I'm featured on a blog! one of my "Classic Moffa" designs on a skateboard, Fantastic!
Thanks to kjonevoice.blogspot.com
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Fatima Skateboard Featured
on kjonevoice.blogspot.com
on kjonevoice.blogspot.com
I'm featured on a blog! one of my "Classic Moffa" designs on a skateboard, Fantastic!
Friday, July 17, 2009
More World War II Posters
Now at RetroCommunications
Now at RetroCommunications
New World War II era recruitment and war bond posters up now at RetroCommunications
Classic American wartime motivational posters in a variety of sizes and print qualities: from poster paper to prints on canvas.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Inspired by Delaunay
I draw alot of inspiration for my Concentric Circles Series of acrylic paintings from the work of Robert Delaunay, and his wife Sonia. Color field, hues, intensity and forms from his work all inspire me to create and develop my compositions.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Workplace Safety with WPA Images
New line of vintage WPA posters with a workplace safety theme are now available at akaJustin's zazzle shop! Posters, postcards, apparel, mugs, buttons and magents are all available imprinted with the classic late art deco WPA graphics promoting saftey at work. Timeless themes in classic designs.
shop all akaJustin products
at www.akajustin.com
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Another Today's Best at Zazzle
SonoLeTre has scored a Today's best at zazzle with this vintage Italian travel poster promoting tourism to Rome via French railways. The 1920 vintage poster shows the roman forum at dawn and was created by the artist Geo Dorival.
The poster is part of a set of Vintage Italian-Themes travel postes available at Moffa Industries' SonoLeTre Zazzle store along with contemporary photographic images by Michael Moffa.
Selected SonoLeTre Items
Summer Circles Exhibition
Michael Moffa will present a selection of original Concentric Circles Paintings in a collection entittled "Summer Circles: hot colors and cool contrasts" as part of a group exhibition at the Philadelphia Book Co. Warehouse space in Philadelphia's Northern Liberties section.
Event Details
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 6:30pm - 11:30pm
At the Philly Book Co. Warehouse Space
1113 Frankford Ave, Philadelphia, PA
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Vintage Saharan Africa Travel Images
at RetroCommunications
at RetroCommunications
Vintage North African Travel Image posters and apparel at RetroCommunications. A selection of travel posters and luggage lables from exotic North Africa and Saharan destinations are now featured. A variety of t-shirt options are displayed on the site, including men's and women's styles. Women's spaghetti-strap t's, fitted baby dolls and men's regular and ringer t's are shown, but there are various other options available through the user interface.
RetroCommunications
Monday, June 22, 2009
Free Gloabl Shippingat Zazzle.com
The Offer is valid at all Moffa Industries, LLC stores at Zazzle.com, including:
Emporio Moffa
RetroCommunications
SunshineDazzle
akaJustin
SonoLeTre
Details are as follow:
To qualify for this free shipping offer, one or more Zazzle products must be purchased. The coupon code JUNESHIPFREE must be entered during checkout to receive the offer. The free shipping offer is for standard (or economy if standard is not available) shipping. Shipping charges will apply to oversized orders and orders being shipped on an expedited basis. Offer is valid from June 19, 2009 at 12:01am PT through June 30, 2009 at 11:59pm PT. Your order must be placed during that time to qualify for this special offer. This promotional offer does not apply to past purchases and may not be combined with any other Zazzle promotional or discount offers. Offer is not valid on Smilestore.com.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Moffa Industries Renovations
After almost two months of home renovations, redecorating and setting up a new design studio, Moffa Industries, LLC is getting back into production with new orginal art work, crafts and vintage graphics, stay tuned!
Monday, April 27, 2009
New Low Price on
RetroCommunications Mousepads
RetroCommunications Mousepads
Now Just $12.95!
New lower price on vintage advertising and poster art image mousepads at RetroCommunications. Choose from Vintage travel themes, World War l & ll posters, ocean liners and more!
Shop RetroCommunications Mousepads
Friday, April 10, 2009
New Titanic Gallery at Sunshinedazzle
With the approach of the Hundredth Anniversay of the sinking of the Titanic, Sunshinedazzle has launched a new gallery of vintage Titanic advertisements. The first two images are available as posters, canvas prints and t-shirts for men, women and children.
There is a beautiful postcard illustration of the Titanic at sea, seen froma three quarters bow view with the majestic four stacks towering overhead. The other image is rather unique, a soap ad touting that the product is featured on board the White Star Line's new ship, the Titanic.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Classic Japanese Art
on Skateboards
on Skateboards
Classic Japanese Woodcut Art Skateboards
akaJustin presents a line of skateboard decks with classic Japanese woodcut art designs adding a dash of Asian flavour and old-school fine art to the mix. Watch for more designs in this series coming in the near future.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Have a Slice!
Get a "slice" of the original composition!
Composition #1A by Michael Moffa
by emporiomoffa
Zazzle's print-on-demand technology allows Michael Moffa to offer close-up and detail images of selected Concentric Circles Series paintings as posters and giclee prints on canvas in a variety of sizes.
This variety and variation provides added options for customers, decorators and interior designers to find the right color and accent to brighten up rooms and projects.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Vintage India Travel Images
at RetroCommunications
at RetroCommunications
Vintage travel poster for Agra, India
at RetroCommunications
RetroCommunications features vintage India travel posters from the early Twentieth Century as Posters and now as T-shirts! A variety of t-shirt options are displayed on the site, including men's and women's styles. Women's spaghetti-strap t's, fitted baby dolls and men's regular and ringer t's are shown, but there are various other options available through the user interface.
Shop RetroCommuications at Zazzle
Monday, March 23, 2009
Art Deco Madness at RetroCommunications!
RetroCommunications sold FIVE fabulous Art Deco travel posters to Viivi in Finland today! Thanks Viivi! Enjoy these great advertising art reproductions. International shoppers are fantastic!
Art Deco Travel Posters
at RetroCommunications
Vintage Seed Packert T's
Now at SunshineDazzle
Now at SunshineDazzle
Now at Sunshinedazzle, colorful vintage seed packet designs printed onto t-shirts! Each image is set up onto three shirt types for display, but numerous colors and styles are available; imcluding men's, women's, children's and infant t-shisrts, tanks, sweatshirts and hoodies.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Top 10 Mug Views Award
SunshineDazzle received a "Top 10 Mug Views" Award on May 16th for this coffee mug featuring Robert Henri's "Girl Seated by the Sea." An American painter, Henri studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philiadelphia and the Academy Julian and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. A warm and somewhat romantic Impressionist painting, "Girl Seated by the Sea" now evokes a sentiment of simpler, more tranquil times.
The Sunshinedazzle gallery at Zazzle.com also features this work as a print and mousepad.
Zazzle 50% off Poster sale!
Splurge on Concentric Circles!
Composition # 15 by Michael Moffa
at emporiomoffa
What a fantastic time to update your decor scheme with some vibrantly colored Concentric Circles Painting posters by Michael Moffa with Zazzle's 50% off sale, running now until March 21st!
Use code ZAZZLEPOSTER during checkout*.
also applies to other Moffa Industries Brands at Zazzle
SunshineDazzle
RetroCommunications
akaJUSTIN
Sonoletre
SunshineDazzle
RetroCommunications
akaJUSTIN
Sonoletre
Monday, March 16, 2009
Another Zazzle with Pizazz Listing!
RetroCommunication's Exactitude French Railway Poster has been featured on the Zazzle with Pizazz Blog.
The blog features items selected form the Zazzle.com marketplace, and has a great collection of items.
This selected image is a fabulous Art Deco French travel poster promoting rail travel.
Ladies in a Surrealistic Landscape
An early 1989 Moffa mixed-media work, "Ladies in a Surrealistic Landscape" represents my transition from small canvas panel compositions to working with small and mid-sized pre-stretched canvas as a support for my acrylic painting and collage expressions.
Most likely the first execution of my layered dematerialization effect painting and wash style, the abstract background become a surreal setting for the foreground paper appliques. Theatrical in simplicity, this work utilizes a style akin to loosely painted stage backdrops with the "actors" of the image in the foreground.
The 'Ladies' of the image, are xerographically reproduced line-art illustrations from 1920's fashion illustrations, closely cropped and colored wiht marker before applied with acrylic mediums in contrived groupings to imply an outdoor reception or gathering.
Playing on my liking for art deco design, surrealistic art as well as film and television dramatization of Jazz Era society, this work gathers disparate design elements and creates a whole.
Vintage Russian Battle Maps
Now at akaJUSTIN
Now at akaJUSTIN
Shop akaJUSTIN products at Zazzle
akaJustin offers a new graphic collection of posters and products featuring vintage 19th Century Russian Battle maps sourced from an archive collection.
The images feature cartographic illustration and subtle colors signifying Russian Imperial battle plans for expansion itno Central Asia, including plans for the "Siege of Samarkand" and other exotic locations in present day Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Available as posters and canvas prints up to 'colossal' wall sizes of 72" inches or more, these images are also available as skateboard and women's Keds shoe designs, and will be applied to other products in the zazzle selection soon.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Venise et le Lido
RetroCommunications sold a copy of this classic early 1920's vintage "Venise et le Lido" poster reproduction to a customer in Turin, Italy this weekend. A fabulous illustration with swirling water patterns and the dull yellowish glow of sunset over the waterways of venice, this French-language travel poster by Vittorio Grassi was found in the Library of Congress archives, and captures the serene tranquil early-evening of the famous city.
Enchanted Fairy Posters
Now at SunshineDazzle!
Now at SunshineDazzle!
SunshineDazzle now offers a selection of Enchanted Fairy Posters sourced from vintage Victorian paintings and childrens illustrations, set in colorful borders with title information, these images make a charming decorating accent!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Most Popular Poster to Date!
He Volunteered for - Submarine Service
at RetroCommunications
"He Volunteered for Submarine Service" is the most popular RetroCommunications offering to date, serving up romantic nostalgia!
A Jon Whitcomb recruting poster for the US Navy, aimed at recruiting sailors for submariner duty, considered the most dangerous, and hence, most heroic naval mission.
A softer, romantic image was used to appeal to the sailor's sense of pride, and romantic desires!
akaJUSTIN has
"Low Rent" Postage
"Low Rent" Postage
akaJUSTN's "Public Housing" line now feature three outrageously funny yet totally for real vintage public housing posters available as genuine US postage stamps!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Featured on the
Zazzle with Pizazz Blog!
Zazzle with Pizazz Blog!
Vintage French Riviera Image
at RetroCommunications
RetroCommunication's Vintage French Riviera Image sticker featured on the Zazzle with Pizazz Blog.
The blog features items selected form the Zazzle.com marketplace, and has a great collection of items.
This selected image is a detail view of a fabulous Art Deco French travel poster promoting the beaches of Calvi, Corsica.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Atlantic City Pageant
at SunshineDazzle
An image growing in popularity and leading sales at the SunshineDazzle zazzle site, this vintage Atlantic City Pageant poster reminds us of the glory days of the new Jersey seaside resort which once flourished with tourism, holidaymakers and fashionable boardwalk strolls long before the casino's came to town.
The following home movie footage shows the historic resort in the grand old days.
Hurray for Rotten Living!
Rotten Living Poster
at akaJUSTIN
"Rotten Living" is the first poster in the akaJUSTIN set of vintage public housing images sold! The image is available as a poster, mousepad or on apparel.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Vintage World War I Convoy
The "Victory Liberty Loan" poster sold today at the RetroCommunications Zazzle site highlights the importance of naval convoys and defense in the conflict as colorfully illustrated by Leon Alaric Shafer in this dynamic poster now in the Library of Congress archives.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Art Deco Influences
My art, and the Concentric Circles Series in particular, draws alot of influence from Art Deco architecture, design and painitng styles.
Aware of Art Deco and Cubism for some time, my exposure to the art styles expanded through my study of the inter-connectivity of Twentieth Century fashion, art and photography in my research projects at Univeristy of Missouri in the late 1990's.
My final paper looked at the century in a decade by decade view of the topical design directions in each form of expression, and the growing inter-dependence and stylistic influences on the commercialization of apparel through advertising.
Drawn to the Art Deco period in particular in my study, it appeared to me to be the nexus point where the three design are media of fashion, art and photography trully became interactive in shaping cultural and design ideas and inspiration.
Museum visits that have conitnued to expanded my appreciation for this style have included the "Fashion and Cubism" exhibit at the Costume Insitute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 199 and the Victoria and Albert Museum's major Art Deco retrospective in 2003.
This study, and the mood and direction of Art Deco continue to influence my work. With it's inception in 1997 with the creation of "CHiPS", the Concentric Circles series at first started with wide circular arcs, and finally found it's voice with Compostion #2of 2000, where the circles met intersection, underpainting and Moffa's acrylic dematerialization wash techniques in vivid color.
The greatest influence on the series has since been the works of Robert and Sonia Delaunay. Exposed to Robert Delaunay's "Homage to Bleriot" of 1914 in my research at University of Missouri. I later had chance to view additional works by the artist at the Centre Georges Pompidou and Musee des Arts Modern de la Ville de Paris, and a major exhibition "Robert and Sonia Delaunay (1905-1941)" at the Museo Thyssen-Bournemisza in 2003.
The vibrant colors and circular forms of the Delaunay's have become not only appealing, but inspiring, and combine with my knowledge of Art Deco circular forms and architectural drafting experience to create intricate geometrical designs and patterns.
The series has continued to grow in expression from simple circular rings of color to intersecting lines, arcs and colorfields incorporating a variety of techniques including underpainting, overpainting and dematerialization washes.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Concentric Circles Origins
The progenitor of the Concentric Circles Series, "CHiPs" was painted during an all-night flash of creative inspiration while watching back to back episodes of the late 1970's/early 1980's television show by the same name.
Symbols of the hot Southern California sunshine, refreshing oranges and cool Pacific waters emerged from the drafted abstract composition.
This larger size work was stretched, gessoed and painted overnight to add a little something extra to my somewhat spartan but comfortable off-campus apartment at Univerity of Missouri. I was having friends over the next night and wanted to show off some new creation.
I later rolled the canvas up and brought it home to Philadelphia with me, restretched it and it hung in the office of a retail store I managed for a few years. "CHiPs" is now in the private collection of a dear friend.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Another Toady's Best at Zazzle
for RetroCommunications
for RetroCommunications
RetroCommunications scored another "Today's Best" at Zazzle with the posting of this vintage Praha travel poster, with beautiful tone and contrast.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Working Women of World War II
The World War II homefront effort by women working in military-oriented factories, agriculture and industrial production in general was key towards the success of the Allied effort. The snall collection at the SunshineDazzle is a tribute to my maternal grandmother who was employed at a factory making piston rings for tanks. It was a story she often told, and the basis of a paper I presented in a historic costume class covering the era at the University of Missouri.
World War II Homefront Poster
A copy of this vintage homefront motivational poster sold on February 19th from the SunshineDazzle site on Zazzle.com. The site features a small collection of World War I and II posters relating to the homefront war effort.
Friday, February 13, 2009
"Mauritia" Discovered!
"Mauritia" selected by Zazzle editors for their Today's Best Artist Gallery on the zazzle.com websites front page. The Zazzle platform allows me to share, market and sell artowrks that may otherwise go unseen.
Created in 1993, the original mixed-media piece remained forgotten in storage until just last year when I "discovered" it while organizing the basement. Now it is posted for sale as prints on paper and canvas for all to enjoy!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Riotously Camp Vintage Public Housing Posters!
Just added to akaJustin's Zazzle site, a line of vintage Public Housing Poster Images available as posters, mousepads and t-shirts. These mid-century graphic images were well-meaning and somewhat socialist-inspired in their day but are riotously camp and eerily disturbing in retrospect.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Visit Palestine Poster
Picked for Today's Best on Zazzle
Picked for Today's Best on Zazzle
Visit Palestine Poster w/blue border
by RetroCommunications
My Vintage "Visit Palestine" poster was picked for the Today's Best Gallery on Zazzle.com for February 10th, 2009! Check it out and the other border color options, apparel, greetings cards, coffee mugs and mousepad created with the same design at RetroCommunications Zazzle site.
Monday, February 9, 2009
New Classic Ocean Liner Images at RetroCommunications
ss United States at Sea
RetroCommunications
Classic Ocean Liner images from posters, post cards and artist's illustrations are now available as prints at RetroCommunications.
Dramatic styles and colorful images represent the now faded glory of trans-oceanic steamship travel in these marvelous works sourced for your decorating and gift needs.
Concentric Circles Series by Michael Moffa now available at Zazzle.com
Images from Michael Moffa's Concentric Circles Series of abstract acrylic paintings are now available as poster and canvas prints. Nearly the all of the entire collection is available, some with alternate croppings of the original composition.
Friday, January 30, 2009
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