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What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of…

— John Van Hamersveld

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

— John Van Hamersveld

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

— John Van Hamersveld

In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style…

— John Van Hamersveld

I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I…

— John Van Hamersveld

My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics as a…

— John Van Hamersveld

For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted…

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Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not…

— John Van Hamersveld

For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction seemed to…

— John Van Hamersveld

In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to…

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'The Next Wave' started as a drawing for a new silkscreen fine art print. I ended up doing the prints digitally because the water-based…

— John Van Hamersveld

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas…

— John Van Hamersveld