Monday, November 23, 2009
Art Basel Miami Beach takes place December 3 - 6, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Homage to Jeanne-Claude
http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/
Artist Jeanne-Claude (née Denat de Guillebo) died in New York Wednesday evening of complications from a brain aneurysm. Along with her husband and artistic partner Christo, whom she met in 1958, she undertook an international series of large-scale outdoor installations, modifying landscapes with industrial strength cloth ballooned, wrapped, and tied. In a tale that legends are made of, the pair were born on the same date, the 13th of June in 1935, and allegedly in the same hour. Of note is the fact that all of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s projects are self-financed — meaning a pretty significant initial outlay for, say, 1.076 million square feet of aluminum-coated fabric to cover the entire façade of the Reichstag in Berlin. In honor of Jeanne-Claude’s legacy in the realm of environmental art, we’ve compiled a visual primer of the duo’s oeuvre after the jump.
As reported in the LA Times arts blog Culture Monster, Jeanne-Claude’s professed to keep no favorites among her many influential works: “We always say that each one of our projects is a child of ours, and a father and mother who have many children will never tell you which one is their favorite. If people insist that we have to have a favorite one, then we say, ‘Okay, you are right, we do have a favorite one and it’s always the next one.’”
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Emigre No. 70 - The Look Back Issue
Emigre No. 70 - The Look Back Issue
Selections from Emigre Magazine #1 - #69
This 512-page book, designed and edited by Emigre co-founder and designer Rudy VanderLans, is a selection of reprints that traces Emigre’s development from its early bitmap design days in the mid 1980s through to the experimental layouts that defined the so-called “Legibility Wars” of the late 1990s, to the critical design writing of the early 2000s. Featuring interviews with, among others, The Designers Republic, Allen Hori, Rick Valicenti, Vaughan Oliver, Mr. Keedy, Ed Fella, and essays by Lorraine Wild, Anne Burdick, Zuzana Licko, Kenneth FitzGerald, Andrew Blauvelt, Kalle Lasn, Rick Poynor and many more.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Geza M. Tot - KEDD Animation Studio
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| Born in 1970. Hungarian artist, animation filmmaker Geza M. Toth has been working also as a tutor at several animation film institutes such as the Animation Department of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, the Royal College of Art, London, the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad (India) and Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg (Germany). Founder and managing director of the KEDD Animation Studio. In the past years has created approx. 120 animation signals, commercials and short animation films. His productions were successfully screened at different international festivals all over the world. In 2007 his short film, 'Maestro' was nominated to the American Academy Awards in the Best Animated Short Film category. |
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Creative Industrial Design : Literalist Product Packaging
naoto fukasawa
was born in yamanashi prefecture, japan, in1956.
he graduated from tama art university's product
design department in art and 3D design in 1980.
until 1988, fukasawa worked as a designer at
seiko-epson corp.
in 1989, he left japan for the united states.
in san francisco he joined a small office that had
employed 15 persons - ‘ID two’, the predecessor
to ‘IDEO’, which now has 450 staff in san francisco,
palo alto, boston, chicago, london and munich.
after eight years fukasawa returned home.
in 1996, he helped set up ‘IDEO’ in japan - a team
of eight designers working mainly for the japanese
market. he stayed with it until december 2002.
naoto fukasawa he went independent and in
january 2003 he established ‘naoto fukasawa design
in tokyo. fukasawa joined the advisory board of the
japanese company ‘MUJI’.
Read more...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Optical Illusions in Advertising
(c) MACLAREN MCCANN CANADA INC. - Optical Illusions in Advertising
KINETIC ART : FROM PAINTING TO ARCHITECTONIC
Victor Vasarely is often perceived as the father of Op’art.
The notion of cinetic art appeared for the first time in 1964. It aspires to explore simple geometric elements and the physics of shape in order to create dynamic optical phenomenon that entice a spectator’s active observations.
The result of artistic research carried out simultaneously by Albers and Vasarely, Op’art was born in 1955. Their initial work on this new artistic movement was furthered by subsequent generations of artists including: Agam, Soto, Cruz Diez, Morellet, Yvaral, Le Parc, Sobrino…
A similar style had already appeared in works by Bauhaus masters: Moholy-Nagy, Klee, Kandinsky and Itten, as well as in creations by Malevitch, Sophie Tauber-Arp and Mondrian.
“Bauhaus” is an experimental didactic and artistic centre which was founded in Weimer in 1919 and that operated until 1933, when the Nazis took power. The adaptation of Art and Architecture to the new-born elements of the Industrial age began at the start of the 20th century. Following (aesthetic) experiments of the "Deutsche Werkbund", initiated by Muthesius in 1907, Walter Gropius establishes a new vision of teaching that is to unify artists and artisans in collective style and research projects. The main focus is the discovery of forms that facilitate the production of series’ of artwork.
Bauhaus, or “the house in which we build” designates not only a particular technique in the history of art itself, but an attempt to blur the borders drawn between various aspects of culture and society.
Its manifesto never seemed as pertinent as it does today :| "This is not about teachers and students, but about masters and apprentices; this is not about artists specialised in general or applied arts, but about creators who complete each other in order to serve a common goal" Read more... |
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