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51 'skines by chrispiascik
My name is Chris Piascik. I am a graphic designer/artist residing in Cambridge, MA. I am part-owner and designer of Print Brigade, a small clothing company. I am also a designer at Alphabet Arm and I just finished two years of being an adjunct professor at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. Things have been crazy but I am into it. Background I was raised on the (not so) mean streets of a small shoreline town in Connecticut. My first important work of art was finished at age 4, it was a drawing of my family going to a funeral. I was shown with a gun, my father with a chainsaw. I became fascinated with design a few years later when I discovered music. Whenever I would get a new album, I would remove the packaging and make my own. I attended the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford and graduated with a BFA in Visual Communication Design and Art History. I like punk rock, screen-printed posters, t-shirts, bicycles and rollerblading.
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2008Jun 23
tags: dreams | funny | joke | junkmail | lettering | results | scam | text | typography | words
*Results may vary. Side effects make include a loss of $5.
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2008Jun 20
tags: text | typography | words
shhhh…
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2008Jun 18
tags: text | type | typography | words
It’s true.
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2008Jun 16
tags: birds | donkeys | grim reaper | monsters | robot
I am a big fan of Jon Burgerman. This drawing was inspired by his style with my own spin. I am not sure what his process is but I scribbled out a shape with some overlapping lines. After that I just went in a filled in the spaces with whatever seemed to fit, whether it was a donkey or the grim reaper.
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2008Jun 15
tags: scheming | script | text | type | typography | words
The other day while eating lunch, my friend Ryan said, “I love that you are always running schemes against yourself.” He said that because I’ll often do questionable things, such as drink cranberry juice because I don’t like it that much (my reasoning, being that it will last me longer—because if I really enjoyed it I would drink it too quickly and need more). There’s a whole bunch of silly things like this that I do. This rational carries itself over into my art as well. Often times I won’t have an idea for a painting but I want to start so I will draw something small. I’ll then add something else based on the negative space left from the first element and so on. I basically trick myself into creativity.
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2008Jun 13
tags: 100 | daily drawing | gold | text | typography | words
I can’t believe I have done 100 of these daily drawings. I’m still going strong: http://chrispiascik.com
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2008Jun 12tags: frankenstein | monster | robot | text | typography | words
This is a painting study reproducing the lovely work from a...
