Sunday Suns is the weekly project of American designer Tad Carpenter, who has taken on the simple task of designing, illustrating, sculpting, modelling, making, stitching or creating a sun every Sunday. diplomatic history from the University of Texas. It is half therapy and half visual journalism a small way to inject our world with some much needed positivity and light. He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs in the United States, Latin America, Europe, East Asia, and other regions.Ĭarpenter received his Ph.D. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, World Policy Journal, and many other publications. He is the author of seven and the editor of 10 books on international affairs, including America’s Coming War with China The Korean Conundrum: America’s Troubled Relations with North and South Korea Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington’s Futile War on Drugs in Latin America The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment Beyond NATO: Staying Out of Europe’s Wars and A Search for Enemies: America’s Alliances after the Cold War.Ĭarpenter is contributing editor to the National Interest and serves on the editorial boards of Mediterranean Quarterly and the Journal of Strategic Studies, and is the author of more than 350 articles and policy studies. I wanted to explore new ways to output my ideas, and doing so with new materials in new creative ways became a huge part of the process.Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. As this project grew, I found myself building sculptures, huge masks, routered wood signs, arranging photoshoots, screenprinting, painting, and installing murals. "I want these suns to be exploratory and spontaneous, but inevitably many suns took on a life of their own and took much longer to complete. McMurry Publishing: New Hope for Kidney Transplant Patients. Ideally, Tad aims to work out the concept, design it, then share it within two hours. Tad Carpenter, designer Sarah Forster, art director Compendium, client. That's not to say that some of my suns are not aesthetically driven (What can I say, I love a good symmetrical logo-sue me)." I try to spend more time on the idea than the execution of the design. "I draw fast, creating thumbnail sketches, exploring the concept and composition. "I start every sun with good old pencil and paper," he adds, stressing that he does his best thinking with his right hand. "How can I apply meaning in pictures or use this vessel (the sun) to pour meaning into it?" he'd ask himself. Limited edition silkscreen posters were printed for each of these shows at Vahalla Studioswhere Tad Carpenter was a former partner and collaborator. "It injected me with a little hope each and every week it really has made me look at things with a more positive lens."Īnd seeing as he creates logos, brand systems and strategies for a living, it's no surprise that Tad approached this activity like he was developing a brand. "This project has given me so much," he says. Carpenter co-runs the design studio, Carpenter Collective, with his wife Jessica, where they focus on bringing powerful messages to life through branding, packaging, illustration and design. He enjoyed it so much that he whipped up a sun in one form or another every Sunday morning from then on out. Tad Carpenter is a designer, illustrator, author and educator based in Kansas City MO. With no rules, no client expectations, and no creative brief, the simple act of drawing a sun made Tad feel a bit better about himself and his craft. It was then that he started designing a sun for himself and nobody else. Making art had always been therapeutic for me I needed to find that again." "I really needed to get back to making things I loved and remind myself how much I truly love to make. "We as people tend to find joy when we are doing something we love," he explains. That's when he realised he needed to reconnect with his love for design by experimenting and playing. After heading to the studio one Sunday morning in2015 to get a head start on his work, Tad found himself stalling, gazing out of the window, and watching the sunrise. by Tad Carpenter illustrated by Tad Carpenter RELEASE DATE: Oct.
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