Artist: Alex Pardee

Alex Pardee is a freelance artist, apparel designer, and comics creator writer. I find his work incredibly unique and interesting, he is one of my favourite artists and I am always inspired and drawn to his work.

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His craft is comic book artwork, he creates murals, as well as comic books, and poster type pieces. He used mediums such as pens, inks, dyes, watercolours, and is trying to use more and more acrylics, oils, and latex.

To an extent Alex Pardee’s work does adhere to the ideas of Slow Design, because as he is a freelance artist he is able to take his own risk when he works, experiment and is able to, and very much is very open about he creates his pieces from start to finish, with added pictures as added proof.

On Alex Pardee’s blog is explains in depth his entire process of how he ended up creating this piece and states that is was “rollercoaster ride of emotions” making this piece. In his blog he also explains every big piece he creates, as well as how he chooses to create his clothing pieces and tries to get his audience involved in his work, showing how transparent he is.

http://www.alexpardee.com/blog

I believe Alex Pardee’s story is important and it is very important for an artist to be very open about their process when creating a piece which Pardee is. In addition, on his website in the about section he opens up a lot about what inspires him, which had always been a question that gave him struggle to answer correctly and honestly. After reading what inspires him and his explanation about himself I personally find it very interesting and connect to what he say highly.

Yes I do value craft and craftsmanship because I believe it makes the pieces/products a lot more interesting and unique when we know how they were created and what the story behind them and creator(s) are.

I don’t know if there is enough space in modern society to have craft, because in a way mass-production is a lot easier for the people living in the modern society, and it would be very complicated to have modern society convert all their ideals and choices only because craft was better for society.