F A T H E R ™ - PROJECT UPDATE!

March 24, 2024 / William Burrell Philpot IV

While we’re busy developing new Artwork during the ARTS Quarter, we’re still committed to developing our other projects. The FATHER™ PROJECT! We’re developing new text and image products that help to convey the much needed messages of and for Fathers within this turbulent modern world.

This imagery is custom made for The FATHER™ PROJECT Apparel and other associated products featured at LIAM IAN DESIGN. The selection is made to represent and appreciate Fathers with a specific focus on Black and Brown Fathers, Manhood and Masculinity within Fatherhood and other societal male parenting dynamics and categories. As the ideas and concepts of manhood are forced to evolve and innovate, we see there is still a place for Fathers to exist. Our imagery stems from the various discussions and other sources of impactful information that indicate needed change and acceptance of who Black and Brown and all other Fathers are within the modern world.

See further details of the F A T H E R ™ Project here!

F A T H E R ™ - PROJECT UPDATE!

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NEW HANDMADE DIGITAL ABSTRACT ARTWORK

March 23, 2024 / William Burrell Philpot IV

ART - DESIGN - PHOTOGRAPHY - BUSINESS - Ai

“EXPERI…Mental”

“EXPERI…Mental” - 2024.01.12.03.23.083
CHANGING because it’s what’s being demanded! Don’t just change clothes, brands, colors and your idea of “cool”. Change the whole gawd damn thing! That’s not what they’re counting on!

This needs to be a place of disruption. There needs to be a space for disruption. In being a free Black Man, everyday seems to feel like an experiment—a GRAND experiment. The experiment is to survive and maintain ones sanity within maintaining the identity because we were never meant to survive. Not by the measurements of those they call the founders of the American country by White European settlers.

Incorporating the most previous Digital Art Piece; “LOOKING THRU FROM THE OTHER SIDE”, this piece includes Design text elements to spell out the actual message. The experiment is to survive and maintain ones sanity while knowing and understanding that there are many things to question as to improve upon who we are and what we do. Everything that we are has been hijacked. Commercialism for capitalism has provided a means for People of Color—specifically Black Men of Color—to be met and confronted with many types of societal dysfunction. How Black Men are perceived and why stand at the forefront as products and responses to slavery and post-slavery issues exacerbated by technology and the associated social media platforms. As a part of “The Dichotomy of…”, this piece embodies thoughts and ideas we have about the Black, Brown and African American issues. There is a need for a new identity and understanding of “Black”. In being Black, we are sophisticatedly complex requiring caution with care.

Like so many things around us, the term “Black” and Black People are deserving of a revision and revitalization. Where it is quite obvious that Black and Brown communities see tremendous forms of dysfunction, this is where a clear and blatant revision needs to be addressed. In the art. In the music. In the conversations and banter. We see where the values, principles and priorities originate, reside and become action.

We need to change how we see things. We need to change how we are informed of this world. We need to change how we see and are informed of ourselves and our relative positions to everything else. We need broader talk and social groups and areas of concern. We need greater ways of expressing ourselves while still maintaining a reserve and discipline that acts with a priority of looking out for each other rather than to sacrifice. Change needs to happen. Change needs to happen because—we believe—People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture are heralds and harbingers of Change. We are Change…itself.

This piece was inspired by some other Abstract Artworks. Done as a digital piece due to the ease and availability of current technological resources, effort was nonetheless added to cultivate this depiction. Using multiple brushes and unique colors, this piece has helped to springboard a renewed interest and enthusiasm for Abstract Art especially within current modern and over-commercialized times. This work is not to serve as a digital download but more a custom piece only available thru Liam Ian himself for those who truly can respect and understand the art.

*This piece is developed as a stand-alone Wall Art piece however it is to initiate and inaugurate works of this type from Liam Ian Black and LIAM IAN LLC. While many opportunities have been offered for NFT and DD cultivation, this piece can only be officially copied and sold with the inclusion of Receipt and Catalog Numbered Coding. See this item Available Soon at LIAM IAN DESIGN!

NEW HANDMADE DIGITAL ABSTRACT ARTWORK

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NEW HANDMADE DIGITAL ABSTRACT ARTWORK

March 22, 2024 / William Burrell Philpot IV

ART - DESIGN - PHOTOGRAPHY - BUSINESS - Ai

“LOOKING THRU FROM THE OTHER SIDE”

While we’re continuing to learn and play around with Ai Art Generators, we’re doing things the old fashioned way. After all, we are operating within our ARTS Quarter!

“LOOKING THRU FROM THE OTHER SIDE” continues the journey to symbolize the light and darkness that resides within me and the life for which I’ve had and continue to live. As we all have to operate within the dark sometimes, we can peak thru to see the other side. Sometimes that peaking thru is like viewing a world that is familiar and then not. A simple piece, it continues to convey what and how I see. The lighter and the darker while the lighter still seems dimmed or affected by the scattering of darkness. This is the universe as I’ve come to know it; not entirely light and good filled with dark spots like sadness, loneliness, loss, fear and hatred…yet there to give way to those aspects that are more…positive, affirming and reinforcing. Within the dark…is everything. From the dark…comes…everything. From the dark even comes the light.

*Within us, there are always more than one side to what exist. There’s often more to the picture and so we must strive to traverse the different sides as necessary. Even with more than one side, there’s also that space in between where things are not so clear or discernible. This is where we must trust the flows that push us from one to another. We must strive to be patient and observe—be willing to experience rather than attempt to see, hear, or feel directly. We should keep ourselves open to the greater forces that affect all that is around us rather than giving and applying definition to make sense of it all.

NEW HANDMADE DIGITAL ABSTRACT ARTWORK

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NūHUMAN

March 17, 2024 / William Burrell Philpot IV

THE NūHUMAN PROJECT : THE NūHUMAN FOUNDATION

As we further look into ways of being a positive impact and influence within our local and broader communities, we’re led to develop The NūHUMAN Project and Foundation.

The SuperWomen and Men of this world are not Caucasians. They are unique individuals who have endured, survived and progressed thru trial and tribulation born by natural incident and/or human intention. The true SuperPeople are those have proven resilient while still serving a purpose benefit more than some.

Our ideas as developed and shared are to evoke a renewed sense of purpose and belonging to and thru individuals that have the potential to affect change in a more positive and promising direction for People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture within America. Our intention and hope is to assist in reforming the self-identity of what it is and means to be a Person of Color to that of much more potential into and for the future. We believe thru publications, comics, apparel and other such aesthetic items, we have the potential to create opportunity and a greater path for the next generations to become greater versions of who we are today.

As a part of the process to develop this project, we’re debuting a unique line of Artwork that caters to reinforce positive and progressive values for People of Color and the exploration of new ideas and concepts.

IDEOLOGIES OF THE NūHUMAN

Our basic concept on The NūHUMAN Project and Foundation are rooted in the belief that Art and Design can equally fuel growth and innovation within Communities of Color. We believe that the artistic communication of principles and values are the most natural combatant to what has flooded communities already. Ideas and concepts thru imagery and videography as to also influence and affect products that then influence and affect environmental aesthetics is the goal.

For a society that is oversaturated with ideas and concepts brought by immigration, there must be attention paid to the loss of focus and unified attention to African Americans and their associated communities. What it is to be African American itself needs and requires attention as to address issues that run pervasive within society as a whole. The diversity of African Americans based upon the varieties of heritage that get classified as African American is a resounding problem. Where a first generation Nigerian might have offspring with an Asian but that child born on American soil basically makes them African American. While a child of two different worlds, in America, they’ll most likely feel the affects of being lumped into one. One that has come to a point of having certain and specific identities, communal traits, stigmas and assumptions, being put into the African American community is not one that ensures success just because. While it should, it does not. Just as any other racial or ethnic group, there are key markers and identifiers that make someone easily known and accepted within their communities. African Americans have them but mixed much more sophisticated and elaborate issues and then explanations.

We believe that the dysfunctions that are a part of the African American identity have been actively as well as passively constructed thru many factors before, during and after slavery. Those factors have been ramped up and quite effective in the diminishing and detriment of those People of Color born on American soil and are still very much at play. Here are the top three principles we operate with that—thru Art development—might help to combat the issues that plague these communities now:

I. SELF-IDENTITY & ACCEPTANCE

Whether something like a page or note out of a comic book, we believe that African Americans and People of Color born of multiple heritages are the future—The Future—of the human identity. The meshing and melding of groups from around the world is eventual due to progress and success in discovery, business and commerce. We believe there is the necessity to move pass the rigid concepts that fuel bigotry and hate in favor of racial purity and the then associated pride. The hard-defining line that goes to separate (…specially as contradictory to discovery, business and commerce). This separation is to define those who are “supposedly” to be superior, better and therefore owners, founders and masters.

II. ACCEPTING THE PAST TO FUEL THE FUTURE

The future is and should be of the utmost importance in life. While the concept of the future can be altered, adapted and changed to fit particular paradigms and narratives the fact is that there is a priority to focus on the future while resisting being stuck in the past. We must accept was is and has been. We must accept it then move beyond it. Whether negative or positive, we must use the past to inform us who and where we are now to get to where we need to be for tomorrow.

III. PRIORITIZATION OF COMMONALITIES INSTEAD OF DIFFERENCES

We must move forward within our endeavors by finding, seeing, accepting and understanding the common traits we share with others instead of placing value on what uniquely makes us individual. While our individual uniqueness is important for self identity, we should act with a sense of common human experience. In the pursuit of survival, we must perceive ourselves with a sense of humility acknowledging that community should and must precedence over individuality.

We’re constantly looking for and seeking out local individuals of uniqueness and special distinction to work with. As most of the LIAM IAN Projects are generally designed to have overlapping conceptual and ideological components, we’re committed to engaging with others to help develop this project to a fruitful and beneficial completion. Contact us today for information on how to participate!

THE NūHUMAN PROJECT : THE NūHUMAN FOUNDATION

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MOTIVATION & ART. ART & MOTIVATION.

March 17, 2024 / William Burrell Philpot IV

We’ve seen a lot! I’ve seen a lot. I’ve seen a lot in this life and I still have a ways to go. At the age of 43, I’ve gotten a lot of experience in dealing with my people in the Hood, in the Middle Class and even some that live some pretty “Elite” and high-end lifestyles. Ranging from Southeast DC to Tysons Corner, Virginia to PG County, MD to Potomac, MD, I’ve had the unique opportunity to engage and assist folks who have had the common trait of entrepreneurial ambition within them. As I look back on all of those situations and circumstances, the other commonality was that they saw value in me. It wasn’t a hard task for me to focus and accelerate ideas and plans on my creative pursuits but moving back into the position of a Coach and Consultant is now where my eyes reside.

As an Artist, I know what it’s like to encounter and endure obstacles. I know that there are a number of obstacles that can often keep us from moving forward and that hinderance can last for some time. I’ve come to the understanding that Art is dependent on another form of Art; Motivation. The Art of Motivation is such because one must learn methods and ways to be effective within the project and process getting up and getting things done. Sometimes it’s not even about getting things done but more so in being energized and encouraged. Encouraged and energized to DO. To just do.

With the perceptives, paradigms, thoughts, ideas and concepts of Coaching and Consulting with others, I’ve begun to integrate them within what I create because of how I create. Leaving out or aside the confines of religion, my Spirituality as African American Man is key and fundamental to all that I create. Purpose. Meaning. Vision. Mission. Integrity. Value and Worth. These are the priorities and most concerning factors to what and why I create. My art—our art—is often done with a dedication to People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture in America than abroad. The motivation here is purely to DO because once this existence is over it’s all done.

THE MESSAGE

Whether it be my Art, Design work, Photography, Coaching, Appreciation or Support of others, my message of motivation is quite plain and simple; Just do! Do because no one else will do—nor can do—as you do. Your engagement of the world is essential because it is the necessary outcome of your existence and presence. You are worth it! You are worth it all—it ALL! You are worth it…even if you are the only one who feels it. It starts with you!

THE MOTIVATION BOOK

The Motivation Book is a Custom IP Project to Appreciate, Encourage and Inspire Black and Brown People, African Americans and People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture. This book is to contain positive messaging and imagery that will go the way of doing what needs to be done in abundance for these groups today and into the future. Proposed to be completed in Spring of 2024, this book will further convey our thoughts and Ideas on Black & African American Progression, Development and Success. Stay tuned!

MOTIVATION & ART. ART & MOTIVATION.

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WEALTH BUILDING FOR ARTISTS, DESIGNERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS

March 16, 2024 / William Burrell Philpot IV

ART - DESIGN - PHOTOGRAPHY - BUSINESS - Ai

No one will really tell you just how to maximize upon what you do or what you have to increase the potential of your revenue, investment and/or profits. Let's explore how Artists, Designers, and Photographers can leverage their respective fields to build wealth through the creation of valuable intellectual property (IP), licensing, and other avenues:

Artists:

Creating Custom and Valuable IP:
Artists possess a unique ability to create original, one-of-a-kind artworks that hold intrinsic value. By consistently producing high-quality and unique pieces, artists can establish themselves as reputable creators with a distinct artistic voice. Building a strong portfolio of original artworks increases the marketability of their creations and enhances their potential for generating income.
Licensing Artwork:
Artists can explore licensing agreements to monetize their artwork beyond traditional sales. Licensing allows artists to grant permission for their artwork to be reproduced or used in various products or contexts in exchange for a licensing fee or royalties. This can include licensing artwork for use in merchandise, apparel, home décor, publishing, and more. By strategically licensing their artwork, artists can generate passive income streams while retaining ownership of their intellectual property.
Limited Edition Prints and Reproductions:
Offering limited edition prints or reproductions of their original artwork is another lucrative avenue for artists to generate income. Limited edition prints are often priced higher than mass-produced prints and can create a sense of exclusivity and value for collectors. Artists can leverage online platforms, galleries, and art fairs to market and sell limited edition prints to a broader audience.
Commissioned Artwork:
Commissioned artwork provides artists with the opportunity to create custom pieces tailored to the preferences and specifications of clients. Whether it's creating portraits, murals, or bespoke artworks for corporate or private clients, commissioned work can command higher prices and offer a steady source of income for artists. Building strong relationships with clients and delivering exceptional work can lead to repeat commissions and referrals.

Designers:

Creating Custom Brand Assets:
Designers have the expertise to create custom brand assets such as logos, branding materials, packaging designs, and marketing collateral for businesses and organizations. By delivering high-quality and impactful designs that effectively communicate the essence of a brand, designers can establish themselves as invaluable partners to clients seeking to enhance their brand identity and presence in the market.
Brand Licensing and Merchandising:
Designers can explore opportunities to license their designs for use on various merchandise and products. This can include licensing designs for apparel, accessories, stationery, home goods, and more. By partnering with manufacturers or retailers to produce and distribute licensed merchandise, designers can generate passive income through royalties while expanding the reach of their designs to new audiences.
Freelance Design Services:
Offering freelance design services is a flexible and lucrative way for designers to leverage their skills and expertise. Whether it's graphic design, web design, UX/UI design, or packaging design, designers can work with clients on a project basis to create custom designs tailored to their needs. Freelancing allows designers to set their rates, choose their projects, and build a diverse portfolio of work while earning income.
Designing Digital Products:
Designers can create and sell digital products such as fonts, icons, templates, and stock graphics through online marketplaces or their websites. Digital products have the advantage of being scalable and easily distributable, allowing designers to reach a global audience and generate passive income with minimal overhead costs. By creating high-quality digital products that meet the needs of other designers, designers can establish themselves as thought leaders and experts in their field.

Photographers:

Licensing Photography:
Photographers can license their images for use in various commercial, editorial, and advertising applications. This can include licensing images for use in magazines, websites, advertisements, corporate publications, and more. By retaining ownership of their photographs and licensing them to clients for specific purposes, photographers can generate passive income through licensing fees or royalties while maintaining control over the use of their images.
Stock Photography:
Contributing images to stock photography agencies or creating their stock photography portfolios allows photographers to reach a broader audience and generate passive income from image licensing. Stock photography agencies provide a platform for photographers to upload and license their images to clients worldwide. By producing high-quality and commercially viable images that meet the demands of the stock photography market, photographers can earn royalties each time their images are licensed for use.
Print Sales and Exhibitions:
Photographers can sell prints of their work through online platforms, galleries, art fairs, and exhibitions. Limited edition prints or fine art prints of popular or iconic images can command higher prices and attract collectors and enthusiasts. Photographers can leverage their online presence and social media platforms to market and sell prints directly to customers, offering various print sizes, finishes, and customization options to cater to different preferences and budgets.
Commissioned Photography Projects:
Commissioned photography projects offer photographers the opportunity to work with clients on custom photography assignments tailored to their specific needs and objectives. Whether it's capturing portraits, events, products, or editorial content, commissioned photography work can provide photographers with a steady source of income and opportunities for creative collaboration. Building strong relationships with clients and delivering exceptional results can lead to repeat business and referrals, further expanding the photographer's client base and earning potential.

By leveraging their respective fields to create valuable intellectual property, artists, designers, and photographers can diversify income streams, generate passive income, and build long-term wealth through licensing, commissions, print sales, and other avenues. By strategically marketing and monetizing their creative work, creatives can achieve financial success while pursuing their passion and artistic endeavors.

For information on How to Maximize the Potential of Your Revenue Beyond Looking for Profits or How to Integrate Ai To Make More Money, become a Member of THE CIRCLE today!

WEALTH BUILDING FOR ARTISTS, DESIGNERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS

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THE BUSINESS OF WEBSITE ARTISTRY AND DESIGN

March 11, 2024 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Despite a decline in clientele looking for Website Design (and associated Management) Services, we’re still heavily engaged in providing services. As it is our goal for our own business and website, we believe that a businesses primary website should serve as the Home for all that it is, represents and stands for. In today's digital age, having a strong online presence is crucial for entrepreneurs and small businesses to thrive. Your website is often the first impression potential customers have of your brand, making it essential to get it right. That's where our Website Design Service comes in.

At LIAM IAN, we specialize in providing straightforward and effective website design and architecture services tailored to the needs of entrepreneurs and small businesses. Here's why our service stands out:

Simplicity & Artistry is Key: We understand that not everyone is a tech expert, which is why we focus on simplicity within artistry in our design approach. Our goal is to create clean, intuitive and captivating websites that are easy to navigate for both you and your visitors.
Customized Solutions: We don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, we take the time to understand your unique business needs and goals to create a website that reflects your brand identity and resonates with your target audience.
Mobile-Friendly Design: With the increasing use of smartphones and tablets, having a mobile-friendly website is non-negotiable. Our designs are fully responsive, ensuring that your website looks great and functions seamlessly across all devices.
SEO Optimization: What good is a website if nobody can find it? We incorporate search engine optimization (SEO) best practices into our designs to help improve your website's visibility and ranking on search engines like Google.
Affordable Pricing: We believe that quality website design shouldn't break the bank. Our services are priced competitively to accommodate the budgets of entrepreneurs and small businesses without compromising on quality.
Expert Support: From the initial consultation to the final launch and beyond, our team of experienced professionals is here to guide you every step of the way. We're committed to providing exceptional customer service and support to ensure your satisfaction.

Whether you're a budding entrepreneur looking to establish your online presence or a small business owner seeking to revamp your existing website, LIAM IAN LLC is here to help. Let us take the hassle out of website design so you can focus on what you do best – growing your business.

Ready to elevate your digital presence? Get in touch with us today to learn more about our Website Design Service and how we can help you succeed online.

For more information about our other business services CONTACT US TODAY!

THE BUSINESS OF WEBSITE ARTISTRY AND DESIGN

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