featured exhibit
illustrations by
Chris Rund
gallery reception
02.03.2012 from 5-8pm
exhibiting
02.03–03.30.2012
Chris Rund studied music performance at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and began his career in communication arts in broadcasting. He joined the staff of Hirons & Company Advertising in Bloomington in 1993 as a writer and later expanded his roles to include design and illustration. A native of Lafayette, Ind., he grew up surrounded by railroaders and railroading and developed a lifelong interest in the industry. In 2006, he authored The Indiana Rail Road Company: America’s New Regional Railroad (Indiana University Press) and co-authored a revised/expanded edition in 2011. He joined The Indiana Rail Road Company’s public relations and communications staff in 2007, which includes a role as de facto art director for the company. Rund lives with his wife and two children in Bloomington, where he is an adjunct faculty member of the IU School of Journalism.
The Indiana Rail Road poster series began as a single project to honor one of the railroad’s customers and expanded to include advertising-inspired designs and tributes to other shippers and stations along the line. While emulating airbrush technique, Rund’s posters are created entirely in the digital medium for giclée and lithograph printing. He describes the technique as a “hybridization of illustration and graphic design,” using a combination of hand-drawn elements, sampled shapes and textures, and typography. The vintage design technique and artificial “rustication” create a visual and visceral link between the modern railroad’s accomplishments and the industry’s romantic and heroic past.
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VISIT GALLERY406 FOR A VARIETY OF LOCAL IMAGES.
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