Howard Stein in New York, NY | Art Center College Of Design - Johannesburg College Of Art

Howard Stein

Male

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New York, NY

Designer, Illustrator, Photographer, Art Director, Painter, I create design with the eye, heart, and mind. A South African native, I was almost completely blind by the age of twelve, got caned three times a week at catholic school, (I'm Jewish), played african drums every day until my hands were stinging, lived in the Hotel Dolder in Zurich for six months to wait for the cornea transplant on my left eye, filled long dull days, drawing on the floor of dark rooms on huge sheets of paper with big sticks of charcoal, a year later I was in New York for the second corneal transplant, sped through high school in a mad dash to be rid of it, entered Johannesburgâ€™s best art school located in the cityâ€™s worst neighborhood. where students watched hookers take in just-released prisoners across the street. studied industrial design for two years, switched to graphic design for the next two years, graduated first in my class, jumped into a white Toyota Land Cruiser with three mates to explore the Okavango Swamps without a map, all of us clueless about this kind of camping, flew to Los Angeles to attend Art Center College of Design, graduated in three years with honors, packed a van. drove to New York without knowing a soul, showed my work to art directors all over Manhattan, danced all night at Mudd Club, nearly broke both elbows learning to roller skate, smoked hash with a Parisian photographer in Central Park working for GEO magazine, after which I could not walk, got drawn by Leroy Neiman, made artwork until midnight, going out to watch punk bands invade New York, got married, moved back to South Africa, worried about getting killed in pre election violence, painted huge canvasses for small lobbies, sold work which hangs in eight countries, learned the Mac, returned to New York, started a company designing patterns for surfaces, tried living in small towns upstate NY, hated it, moved back to the city and have professionally never seen a revolving door. Specialties Logo design, branding and identity, poster design, graphic design, illustration, typography, photography, digital imagery and manipulation, art direction, creative direction. read more ...