![]() In addition he has designed posters, and collateral merchandise for movies such as Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Kill Bill I and Kill Bill II. His work has been distributed internationally as part of tour merchandise, and his package design work was contracted by General Foods, and WalMart. After his self described sell out in 1992 to the design industry, he began his career in art by working first as a production, artist, illustrator, and then designer of merchandise and posters for touring rock icons which include: Eric Clapton, John Lennon (via Yoko Ono), Cream, Queen, ZZ Top, The Stray Cats, Brian Setzer and a host of others under contract with BMG and Sony Music. Prior to his art career, Dan worked at a variety of manual labor jobs from assembly line work, to steel worker, to dock worker. His article on sustainable design, and how to combat the process of creating desire when a need does not exist was published as part of a journal on new approaches to educating in the Library of Congress in 2011, and his continuing research into the neuroaesthetics realm attempts to begin the process of studying art as a science. Louis MO, and San Francisco CA in the AIGA Compost Modern Show. ![]() His “popes as candy wrappers” series was included in a group show in Rome in 2017, and he has been part of group exhibitions in Los Angeles, CA, for an underground poster art show, Denver CO, Portland OR, St. Cardsharp held before him, like a priest presenting a crucifix to a vampire. He has exhibited in a variety of traditional print, and digital mediums appearing in shows in Sofia, Bulgaria where a series of screen prints were exhibited in an International Juried Exhibition, while two of his paintings were included in Barcelona’s 2017 Exhibition. The card was the Ace of Spades, the Death Card. Pieces of his work Pin Ball Philosophy Series were featured in the 'New York Now' exhibition in 2015 where he depicted religious icons as the subject matter in pinball game displays. Mutato Explains it all," was published in the "International Show Against Nuclear Testing,” Catalog as well as being part of the United Nations exhibition in New York and Vienna in 2016. In that vein, his ironic pieces parodying the nuclear civil defense posters of the 1950s entitled ’Thank God for the Atomic Bomb,” and ‘Dr. Supposedly, US troops believed that Vietnamese traditions held the symbolism of the spade to mean death and ill-fortune and in a bid to frighten and demoralize Viet Cong soldiers, it was common practice to mockingly leave an ace of spades on the bodies of killed Vietnamese and even to litter the forested grounds and fields with the card.Dan May’s been finding the humor in the world of power, politics, entertainment, and religion for the past twenty years in his design work for Fortune 500 companies, as well as his personal work. Some twenty years later, a folk legend about the ace of spades being used by American Soldiers during the Vietnam War was popularized. Battalions within the regiments were denoted with tick marks or dots, marked from top clockwise: headquarters at the twelve o'clock position, 1st Battalion at the three o'clock, etc. All four card suits were used for easy identification of regiments within the airborne division following the confusion of a large scale combat airborne operation. In this capacity, it was used to represent good luck, due to its fortunate connotations in card playing. ![]() ![]() In the Second World War, the soldiers of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the American 101st Airborne Division were marked with the spades symbol painted on the sides of their helmet. The ace of spades has been employed, on numerous occasions, in the theater of war. The actual value of the card varies from game to game. The ace of spades (also known as the spadille and Death Card) is traditionally the highest and most valued card in the deck of playing cards in English-speaking countries. ![]()
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