A Laguna Beach painting business grew through returning collectors, handwritten poetry, and classes that send customers home with wet paint. Its useful lesson starts with giving people more than one way into the work.
A painted marlin, a firetruck bedsheet, a discarded shopping bag. Johnny Karwan’s San Francisco studio finds work for an image wherever it can live.
From Deadpool’s hand-drawn antics to Shohei Ohtani’s anime alter ego, Mana builds animation around the character of the job. Its project breakdowns reveal the craft, coordination and occasional three-week sprint behind the pictures.