Saturday, May 20, 2017

Camouflage in Sioux City Iowa Tomorrow

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Above Don't miss the upcoming public program on HOW CAMOUFLAGE WORKS: The Dazzling Past and Future of Natural and Military Camouflage...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Fourth of July Camouflage Parade 1918

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Dazzle Ship float in NYC parade 1918 Among the vehicles in the 1918 Fourth of July parade down Fifth Avenue in New York City was a truck...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Cat's Pajamas Camouflage | Fontana Park in Iowa

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Animal Camouflage talk (2017) Above Opening slides for a talk we gave recently on animal camouflage , titled The Cat's Pajamas , ...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Model of USS Agwidale in Dazzle Camouflage

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Above Model of the USS Agwidale , US cargo ship, showing dazzle camouflage scheme (1918). The model is on exhibit at the Mariners' ...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Dazzle Ships | Chris Barton and Victo Ngai 2017

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Cover illustration | Victo Ngai 2017 Above The cover of a wonderful forthcoming book by award-winning children's book author Chris ...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Ciara Phillips | Exquisite Dazzle-Camouflaged Ship

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Dazzle-camouflaged ship |  Ciara Phillips This is the centenary span of years that marks the occurrence of World War I, from 1914 to ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Mirrored Camouflage Listening Posts in WWI

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An apparent problem during World War I was that of trying to conceal an eavesdropper within listening distance of the enemy's position...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

WWI Camouflaged Observation Car

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Above Camouflaged World War I US Army staff observation car (c1918). Based on an Ordnance Department photograph now in the collection of ...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Dazzle-Camouflaged Beverage Can

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Above Des Moines-based graphic designer Kenny Miesner (former student of whom we have warm memories) shared with us this image and link ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

The Game | DazzleShip Battleships

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Box cover of Dazzleship Battleships game (2017) Above Last year we were asked to serve as a consultant (fact-checker on the booklet te...
Monday, March 13, 2017

Papier Mâché Used in Wartime Camouflage

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H.L. Messmore with battlefield dummy (1918) Above Above is a colorized version of a 1918 photograph of H.L. Messmore , a prominent supp...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

David Linneweh | Compositional Camouflage

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Configuration (Rockford) © David Linneweh 2013 • Above A long-time friend, Joseph Podlesnik (artist, photographer, filmmaker, teacher...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Camouflage Artist | Anne Lemanski

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Camoufleur © Anne Lemanski 2014 Above In recent days, we've been fortunate to run across the innovative sculpture of Anne Lemanski ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Smithsonian | World War I Ship Camouflage

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Smithsonian article on WWI ship camouflage Above and below World War I government photographs of two of the women camoufleurs , call...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Camouflage Fashion | Swimsuits, Stripes & Headgear

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Dazzle-Painted Bathing Suit (1919) [colorized] Above This is a young, fashionable sun bather at the beach at Margate in 1919, dressed i...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

US Camouflage Artists Preparing Ships for Testing

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US Ship Camouflage Artists (1918) [colorized] Above Our unfinished colorization of a World War I US Navy photograph, an original of whi...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Bedlam Abounds | Shipshapeliness and Camouflage

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USS West Bridge in dazzle camouflage Above Photograph of the USS West Bridge , as photographed on May 25, 1918, with a dazzle camouf...
Friday, December 30, 2016

Maximilian Toch | Camouflage Artist-Scientist

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American chemist and camoufleur Maximilian Toch (1907) Above Portrait of American chemist and paint expert Maximilian Toch , as Preside...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Tom Benton, Frank Lloyd Wright and Camouflage

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Thomas Hart Benton, Report on Camouflaged Ship (1918) Above In earlier posts , we've noted the involvement of American Regionalis...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Forced Perspective, Stage Design and Camouflage

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Above Only a few days ago, an essay that I recently wrote on forced perspective (commonly used in stage design and museum dioramas) and ...
Sunday, November 6, 2016

The History of Camouflage | YouTube Video

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The Fine Print | History of Camouflage | Episode One Above Forty-five years ago, when I first published articles on art and camouflage ...

Warner, Waugh and Camouflaged Ship Model

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Everett L. Warner with ship model (c1918) . Courtesy NARA. More than two years ago, in a blog post about World War I American artist Fr...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Stripes, Checked Suits and Camouflage La Bohème

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Anon, cover photograph of The Sketch (1919) Above This photograph (attributed to the Western Newspaper Union) was published on the fron...