Saturday, January 19, 2019

Artist of the day, January 19-20: Poul Lange, Danish graphic designer, photographer, illustrator

Poul Lange, (1956) is a Danish illustrator, graphic designer, photographer, fine artist and children's book creator, who has won numerous awards for his design work. Since the early 1990s, he has lived and worked in the United States, first in New York City, and then after 2012 in Los Angeles. In 2011 Lange founded "Chocolate Factory Publishing". In 2013, Chocolate Factory Publishing released the award-winning children's book app, The Book of Holes.

Over the years, Lange has designed hundreds of book jackets and created hundreds of illustrations for print media. His design work also includes editorial design. Collage forms an important part of his design and fine art work. A children's book that Lange created was published in 2004. Lange has taught design in New York City and in Copenhagen.

Lange attended the Danmarks Designskole from 1980 to 1983, and graduated as a BFA with honors. He traveled to New York City in 1984 to study at the New York School of Visual Arts. After graduation he returned to Copenhagen and worked as a designer from 1985 to 1989.

In 1989 he moved back to New York to work with the designers Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser at their company WBMG, a publication design firm. Over the years, Lange has designed many hundreds (if not thousands) of book jackets, mostly for Danish publishers.

Lange's illustrations have appeared in many major US publications, including Time magazine, the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, and the Boston Globe.

Lange's first book for children is Hullebogen, known in English as The Book of Holes. An actual hole runs right through the book itself and forms the centerpiece of all the illustrations. Lange conceptualized, wrote, illustrated, and designed the book. The book won an AIGA award in 2006; one juror wrote: “A die-cut hole through the entire book is the focus of this children’s book about the holes in our bodies. Honest presentation of information is enhanced by whimsical drawing.”

Lange has had several solo and group exhibitions as a collage artist. He is also known for his photography.

Lange has taught design in New York City and in Copenhagen: On the faculty at SVA, illustration and graphic design, 2009, Courses at the Danish Design School in Copenhagen, Courses at the Mediehøjskolen, the Danish School of Media and Journalism, in Copenhagen

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Mr Poul Lange

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Fire from Visual Poetry

The Web from Visual Poetry

And Other Poems from Visual Poetry

 How Long from Visual Poetry

sneeze from Visual Poetry

The Big Happy from Visual Poetry

World's Best Spy Stories from Visual Poetry

The mole and his mouse

 Storied sips

Bhutan

Canada map

Currency collage

Fanny (ukulele lady 4)

Hypocondriacs

Mexico map flat

 stork club cocktail

Birth from The Book of Holes

Eye from The Book of Holes

Good from The Book of Holes

Intro from The Book of Holes

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February 8

LoveIs Blind from The Picture of Dorian Gray

Unisexy from The Picture of Dorian Gray

 Fluttering Lips from The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde from The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Man Who Died Like A Salmon

El Diablo from Storied Sips

Hemingway's Daq from Storied Sips

Kir Royal from Storied Sips

 MaiTai from Storied Sips

A Plea for Eros

A Plea for Eros

Cabinet Cards

Cabinet Cards

Cabinet Cards

Cabinet Cards

Chainman

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After burn - Colin Harrison Thrillers

Death of a Salesman

Drunken Devil Graphics

Eucalyptus Sisters

Fante


Lehua head

Love in the time of cholera

Madame Bovary

Orbit

Pink Flamingos

Raising Freedom's Child

The Angel Esmeralda

The Invention of Solitude

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Women

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