Inspirations

In a few Interviews Ive been reading, Ive heard fo some of the guys that Art used to see as inspiration. Two of the major players here were the founder of the compdany "Von Dutch" Kenny Howard and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Both were initial designers and artists for the 50's hot rods, specialising in pinstriping and and hand Illustration. Ed Roth also became well known across America for creating the character "Rat Fink". Von Dutch these days is known more as a clothing line, when his daughters sold the rights shortly after Keith Howard died, to a japanes clothing company called Ueno Shukai

Kenneth Graeme Howard (September 7, 1929–September 19, 1992), also known as Dutch, Von Dutch or J.L. Bachs (Joe Lunch Box), was a motorcycle mechanic, eccentric, artist, pinstriper, metal fabricator, knifemaker, and gunsmith. His father, Wally Howard, was a well-respected Los Angeles sign painter and by the age of ten, the young Kenny Howard was able to paint and letter at a professional level. Money was something he detested. In this quote from a 1965 article Dutch explains his thoughts on money.

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I make a point of staying right at the edge of poverty. I don't have a pair of pants without a hole in them, and the only pair of boots I have are on my feet. I don't mess around with unnecessary stuff, so I don't need much money. I believe it's meant to be that way. There's a 'struggle' you have to go through, and if you make a lot of money it doesn't make the 'struggle' go away. It just makes it more complicated. If you keep poor, the struggle is simple.

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- Sourced From Wikipedia

Ed Roth
Birth name	Ed Roth
Born	March 4, 1932 Bell, California
Died	April 4, 2001 (aged 69)
Nationality	American
Field	Custom Automotive Cartoon Art
Training	Self Educated
Movement	Kustom Kulture
Works	Rat Fink
Influenced	Robert Williams

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (March 4, 1932 – April 4, 2001) was an artist and cartoonist who created the hot-rod icon Rat Fink and other extreme characters. As a custom car builder, Roth was a key figure in Southern California's "Kustom Kulture"/Hot-rod movement of the 1960s. He grew up in Bell, California, attending Bell High School, where his classes included auto shop and art.

Roth is best known for his grotesque caricatures — typified by Rat Fink — depicting imaginative, outsized monstrosities driving representations of the hot rods he and his contemporaries built. Although Detroit native Stanley Mouse (Miller) is credited with creating the so-called "Monster Hot Rod" art form, Roth is accepted as the individual who popularized it. Roth is less well known for his innovative work in turning hot rodding from crude backyard engineering where performance was the bottom line into a refined artform where aesthetics were equally important, breaking new ground with Fibreglass bodywork.

In the 1960s, plastic models of many of Roth's cars, as well as models of Rat Fink and other whimsical creatures created by Roth, were marketed by the Revell model company.

Numerous artists were associated with Roth, including painter Robert Williams, Rat Fink Comix artist R.K. Sloane and Steve Fiorilla, who illustrated Roth's catalogs.

Roth was active in the field of counterculture art and hot-rodding his entire adult life. At the time of his death in 2001, he was working on an innovative hot-rod project involving a compact car planned as a radical departure from the dominant "tuner" performance modification style. In his later years, Roth's telephone number was listed in the directory, and he encouraged fans to contact him: he was always generous with his time and enthusiasm.

*My Notes For Work

LESTER BEALL 1903 1969
DESIGNER FOR THE RURAL ELECTROFICATION ADMINISTRATION POSTERS
VERY BOLD IMAGERY COLOURFUL BUR ONLY USING BLOCK COULOURS OF ABOUT ONE TO 3 MAX
WAS BRIGHT BUT IS A CHEAPER WAY OF MAKING POSTERES IN THE BLOCK PLACEMENT OF COLOURS AND BOLD LINES.
WORKING WITHIN THEIR MEANS NO COMUTERS AT ALL.

GIVES A GREATER APPRECIATION FOR THE WORK INVOLVED IN MAKING SUCH A POSTER. IT IN ITSELF, ALTHOUGH INFORMATIVE, IS A PIECE OF ART AND INGINUITY.

VON DUTCH
ED "BIG DADDY" ROTH

LOOK AT INTERVIEW
ART CHANTRY ON CREATIVITY AND DESIGN

look at kozik, very similar, also had an art light with oakleys as did chantry



Their styles are as bold and as challenging as Chantrys', and at the time all three were creating pioneering work, either with metal work, Illustration, Advertising, Poster work.