Inspirational Imagery: joan jett

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Old Friends

Joan Jett

John Cusack

Tina Weymouth and Grandmaster Flash, by Laura Levine

David Bowie, by Denis O'Reagan, 1983

The Go-Go's

Miscellaneous Babes, classics

Old friend, Joan Jett. Love her red pinky.

Campaign photo from defunct fashion house Genny, 1985.

I totally remember their logo from back then; a signature where you could pretty much only read a G and a Y.

The Prada group shut them down in 2005, and it's hard to find much info about them online. It seems like about half of the info I did find is incorrect, but here seems to be the most reliable info about them.

Bianca Jagger

Prince, in my favorite magazine of eternity, The Face. From 1983.

Joe Strummer in Alex Cox's Straight to Hell, 1987. The film also features Courtney Love, Elvis Costello, Grace Jones, and some Pogues.

Miscellaneous

Guy Bourdin

Cindy and Nkuli (2004) by Johannesburg-based photographer, Nontsikelelo Veleko.

Joan Jett. Everything looks great here: make-up, jewelry, hair. She's cool.

70's stuff

Ok, we've got James Chance, Pat Place, and Anya Phillips in the periphery of this photo, but I forgot who the guy in the middle is. Maybe I never knew. They're at a Contortionists' show at Club 57. Photo by Harvey Wang.

Joan Jett

Bette Midler poster by Richard Amsel.

The above poster is not Amsel's typical style. He was an illustrator who worked mainly in a nostalgic realism/Norman Rockwell kind of style, which is sooo not popular these days – and due to my contrary nature, it makes me want to employ the style somehow!

I have a feeling that the reason why the style is not popular anymore has to do with the fact that people are using computers in design more than they did in the 70's and early 80's, and that kind of art is not inherently computer-based. Also the whole computer thing has enabled design projects to become so fast moving, and detailed hand-drawn illustrations are probably too time consuming.