Martin Hsu have an exhibition at Munky King on Melrose, in the celebration of the Chinese new year.
The artist getting interviewed outside the gallery:
I believe this little fella found a new home!
Martin Hsu has a contribution to Gallery 1988LA’s exhibition “He-man and the Masters of the Universe!” We wanted to check it out at the show opening last night.
The Gallery open at 7pm, we were there at 7:30pm and it was a huge line to get in.
We decided to go grab dinner first, but by the time we got back it was still crowded inside the gallery and the line was even longer.
Luckily though, his painting was hanging right by the window so we could see it from outside!
Since we still had not gotten inside 30 minutes before the gallery was supposed to close for the night, we decided to come back another night and go drink beers instead.
The quarter is over, Yay! Here’s a magazine I made, a budget magazine for people who like to travel green. I tried to use as many of my own images as possible in the magazine.
Cover, photo shot in Jamaica:
Table of Contents, photos shot in Los Angeles, Sweden, India and New Zealand:
Department Pages, photos taken from the world wide web:
Spreads, photos shot in Los Angeles, Amsterdam and India:
Catalog Page, photos taken from the world wide web:
We all got together to explore different printing techniques.
I love spray paint!
My friends business cards!
We went downtown to check out the last Art Walk of the year. It felt like we were in New York, cold, dark, Christmas lights, rain, people in winter coats, it was nice!
Art made of old keys.
Our friend relieving a secret that she then found out we all knew about before she knew about it… it’s complicated, but it was hilarious and the peak of the night!
I’ve seen this monster at some other art walk
Guitar made out of junk.
Banksy! Well, a copycat…
A rainy downtown LA at midnight.
I have been struggling with the Advanced Typography class this quarter. It has been a drag throughout the class, but I got some good feedback on some of my work today. Here is a couple examples;
– title treatment for my neighborhood
-typography exploration of an adages
One more week of school then I’m off until the first week of January!
This is my favorite wall in Mar Vista – my neighborhood. I just recently discovered it and think its the fairly newly opened hair saloon that are located on the other side of this wall that are held responsible for it.
I have finished up my work with CORBA, Concerned Off-Road Bicyclists Association. CORBA is an all-volunteer non-profit organization serving the mountain bicycling community of Los Angeles and its surrounding areas. They are dedicated to preserving open space, maintaining public access to public lands, and creating more trail opportunities for all to enjoy. I created all the marketing materials for their upcoming fundraiser event “Fat Tire Fest” held in October. I had basically free hand and came up with a couple of cool concepts, their favorite was the one with the cool biker image.
The marketing materials include, a sponsorship proposal package:
Save the date postcards:
Sign up flier/poster:
Website:
You can check it out at www.fattirefest.com, there are still a lot of “Coming Soon” on the website, but I built the basic sturcture for them, so when they have all the information gathered, they can just drop it in there by themselves.
I have also created a bunch of ads for them that will be published in some major national and local bike magazines:
Here is where I’ve spent my Mondays and Thursdays for the past 3 months, it’s a small design studio, but very nice and filled with toys! I wish I could stay!
