Timothy Samara — Artist Review
Timothy Samara is a graphic designer with a flair for typography. His work is more geographic than random or grunge like other artist we’ve/I’ve looked at in this blog. He uses 90 degree angles and color-filled squares in his work but does through in some random elements such as overplayed text over other text for a look at is cliché ‘futuristic’ in my eye. Not is a bad way cliché. The text, even when angled and varying in size is readable; this is due to his knowledge of typography which, like the last few artists on this blog, is why I’m reviewing his work.
Although my work uses far more photography than his (I only found one example of his work with an actual photograph), I am inspired to use some of these elements in his work on my photographs if only just to see how it’ll look. The geographic tendencies of his work when applied to my photographs will have mixed results but I’d only apply them to certain types of models and costumes. Already, I have two models in mind who ware techie, futuristic, and robotic costumes with shiny metallic and components that resemble electrical wires or magnetic clamps. Nothing repels me from timothy’s work; I would like to see the work become more complicated since mores of his works are very simple and book-cover like. That’s his artistic/practical choice though so it’s not a negative in my eye, just inspiration for me to learn his techniques and see if I excel from his works.
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