist, and screenwriter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig, Michigan J. Frog, the Three Bears, and a slew of other Warner characters. After his career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions, and began producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,"
"John Casado John Charles Casado (born May 30, 1944) is an American graphic designer, artist and photographer, best known for designing iconic logos for the first Macintosh computer, Esprit, and New Line Cinema, as well as numerous album covers for the Doobie Brothers, Carole King, and others. Casado was born in East Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Dorsey High School in Los Angeles and then went to the University of California at Los Angeles. He graduated from The Art Center School in Los Angeles, now located in Pasadena and called the Art Center College of Design, in 1964. Because"
"commissioned by the city of Hutchinson, Minnesota to create a sculpture of Chief Little Crow, a Dakota leader. The statue was placed in 1937 near the Main Street bridge overlooking the Crow River. In 1982 Kouba participated in making a new version, as the old one had become weather beaten. Kouba opened his own commercial art firm called Kouba Advertising Art. He produced the following in his Minneapolis-based studio: The Old Dutch windmill on potato chips bags and boxes, Schmidt beer wildlife scenes, and the Red Owl grocery store's logo. Kouba patented three inventions: the original Art-O-Graph and Map-O-Graph, which"
"""I felt special that time"". He was involved in different illegal graffiti art all over Makati City. Mark Machado, better known as Mister Cartoon, is a Mexican American tattoo artist and graffiti artist based in Los Angeles, California. Machado designed the logo for Cypress Hill. He has tattooed the bodies of Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, Eminem, Method Man, Gabriel McDonald, Scott Raynor, Justin Timberlake, and Beyoncé Knowles. In addition to tattoos, Machado's work has been used by Nike, Tribal, Toyota, T-Mobile and in Grand Theft Auto. Munk One a.k.a. JoseMercado is a contemporary American Illustrator and Fine artist. He is"
"Michael C. Gross Michael C. Gross (October 3, 1945 – November 16, 2015) was an American artist, designer, and film producer. From 1970 to 1974 he art-directed ""National Lampoon"" magazine, and subsequently co-ran a design company. In 1980 he started working in Hollywood, and is perhaps best remembered for designing the logo for the movie ""Ghostbusters"", which was one of 11 films on which he served as producer or executive producer. Gross was a designer for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and he art-directed ""EYE"" magazine. Gross was the art director of ""National Lampoon"" magazine. He was hired"
"Saul Bass Saul Bass (; May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion-picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. During his 40-year career Bass worked for some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Among his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's ""The Man with the Golden Arm"", the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of a skyscraper in"
"Saul Mandel Saul Mandel (January 21, 1926 – August 14, 2011) was an illustrator, artist, animator and graphic designer in the advertising field. He was most known for designing the Jolly Green Giant and The 1986 ""Puppy Love"" postage stamp. Mandel's work in advertising had covered many types of products, such as: automobiles, airlines, milk, candy and alcohol. He had worked companies such as, NBC, AT&T, General Motors and Life and a variety of nonprofit groups, such as the Boy Scouts of America and the Advertising Council. One of Mandel's famous characters, he described this as his favorite project: ""I"