{"id":1707,"date":"2011-02-22T09:49:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T09:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:44:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:44:51","slug":"olaf-hajek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/02\/22\/olaf-hajek\/","title":{"rendered":"Olaf Hajek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3445.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Olaf Hajek\" alt=\"Olaf Hajek\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3448.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Olaf Hajek\" alt=\"Olaf Hajek\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3449.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Olaf Hajek\" alt=\"Olaf Hajek\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3446.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Olaf Hajek\" alt=\"Olaf Hajek\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3450.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Olaf Hajek\" alt=\"Olaf Hajek\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3447.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Olaf Hajek\" alt=\"Olaf Hajek\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I saw Olaf Hajek&#8217;s monograph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/3899552814?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=pikaland-20&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=390957&#38;creativeASIN=3899552814\">Flowerhead<\/a> in a bookstore one day and fell head over heels in love with his work. His colorful work graces magazines, ad campaigns, and quite a few walls (I can imagine!). His folklore-ish style has an air usually reserved for modern contemporary art, but works very well within the commercial realm too, which makes him special. None of his work is digital &#8212; all of them were painted with acrylics on cardboard, paper or wood.<\/p>\n<p>He hails from Germany and first trained as a graphic designer before discovering his love of painting &#8212; and that&#8217;s when his freelance illustration career began! See more of his work over on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olafhajek.de\">portfolio website<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Olaf Hajek\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/02\/22\/olaf-hajek\/\" aria-label=\"More on Olaf Hajek\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31073,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/31073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}