Patent Depending

Patent Depending PDF Author: Steven M. Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692970836
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
A collection of self-illustrated inventions and product concepts in color, created by author-artist Steven M. Johnson as a sideline artistic endeavor over 40 plus years. The 395 cartoon-style panels offer a sample of his ludicrous, whimsical or marginally-plausible inventions, designed to make one's life more comfortable and efficient.

Patent Depending

Patent Depending PDF Author: Steven M. Johnson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781450542760
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
This is Steven M. Johnson's seventh book. It covers his early years, starting when he was holed up with a drafting table and bed in a small space directly under the staircase of an empty, rented corner grocery store in Oakland, CA from 1963-65. It shows his first cartooning assignments for magazines in 1966-67, and his breakthrough in 1974 when he discovered a taste for thinking up and illustrating original, unusual product ideas, while working on assignment for The Sierra Club Bulletin (renamed Sierra). This book includes the tear sheets from the first five years of his 17 years as an artist for a newspaper, The Sacramento Bee. It also offers notes about types of drawing pens, drawing style, personal improvement in technique, and his peculiar, obsessive habit of drawing multiple versions of a single illustration. The 218-page book fills a gap in his record as an artist, taking the reader up to May, 1983 when he signed a contract for his first book, "What The World Needs Now."

Patent Depending

Patent Depending PDF Author: Steven M Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692424049
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
The book is a survey of 40 years of whimsical self-illustrated inventions created by the author as a personal sideline artistic and creative endeavor. The book includes over 400 illustrations of ludicrous, whimsical or marginally-plausible inventions relating to the automobile, as well as to vans, motorcycles, bicycles and unique personal conveyances. Many of the images appear for the first time in color.

Patent Depending: Vehicles; 2nd Edition

Patent Depending: Vehicles; 2nd Edition PDF Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
This is the expanded, updated second edition of Patent Depending: A Collection. Paired with a companion book, Patent Depending: Vehicles, 2nd edition, it includes all of Steven M. Johnson's most recent invention and product whimsy work pertaining to various types of vehicles. Much of the artwork included in this book was published in 1984 and 1991, though many drawings were created in intervening years up to and including 2021. Johnson began to specialize in creating and illustrating plausible, futuristic or amusing products and scenarios around 1974 while he was working as an urban planner and later as a newspaper artist. He specialized in thinking up whimsical variations and humorous alternative versions of existing products. Most of the drawings in this large collection of nearly 600 panels were originally published in black-and-white. All art has been converted to color. The style of presentation emulates the appearance of book of comics, yet the drawings are not comics, having no narrative, plot development or recognizable characters. Johnson says he developed a habit of thinking up product ideas while still half asleep in the morning. Notes were made before the ideas had vanished from his mind. Thinking up variations especially intrigues him. reader will discover that the tone of the book varies from silly to serious. The author is comfortable thinking in either mode, and the method he employs for coming up with silly concepts is the same as he uses for his pessimistic images.
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