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Van Hamersveld, John
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Illustrator and graphic designer from Los Angeles, California, best known to surfers as the creator of the Day-Glo poster for Bruce Brown's crossover hit movie The Endless Summer. Van Hamersveld was born () in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved with his family to Palos Verdes, in southwest Los Angeles County, when he was nine, and began surfing during middle school. While a student at Art Ce
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John Van Hamersveld
American graphic artist and illustrator (born )
John Van Hamersveld (born September 1, , Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an American graphic artist and illustrator who designed record jackets for pop and psychedelic bands from the s onward.[1][2] Among the albums[3] are the covers of Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles, Crown of Creation by Jefferson Airplane, Exile on Main Street bygd the Rolling Stones, and Hotter Than Hell bygd Kiss.[1] His first major assignment, in , was designing the poster for the surf film The Endless Summer, after which he served as Capitol Records' head of design from to During that time, he worked on the artwork for albums by Capitol artists such as the Beatles and the Beach Boys. He also oversaw the design of the psychedelic posters for the Pinnacle helgedom exposition.
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[edit]In , Van Hamersveld was a student at the Art Center College of Design and the
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South Bay artist John Van Hamersveld is perhaps best known for creating the movie poster for the iconic surfing documentary “The Endless Summer.”
And now, the artist — who has also created hundreds of album covers and South Bay murals — has a documentary about his life.
That short film, “John Van Hamersveld’s Crazy World Ain’t It,” will help close the 18th annual LA Harbor International Film Festival, which will take place virtually from Thursday to Sunday, March 11 to The minute documentary will be screened at 1 p.m. followed by “The Endless Summer” at 2 p.m. during the festival’s “Doc Sunday.”
The documentary, directed by Chris Sibley and Dave Tourje, takes a look at how Hamersveld’s work influenced artists around the globe.
Tourje met Van Hamersveld almost 20 years ago and the former has regularly told the latter that someone should make a film about his career, the documentarian said in an em