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Artist Message
After working for several years as graphic designers, Susan and Allen Crawford co-founded Plankton Art Co. in 1999 to broaden the scope of their work, which has included painting, illustration, graphic design, installation art, typeface design, music, assemblage, collage, animation, writing and video/performance art. Plankton's clients include Ride Snowboards, Newsweek, National Geographic, Hasbro, Chronicle Books, YM, Disney, Washington Post, Mambo, The Lincoln Center Theater Review, The American Museum of Natural History and the band Phish. The Planktons have exhibited their paintings, assemblages and prints worldwide, and are currently scheduling several gallery shows for 2003. Plankton has received numerous art, design and illustration awards from the likes of Print and American Illustration, and their work has appeared in several books. Allen's typeface, Apogee, was included in the "Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture" exhibit at The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. The Planktons have just completed a seven-month, 400-illustration project for a permanent exhibit at a major New York museum (hint: it has a Blue Whale in it). Susan and Allen are worshippers of Poseidon, and have gone on several dive excursions in Central America and Australia. Allen is a contributing writer for the Philadelphia Independent, and is the originator of "prank rock". Both Planktons volunteer thier time conducting reptile and amphibian field surveys for the NJ Dept of Fish and Game. They have the softest skin in the business. |
