The document contains various design works and advertisements created by Robert Yarborough including logo designs, website designs, and print advertisements along with brief descriptions of each piece; it showcases a range of projects in graphic design, digital media, and marketing created for clients in different industries.

1. Portfolio
Robert Yarborough

2. newsletter
17x11”

3. The Imaginary Foundation Element Skateboarding Co.
The Imaginary Foundation is a Who would have ever thought
think tank from Switzerland that that coming from such a disfunc-
does experimental research on new tional background would have
ways of thinking and the power of set the destiny for an individual
the imagination. They hold dear to build the most positive and
a belief in human potential and influential skateboard company
seek progress in all directions. The of all time. Fate or not; it took
small clandestine team is headed knowledge, passion, and endur-
up by the mysterious "Director" ance for this person to find their
a 70 something uber intellectual craft.
who's father founded the Dadaist Johnny Schillereff was just in
movement. Avoiding direct public- his youth with only a fewthings
ity the team has sought streetwear keeping him grounded; the sub-
as an unlikely vehicle for bringing cultures he submerged himself
their ideas beyond the academic into and the skateboard under his
realm and into popular culture. feet.
In his vision for the Imaginary But after years of following a
Foundation, the Director knew wayward path Johnny made a
that the human mind has more concious decision to re-shape
than one mode, that indeed it has his life, get on the right path
an "ecology" of being. He knew and make the commitment to do
that imagination, intuition, inspi- something positive with his pas-
ration are basic to psyche. . . . A sions. This was time when his
philosophy of research began to “Elementality” began to surface,
form: imagination as fundamental and things would never be the
to all learning; artistic making as a same.
model of integrating vision, mate-
rials, structure, and imagery.
What makes true vision is the
poetry of life and the richness of
nature.

4. Billboard
9x14 ft.

5. Matte-
Postcard
4x6

6. Art+Culture
FILM: Spotlight on Festival du Nouveau Cine`...
PG.10
VISUAL ARTS: Tricia Middleton Speaks About
Her Work...PG.33
MUSIC: Q+A for A+C with the INFAMOUS
BARN BURNER...PG.42
LITERATURE: Curator’s Corner: Channel
192-Celmins & Eliot Wei...PG.53
PERFORMING ARTS: Belgorientation-Making
Art on the Spot...PG.102
pg. 24 By: Robert Yarborough
Controversy Magazine
SellS cover & spread
Featured Artist:
Hulbert Waldroup cover: 8.5 x 11

7. 24
charismatic figures, these energetic lines and explo-
sive colors, is an aspect of typical American urban life.
And this is what the artist does. His post-modern ap-
proach to realism and surrealism consists in capturing
simple, sometimes almost banal subjects of modern
American city life and transforming them. Turning
them into something meaningful and intelligible and
giving them back to us.
Hulbert Waldroup explains why...
- Robert Yarborough
CONTROVeRSY into the present. But as the American art
seLLs critic William Coombe has stated: ”We
are not jarred. Rather we are intrigued”.
Hulbert Waldroup’s oeuvre includes as diverse sub-
jects as portraits of women, musicians and negroes.
Some of his early canvases have a humorous, satirical
touch, like his version of a ’Disney Guernica’(year
?), while other works are distinctly political and con-
troversial, such as the much debated ’Diallo mural’
(year ?). What these art works have in common,
however, is that in both their realism and surreal-
ism they are mistakenly urban and industrial. What
makes them intriguing to the viewer is that they seem
deceptively simple. Everything appears to be laid out
and mapped out for the viewer’s eyes. The subjects
come from anywhere and anything – that is, what
these art works are made of finds its provenance
from the landscape of the typical American city.
Waldroup’s powerful portraits of American musicians
share that distinct urban feeling. Even though his art-
ists are portrayed with their characteristic features
their suggestive power derives from the type they
represent – rather than from the individual human
being they are an image of. Without exceptions his
musicians radiate an air of energy and powerfulness
which in some of his paintings almost literally mate-
rializes on the canvas. Dense clouds of smoke or elec- NYPD MURAL: 2003
The present oeuvre of the American artist Hulbert tric sparks seem to surround these musicians or the oil painting
Waldroup does not lend itself to easy classification. vibrating energy reemerges from the bold highlights The first dinner: 2006
His approach in art can most accurately be described and brush work in the paintings. The most overwhelm- oil painting
as that of a postmodernist who brings realism and sur- ing feeling, however, when viewing Waldroup’s The Confusion: 2000
realism unwillingly, one might almost say resistingly, paintings, is that what we sense exuding from these oil painting
Art+Culture

8. cardstock
4x6

9. advertising
firm
logo
4x6

10. flash website
1024x768

11. phone-
booth ad.
3x7 ft

12. attractive
advertising
effective phone-
marketing. booth ad.
3x7 ft

13. Domerson
flash website
1024x768

14. Euphoria
clothing co.
logo design
4x6

15. Final Logo
& site
Euphoria
clothing co.
online store
1024x768

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