多彩跨界设计 | 洛杉矶艺术家 Jonathan Zawada 的视觉盛宴

Australian-born LA-based artist Jonathan Zawada is a talented graphic designer and creative director who works across the music, publishing, fashion and corporate industries. Jonathan is best known for his varied approach to the discipline of design – his personal ventures running in parallel to Jonathan’s career as a graphic designer, are his works as a practicing visual artist. Working with oil painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, he also participates in regular exhibitions across galleries around the world.

Not the one to be pigeonholed into any specific creative genre, Jonathan is also responsible for a couple of really interesting products, which is how he originally came onto our radar. In other words, his body of work is a varied, and an impressive one at that. What a dude!

Touchingly Unfeeling, 2014 by Jonathan Zawada.

Continuous Process, 2014 by Jonathan Zawada.

Third Person, 2012 by Jonathan Zawada.

+ Hello Jonathan, welcome to Yellowtrace and thank you for taking the time to e-chat with us. Could you please give us a quick introduction on yourself? When did you first decide you wanted to become an artist?

Affordances 2 by Jonathan Zawada.

+ What are you seeking to portray in your work? What is fundamental to your practice – your philosophy and your approach?

Affordances 1, the Y.O.R.I table by Jonathan Zawada.

+ Tell us about your amazing Affordances series. How did they come about?

Left: Nonce, 2013 Right: Rainbow Tables, 2013 by Jonathan Zawada.

+ Can you tell us a little bit about your process of designing products vs your art practice. Do you approach product design in a similar way to how you approach your art?

Skin (Chains), 2014 by Jonathan Zawada.

Skin (Swans), 2014 by Jonathan Zawada.

+ Who or what are some of your influences? What other artists and creative’s in general do you admire?

Untitled (Sandbox Painting) 8, 2013 by Jonathan Zawada.

Untitled (Sandbox Painting), 2013 by Jonathan Zawada.

+ Any interesting/ funny/ quirky facts about your work you could share with us about your work?

Why The Earth is Green, 2010 by Jonathan Zawada.

+ What advice would you have to emerging artists who want to follow your path? What was some of your biggest lessons learned since starting your practice?

Jonathan Zawada Portrait.

Jonathan Zawada Studio.

Let’s get real:

+ If I was not a artist, I would be… realistically; a web developer – in my dreams; a physicist.

+ Three things every artists needs… patience, persistence and perspective.

+ What’s the best mistake you have ever made? Moving to Los Angeles!

+ What’s one thing other people may not know about you? I watch Twitch most of the day while I’m painting or drawing.

+ It’s not very cool, but I really like… not being very cool.

[Images courtesy of Jonathan Zawada.]