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☶ I visualize structure. I make the abstract tangible and find pattern in the forest’s tangles. With listening, looking, and questioning, the truth will out, the form will appear, and I will give it life in the material or digital world. ⚛ I'm able to create visual systems that combine words and graphics. My designs convert our conversations into ideas that are received with the velocity and pleasure of beauty. I bring an independent eye, heart, brain and spirit to my projects. ☢ Learning is central to my design process. I enjoy the questions and discoveries that reveal the client’s challenge. ✍ I am an artist and a designer. My clients benefit from my dual career in art & design, joining the liberties of art with the disciplines of commerce. Creativity can emerge anywhere. It is useful everywhere. The making of art flexes creative muscle. ⛺ My work with clients (including architects, developers, hospitals, foundations, universities, and diverse institutions) has included projects of varied complexity, media, and location. I bring the project in on budget and on time. I can work with other subcontractors in many media from bronze, aluminum, slate, glass, paper, oil on canvas, digital and traditional printing, web-delivered html/css.⛔ A maker of things, a child with his fingers in the mud, a lover of language and words: I work for myself and call it art with design; I work for others and call it design with art.⛽ Commission a painting. That's how they did it in the Renaissance. ☕ Call me with your visual design challenge. Put my mind to work for you. ☵
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Artist, Designer, VisualizerJohn Boak Jan 1970 - PresentColorado, United StatesWorking with the volunteers of the Yale Alumni Service Crops (YASC), I created murals for a computer lab, library and home-economics kitchen in a building we built over a four-year span of engagement. It is located in a small town, Yamoransa, in coastal Ghana not far from the slave castles of Elmina and Cape Coast. I worked with leaders of the community and made my drawings at my studio in Colorado. I took full-scale drawings to the town and directed a team of young Ghanaians (college age to grade school), teaching them how to apply the drawings to walls, and then to paint them with the colors I prepared on site. I used a combination of symbols in the library, both west-african (Adinkra) symbols and also contemporary symbols (truck, computer, wifi, snake, etc). In the home-economics room the stakeholders wanted me to honor the women who make and sell kenkey (a fermented cord staple) for which the town is renowned. I designed large images of women making kenkey and transporting to roadside markets. YASC’s four-year mission is complete, and I have become a board member of the Friends of Yamoranza Foundation. I am the manger of branding, and I am doing design work to visualize the “Yamoransa Model,” which is bringing a practical digital ecosystem to three small towns with limited resources (including electricity, computers, and digital know-how) in different parts of Ghana.
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Artist And DesignerBoakart Jul 1970 - PresentGreater Denver Area
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Brand Creator, Graphic Designer, Web Designer1Stgenyale Mar 2016 - Present1stGenYale (https://1stgenyale.org/) is a shared-interest group made of Yale University alumni, advocating for and supporting the 1st gen students of Yale College and its graduate and professional schools. These students are the first in their families to go to college, and they constitute 16% of Yale’s first-year matriculants. Since its creation in 2016, the creator of this SIG and I have worked together to make this SIG grow. I created and managed the branding. I designed self-contained social-media graphics, whose drop-and-post information eased and hastened dispersion of event information across the hundreds of social-media sites in Yale’s digital ecosystem. I designed their site, 1stgenyale.org. I designed graphics for all of the SIG’s events, including the printed program and other graphics for the inaugural conference in April of 2018, which drew 120 participants from around the country. Creator Lise Chapman believes the graphic power and consistency of our branding and communications have been a key component of the rapid growth of the SIG. The university has embraced the SIG and its idea, opening a new office to serve the 1st-gen and low-income student community. Students and alumni at other universities have taken note, too, and sought to learn from our example.
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ArtistShimokitzawa Apr 2017 - Jan 2018This painting, ( oil on panel, 48”x48,” 2017) depicts an alley at night in an entertainment district of Tokyo. It seeks to express a realism of living perception, with its multi-centered accretion of focal points, all within a larger region of vagueness and the inevitable streaking strokes of motion-blurred lights. My “cartoon,” to use the Renaissance term for a painting’s production drawing, is constructed of multiple photographs from a single short span of time walking down down the alley. The painting took 130 hours to complete, with the painting sessions occurring over 10 months time. The act of painting consists of hundreds of little overlapping compositions, during which I interpret the vague information of my cartoon, translating it into brush stroke abstractions. And since this is oil painting, with its slow and variable drying times, I would return to them in following sessions and modify those brush strokes: softening, expanding, destroying edges, adding, joining, et cetera, in a slow drama of divergence and resolution. A big thrill for me is that the painting works just as well in dim lighting as it does in full lighting.
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Book Packager, Designer, ArtistBeauty Neuroscience & Architecture Feb 2017 - Sep 2017I worked with architect and author Donald Ruggles on this book tracing the 9-square pattern over its 6,000-year history, and visualizing the neuroscience that explains its persistence and efficacy. Working with our team of 6 people, I was the designer and packager of this full-color, case-bound book. I chose and acquired rights to its 100+ photographs, from many sources including the foundation that controls Frank Lloyd Wright’s archive. I worked closely with Mr. Ruggles to visualize both specific examples of the pattern, and also to create visual/verbal graphics that illustrate complex ideas about the nervous systems response to architectural and visual patterns. There are over 100 illustrations and graphics in the 136 page, 9”x9” book. I bid the book for printing, and took the book through pre-press and printing. It has been positively received, and praised for turning the dialogue about our built environment away from issues of trend and fashion to the more consequential question of how design actually affects everyday human life.
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ArtistWest 46Th Street #2 Mar 2015 - Feb 2016This oil painting, 48”x48,” was created from an image I made while walking east from the offices of Ogilvy Mather, on 11th and and 46th Street in Manhattan, after attending a Yale Alumni meeting on Social Media. While talking with two alumnae, I was impressed with the lighting on this cold, wet, and sometimes icy January night. I took photos as we walked and talked. And this one thrilled me with its indeterminate, blurred forms, and motion blurred brushstrokes from highlights on shiny points of car and pavement. It took a long while to paint. It was snapped up by a collector.
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ArtistWestin Hotels & Resorts Aug 2015 - Oct 2015The Westin at Denver International Airport is a beautifully designed hotel. The rooms are furnished with framed images that obey a controlled palette of colors.The designers wanted images which were abstractions of natural textures and landscape. Since I have a large library of natural textures from photos taken while hiking in west, I felt sure I would having something to work with. They chose this photo of the side of a large fallen pine tree and placed it in 248 rooms. -
PresidentColorado Yale Association 2008 - Apr 2015ColoradoPromoting Yale's mission as a global leader in higher education. I was awarded the Association of Yale Alumni Board of Governor's Award for Service and Innovation in 20011.
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ArtistNine Dot Arts | Corporate Art Curators Jan 2010 - Jun 2011LAVOIR / A COMMISSIONED PAINTINGI accepted a commission for a painting for a Jackson National Life Insurance’s office in Nashville Tennessee. They wanted a memorable Tennessee building like the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, home of the Grand Ole Opry. Using elaborate digital maquette, I persuaded them that an old art-deco theatre in the small town of Harriman would make a much more exciting painting. I made images for the building into intersecting and layeredcubist planes. I encoded miniature detail of real cubist paintings in the adjoining shop windows and the poster display windows of the theater. -
ArtistPalace Jan 2009 - Aug 2009( Oil on panel, 47"x47", 2009 ) A collector wanted a painting of a theater, to be painted in a cubist style. After some research, I found a theater in Seguin, Texas that looked promising. I went to work and built up digital sketches that formed the foundation of the painting. The collector said yes and I went to work. This oil painting was created on a shaped substrate of birch plywood.
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Brand Manager, Designer, Illustrator, Publications ManagerThe Colorado Trust Jan 1985 - Jun 2001(1985-2001). The Colorado Trust is a foundation created from a hospital sale; its mission is to serve the health of Colorado citizens. I was the creator of their branding and all graphic materials, from their inception in 1985 through the following 16 years. I designed all print publications, newsletters, annual reports, website, and graphic communications. I also created informational graphics for various publications, using words and graphics to visualize complex issues they needed to communicate. -
Artist, Designer, Production CoordinatorColorado Department Of Transportation Jan 2000 - Oct 2000EL MORO REST AREAI provided steel, bronze, aluminum, slate, and glass symbol/images for the walls, floors and windows of an award-winning building designed by an FAIA architect. I was a sub to the engineering firm which hired the architect. I worked with them and the Colorado Department of Transportation from the earliest phases of the design. The art symbolized Colorado transportation history over a 400-year span. The project budget was $30,000 dollars. I provided my own pages added to the final construction drawings. I coordinated with various suppliers: water-jet cutting of metal and stone; sand-blasting glass prior to thermo-pane window assembly; printing a full-color tourism map of my design in porcelain enamel on steel. This was not percent-for-art work. It was part of the architecture from the bubble-drawing phase onward.
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