The Art & Design of
Michael Foster
art direction, writing, graphic design, digital illustration & more
Like a ghost playing the saxophone, this is where imagination comes to play. Ready for an adventure in art & design? Let’s go!
The Art & Design of
Michael Foster
art direction, writing, graphic design, digital illustration & more
Like a ghost playing the saxophone, this is where imagination comes to play. Ready for an adventure in art & design? Let’s go!
The New Film
In the spirit of award-winning indie romantic comedy/dramas from the early 2000’s, From Chicago to Osaka is a screenplay written for the modern era. With fast-paced ping pong comedic dialogue in both English and Japanese, From Chicago to Osaka is the quintessential date movie for adults looking for something smart, sophisticated, and highly entertaining.
What’s it about?
Dylan Davis, an artist with PTSD from a recent trauma, heads to Osaka for an upcoming art show where he falls in love with a spirited Japanese woman with an unfaithful fiancé.
The Book
I feel like this book belongs alongside Timothy Snyder’s “20 Lessons On Tyranny” as required reading for the 21st Century.
– Alisa Kennedy Jones, author of Gotham Girl Interrupted: My Misadventures in Motherhood, Love, and Epilepsy.
The New Now has arrived. We are the people we’ve been waiting for.
The New Now / Manifestos, Reinventions & Declarations / Updated & Expanded is an insightful, free-thinking, Neo-Beatnik uplifting collection of manifestos and essays about the New Now we’re living through. After a global pandemic rolled across and ravaged our land, we can more easily understand how historic and prehistoric events happened. Deeply embedded, wrongheaded, calcified cultural norms are being pushed against as never before, and we can understand how societal shifts happened in past centuries – within months, days, or hours, and when a tipping point was finally reached.
The Art Portfolio
Michael’s work continues the visual analogy of civilization coping with Moore’s Law through the lens of the subconscious. Distorted handwritten notes and encrypted keyword ciphers are interwoven throughout mysterious structures and various abstractions, including comic illustrations and other non-specific futuristic forms.
The result is a data landscape of today’s anxious subconscious mind, presenting how we remember life events and interpret the kinetic surfaces and essences of the environment and emotions that we are sometimes reluctantly embedded within. And they look great on your wall.
You’ll Like Mike
Michael is an artist, designer, writer, and communications expert. Most of the stuff you’ll find on this site belongs to him.
Michael works with clients around the globe on a wide variety of creative projects. He is also an accomplished painter, photographer, and videographer with over two decades of experience. He turns your vivid imagination into reality, simple as that.
Michael is also a professional writer and journalist. In the past, he has blogged for the Huffington Post, Éclat International, and Psychology Today.
The Design Portfolio
Michael’s experience in graphics, marketing, illustration, and video production fills an essential need in advertising agencies, printing companies, and design firms.
Some of the clients Michael has worked with include: Microsoft, US-Japan Business Council, JW Merc, Reliance Accounting, PepsiCo, RAINN (co-founded by Tori Amos & Sarah McLaughlin), Chicagoland Speedway, Richard Shay Photography, The British Embassy in the United States, Ben Hollis Worldwide, and Aphex. In addition, his previous television work has gained the interest of major studios such as Dreamworks SKG.
Latest News
Fragile Tension
fragile tension A new series of paintings by Naperville artists Jaime and Michael Foster were on display at Water Street Studios in Batavia throughout the month of March in 2024. The name of this two-person [...]
Convenience Story Q&A with March Schilling
Here is a post-film Q&A with Mark Schilling, moderated by Chicago-based writer Michael Foster. Special thanks to Sophia Wong Boccio. Mark Schilling (born 1949)[1] is an American film critic, journalist, translator, [...]
Japanese Showcase at 2022’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema
This weekend, there were four outstanding films presented for the Japanese Showcase at 2022's Asian Pop-Up Cinema, Season 15. It was a marvelous time, and there are many more films from South Korea, Taiwan, [...]
Four Shorts About Dogs… and 1920s Chicago
A series of two-minute films about a good cop and his two dogs planning to take down Johnny the Matchstick Man in 1920s Chicago. This is what happens when his wife leaves to dog [...]
Would Persona 5 Work as a Film Series? A Persona 5 Live-Action Movie Adaptation Synopsis
An in-depth overview of how one of the greatest video games of this generation could be translated into a highly successful film trilogy. (First published on November 14th, 2020. The [...]
Life in Purgatory: A Short Film During Covid
This was really just supposed to be a two minute clip for the The Roger Corman Quarantine Film Festival but it turned into this whole thing. We shot it over a weekend, edited and [...]
“There is something endlessly fascinating about the work we do. It involves so many various mediums, from graphic design to video production. You have to know what you’re doing, and that takes years. This will be my third decade in the arts. It’s wonderful to readily know what works and doesn’t work in a countless number of situations. And now we have the data to back up those instincts if we can accurately read what the data tells us.”
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Jaime Foster is an interdisciplinary artist, living in the Chicagoland area. She is interested in the relationship we have with nature and our environment, both positively, negatively and how this affects us on an emotional level. Her paintings feed off the fascination she has with Ecopsychology, Conservation and Biodiversity. Her work has been shown in galleries throughout the US and internationally. Her photographs and paintings are displayed in private collections, as well as public.