28 Inspirational Artist

28 Inspirational Artist

 

1. Eduardo Kobra (Street Artist)

I came across Edwardo Kobra's work when I was walking on the high line.  You can see his "Famous Kiss" mural from the high line and it is the most iconic mural known to New York's tourist. When I first saw his work from the high line I was in awe. I was desperately was looking to fine who was the artist. When I found out who he was I was amazed at looking at all his work. Some I have scavenger  hunt for and found some new own even in my own area. His art is very inspirational. The way he uses his colors so bright and beautiful inspires my art work. Although I cant paint or draw like him, I found a away to mimic his style through Photoshop.

2. Geoffrey Lee - Impact (Font Designer)

Impact font is widely known font created by Geoffrey Lee in 1965 in Britain. Its Bold, Condensed , and Sans Serif. Geoffrey Lee font made the style of the 60s. Impact was influenced by a movement called the International Typographic Style or Swiss Style, which emphasized readability and cleanliness, with typefaces like Helvetica and Univers. At the that time, printing was done by metal carvings, so Lee had to do them all by hand. After Impact was getting known Lee sold the font to Monotype who created times new roman then was sold again to Microsoft this making the reason why we have Impact font today in every computer. My favorite part of Geoffrey Lee font wasn't how font looks or how it was widely used in the 60s but how the font is used today. In the start of 1996 Microsoft choose 11 core fonts for the web that was a free standard font pack that included Impact. That font pack became the advantage for the default of what is called "Memes." Geoffrey Lee is inspirational because lee is legendary from 1960s- all the way to now. The Impact font on memes makes everything much more fun and funnier.  Lee is a star to the young generation. Its inspirational how a font can  be in so many movement throughout generations.

3. Paula Scher (Graphic Designer)

I learned about Paula Scher from a Netflix documentary series called Abstract. It is about the art of design such as graphic design, logo design, stage design, interior design and more. One episode was called Graphic Design and that's where I found who Paula Scher is. When she first started as a graphic designer in the 70s she was creating album covers for CBS Records. She is famously known for the album cover "More then a feeling" by Boston. At that job she created more then 150 album covers. Her album designs were so recognized that she had four Grammy nominations. Today, She is credited with reviving historical typefaces and design styles. She is graphic design history icon. Paula works with NYC MOMA, SVA, The Public Library, and Central Park advertisements. Paula Scher is an inspirational graphic designer because she did what she loved. Besides her career history, in her own personal life she wasn't accepted as a artist by her father. Her father saw art to be a waste. It wasn't a real job and wouldn't be able to make a living from it. Paula proved this wrong not only to her father but for anyone who is going through the struggle of family not being supported of your career choice. I myself have been through the struggle of how graphic design is not a real job and I wouldn't go anywhere. Showing this wonderful women help prove my family members that there is hope for my future career.

4. Alexander Steinweiss (Graphic Designer)

Album Covers are visual statements of the album title or the song names to help us situate what we're going to hear from that album. Although, album covers are square the styles are limitless. When records came out they where first covered in just plain brown paper or cardboard sleeves to protect the recording. Until, 1938 Alexander Steinweiss was hired by Columbia Records  to make a change in the presentation and packaging for the records at age 22. This is the idea of where cover art came into existence. His art for the album covers were eye catching, Sales boomed and the market followed like it usually does when something works. The consumers would flip through the covers and the records where seen as if they were books on a shelf. This all points to just how important the cover art was to the marketing of the product. This was all done thanks to Alexander Steinweiss and Colombia Records. He is inspirational becasue he made hisotry. I hope myself that i would be part of some idea that would make history in art as well.

5. Richard Mirando aka SEEN (Graffiti Artist)

Graffiti is an art form that has been around since the 1970’s and continues to grow to this day. What started as a small time sport in the streets turned into a full blown worldwide culture. It can be seen on walls, buses, trucks, trains, and now, in the media. Graffiti has made its way into movies and videos games, into murals for brands like Neimen Marcus and Louis Vuitton. It is huge and continues to grow, and one of many living legends is present today who we can thank for pioneering the movement, Richard “SEEN” Mirando. Richard Mirando was born in 1961 and grew up in the Bronx, New York. He began painting when he was 11 years old and went by the name of SEEN. He began by painting trains in the New York City subway system in the 1970’s with his crew known as United Artists (UA) and expanded from there. SEEN and his crew would paint whole cars, especially on the 2, 5, and 6 trains and their pieces would travel through the 5 boroughs like an art gallery on wheels. Other graffiti writers as well as ordinary people started to notice SEEN’s art work and from there began his rise to fame. SEEN began to appear in documentaries such as Style Wars and his work was featured in books like Subway Art. SEEN was doing work on canvas which was being bought by museums and art collectors around the world. He’s done group shows with artists such as Keith Haring and Andy Warhol. He later transitioned into tattoo art, opening his own studio known as Tattoo Seen which actually became quite successful.To this day SEEN is still very active in the art scene even if he’s not out on the streets painting walls, he’s doing art shows in Paris and selling his pieces on canvas. SEEN is undoubtedly a huge influence for me, graffiti artists and artists alike, so much that he has earned the title of the “godfather of graffiti.” It is certainly a wonderful thing to have someone like Richard Mirando still participating in a culture that is so dear to so many people; he only continues to influence the artists of the world.

6. Peter Blake (Pop Artist)

Peter Blake created the most iconic visual in the history of music. Music being an audio medium, it has a close relationship with the visual as well. That being said, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover from the Beetle is the Holy Grail of album covers that Peter Blake created. Its a cover that engages with the audience in many ways for it feels that it invites you in. It challenges you to identify who everyone is. It makes you question why Karl Marx and Bob Dylan on the cover? What do the Beetles have in common with them? It seems that Peter Blake wants you to ask questions; he wants you to be engaged. When he made this cover the people who are all represented on the cover are all Beatles' interests and influences. What I have been told about the cover about the cover from friends who are album cover enthusiast claim that the juxtaposing highbrow artists and thinkers, like Marx, or Aubrey Beardsley, or George Bernard Shaw or Dylan Thomas with pop icons, Bob Dylan, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, and Shirley Temple, The Beatles signal the breakdown and mixing of high and low culture that they themselves exemplified more than any other artist. The whole album is a challenge! Blake as a pop artist idea of the album cover was to get people to think about the process and manufacturing of art, and how its layout and grouping are random. He was the one that showed that Sgt. Pepper cover is both a piece of art, and a product. It was also the first album to display the lyrics on the packaging, to encouraging the people to question the contents that they were listening to as well. This guy is an amazing intellectual artist that basically playing us all mind game. I have fun with it and it inspires me to make art that have some fun playing people. And of course be legendary with from it. 

7. Michael Doherty & Marcus Tayui - Nike Freestyle Project (Designers)

Nike was first founded as Blue Ribbon Sports on January 25, 1964 by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight. Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike Inc. on May 30, 1971 with its name inspired by Nike the Greek goddess of victory. Nike is a multinational corporation that sells footwear, clothing, equipment, accessories and services. They also design, develop, manufacture and market worldwide. The company’s headquarters is located near Beaverton, Oregon in the Portland metropolitan area. Also in the same area is Doernbecher children’s hospital which Nike has teamed up with to make the Nike Doernbecher Freestyle project. The partnership between Nike and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital began in 2004. The idea to team up came about because Nike’s Creative Director Michael Doherty who also happened to be a Doernbecher Foundation board member had a discussion with his son Connor about ways to raise money for the hospital. Connor came up with the simple idea that Nike should create one of kind shoes and put them online. Michael took the idea and toured the hospital with Nike shoe designers. Designer Marcus Tayui took the idea a step further when he suggested that the patients should design the shoes with proceeds directly benefitting the hospital that helped to save their lives. Every year, Doernbecher patients who have battled serious illnesses get teamed up with Nike designers and developers in order to build a shoe that is unique to each patient. The children are the ones that actually design the shoes with their choices of materials, colors, and styles that represent their stories and personalities. The shoes then receive a special launch party where more than 300 businesses and community leaders get to actually meet the designer and bid on the limited edition shoes. The limited edition shoes also get posted online. So far the project has earned nearly $6million dollars. Each released shoe tells its own story. All in all, Nike and their designers Michael Doherty & Marcus Tayui are amazing influencers in my life and look up to them because of how they give back to the community and gave children smiles. These designers teamed up for what is important. They used their talent for charity and I hope I would do so one day as well. Not only as a designer but as a person in general.

8. Shigeru Miyamoto (Video Game Designer)

Shigeru Miyamoto is famously known for the top games of video game history. He has created Donkey Kong, Zelda, Star Fox, and most importantly Mario. When Miyamoto makes games, he always tries to do things differently than other designers. He is the guy who likes to avoid all trends. Miyamoto is a guy who doesn't like to be told to do things because its a trend or thats just the way to do it. He helps define a lot of what makes a game great. His video game philosophy in making a great video game has to have a sense of accomplishment so you have a sense of satisfaction of completing something great. I am not a big video gamer as I used to be but Miyamoto is a very smart inspirational designer and creator. He basically took what slot machine would do and place into a video game style with characters and a story.  Miyamoto’s first assignments at Nintendo was to design a replacement for arcade game called Radar Scope so he came up with a game famously known till this day called Donkey Kong. Miyamoto based the story on the love triangle in Popeye between a bad guy, a hero, and a damsel. But since Nintendo couldn’t secure the rights to use those characters, Miyamoto replaced them with a gorilla, a carpenter aka Mario, and his girlfriend. He has became the Walt Disney of video games. Again I am not a big gamer but Miyamoto career successes is inspiration because he is a genius in his design and story design as well.

9. Max Miedinger - Helvetica (Font Designer)

I learned Helvetica from a PBS documentary called Helvetica. You won’t believe how much this font is used. The font is seen everywhere and you wouldn’t even know it. It’s in the target logo, the subway station signs, almost all of time squares advertising, Helvetica font is the font of all fonts. Max Miedinger is the godfather of fonts because of his creation of Helvetica. Regular everyday people seem to not understand how much a font can change a person.  Most believe that type needs to be expressive. For example, if you type dog it needs to look like a dog. However, that isn’t true. Fonts can express a mood and or an atmosphere. Helvetica is the most used font than any other font and it’s not even that old of a font. Helvetica was born in Switzerland during the 1950s. Helvetica is used so often because it’s a modern type and its very clear. I’m not a big font fan, but watching this PBS documentary story on Max Miedinger font creation did inspire me as a graphic design to like the font Helvetica more because of how popular it is as well as how neutral and efficient it is. It’s such a smooth font to use is accessible compare to many other fonts out there.

10. Mr. Brainwash (Street Artist)

Mr. Brainwash, the guy himself, is crazy. However his art is amazing so he is a crazy genius. He is his own brand. Mr. Brainwash and Banksy are friends and have been influenced by him. Their styles are very similar making the reason why I like Mr. Brainwash's art a lot. Although he doesn't make his own art himself he creates art by his ideas. Mr. Brainwash started out by pouring his life savings into hiring local artists and contractors to create elaborate pieces under his direction.  His art uses a lot of iconic people and products like Andy Warhol. All in all, Mr. Brainwash is a crazy dude with no real art skills but with a crazy creative mind that shows being an artist doesn't necessarily need the skills but the creativeness. Skills can be learned but being creative is a gift. That to me is influential. 

11. Andy Warhol (Pop Artist)

Although it is cliché, Andy Warhol is one of my top inspirational artist of all time. Andy is an American Pop artist creating the connection between iconic culture and artistic expression. He became one of leading figure in the 1950's Pop Art movement. After seeing his artwork I love taking iconic people and items and incorporate them into my artwork. Most of my top inspirational artist has came from Andy Warhol's inspiration. Pop art style is the style I love to follow and do. Making artwork with bold, simple characteristics everyday imagery, and vibrant block colors, to create a modern "hip" feel is my type of style I like to do not only in my work but also in clothes and life.

12. Ansel Adams (Photographer)

Ansel Adams is a photographer which is everyone has seen his work but doesn't known it. He is on the walls of doctors offices, a store replica of his work, or behind a postcard. His photos are unnoticed when people walk by them but don't realized the mastery of the photograph Ansel Adams take. I blame social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and Pinterest that are everyday present in our lives that what we believe is good work in photography has been drowned by the billions of photos we see on these platforms. When Adams first took photographs with his first brownie box camera on trips to the Sierra Nevada mountain. That trip changed the way He photographs. The inspirational part of his trip was how unsuccessful he was with the picture he took. He was unsatisfied of not getting in the print what I see with his eyes. Ansel takes what he didn't like and figured what wanted to accomplish at another trip at Yosemite. Here Adams had a vision of what he wanted his photograph to look like and uses a technique called visualization. He take a photograph with a yellow filter and doesn't like what he gets then uses a red filter with a 22 F-stop and got the one of the best Photographs that are out today. It matched his internal visualization and he found his calling. If you look at his photo graphs he gets the intensity and contrast Adams. He becomes a genius on tonal balance and contrast and to achieve his visualizations he was looking for to develop. This man help inspire me not to give up but to take the time to learn and get what you're visualizing. All in all, Ansel Adams was a perfectionist that inspires me the most because I know I should be to.

13. Jacob Riis (Photographer, Writer and Social Reformer)

Jacob Riis photographs on "How The Other Half Lives" shows how much a photograph can impact a people. Adding his prints in articles forced the public to realize the way immigrants were living for words alone couldn't do it. The images opens peoples eyes onto taking action. His photographs basically started a reformation of public health laws if Jacob Riis’ articles would not have those photographs we would have these laws that protect our working conditions, health condition, and many more of what we have today. Inspired by Jacob Riis I wanna take photographs that has an impact on  peoples lives. See what can be done and what we can changed to make a better world. With social media, we all have a bit of Jacob Riis all inside of us. When there is a problem, the first action people like to do is take a video or photo to make an impact of what is going on in the world. The biggest inspiration I have is to continue to fight that Jacob Riis has started for it has not ended.  Jacob exposes those who are making our everyday items like clothing, food, etc. working hard and yet living in these horrendous living conditions. Although with our laws and such we don't see that as much today in our country thanks to Jacob Riis exposing. However I am inspired by him to photograph that these things are still happening not in our country but in other countries by our products. Such as Apple and clothing companies. These companies take their work to these 3rd world countries that has no working condition laws and work for many hours. They are facing what our American immigrants where facing 60 years ago. Again like Jacob i wanna take photographs of "How the Other Half Lives" and impact Americans where our everyday products come from. 

14. Carolyn Davidson - Nike (Graphic Designer)

Carolyn Davidson is a graphic designer who created the Nike "swoosh." When it comes to logo design people seem to try to achieve the Nike swoosh like logo. When Carolyn created the Nike swoosh people think that the Nike swoosh was the Nike Swoosh the day it was drawn. However, it was nothing the day it was drawn. The company that created Nike commissioned Carolyn when she was a design student to draw some ideas. The Nike founders didn't really like it but used it anyways. It wasn’t an overnight success. And then they started putting it on the sides of shoes. The shoes were good and then the genius of Nike's marketing made Nike associate their products with the idea of athletic achievement. Thats how over time a little mark that Carolyn created means something big. Carolyn design of Nike logo is inspirational because regardless of the shape or style of the logo it may not matter what the logo is. It's about thinking of making these symbols and creating the meaning behind them into them. Twelve years after the birth of the nike logo, Nike came back looking for Carolyn with a gift of a Nike ring with her own trademark on it with the swoosh. Plus, an undisclosed amount of Nike stock. Little as everyone know when she designed the famously known "swoosh" back in 1973, her pay was actully $35.

15. Walt Disney (Cartoon Artist, Producer and Entrepreneur)

Walt Disney has a failures to success life story. His failures became my inspiration. When Walt was working for a newspaper company in Missouri at age 22 he was fired for "Not being creative enough." Also later on in life he had a his own studio called Laugh-O-gram that went bankrupt. Walt Disney became homeless for a while. Eating out of the garbage Walt found a mouse that gave his inspiration for the character Mickey Mouse. Its amazing and an inspirational life story of how a guy like him went through so much and was told not being creative enough yet have been nominated for 59 Academy Awards, wining 32 all for his unparalleled animations and still holding the record for the most Oscars won by an individual. I have learned from his story that in order to succeed failure is part of the process. It reflect that typical "No pain, no gain" quote. I have been through situations like Walt where I wasn't creative enough. However if I haven't been told that and go through the pain I wouldn’t have striven as hard as I did to work on bettering my creative skills.

16. Banksy (Graffiti Artist)

Banksy is one of my most favorite artist of all time for many reasons. He is a British-based graffiti artist, painter, filmmaker, sculpture, political activist, etc. Banksy art is what inspires majority of my artwork. Banksy's artwork is characterized by striking images, often combined with slogans. His work often engages political themes, satirically critiquing war, capitalism, hypocrisy and greed. His art addresses various cultural and social issues such as commercialism in society, government surveillance of citizens, and violence in society. Some of his graffiti is simply graffiti about graffiti and society’s response to it. Often his art presents contrasting images such as a clash between police and innocence, a fusion of religious icons with consumerism, or unexpected images such as the protester shown here who is poised to throw a bouquet of flowers rather than a rock. The style of my artwork I like to do is art that creates sends a message about cultural and social issues like Banksy. I enjoy making art that makes a person think. I hope that my designs open the eyes, minds, and hearts of the public as Banksy's art has done to me.

17. Henri Cartier Bresson (Photographer)

I was inspired by Henri Cartier Bresson which I have learned in my photography class as well as previously in my art history class. There I have learned about his photograph Hyéres, France 1932 by Henri Cartier Bresson which focus on geometry. How he applied geometry to his photographs poetically. His compositions has your eyes leading to the lines, curves, shadows, and everything. I wanted to challenge myself to focus on geometry like Henri Bresson did with New York City. Also I like geometry which is one of my favorite math subject. I have noticed walking around in the city that there is leading lines almost everywhere. From looking down every street to the cable wires of the Brooklyn bridge. By the inspiration of Henri Cartier Bresson, I took the challenge of leading lines into my photography artwork.

18. Vivian Maier (Photographer)

The guy who found Vivian Maier hidden talent has hit a gold mine. Two things inspired me that I have found in this movie. One is the young man who was at an auction that bought random box negatives of a unknown person. He inspired me because he discovered someone's beautiful art. This idea of buying random negatives at an auction never came to my mind. There is an rush when you print and develop to see what has been hiding in rolls of film. To discover someone so great that has never gain notice is amazing. What's best is that he made her known and focused on her not himself. He showed how. Talented a person could when Vivian didn't see that in herself. Secondly, Vivian Maier photographs are very inspirational to the way I take my photographs. Vivian would be categorized as a street photographer.  That's my favorite photography theme. Photography genius lies in it's ability to offer us a sense of what feels like the present. It is a frozen moment of time, rescued from the dissolving force of the years. Vivian Maiers street photography of her time between the 50s to the 70s did that. It was amazing to see what she has seen and preserved for us to see. Also what makes photography especially poignant when it's viewed across decades or centuries. We sense with particular clarity the vivasity and immediacy of people in old photos. Against which the one irrevocable fact we have in mind (that they've all died) then stands out with touching starkness. Their photographic liveliness makes their eventual deaths all the more tangible.

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19. Patrick Clair (Title Sequence Artist)

The opening credits itself is an inspirational art. I have not seen the True Detectives show but I came across this shows open credits I was amazed of how creative it is. How the creator used double exposure after effect of two different frames is mind blowing to me. This is known to be made in photography or even photoshop. However, in video I have not seen this done. It created this 3D motion to it that just made it look amazing. Love this shows loving credits. It makes me want to explore making creative opening credits like this.

20. Devin Graham (Extreme Sports Videographer)

Devin Graham is an upcoming famous extreme sport videographer. He uses YouTube as his platform. Devin Graham uses his talent of beautiful angles and other artistic views to his extreme sports. The fact that Devin found his dream of videography and having fun is inspirational. I hope to fulfill my dreams of graphic design as well as having fun too. Devin continual grows his knowledge in new equipment and try's to do something new creative every time he makes a video. Not only in my graphic design skills but also inspired to grow in my videography skills like Devin Graham.

21. Boogie (Photographer)

I found Boogie in a documentary movie called Everybody Street. It is a documentary about street photographers mainly from New York City.  The movie as a whole is inspirational, but out of the 10 photographers who were featured in the movie i was most moved by Boogies photographs the most. Street Photography is my most favorite photography theme because people who photograph in the street are willing to go out in chaos with some high hope in interacting in moments where life would become clarify for them. They welcome surreal life aspects that come out of chaos. Boogie, was born and raised in Serbia. Until war happen in Serbia along with the rest of Europe from the aftermath of World War 2 was when Boogie started to take pictures. He claims that he started to take pictures to preserve his sanity. When your behind a camera you are not a participant but an observer. In 2003 has was living in New York City and began to take pictures of Junkies and Gangsters from Bushwick. His photographs consist of people who are drug addicts shooting up and gang members who are pointing their guns at the camera. Although the photographs are hard to look at and disappointing of the people who are doing the drugs and are gang members but what I find interesting as well as inspirational of how unfiltered it is. He shows the realness of those who do live in the projects. He lets other people see what they see. People are not going to go into the depth of what Bushwick was unless it was bought to them. Boogie help bring basically what is called the darkness into the light. I find him sort of like Jacob Riis of the 80s.  Boogie showed How the Other Half Lives. Although Boogie put his life in danger to take these photo I do however in protection want to show people like Boogie did how the Other Half Lives not here in America but in other countries that America has ties with. Boogies Photographs are inspirational.

22. Edgar Wright (Director)

Edgar Wright is the master of video transitions. Just like how writers have to make a engaging and persuasive argument with the flow of their words carefully transitioning from one idea to another it is like the same way a video or movie have transition. It is crucial and effective.  Edgar's transitions are all about movement. He doesn't use transitions commonly used in most movies. He somewhat a sense of humor and rhythm. If there was a diagram to Wrights transitions you would be able to see how much time and care he puts into each and every frame of the transitions. He likes to melt together the settings through his transitions. There are parts in the movie where Edgar uses people passing the camera or "frame" to make his next transitions that some reason as for me doesn't trigger my brain that it was the next frame. He makes it look so smoothly as if we were really there. That inspires me because of how magical he can make a scene. He plays around the transitions like a musical instrument. I hope as a videogragpher I can make videos that flow just as well that makes people want to engage as Edgar movies has done to me. 

23. Casey Neistat (Vlogger and Videographer)

Casey Neistat was a former YouTube daily vlogger as well as videographer.  YouTubers are kinda look down upon for it seems like they make lots of money for videos anyone can do but being a big YouTuber actually takes a lot of work. I give credit for daily vloggers like Casey Neistat for making videos everyday and editing it everyday. Its a lot of work to continually be on camera trying to entertain your audience. Particularly Casey Neistat video style is what inspires me the most. Many have done and tried to imitate his style but no one can achieve as well as him.  The best way to describe Neistat's work is a youtube channel called Nerdwriter1 put it this way "Neistat's evolutionary move was bringing more than a decade of videographic experience to a sub-genre that prizes amateur craft daily vlogs need a dose or a feeling of amateurism because what makes them valuable is how real they seem in an age where reality TV was dominated by Jersey Shore and the hills were scenes were prompted by suggestions evolutionary move was bringing more than a decade of videographic experience to a sub-genre that prizes amateur craft daily vlogs need a dose or a feeling of amateurism because what makes them valuable is how real they seem in an age where reality TV was dominated by Jersey Shore and the hills were scenes were prompted by suggestions of producers if not completely scripted." Casey Neistat is not the first vlogger. However Casey did put a cinematic spin to his daily vlogging which made it like these reality TV show but with his real daily life. His cinematic way of showcasing his life is a another inspiration. 

24. Jesse Wellens (Vlogger and Director)

Jesse Wellens was a former YouTube daily vlogger and director. Again like I have said for Casey Neistat, YouTubers are kinda look down upon for it seems like they make lots of money for videos anyone can do but being a big YouTuber actually takes a lot of work. I give credit for daily vloggers like Jesse Wellens for making videos everyday and editing it everyday. Its a lot of work to continually be on camera trying to entertain your audience. Jesse Wellens began started daily vlogging for fun until he saw and met Casey Neistat who's video style inspired him to make his daily vlogging more creative. In my opinion, Jesse Wellens does a better job at daily vlogging creativity then Casey Neistat. Although Casey was the father of cinematic vlogging Jesse works harder on this style making his vlogging videos more inspirational to me then Casey's. Jesse makes his vlogs very entertaining, you can see over the years how he put so much work into them. He plays around this these video programs such as Premiere, Final Cut Pro, and iMovie as if he was making a movie about his life. Reasoning why he has ended daily vlogging and became a director. 

25. Alfred Hitchcock (Director and Producer)

Alfred Hitchcock is the master of suspense. He knows how to control and manipulate his audience. Alfred once said "I enjoy playing the audience like a piano."  In his films he shows as much as he can but still only showing enough so that he can still create suspense. He like to work with every piece by the way he stages his character to add to the story. Alfred likes to do this psychology mind control to get the audience thinking.  Alfred as a director is a very inspirational man in the film industry that inspires me as well in my own film making. 

26. Rod Serling (Twilight Zone) (Director and Producer)

Rod Serling is an Author, Anti-War Activist, Screenwriter, Television Personality and best known for the TV Show the Twilight Zone. Although The Twilight Zone is a bit far away from my days, I love Rod's art style of his TV show. Unlike other TV shows Rod makes you engage and think. Rod is my favorite and most inspirational script writer because he writes controversial scripts. When he was part of CBS network he fought his controversial scripts to be on the show. He opened peoples eyes to world problems like lynching (Episode: A Town Has Turned to Dust) and corruption in a labor union (Episode:The Rank and File) making realism to the sci-fi fantasy genre. Serling gave a voice to people who. He wrote and spoke about what most wanted to say and make a change. Through his show he help make though changes. As a videographer I hope to make content that does the same for his show is inspirational for both writers and social changers.

27. Youtube Founders - Steve Chen, Jawed Karim and Chad Hurley (Web Designers)

Although YouTube is a platform it is one of my favorite social media sites because it lets you share your creativity. When the creators Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim created the site it was supposed to be a dating site were people uploaded videos of themselves up for dates which obviously failed. Then people started posting random videos making what YouTube today. People are leaving cable companies for online phenomenons like YouTube. For a website that was created in a small apartment behind a pizza shop became the 2nd most website visited. What's most influential about the creators is that in 2007 YouTube started the YouTube partner program allowing everyday people to turn their hobbies into a business. I found this the most influential part because it allows people to get recognized. The time were it is hard to become an actress, singer, songwriter, producer, graphic designer, etc. are now able to showcase more then what their resume says in a piece of paper. It lets people fulfill their dreams. To go out there and have fun doing what they love. Not only that, it is a platform that helps people help others. There many videos on YouTube that are tutorials. People are helping out other people on this platform. All in all, this website help people with little things and help people change their lives thanks to the three founders Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.

28. Saul Bass (Graphic Designer)

Bass made a name for himself by making posters, but what made him a legend was being the “Father of the Title Sequence”. Given creative control, he was able to design some of the most famous opening sequences for incredible films by big directors. Before Bass, films opened with static typography and background coupled with an overture of the score, but he gave title sequences a life and a story by incorporating kinetic type and motifs. In a few instances critics even said the opening sequence was better than its respective film. Bass worked with names like Preminger, Hitchcock, Kubrick, and toward the end of his life Scorsese.    A more subtle influence Bass had on design was in the corporate world. Using his vision for design and minimalism Bass created some of the most recognizable logos for companies, some of which are still used to this day: AT&T, Girl Scouts, Dixie, Warner Bros., Quaker Oats, and United Way,  to name a few. Thinking of Saul Bass in my artwork helps me not to put too much into my work. What i mean by that is that he influences me to be minimal yet creative. Saul is not just influential in my art but in the whole graphic design world. He made graphic design history!