About

Jon Von Funk is an artist, designer, luthier and producer based in Littleton, Colorado.

He owns and operates Hot Plate Labs, a boutique design firm and is dilligently working to assemble The Mighty Von Donut, an unorthodox collective of Colorado creative types.

Read more below about his artistic vision and intentions. For an even deeper dive into his marbled psyche and tenderized philosphies, mosey on over to the Von Funk Blog...

¡SOY Von Funk!

“Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources..” - Bootsy Collins

¿Qué onda?

I'm an artist and musician who thoroughly enjoys exploring the myriad cracks between those two vital mediums. In this evermore digitized world, I turn to the past to understand nostalgia and to explore pop cultural cycles. I embrace subjects, styles and methods that many consider to be passé; I make analog art for a digital world.

I have long been a creative factotum and have been obsessed with developing my own processes ajd techniques over the years. The majority of my current work utilizes mixed media on custom wood boxes, wood panels, guitars and skateboard decks. I like to use stain, pyrography, pencil, charcoal, ink, watercolor, airbrush, metal foil, acrylic, traditional oil and oil enamels (but not always all together)

I am inspired by vibrant color and rich harmonics. I am driven by the vengeful furies of rhythm, contrast and irony, and I am consistently surprised by the complexity of what even the simplest color palette can accomplish.

I am passionate about community and shared experiences, and I believe that without the cathartic laughter of satire and good humor, the emptiness life would never find form, so you just gots make it funky. Funky like old cheese.

-JV