“The Art and Crimes of Ron English”
Snipped from the Popaganda.com.
This notable is just for your viewing pleasure. I have known about this guy for quite a while, but I ran across more of his work and though I would share it with you. Assuming, of course, that you may not know of him yet. The Propaganda artist is known as Ron English, and he does some fantastic work. Everything from billboards to comics to weird 3D art.
Below is a sample of his illegal billboard work. Please click on the link below to view more.
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Thanks, Cerebral, for the introduction to Ron English. If a picture says a thousand words, a billboard says a thousand words, ONLY LOUDER.
Buttons — I wonder if Ron English has considered putting mini-billboards on clip-on buttons. I checked his homepage but didn’t see any for sale. Back in the ’70’s wearing buttons was a craze. I remember the oval ones. I saw mostly round buttons and the oval buttons. I don’t recall any perfectly retangular buttons. I’m sure if he would print some of his billboards reduced onto clip-on oval buttons, there would be a market for them. And they would sell to guys who can afford a button but not a billboard. If this has already been done by Ron English, I haven’t seen any.
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Oval clip-on buttons should be manufactured entirely out of plastic instead of the usual metal. Guys will not wear metal buttons if they need to remove them and re-clip them on after passing through a metal detector, like at school. This is a practical engineering problem to solve.
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That button idea is awesome. I didn’t even think about that. I believe you are on to something there Stan! I wonder if he sells t-shirts with a silk screening of his billboards on the back? I would buy those in a heart beat.
How about on neckties, longwise? Jerry Garcia’s ties sell for $50 each, I think. The wide ones would be best for Ron English’s art work.
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Tattoos by Ron English? I don’t mean permanent tattoos but I mean the temp kind that one rubs onto the skin. That last a day or more. Bare back size. Like smaller billboards. Are they feasible?
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Glass Paperweights could possibility be a good medium for Ron English’s reduced billboard art work. I have a paperweight that’s rectangular (2 1/2” by 3 1/2” and 1/2” deep) that has inside it an actual black & white photo of Canterbury Cathedral that is viewed thru the glass top. I bought it in London about 25 years ago. The playwright Truman Capote collected paperweights and some ran from $300 to $800.
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Car sunscreen Shields…these are the large cardboard, unfolded, that is placed behind your auto’s windshield to keep the sun from heating up your auto’s inside when your auto is parked in the direct sun. They could be agented to franchised filling stations for promotion purposes. Many of Ron English’s art designs may do well here.