A Gallery Of Work
A portfolio of design, writing, curation and production work from over the years.
Services offered:
Design, interactive, digital & print • Copywriting & editing • Print production
Curation, archival prints & framing • Project management
Knox Bronson
49 Knickerbocker Lane
Orinda, CA 94563
510-612-6124
knox@knoxbronson.com
The actual zinc halftone cut of “Zorro Escaping From Sargent Garcia” (1957) which would be locked into a full-page chase with hot-lead type (from the Linotype & Ludlow typesetting machines) and other zinc cuts, which was then used to create cylindrical printing plates to put on the old letterpress web printing presses.
Highlights:
- SF Chronicle Junior Art Champion, two times in 1957 or ’58.
- Leather purse design featured in Vogue Magazine, early 70’s.
- Winner, SF Advertising Club Cable Car Award for copywriring, Direct Mail category for Steve Martin Fan Club. Late 70’s.
- My pot-bellied pig, Yoshi, becomes the first pig on the worldwide web in early 1994, when Yahoo! was still hand-coded in HTML daily and the animal page had about fifty listings.
- Two musical compositions, 3 Seconds Before Maia Smiled (video) and Ibi Mel Ibi Apes (Where there is honey, there are bees) (video), enter SF MOMA permanent collection as part Glenn McKay’s light show installation, Altered States, which ran for six months in1999.
- Pixels At An Exhibition named #1 iPhone photography website by Mashable, 2010.
- Pierce Street Community Garden, Coalinga, CA. 2016. See below.
- My historical podcast, Frisco: The Secret History, about the 1930s & ’40s, the last years of the Wild Wild West.
- My podcast, Riding The Wild Bubble, one thousand episodes and counting. Available wherever high quality podcasts are served.
- Apple developer
- Expert in WordPress, InDesign, Photoshop, etc.
My website, right here, is a repository all my art, music, writings, videos, podcasts, and so on.
Be assured that I will bring to your project, whatever it might be, the sum total of decades of experience, knowledge, craft, and discipline to it.
Highlights:
- SF Chronicle Junior Art Champion, two times in 1957 or ’58.
- Leather purse design featured in Vogue Magazine, early 70’s.
- Winner, SF Advertising Club Cable Car Award for copywriring, Direct Mail category for Steve Martin Fan Club. Late 70’s.
- Two musical compositions, 3 Seconds Before Maia Smiled (video) and Ibi Mel Ibi Apes (Where there is honey, there are bees) (video), enter SF MOMA permanent collection as part Glenn McKay’s light show installation, Altered States, which ran for six months in1999.
- Pixels At An Exhibition named #1 iPhone photography website by Mashable, 2010.
- Pierce Street Community Garden, Coalinga, CA. 2016. See below.
- My historical podcast, Frisco: The Secret History, about the 1930s & ’40s, the last years of the Wild Wild West.
- My podcast, Riding The Wild Bubble, eight hundred episodes and counting. Available wherever high quality podcasts are served.
- Apple developer
- Expert in WordPress, InDesign, Photoshop, etc.
My website, right here, is a repository all my art, music, writings, videos, podcasts, and so on.
Be assured that I will bring to your project, whatever it might be, the sum total of decades of experience, knowledge, craft, and discipline to it.
Four Live Sites
Here are four sites that are still alive. Down below is a gallery of old, defunct website screenshots.
In almost all cases, I developed site taxonomy, created graphics, did the photography as needed, usually wrote, or at least, edited site text, handled all the background website issues (hosting, email accounts, etc.).
Of course, I can provide local references.
The venerable Postino Restaurant in Lafayette, California.
Frisco: The Secret History Podcast. Tales of the cool grey of love when it was still wide open.
If you are looking for a bit of surrealist black humor, Canary Suicides is your website.
Oakland’s very own The Purple Ones, the greatest Prince tribute band in the world.
The venerable Postino Restaurant in Lafayette, California.
Frisco: The Secret History Podcast. Tales of the cool grey of love when it was still wide open.
If you are looking for a bit of surrealist black humor, Canary Suicides is your website.
Oakland’s very own The Purple Ones, the greatest Prince tribute band in the world.
Pixels At An Exhibition, the book.
This book is available as a print-on-demand edition at lulu.com. $95. 9″x12″ 356 pages. Over 600 hundred images from around the world by 177 artists, curated from the Pixels at an Exhibition website, many of them available nowhere else.
The book is also available in digital format for the iPad and Mac on the Apple Bookstore. $14.95. It looks great on both!
Three-and-a-half years in the making. 8.5″x11″, 350 pages, 137 artists, 600+ images culled from thirty thousand curated images on my website, Pixels At An Exhibition. Curation, writing, lay-out, design, production of press-ready mechanicals.
Below, a slider gallery of page spreads from the book.
Three-and-a-half years in the making. 8.5″x11″, 350 pages, 137 artists, 600+ images culled from thirty thousand curated images on my website, Pixels At An Exhibition. Curation, writing, lay-out, design, production of press-ready mechanicals.
Below, a slider gallery of page spreads from the book.
the seasons {remixed/remastered} gatefold cd cover
As a gift for the pandemic-bound, this album is available as a free download at Bandcamp.
The Bats of Helicon, a recent (and fun) book of poetry project.
The cover of a book, The Bats of Helicon, I did for San Francisco poet Jim Cohee.
Below, a sample page-spread from the book.
Screenshots of old websites.
I built my first website in 1994, in those ancient days of static HTML pages. That site included a page for Yoshi, the first pig on the World Wide Web.
In 1997, I began building website professionally. Below are some screenshots of defunct work.
iPhotographer/P1XELS Magazines on the Apple Newsstand
iPhotographer Magazine was a project that consumed most of 2013, and, later, as P1XELS Magazine, most of 2015 and early 2016. It was a brilliant interactive multimedia publication and an immediate success.
Some logos.
Print design.
Alas, decades of print work are lost in the mists of time. Here is a poster I did for one of the last PIXELS gallery shows. Read the SF Chronicle feature on the show here.
The Pierce Street Community Garden, Coalinga, CA
Top photo: what it looked like when I moved next door in 2016.
Bottom photo: the following year.
The Pierce Street Community Garden
Top photo: what it looked like when I moved next door in 2016.
Bottom photo: the following year.
I moved to Coalinga, California, in early August, 2016.
You can read the story of the building of the Pierce Street Community Garden and see a gallery of images here.
I moved to Coalinga, California, in early August, 2016.
You can read the story of the building of the Pierce Street Community Garden and see a gallery of images here.
Flapping, The Novel
Flapping, The Novel
Cover for iBooks & Kindle edition.
Cover for the paperback edition.
The book came with a cd, “Flight of the Atom Bee,” which is available for free at Bandcamp.
Cover for the paperback edition.
The book came with a cd, “Flight of the Atom Bee,” which is available for free at Bandcamp.