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Nate Chandler

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Contact Information:Nate Chandler

732 Enterprise Ave.Lompoc, CA 93436

[email protected]

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Personal Statement

Publication

Branding

Illustrations

Miscellaneous

Paintings

Personal Statement

My name is Nathan Joseph Chandler,

but everyone just calls me “Nate”. I’ve

been creating things my entire life. When

I was four years old, my Montessori pre-

school teacher would not let me make

things that were not real. Drawing spooky

monsters, or folding a piece of paper to

create a laptop, all were not allowed.

When I could no longer “stay in the lines”,

my mom transferred me to our neighbor-

hood public school. There, art activities

were generally prescribed exercises,

however I flourished in the new, more art

friendly environment.

During elementary school, I was al-

ways interested in the arts, from drawing

huge scenes on large roll out paper after

school at YMCA, to learning how to play

the guitar, banjo, and mandolin, talents I

still practice today. In middle school, I took

string music courses, where I learned how

to play the violin and cello. I also took an

art class, which held a lot of my attention

during those transitional years.

High school meant a bigger campus

with more people to meet and interact

with, I was excited, but still very unsure

what to do with my life.

My freshman year I was lost, I got hit by

a car and broke my femur, causing me

to miss a lot of school at the beginning of

the year. Returning to school in a wheel-

chair and then crutches was disappointing

and the classes I was taking weren’t very

stimulating either. I had the basic schedule

Math, English, Science, and my electives

were Auto shop and French. It was the

start of a very boring year.

A couple of my friends were taking an

art class called Visual Communications, a

graphic design class. They were always

talking about it, so I decided to check the

class out. I would go there at lunch

and draw with them and check out all

the amazing design pieces people were

creating. Mr. Schaller, the teacher, was

pretty funny, and all the art they had on

display made by previous students quickly

caught my eye. I was amazed by what

“I wanted to create, I wanted to

design. I wanted to learn”

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was happening in that room. I decided

I would take the class next year and see

what I could do. When the time came the

following year I began the class, anxious

to learn the programs and skills needed

to create my own individual pieces of

work. I learned about logo design, dif-

ferent fonts, and the basic principles of

design. This knowledge gave me the tools

to develop my work, until I was ready to

enter the advanced placement course the

following year. It was great to be in an

advanced class, where I had competition

on projects, and artistic peers to critique

my work. High school was no longer an

uninteresting large block of time, at least

not during my graphic design classes.

Now I knew what I wanted to do in life,

I wanted to create, I wanted to design, I

wanted to learn more.

Growing up through high school

taught me a lot of things about myself.

My time on the swim and water polo team

at the varsity level taught me self disci-

pline, and that I have the persistence and

stamina to achieve, no matter how difficult

the scenario. The graphic design program

taught me that being creative is who I am.

I hope that CCA will be my opportunity to

express who I am, and continue to teach

me about what interests me the most, art.

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Publication 4

B L A C KIn ancient times there was

nothing, except a celestial

being. we know him as zorex,

king of Wizards. He created

all That is our world when

he began to cry. every tear

creating the Stars, and

Planets. When he had finished

crying our new black uni-

verse was the final product.

Zorex decided that since he

created all this new space,

it needed something to

live in it.

He than began to make

humanoids and and other

animals. the new black

world was hard for the

new inhabitants. living their

lives in a place of absolute

sadness, without any color

to please the dwellers of

the universe’s senses, zorex

felt his new creature’s

discomfort and began to

put colors into the world.

Cyan was the first color

he chose..

C Y A NCyan, zorex decided, would

look best as water. with

one sweep of his hand he

turned all of the previous-

ly opaque oceans and rivers

into a rich

and beautiful

cyan. The water was mys-

terious as black, but once it

became cyan, creatures of

the world were intrigued

and began fishing and swim-

ming. they were outstanded

by the first sightof color.

So outstanded ac-

tually that they began

to sing and dance, praising

zorex for his mighty deed,

the people could not get

enough of the new color

phenomenon. zorex was so

happy with everyones reac-

tion that he thought

of more ways to

incorporate color into

theyre growing world.

The king of wiz-

ards wanted

magenta to be

next.

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I did this piece during a summer intensive at my high school. I was tasked to create four pages for a book we were making. This project started out with me drawing a the wizard in human form and trying to think of a story behind it. I ended up with a short story about a wizard-god who created the world of color. I like to make stories about all of my drawings, or at least put them into a scenario of some kind, so it was nice to spend some more time to develop and carry out telling the story.

Zorex the king of wizards

Zorex had all the

volcanoes on the

planets that support-

ed life erupt. releas-

ing floods of magenta

lava. all the animals and

humans were amazed and

ecstatic about the sudden

amazing change of scenery.

The magma raced across the

land, giving everything it

touched a tint of magenta,

the entire landscape evolved.

the world was almost

complete.. but there was

just something a little

off. zorex needed to cre-

ate one more color for

the universe to finally be

complete. everyone was

happy with the first two

colors, they just needed one

more to put everything into

a equalibrium of emotions,

zorex settled on yellow,

to mix and create the final

piece of the spectrum.

M A G E N T Awith his great design of the

universe, now wanted to

live in it. it was an immacu-

late world. the wizard king

also felt protective of his

creation. he wanted no one

to do it harm. zorex, and his

wizards took the form

of steers, roaming the

world.they were

catalysts of joy

and imagination.

still guardians

of the world

today.

Yellow was put into the

world by the stars

hanging over our heads.

zorex made all the stars

yellow and they radiated

golden life into all things.

mixing with the rest of the

colors in the world,

making healthy

greens and toasty reds. The

world was finally com-

plete. no one was sad any-

more and everyone lived in

peace. color made our home a

better place. Zorex, satisfied

Y E L L O W

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$7.50 U.S. and $11.50 CAN

Issue 16 December the 20th, 2011

FATE

2 Dec 2011

ConstructivismA love story...

Rogue Squadron Motorcycle HelmetsThe coolest motercycle helmet you will ever see.Destroying not only Deathstars, but ladies too!

The Wasp KnifeThe Wasp Knife is a special combat knife that contains a CO2 cartridge, with a button release on the handle. Too far?

Selk BagsA sleeping bag for your entire body! Much better than sliced bread.

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DESIGN MUSIC ART

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$7.50 U.S. and $11.50 CAN

Issue 16 December the 20th, 2011

FATE

2 Dec 2011

ConstructivismA love story...

Rogue Squadron Motorcycle HelmetsThe coolest motercycle helmet you will ever see.Destroying not only Deathstars, but ladies too!

The Wasp KnifeThe Wasp Knife is a special combat knife that contains a CO2 cartridge, with a button release on the handle. Too far?

Selk BagsA sleeping bag for your entire body! Much better than sliced bread.

CONTENTS

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18

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28

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DESIGN MUSIC ART

PAP Registration No. 09064. AgreementNo. 40048073. ISSN 0829 - 982X.Send undeliverable Canadian copies,adress notices and subscriptions orders to: AZURE Magazine, PO Box 819, Stn. Main, Markham, ON, Canada L3P 8L3 Tel: (905) 946 - 0406 Fax (905) 946 - 0410Email: [email protected]

Printed in Canada

USPS 014 - 112. Published eight times per year( Jan/Feb, March/Apr, May, Jun, Jul/Aug, Sept, Oct,Nov/Dec ) By Azure Publishing Inc., U.S. office of publication c/o DDM Direct.com, 1175 William St., Buffalo NY 14206. Periodicals Postage paid at Buffalo NY. U.S. POSTMASTER: Send adress changes to Azure Publishing Inc., PO Box 1014, Niagara Falls, NY 14304

FATE

FATE

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Fate magazine is a fictional magazine. The reason I call my magazine Fate is because it is actually a combination of Nate and Felix. Felix is my good friend and we do a lot of collaboration art projects together. We plan to create a blog called Fate, the goal is to upload a doodle each every week, or anything we make really. I chose to not have any deck on my front page to keep the feeling of the ominous circle as well as white space, which continues through the spread.

FAte magazine

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It evolved just as the Bolsheviks came to power in the October Revolution of 1917, and initially it acted as a lightning rod for the hopes and ideas of many of the most advanced Russian artists who supported the revolu-tion’s goals. It was an entirely new approach to mak-ing objects, one which sought to abolish the tradition-al artistic concern with composition, and replace it with “construction”. Constructivism called for a careful technical analysis of modern materials, and it was

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Constructivism was the last and most influential modern art movement to flourish in Russia in the 20th century.

hoped that this investigation would eventually yield ideas that could be put to use in mass production, serving the ends of a modern, Com-munist society. Ultimately, however, the movement foundered in trying to make the transition from the art-ist’s studio to the factory. Others, meanwhile, pushed on to a new but short-lived and disappointing phase known as Productivism, in which artists worked in industry. Big names in the creation and sustain-ing of the Constructivist movement are El Lissitzky, Vladamir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko.

El Lissitsky was important in spread-ing Constructivism beyond Russia. In 1922, he co-organized the Dus-seldorf Congress of International Productive Artists, with Hans Richter and Theo van Doesburg of the Dutch group De Stijl, and here the International Constructivist move-ment was officially launched. The artists at the Dusseldorf Congress released a manifesto that claimed art as a tool of progress turning Constructivism into a symbol of the modern era. Although the Interna-tional movement did not highlight functionality, it expanded on the idea of art as object, and used new materials to highlight advances in technology and industry. Vladamir Tatlin was central to the birth of Russian Constructiv-ism. He took lessons learned from Pablo Picasso’s Cubist reliefs, and from Russian Futurism, and began creating objects which sometimes

Fate magazine

Poster for Dobloret, the Soviet U

nion’s first major

civil aviation organization, by Alexander Rodchenko

Film poster for Lev-Kuleshov’s “D

eath Ray” by Alexander Rodchenko

I studied the history of graphic design in my AP ROP Graphics II class, I chose to model a spread after my favorite style, Constructivism. A problem I had while making the spread was using white space, I haven’t designed very many magazine spreads so it was hard getting use to the look of it, but I’m happy with the way the spread turned out.

Constructivism spread

seem poised between sculpture and architecture. Initially trained as an icon painter, he soon aban-doned the traditionally pictorial concerns of painting, and instead concentrated on the possibilities inherent in the materials he used - often metal, glass and wood. He wanted above all to bend art to modern purposes, and, ultimately, to tasks suited to the goals of Rus-sia’s Communist revolution. He achieved fame as an architect when he sought to erect a structure that would dwarf the Eiffel Tower,

a design for modern headquarters for the Communist International headquarters, and would act as a calendar as well. It was never constructed but it was going to be a tower that contained a cube, a pyramid, and a cylinder, each would rotate. The cube once a year, the pyramid once a month, and the cylinder which would rotate once a day. Last but not least, Alexander Rodchenko, who was perhaps the most important avant-garde

artist to have put his art in the service of political revolution. In this regard his career is a model of the clash between modern art and radical politics. He emerged as a fairly conventional painter, but his encounters with Russian Futurists propelled him to become an influ-ential founder of the Constructivist movement. And his commitment to the cause of the Russian Revolution subsequently encouraged him to abandon first painting, and then fine art in its entirety, and to instead put his skills in the service

American Institueof Graphic Arts isfounded in NY1914

November 11marks endof WWI

1918

BauhausFormed1919

Tutankhamun tombis discovered, egyptianstyle starts appearing inarchitecture and graphicdesign

1922

Futura Font Familydesigned byPaul Renner1927

Chrysler Building’sgrand openingto the public

1940 Nazis closethe Bauhaus1933

Disney realeasesFantasia1940

Kodacolor, the first colorroll films designedfor color prints, debuts1942

Eniac compiter isinvented, marking thebeginning of thefirst generation of modern computers

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Vladimir Tatlinplans to buildTatlins Tower

1920

New Economic Policy established in the Soviet Union

1921

Alexanxer Rodchenkobecomes a

member of theproductivist

group

1921

Chinese CommunistParty is formed

1921

USSRformed

1922El Lissitzky’s

photo montageThe Constructer

is published

1925 USSR admittedto the League

of Nations

1934

El Lissitzkypasses away

1941

19411941Germany invades

the Soviet Union

WWII endsin total victory

for the Allies

1945

Most ConstructivistsArtist were seen as

a threat to the SovietUnion under Stalin.

Those who remained inRussia spent he rest of

thier days in the Gulag

TATLIN's TIMELineThis timeline displays events through the linear time frameof 1910 - 1945. The top of the timeline includes eventsimportant in the world of design, as well as important eventsin the world at that time. The bottum of the timeline includesevents that had to do with the Constructivist movement thatwas happening in Russia during this time period.

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“We hold that the fundamental features of the present age is the triumph of the constructive method.... Every organized work - whether it be a house, a poem, or a picture - is an object directed toward a particular end, which is calculated not to turn people away from life, but to summon them to make their contribution toward life’s organization.”

– El Lissitsky

of industry and the state, design-ing everything from advertising to book covers. He worked his whole life through all media, from painting and sculpting, to graphic design and photography.

During the early years of the Soviet Union, when artists were needed to produce and communicate new ideas, Lenin tolerated them.

Stalin being way to serious shut the whole constructivist movement down, thought of it as a threat to the Union and all artist with their avant-garde ideas were either, smart and got out and away from Stalin, or was sent to a camp and never heard of again and probably froze to death in North Eastern Russia.

Posters from the constructivism movement, all structered around

the main idea of industry.

Fate magazine

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Tatlin’s Timeline was a project I made to put in the spread before actually laying it out. The timeline is named after Vladimir Tatlin an artist from the Constructivism era.

Silk Screen printing is a form of stencil

printing using artwork cut out of paper,

or another material. It is used today to print

many things, like tee-shirts, sweatshirts,

stickers, posters, even packaging. It is done by

attaching your cut out stencil to a sheet of

silk that has been streached tightly over a

frame The easiest way of sealing the screen is

to attach stencils from papers or foils to it.

Another manual way is to draw on the screen

with a liquid screen filler, which seals the

screen after hardening. However, the most com-

mon way is the photographic transfer of positive

films. For that, an even layer of a photo sensitive

emulsion is applied to the screen. After dry-

ing, the screen, covered by the prepared film,

is exposed to UV light, which hardens the photo

sensitive layer. The parts of the screen which

were covered by the film, which were not exposed

to the UV light, do not harden and can be washed

SCREENprinting

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Hydro 74 is a big name in the screen printing

world. his very complex posters have earned

him fame and clients such as nike

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This is a spread I designed in my AP ROP graphics II class. I am interested in screen printing, so I thought doing a spread on the subject would teach me more about it. I did actually learn more about the subject, and I have some shirt designs that I would like to print on page 21.

Screen printing spread

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This is an identity project for a fictional art gallery I created called the “Uncanny Gallery”. It was the first branding project I had ever done, and I felt pretty positive about it. The gallery’s purpose was to promote work that was unsettling and unseen. The thing I liked most about this project would be the logo. I saw a picture of a person with two pupils and I thought that was the weirdest thing I had ever seen, so I tried to recreate the feeling I felt about the eye, with the logo.

Uncanny Gallery

601 Montgomery St San Francisco, California 94101 exoskeleto.net 415-766-1007 FAX: 415-766-1007

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Joe ranft

[email protected]

415-588-6879

601 Montgomery St

San Francisco, California 94101

owner

exo

This branding project was inspired by my interest in backpacking. The concept behind this design is that beetles have exoskeletons that protect them, and humans need shells to protect them as well. EXO would be making outdoor gear such as tents, jackets, and sleeping bags. Anything that could be considered an Exoskeleton.

EXo outwear

15This is ephemera for EXO Outwear, they would make the best outdoor gear you could buy, efficient, lightweight, durable, and warm.

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I took an Illustrator night class at Allan Hancock College during my junior year in high school. This is an assignment I was given to redesign California’s currency if it seceded from the nation. The usage of different colors would help distinguish which bill is which, making any currency exchange a breeze. I liked making the complicated pattern on the front, it gave the money a more legitimate look while trying to ward off counterfeiters.

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This is an alphabet I made using the Scriptographer plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. I’m interested in typography and making my own alphabet was a fun experiment with limited boundaries. A problem I had while constructing the alphabet was the readability, since the letters are made with about 25 strokes all lined up, they have to be incredibly thin, making it hard to work with.

Scripto alphabet

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At the end of the year in AP ROP Graphics I, I had the chance to make an ad for a product. I created a poster advertisement for DROID phones. I don’t own a DROID phone but I suppose they’re pretty useful, especially if they are the ones you are looking for. “We are robots” is a jab at people who are sucked into their cell phones all the time, and can’t do anything without them.

Droid ad

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These are all shirts that I plan on making sometime in the near future. Illustrations that I drew were scanned, and then Photoshoped onto tee-shirts. My favorite one is definitely the FUNGUY, because he is a fungi.

Tee-shirts

Sweet trousers

FUNGUY

pickle head

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I love to create psychedelic artwork, the use of vibrant color seems to make the art jump to life. This is a sketch that I drew to practice my skills in shading, I liked the way it turned out so I decided to add color, and turn it into a poster for my room.

Heads

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I took a Photoshop night class at Allan Hancock College my junior year of high school. In the class we were learning about separating images into the four different color layers, CMYK. This piece was my first run at that concept, and using only Photoshop to create a piece or artwork. I also entered this piece in the California State Fair and it took first place in digital composi-tion. I really liked editing the man in this piece, making things or people as surreal as a dream is always fun because you are only limited by your imagination.

spaceman

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This piece is a depiction of the good inside everyone. I painted it my junior year and It was one of the first larger paintings I had done. Water colors were used to create the rainbow pattern of the soul climbing out of the mouth of the now empty man, who’s blackness was achieved by the magical substance India ink.

Empty

This is a collaboration project my good friend Felix Talkin, and I constructed, then painted. I painted the goat figure on the left. It is a six foot tall shrine illustrating the duality of man. The project was created to be put into an art show that our school was host-ing, but it was turned away before anyone could see it because it would cause too much of a “disturbance.” This project was important to me because it was the first time in my life something I created was censored, I will always remember, Felix and I worked on it during a three-day weekend and brought it in to the class that was being used as the gallery and we were turned away. The art teacher who was in charge of the show claimed it would draw negative feedback to the pro-gram and the principal would have to intervene, it was ridiculous. So now we leave it in abandoned fields on the weekends...

The Shrine

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Goodbye

Contact Information:Nate Chandler

732 Enterprise Ave.Lompoc, CA 93436

[email protected]

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