Magic Pony welcomes artist and illustrator Jon Burgerman!
On Mon April 23, Magic Pony is hosting Burgerman’s interactive game show, SALAD MAKES WINNERS. Participants are encouraged to think of creative food-movie puns, like “Toastbusters,” and write them on ballots. Like Pictionary, Burgerman will pull entries from the ‘ballot salad’ and draw them, while the audience will guess what film they think it is. Prizes include original Burgerman works of art! More details
Jon Burgerman is a multidisciplinary artist who is known for his bright illustrations and has worked with MTV, Sony, The Science Museum, Media Molecule, and many other companies. His art incorporates an illustrative approach that is often cumulative and blurs the boundaries between low and high art. He operates within a creative world in which the narrative of being an artist is played out across a wide variety of media for the distraction, enlightenment and delight of those who choose to tune in. Recently, he has created large murals in Beijing, China and working with the musical group Anxiteam. Burgerman is also a guest speaker at this years’ FITC Creativity Conference in Toronto April 23-28.
For the 2011 New York Food and Wine Festival, Burgerman created a small interactive mural for children’s programming. Children at the festival were welcome to colour the line art.
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FAQ 101 - Burgerman is very interactive with his fans, and even answers a lot of his fans’ questions:
A lot of your work mixes both analogue and digital techniques. Why do you choose to work this way?
Both techniques offer excellent and different qualities - why not cherry pick the best things each medium has to offer? Digital can save a lot of time and allow for easy amendments, scaling of work, adaption to digital media etc. Analogue is warmer, more human, allows for a easier emotive expression.
How did you get started?
Once I had graduated from University (I studied Fine Art) I built a website and started to add my work to it. Every so often I’d email a few people I knew to let them know I’d updated it. The more people I met and chatting to about work, I’d email. Over the course of time my website had a lot of work on it and more people were becoming interested in the doodles. I picked up some jobs here and there, and when I wasn’t working, I just kept on practicing my drawing and adding to the site. There was never a big turning point when I suddenly got lots of work, it just all slowly built up over time.
How do you like your cornflakes? Soggy or Crunchy?
I definitely prefer them more crunchy than too soggy. It’s a difficult balance to get right but I strive to achieve it every morning.
How would you characterise your work?
Wonky, wibbly, odd, angry, happy, dumb, wrong.
You can read more of his answers on his website
http://jonburgerman.com/info/faq
You may remember Burgerman’s 3″ Dunny from Kidrobots “Ye Olde English Series” in 2009
