SUPER SYMBOLS
Frank Varela
Frank Varela SUPER SYMBOLS home of CONCEPTiCONS and great logo design...

Male
41 years old
El Segundo, California
United States



Last Login: 11/28/2009
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    SUPER SYMBOLS's Interests
GeneralGraphic Design, Logo Design, Typography, Symbols, Icons, Packaging Design, Product Design, Art, Boxing, Dancing, Music, Movies, Cuban Culture, Cuba, and Italy

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:

CONCEPTiCONS

ONLINE STORE

The Whole 9 Portfolio

SUPERHERO TIMES ONLINE INTERVIEW

AFI - Solomon Grundy Toy & Package Review

AN INTERVIEW WITH A MAN-BAT




MusicThe 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...
MoviesCasablanca, 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...
TelevisionCURRENTLY: 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.
BooksAUTHORS: 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
HeroesREAL: 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

     SUPER SYMBOLS's Details
Status:In a Relationship
Here for:Networking, Friends
Orientation:Straight
Hometown:Glendale, CA.
Body type:5' 11" / Average
Ethnicity:Latino / Hispanic
Zodiac Sign:Capricorn
Education:College graduate
Occupation:Graphic Designer

   SUPER SYMBOLS's Schools
University Of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Graduated: 1992
Student status: Alumni
Major: Design
 

1990 to 1992
University Of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA
Graduated: N/A
Degree: None
Major: Studio Art
Minor: Social Science
 

1986 to 1988

   SUPER SYMBOLS's Networking
Publishing - Art - Graphic Designer

Marketing - Advertising/PR - Art Director

Gaming - Design - Designer


   SUPER SYMBOLS's Companies
MATTEL
El Segundo, California US
Project Designer/Art Director
Boys Packaging

CONCEPTiCONS
EL Segundo, California US
Creator/Founder




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   SUPER SYMBOLS's Blurbs
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...





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Daniela Voicu( flavia felix)

Daniela Voicu



Nov 28 2009 8:17 PM

Hi Frank,


READ THE MAGAZINE



YOU CAN HAVE THE CUIB NEST
NIDO  FREE PDF HERE


http://flaviafelix.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/cuib-3-decembrie-2009.pdf

THANK YOU! I HOPE YOU ENJOY.



Director,  Daniela
Voicu




Stephen

Stephen
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Nov 27 2009 10:37 PM

Collage

Collage

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
(Virginia Woolf)

Have a great weekend. S
Nat_Candlewood

Natasja Kaersenhout



Nov 26 2009 11:33 AM



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Chippy

Chippy



Nov 24 2009 6:20 PM

Watch the blue bowl at the bottom...

 

Chippy loves you!

Daniela Voicu( flavia felix)

Daniela Voicu



Nov 23 2009 1:02 AM

Good morning!
Gossamer Glen™

~ Marchella ~



Nov 22 2009 8:08 AM

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
mirada de vaca

mirada de vaca



Nov 22 2009 12:34 AM

hola!
Stephen

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Nov 19 2009 8:07 PM

Science of Dreams Fig. 14



Science of Dreams Fig. 1





Science of Dreams Fig. 13
Sophie Varela

Sophie Varela



Nov 17 2009 3:23 AM

Merci!
Chippy

Chippy



Nov 17 2009 3:22 AM

Carla

Carla



Nov 17 2009 3:22 AM

Have a Great Week Pictures, Images and Photos
Thank you for the add. Looking forward to friendship!
Stephen

Stephen
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Nov 16 2009 3:07 AM

Contemporary Architecture in painting / 3

Contemporary Architecture in painting / 2

Contemporary Architecture in painting / 1

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)
INGRID PAVIC(BEIM PRO7 DREH)

Ingrid Pavic



Nov 14 2009 7:31 PM

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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Jenjinta

Jenjinta



Nov 14 2009 7:31 PM

Thanks for the request,
pleased to meet your works and here had interesting project

nice to meet you!

greeting from Bkk.

Jenjinta
natalia villegas moreno

Natalia Villegas moreno



Nov 13 2009 9:36 PM

Great artwork very original
Thanks for the req


 

H I Dehisce

H Dehisce



Nov 13 2009 9:36 PM

Cheers muchly for the invite sir.
ROZ- Illustration

Rodrigo Damian



Nov 13 2009 9:36 PM

Thank you for he add.



Roz - Cover Artist / Illustrator
Stephen

Stephen
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Nov 13 2009 9:36 PM

botijo attack!!

war-o-the-worlds

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)
Stephen

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Nov 12 2009 1:54 AM

 
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)

Wishing you a great weekend S
Stephen

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Nov 12 2009 1:53 AM

 
 
 
Hope this new week bring all you hope for! S
Chippy

Chippy



Nov 12 2009 1:53 AM

 

Chippy loves you!

Celia

Celia



Nov 12 2009 1:52 AM

I would like to challenge Helen to a duel for first place.
Nat_Candlewood

Natasja Kaersenhout



Nov 7 2009 8:31 AM



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TGIF,
Nat
B-art

B-art



Nov 5 2009 7:13 PM

The addition is much appreciated. Stop by anytime to see my artwork and all my graphic services I provide.

Chippy

Chippy



Nov 5 2009 7:12 PM

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