Artist of the day

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Artist of the day, May 3, 2022: Motherbird, an Australian creative design studio

Motherbird is a creative studio focusing on brand identity and design in Melbourne, Australia; their approach to design is to form connections, be empathetic, and to create the unexpected through understanding. They delve deeper than just the looks of brands; they focus so much on the beliefs, the stories, and the core of each brand to build something interesting. Their projects aren’t just about the end products, Motherbird takes you on a journey through each and every one. The designs themselves are so unique and different for every project, you can really see that they’re designing something authentic to suit each brand’s story.

Motherbird was founded in 2009 by designers and close friends Jack Mussett, Chris Murphy and Dan Evans. With a growing reputation as creative young guns, they’ve quickly established themselves as a force within the Australian design industry.

Motherbird work with clients both large and small, these include; MTV, Qantas, Warner Music, Chunky Move, Billy Blue School of Design and Grill’d.

Being on the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) Council, Motherbird are active members of the design community. They contribute to both national and international design publications, recently being commissioned to create the covers of Computer Arts Magazine & Desktop Magazine.

Along with a score of awards, Motherbird recently took out the coveted Qantas Spirit of Youth Award (SOYA) for best nation-wide creative talent under 30. In 2012 Motherbird was named one of the Top 10 Design Forces in the country by Design Quarterly magazine.
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Motherbird's partners

World Cancer Day Brand Campaign

World Cancer Congress Brand Identity

Qantas Wallabies campaign

Oxfam Australia Unwrapped Campaign

Originals Brand Identity

MTV Australia, Corporate campaign

MTV Australia, Corporate Stationery

Melbourne Vixens Brand Campaign

Melbourne International Jazz Festival Campaign

Measure Brand Identity

Measure Brand Identity

Here Yoga Brand Identity

Handpicked Wines

Digital Stack Brand Identity

Billy Blue College of Design Brand Campaign

Monday, May 2, 2022

Artist of the Day, May 2, 2022: Louis Lozowick, a Ukrainian-born American painter and printmaker (#1560)

Louis Lozowick (1892 – 1973) was a Ukrainian-born American painter and printmaker. He is recognized as an Art Deco and Precisionist artist, and mainly produced streamline, urban-inspired monochromatic lithographs in a career that spanned 50 years.

Lozowick was born in Ludvynivka, in the Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. His parents moved to Kyiv when he was young, and he attended Kyiv Art School before he immigrated to the USA, where he continued his studies at the National Academy of Design (New York) and Ohio State University. In America, Lozowick became fluent in English, in addition to his native Ukrainian, Russian, and Yiddish.

From 1919 to 1924 Lozowick lived and traveled throughout Europe, spending most of his time in Paris, Berlin and Moscow. In the mid-1920s he started making his first lithographs. During this period he contributed an article to Broom.

By 1926, when he joined the editorial board of the left-wing journal, New Masses, he was well-versed in current artistic developments in Europe, such as Constructivism and de Stijl. These hard-edged, linear styles, evident in a lithograph called "New York (Brooklyn Bridge)," suggest the possibility of an efficient reframing of the world, as did the political theories espoused in New Masses. A version of this lithograph was planned as a cover for New Masses that was never published.

Lozowick was highly interested in the development of the Russian avant-garde and even published a monograph on Russian Constructivism entitled Modern Russian Art.

In 1943 Lozowick moved to New Jersey where he continued to paint and make prints. The human condition remained a constant theme of his art, and an ongoing interest in nature appears more frequently in his later works.

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