CHECK OUT MY GOOD FRIEND RAY MAKOWSKI'S VIDEO "CODE 25." HIS SUBMISSION GOT INTO THE TOP TEN FINALISTS OF THE "TRUE TO JOHN WOO" SHORT FILM CONTEST. SEE FILM DOWN BELOW.
FRANK'S CURRENT QUOTE:
Vanilla makes for a good flavor of ice cream, but for design, it's the worst. -Me
FOR MORE EXAMPLES OF FRANK'S WORK, CLICK THE LINKS BELOW:
The Police, Sting, U2, Green Day, The Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Chris Isaak, Sade, Norah Jones, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Patsy Kline, The Hives, AC/DC, The Killers, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Louis Armstrong, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, The White Stripes, Santana, Coldplay, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Louis Prima, Brian Setzer, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Big Bad VooDoo Daddy, Mozart, Bene More, Celia Cruz, Cesaria Evora, Compay Segundo, Omara Portuondo, Massive Attack, Groove Armada, The Crystal Method, Ozomatli, Madeleine Peyroux and the list goes on and on...
Movies
Casablanca, Bladerunner, The Dark Knight, Gladiator, Amadeus, Batman Begins, Vertigo, V For Vendetta, Rear Window, The Godfather I and II, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, To Have And Have Not, Harvey, Its a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Murder My Sweet, Out of the Past, Good Night and Good Luck, Lost In Translation, L.A. Confidential, Pulp Fiction, Sin City, Breaking Away, The Tao of Steve, Don Juan DeMarco, The Incredibles, Toy Story I and II, North by Northwest, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, A Song is Born, The Empire Strikes Back, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Ocean's 11, Cinema Paradiso, Malena, Swept Away (original version), Mediterraneo, La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful), The Mask, Some Like it Hot, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Dr. No, From Russia With Love, To Live and Let Die, and the list goes on and on...
Television
CURRENTLY: LOST, KINGS, TERMINATOR: The Sara Conner Chronicles, FRINGE, PUSHING DAISIES, ELI STONE, AND HEROES
IN SYNDICATION: The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, Alias, Law and Order SVU, Bonanza, The Outer Limits, all the Star Trek shows (with the exception of Enterprise), Frasier, and Seinfeld.
Books
AUTHORS: Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Anne Rice, Nick Bantock, Neil Gaiman, Piers Anthony, and Alan Moore
BOOKS: Broken Music (Sting's autobiography), The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The Martian Chronicles, Interview with the Vampire, The Griffin and Sabine Series, Neverwhere, On a Pale Horse, V for Vendetta, and The Watchmen
Heroes
REAL: Sting, Neville Brody, Margo Chase, Vincent Van Gogh, Alex Ross, Bruce Timm, Tim Sale, Darwyn Cooke, James Stewart, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn, and Humphrey Bogart
FICTIONAL: Batman, James Bond, Philip Marlowe, George Bailey, Maximus, King Leonidas, Catwoman, and Wolverine
About me: HOLA! My name is Frank Varela, and I'm a first generation Cuban American Graphic Designer and Art Director living in Los Angeles. SUPER SYMBOLS is an extension of the project CONCEPTiCONS: Symbolic Morphs of Words and Images. What are they? Well, here's the intro from my book:
Frank Varela began his book with the idea that by taking a word--or a letter from a word--and combining it with an image, the newly created design would become symbolic of the word’s meaning. The designs in this book are drawn from the emotional reaction that words can generate. Moreover, each design poses a challenge to the viewer: to discover the letter or word within the design. Close your eyes and think of the word "Love." What thoughts come to mind? For Frank Varela, the letters in "Love" become a woman’s lock of wavy hair, a sexy pout, and a secret to be told to the mouth instead of the ear--an image reminiscent of Bogart and Bacall about to kiss. CONCEPTiCONS are symbolic and subjective. As with Egyptian hieroglyphs, where a picture or symbol was representative of a word, CONCEPTiCONS depend on our shared experiences. Such creative evaluation of words as symbols is one way in which Frank Varela has accentuated the meaning of words that live forever in our minds.
So, check out the main website CONEPTiCONS, the online store CONEPTiCONS merchandise, or stop by this page often for the latest and greatest in logo and symbol design...
Who I'd like to meet: I would like to meet and network with other like minded creatives who have something to say and add to the world.
Greetings! Thank you for your friends invitation. The faeries have approved and welcome you to Gossamer Glen, new friend. May all your wishes come true! ~ Faerie blessings ~ Marchella
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow. (H W Longfellow)
Thank you very much for your request!
have fun with my videos!
you can find them on my myspace profil page &(links are in my blog)
and enjoy to see me on german tv!
INGRID
(sorry all my videos are in german)
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. (Orson Welles)
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. (Edgar Allan Poe)
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