14 RAPP ARTISTS SELECTED FOR THE 2012 SOFTMART CALENDAR

Once in a while a project comes around in which we can really leverage our deep talent base.  This Fall we completed a project for Softmart, an IT consulting firm.  They wanted to do a calendar featuring 14 portraits celebrating various inventors in the IT world and they wanted each portrait to have an unique style reflecting the inventor.  Enter G&C Rapp.  We played match maker and came up with 14 artists who if we do say so ourselves, produced a fantastic calendar and a great show piece for our group.

Illustration by James Steinberg

Calculator- George Stibitz created the first

relay-based calculator in 1937 and later that year

became the first person to operate a computing

device remotely over  phone lines.

Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg

Binary Code- Claude Shannon in 1937 proposed

that binary arithmatic could be used in electronic

devices. His work is fundamental to the basic

operation of modern computers.

Illustration by Michael Witte

Computer Memory- Kenneth Olsen created

numerous devices that advanced computing

and led to the development of magnetic core

memory, a precursor to modern RAM (1960s).

Illustration by James O'Brien

Magnetic Storage- Dr. An Wang co-invented the

pulse transfer-controlling device in 1949, which

makes memory storage possible.

  
  

Illustration by Rafael Ricoy

Mouse- Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse

 in 1963, a device that facilitates the interaction

between humans and computers.

Illustration by Daniel Baxter

LCD- James L. Fergason is best known as the

inventor of the LCD, or Liquid Crystal Display.

(1970).

Illustration by Jan Feindt

Computer Switches- Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover 

invented a method for automating the phone 

system at Bell Labs, which eliminated human decision 

making in favor of a computer (1971).

Illustration by Peter Horvath

Fiber Optics- Dr. Peter Schultz is the

co-inventor of fiber optics which allows

for near-instant global telecommunications

(1970).

Illustration by Robert de Michiell

Cell Phones- Amos Joel Jr. devised a 

mechanism to hand off calls from one receiver 

to another in cellular communications, thus 

allowing the modern cell phone system (1972).

Illustration by PJ Loughran

Microprocessor- Dr. Marcian "Ted" Hoff is one

of the inventors of the microprocessor. He is 

widely credited as conceiving the idea of a 

universal processor (1971).

Illustration by Eric Zahn

GPS- Bradford Parkinson is known as the father

of the Global Positioning System. For fifty years 

he has worked in the military, academia, and the

private sector, promoting and innovating satellite-

based GPS (1973).

Illustration by Anthony Freda

Internet- Vinton " Vint" Cerf is recognized

as one of the fathers of the internet. A former 

manager at DARPA, he led groups in developing

TCP/IP technology (1974).

Illustration by Arthur Giron

Personal Computer- Dr. Mark Dean led the team that 

developed the ISA bus (that allows multiple devices 

to be connected to a single computer), as well as 

the team that created the first one-gigahertz computer 

processing chip (1981).

Illustration by Bob Staake

Digital Camera- Steven S. Sasson designed and

built the world's first digital camera. in 1975 he

cobbled together a prototype and produced the first 

digital picture- a black-and-white, .01 megapixel 

photo of a lab assistant.

DANIEL HERTZBERG: CONCEPT CONNOISSEUR

DANIEL HERTZBERG FOR CAR + DRIVER

SKETCH WORK

This was a full-pager for last month's issue of Car and Driver. The article was about a new line of Jeeps that have been released. The art director wanted it to feel like a propaganda poster, with reference to the outdoorsy-ness of Jeeps- hence the mountains in the background. Reference was provided by the art director.

-Daniel Hertzberg

DANIEL HERTZBERG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

SKETCH WORK

It was an honor to do an illustration for the New York Times a few weeks ago. It was the biggest piece I've ever done for them (about 9.5" square). The article was about the music site Spotify, which has tens of millions of songs available for free, all within "the cloud." The article also had a classical music twist, so I thought music notes raining down from the clouds would be very appropriate. Hopefully there's the sense of limitless amounts of music in this. The Spotify brand is green, so we kept it that way.

-Daniel Hertzberg

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NIGEL BUCHANAN ANIMATES THE JUNGLE BOOK FOR THE IPAD

 

 

 

"The process took around 4 months, in between servicing regular clients. Drew Frist from Electric-Type, the creative director on the project, broke down the areas to be illustrated and described how he had imagined them to be. In conjunction with Dino, the interactive company, he would give me a list of 'assets' which are all the bits needed in separate layers for the animations. After the first few we got to the stage where he would leave me to produce the final image without having to approve the sketches, which sped up the whole process.

It was a lot of work, but the whole exercise was relatively seamless. Drew and Dino where great to work with. We used a central work base called Basecamp which held all the correspondence between all parties and all the files in one place.

I was very keen to take this on, as I can see that this area of getting our illustrations animated is only going to get bigger and I was excited to see what was involved."

-Nigel Buchanan

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