Dettmer
OTTO
OTTO
Otto studied an MA at Kingston University.
There in 1995 he discovered screen printing and used this to produce his work, he found it more effective than digitag.
Otto creates alot of books and mail outs for his clients/future clients his most recent mail out consisted of images he had produced for his regular editorial job in The Guardian, it look really clean and interesting, with a limited colour pallet and all individually screen printed on some LOVELY paper.
Otto's recent style is clean and a stripped back style with shape and silhouettes within his ork this shows his influences like El Lizitzky, Saul Bass, Rodchenco, Majakovski, Boroque and the Renaissance period, he said the last two directly influence the figures, posture and faces within his work.w
Starting off self promoting after he left university, he said he was going to London as many times a week as he could and doing editorials for European magazines. Otto developed his style and found different ways to print and publish his artist books. Otto has a large collection of stock illustration available from his website. Some of his past commissions and other images he has created, that have an expired licence, resold for half the price. Otto seems very organised and business like but balances it well down to earth demeanor.
Otto explained how some of his clients are attracted to his style of combining flat shapes and silhouettes with photography.
There in 1995 he discovered screen printing and used this to produce his work, he found it more effective than digitag.
Otto creates alot of books and mail outs for his clients/future clients his most recent mail out consisted of images he had produced for his regular editorial job in The Guardian, it look really clean and interesting, with a limited colour pallet and all individually screen printed on some LOVELY paper.
Otto's recent style is clean and a stripped back style with shape and silhouettes within his ork this shows his influences like El Lizitzky, Saul Bass, Rodchenco, Majakovski, Boroque and the Renaissance period, he said the last two directly influence the figures, posture and faces within his work.w
Starting off self promoting after he left university, he said he was going to London as many times a week as he could and doing editorials for European magazines. Otto developed his style and found different ways to print and publish his artist books. Otto has a large collection of stock illustration available from his website. Some of his past commissions and other images he has created, that have an expired licence, resold for half the price. Otto seems very organised and business like but balances it well down to earth demeanor.
Otto explained how some of his clients are attracted to his style of combining flat shapes and silhouettes with photography.
OTTO Screen Printing his recent mail outs
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Example of Otto's recent work
Illustration for The Guardian 2009
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"The simpler, the better"
OTTO Dettmer
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OTTO Dettmer
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Otto believes that being present on the Internet is important but admits most of his commissions come from his published work in magazines and self promotion. He also feels the future of illustration is moving image, explaining that with the advances of technology and advertising capabilities it is its logical path.
Otto's very logical and futuristic out look reflects in his work especially his personal work for example his most recent publication 'The Rise of the Phantom King', it tells a story of an adapting, mechanical, juxtaposed ever evolving monster, who is an ancient king trying to exert his power and take over London, in a phycodelic futuristic world. Using photographs of London and added architectural structures he created sky scraping city scenes.The monster in the story is constantly changing and is represented with the use of jauxtaposition and photographic collage, the mosnsters change is relevent to its place in the story and works alongside the limited type and other visual elemnts very well. Otto is very into finding a narrative within his personal work, collecting and making pictures, pining them up and letting the 'story' write itself.
Image from 'The Rise of the Phantom King'
More images from Image from 'The Rise of the Phantom King'
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After the talk I waited behind and showed Otto some of my work. He showed an interest in my 'chance' work and confessed to me that he has been playing with chance but doesn't seem to be having much luck, needless to say i gave him a few pointers he seemed happy to oblige (hahah so intense). Showing him my poster/ book cover design for the 'Space Opera' series, I had created a large poster just using a photocopier and ephemera.
I think he was quite impressed by the large all-in-one poster concept which was Super cool and it is one of the better things I have done!
He advised me basically to do what he did with 'The Rise of the Phantom King' to 'try and find a way to tell a story' this is defiantly something i want to do to help develop my style. With my style being so sporadic I asked Otto which he preferred, he didn't really give me a definite answer but pointed out the good bits and the bad bits and the bits he would change and the bits that he liked. This defiantly served me better, some of the things he pointed out were things I had thought of changing but was a little apprehensive about, it defiantly gave me more confidence in my judgement and my ability to work with quite a simple style.
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