Jack White launches new site for art and design work

Jack White Art & Design is a new site from Jack White that features various art and design work from the acclaimed musician.

The site, which features his creative work from over more than two decades, includes a variety of industrial design, interior design, furniture and upholstery, graphic design, instruments and hardware, sculpture, vinyl concepts, film directing and photography.

His industrial design and interior design work is from the Third Man Pressing plant and Third Man Records shops and headquarters, while his furniture and upholstery portfolio includes a variety of chairs and couches that White restored for people including Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and the Phillips family.

Some of his graphic design work includes handmade show posters and flyers from 1997-2001, cover art for The White Stripes and his own solo work, Third Man logos and more, and his instruments and hardware section includes custom designed guitars, drum kits and more.

Third Man’s Ben Blackwell says, "To work with Jack White, to watch him work at anything…is to witness the mind of an artist as it explores and problem solves. In carpentry and interior design, being in Jack’s presence during the ideation process, the hypotheticals and head tilting, can be both inspiring and maddening. There’s no reason a building needs to have acoustical tiles, tin ceilings or shiny yellow floors. But that’s not the point. The point is to make something beautiful. Any myrmidon can buy a building and start running a business selling chicken feet, but to take an empty space, to envision what you’d like it to look like, not just visually, but spatially, texturally, experientially, and design into that vision, making and taking the occasional left turns, keeping architects and contractors on their toes and folks like myself, who have to find the kind way to say 'No Jack, I don’t think a fog machine would be a good idea for the pressing plant'."

He adds, "And then to hear him explain it, with a viewing window, the public looking in, tight spotlights over each individual record press, calling the beauty and the cinematic quality he wants to highlight in this situation…most of the time I find myself saying ‘When you put it that way, it does sound pretty impressive'."