Laylah Ali: Designer Nicole Parente

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Art21 first featured artist Laylah Ali in 2005
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Watch the original & uncut 13 minute film online! (via Hulu)

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Own Season 3 Today: DVD or iTunes
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Laylah Ali is featured in the Art21 episode "Power" along with fellow artists Ida Applebroog, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. The Season 3 DVD features 4 episodes, 18 artists, and is available from PBS and Amazon.

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Design Nicole Parente
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Artist Laylah Ali and graphic designer Nicole Parente have collaborated on several projects, including a billboard. See some of Parente's work with other clients: "I love design. I welcome a challenge. I find comfort in feeling confident about my work. I try to continually broaden my outlook, so that my ideas stay fresh, and so that I can continue to create smart, innovative work."

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Adobe Illustrator
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To transform Laylah Ali's sketches and ideas into digital form, Nicole Parente uses the software application Adobe Illustrator.

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MoMA Graphic Novel
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For MoMA's Projects 75, artist Laylah Ali created her first comic book:

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Laylah Ali's Newspaper Research
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Channels: American ArtContemporary ArtGraphic Design
Artists: Laylah Ali
Themes: CommunityMaterials and Process

Exclusive Episode #060: Artist Laylah Ali and graphic designer Nicole Parente work together in the designer's home office in Cambridge, MA. The artist's hand-drawn notes are transformed into precise digital illustrations otherwise impossible without a computer.

Laylah Ali creates gouache-on-paper paintings that take her many months to complete. Ali meticulously plots out in advance every aspect of her work, from subject matter to choice of color, achieving a high level of emotional tension in her paintings as a result of juxtaposing brightly colored scenes with dark, often violent subject matter. In style, her paintings resemble comic-book serials, but they also contain stylistic references to hieroglyphics and American folk-art traditions.

Learn more about Laylah Ali: http://www.art21.org/artists/laylah-ali

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Dowling. Camera & Sound: Ken Willinger and Bob Freeman. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Laylah Ali. Special Thanks: Nicole Parente.

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00:00:12 I am a graphic designer. I work pretty closely with my clients to get exactly what they want out of their printed piece or their web piece

00:00:21 but working with an artist is certainly different. And this one it would mean increasing the pink. What is different about working with Layla? She is very, she is much, she is a perfectionist in that I mean she needs to be and she knows exactly what she wants

00:00:38 and to work through me to get that is sometimes you know time consuming. This tooth bring in from the right smoosh it in this way.

00:00:47 The last one, this one, yes so it gets just needs smaller trimmed. Right. Okay lets have this meet somehow or.

00:01:01 I don’t even see them as characters. When you get that close, I see green shape you know, or red, you know red hands, manipulating hands as I always use the hand.

00:01:10 I don’t see them as a whole until we zoom out or I don't even seen them as a whole until after they are printed or you see them finalized. That size there. I don't know how that's going to work.

00:01:21 I am shocked that I was able to get that precision out of a computer and it’s pretty amazing. We learned a lot by working on the first book we did together.

00:01:34 About shapes of things and how to matte in an eye or you know how to stripe a suite. The learning curve is certainly there,

00:01:42 but we've gotten to a place where it’s a lot easier now and I have gotten better at the program.