Oscar Niemeyer - Images of the architect's works

ANTONIO SCORZA/AFP/Getty Images - Slide show

Published: 20071225
"The corbusian influence is evident in the early works of Oscar Niemeyer. However, the architect gradually acguired his own style: the lightness of the curved forms created spaces that transformed the architectural scheme into something that was hitherto unknown; harmony, grace and elegance are the adjectives that are most appropriate to describe the work of Oscar Niemeyer. The adaptations produced by the architect to connect the baroque vocabulary with modernist architecture made possible formal experiences in spectacular volumes, executed by famous mathematicians including the Brazilian Joaquim Cardoso and the Italian Pier Luigi Nervi." Read more...

French creative studio Trafik - Art of Code

Graphic Design

Damien Gautier,

Pierre Rodière, Julien Sappa, Lionel Michée

Multimedia Development

Joël Rodière

Combining the arts of design and coding, French creative studio Trafik designs dynamic visual art and interactive environments then builds the custom applications necessary to realize them. In creating exhibitions, scenography, and other multimedia projects for institutional, cultural and industrial clients, Trafik’s five graphic artists and one programmer push their Macs to the limit, using special applications created in Xcode in combination with other creative applications as primary design tools. Although their work runs the spectrum from classic graphic design to new media, they have received special attention for their signature interactive work. For their Sonic Cube, a large illuminated canvas box shown recently at the contemporary art center, La Ferme du Buisson in Paris, they developed an interactive application that reacts to sound. In this and other projects, Trafik’s designers and coders have uniquely established themselves as “artists of programming.”

Illustration: Early 50s Disney Christmas Cards

Animator Clair Weeks has had a hand in creating some of Walt Disney Studio's most memorable animated features, including Snow White (1931), Bambi (1942), Cinderella (1950), and Peter Pan (1953). A missionary's son, Weeks was born and raised in India and did not come to the U.S. until his late teens. He joined Disney in 1936 as an assistant animator, remaining there until WWII when he left to serve in the military. He came back to Disney in 1946 and remained there another decade. In 1956, Weeks became an animation ambassador and returned to India to help develop its animation industry. He remained in Asia, traveling to Thailand, Nepal, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Malaysia over a 16-year period.

• Born: in India
• Died: Aug 26, 1996 in Los Angeles, California
• Active: '50s
• Major Genres: Children's/Family, Fantasy
• Career Highlights: Peter Pan
• First Major Screen Credit: Peter Pan (1953)

Italy - CINEMA UNDER FASCISM

"When the Italian government moved to block Hollywood's near monopoly of film distribution within the Italian market, the Hollywood "Big Four" (20th Century Fox, Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros.) withdrew from the Italian market in protest. No longer forced to face overwhelming American economic pressure, the Italian film industry eventually rebounded, filling the void of Hollywood products with nationally produced films."
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Ars Subterranea: The Society for Creative Preservation

"Ars Subterranea is comprised of artists, historians, and urban explorers working to create an intersection between art and architectural relics in the New York City area.

Our aim is to instigate unique perceptions of New York's history by constructing narratives around the city's forgotten relics. Ars Subterranea encourages its audiences to interact with the city's neglected and ruinous locations by recreating obscure but fascinating aspects of its urban development. Our projects include art installations, history-based scavenger hunts, unusual preservation campaigns, and much more."

William McDonough - The Next Industrial Revolution

“I believe we can accomplish great and profitable things within a new conceptual framework—one that values our legacy, honors diversity, and feeds ecosystems and societies . . . It is time for designs that are creative, abundant, prosperous, and intelligent from the start.”

William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and designer and winner of three U.S. presidential awards: the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004); and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2003). Time magazine recognized him as a "Hero for the Planet" in 1999, stating that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that—in demonstrable and practical ways—is changing the design of the world."
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While some environmental observers predict scenarios in which a rapidly increasing human population is forced to compete for ever scarcer natural resources, Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart see an exciting and hopeful future. In their vision, humanity takes nature itself as our guide, reinventing technical enterprises to be as safe and ever-renewing as natural processes. It's part of what architect McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart call The Next Industrial Revolution.

Marketing Mentor - Ilise Benun

She is the author of "Stop Pushing Me Around: A Workplace Guide for the Timid, Shy and Less Assertive" (Career Press 2006), "Self-Promotion Online" and "Designing Web Sites for Every Audience" (HOW Design Books), and "The Art of Self Promotion" (Marketing Mentor Press). She is also co-author of "Public Relations for Dummies, 2nd Edition" (Wiley, 2006).
Her work has been featured in national publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, The Journal News, The Denver Post, Inc. Magazine, Nation's Business, Self, Essence, Crains New York Business, IQ (a Cisco Systems magazine) and Working Woman, plus all the major design publications, including HOW, Dynamic Graphics and more.

About Marketing Mentor
The mission of Marketing Mentor is to teach the "creatively self-employed" how to run the business side of their business. Through both one-on-one coaching and group mentoring programs, Marketing Mentor provides accountability, feedback and hand-holding (when necessary).

Marketing Mentor was founded in 2004 by Ilise Benun and Peleg Top and since then has helped hundreds of designers build and grow their businesses.

Alex Freund and Lisa Mosko publish Gravure

The onslaught of pretty (and not-so-pretty) images leaping from magazine covers and newstands around the world can have a dizzying effect. New York-based husband-and-wife team Alex Freund and Lisa Mosko, however, publish Gravure with their own funds and ambitious business philosophy. This struck us as a courageous move in a marketplace where the bottom line and collusion (to ensure a rosy bottom line) are the name of the game. We sought out the entrepreneurial duo to discuss the genesis, advertising strategy, and future of its bi-annual magazine.

JC Report is a bimonthly email magazine providing an insider's view on fashion trends emerging around the world.

The Moment

The Moment is a daily blog that spans the T Magazine universe of fashion, design, food and travel..

Vedic architecture – the power of life-giving principles

"People who have subtle perceptions of these sorts of things have very clear experiences when they come into these houses of a certain kind of coherence," says Lipman. "Using the laws of nature … we can create predicted influences on the lives of the people who live in and use our buildings. And this is real, and it is measurable, and this is palpable and once you’ve tasted it yourself, if you have enough compassion you want everyone in the world to have it."

As far as advice to people who are interested in applying Vedic principles to their current environments, Lipman recommends three things: 1) acknowledge that the environments we spend time in have a very real influence on us and be aware of that. 2) Gather information about what will be most beneficial, and act on the information. "If you’re going to spend 90% of your time in buildings, which we do, be sure it's an East or North facing building. And if you live in a house and it's not east or north facing, see what you can do to close up the south or west doors and use east or north doors. Sleep with your head to the east or the south. Do these two things and don't take my word for it, see what your experience is."

Read the article...

http://www.vastu-design.com/

For more information vedicarchitecture.org; for more information about the Marharishi Vastu programs maharishi-india.org/programmes/p4sthap.htmlFor info on the Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, incorporated on July 21, 2001, as a model of ideal city life see maharishivediccity.net

12 days - a Year of Design

This is the story of 12 leading artists each tasked with creating a piece of calendar art in their own unique style. Meet the artists, explore their work, and watch them create digital magic. For the next 12 days, a new work by one of the artists will be revealed highlighting the process and experience of its creation.

A Copy Is Art. So What's the Original?

“Since the late 1970s,” writes Randy Kennedy, “when Richard Prince became known as a pioneer of appropriation art — photographing other photographs, usually from magazine ads, then enlarging and exhibiting them in galleries — the question has always hovered just outside the frames: ‘What do the photographers who took the original pictures think of these pictures of their pictures, apotheosized into art but without their names anywhere in sight?’”
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Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times

Published: 20071205
Images from the works of Richard Prince and Jim Krantz.

WE ADD UP

"In case you’re looking for a great gift idea for the holidays or maybe a unique fundraising idea for your school or group the “WE ADD UP” T-shirts from the folks at “I’m Organic” just may be what you’re looking for. The whole idea is to help people realize that while no one person can do everything, it is certainly possible for everyone to do something to help slow climate change. And do something we must, because ultimately “WE ADD UP”.

Essentially, you order a shirt with your choice of one of 24 possible actions that people can take to help make a difference. Then, your number in the list of shirts sold to people committing to take at least one step in the right direction is added to the front of the shirt along with the action you’ve chosen to commit to on the back.

I’ve heard there are schools and church groups selling them successfully to raise a buck in the process and I bet there are more folks out there who might like one in your area too…

I say give ‘em a look!"

@radical.media

"We believe that the future belongs to those who can connect with an audience in lots of different ways. Which is why @radical.media has evolved into a multi-disciplinary integrated media company.
Perhaps best known for commercial production, our vision for the company has always encompassed much more. We were convinced from day one that we were uniquely equipped to offer a range of programming and design capabilities."

Jon Kamen, chairman and chief executive officer @radical.media, a multi-disciplinary producer of television programs, feature films, branded content and theater.

Among @radical.media's many productions are the Academy Award winning documentary Fog of War, the Grammy success Concert for George, and sponsored entertainment productions for Ford, American Express, and Nike. Mr. Kamen spearheaded @radical.media's involvement in the strategic planning, creative development, and production of the non-for-profit television, print, and online efforts for the ONE Campaign, U2 front man Bono's campaign against the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty.

Project {M}

In 2000, I had the extreme good fortune to hear architect Samuel Mockbee lecture. Samuel co-founded The Rural Studio for architecture in Alabama and won the MacArthur Prize for his work, inspiring young architects to design and build homes and community buildings in Hale County Alabama. As I sat watching Samuel’s presentation, I thought “why isn’t there anything like this for graphic design?"
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Fred W. McDarrah, Photographer, Dies at 81

Mr. McDarrah was a self-described square who, as a longtime photographer for The Village Voice, documented the unwashed exploits of the Beat generation.

By MARGALIT FOX

Published: November 8, 2007

Ashley Gilbertson - In Frying Pan and Fire

War is hell, as General Sherman observed, but it’s many other things besides. Like no other earthly endeavor, war calls forth the best and the ugliest that humans can be: brave, brutal, petty, loyal and bored. The American venture in Iraq has summoned the whole range of human experience, from the hopes and hubris of the invasion’s first days to the dark and uncertain place the country is today.

Ashley Gilbertson, a freelance photographer for The New York Times, has followed the war in Iraq from its beginning through its most singular moments. In his new book, “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” published by the University of Chicago Press, he has compiled the best of those images, freezing the war’s most intense and dramatic moments, from the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 to the democratic elections of December 2005. The heart of the book, graphically and emotionally, is the battle of Falluja in November 2004, when 6,000 marines and soldiers went into what was then a contested jihadi stronghold. Those photos capture street-to-street fighting in all its manic ferocity. But the most moving of these images are not of fighting and violence but of the moments in between: a group of soldiers sunning themselves during a pause in the battle, a child hurling himself down a slide at a Baghdad playground, an Iraqi man and son standing frozen before an American soldier. Moments like these remind us just how human the experience of war really is. DEXTER FILKINS

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PRINT's International Art + Commerce Design Review

LAST CHANCE TO ENTER: PRINT's International Art + Commerce Design Review If you're planning to enter your work in PRINT's International Art + Commerce Design Review, you only have a few days left.

All work must be postmarked by December 3.

The effort is well worth it, though. All winning work will be featured in the October 2008 issue of PRINT, as part of a unique showcase of corporate design.

To find out more and download your entry form now, visit printmag.com.

Art Basel Miami Beach

November 28-December 11, 2007

"Winning over the art world with its spirited flair, Art Basel Miami Beach returns for its sixth year with even more special events and a coterie of emerging fringe fairs. We preview ABMB's highlights, from the new Art Supernova section to the multimedia Art Sound Lounge in the Botanical Gardens. Miami-based artists Naomi Fisher and Jim Drain talk to us about the local art community, and we profile the trendsetting designers of Studio Job, who exhibit their latest work at Design Miami. Beyond the Miami hubbub, we review the catalogue for Takashi Murakami's controversial LA show, as well as new projects around the globe from Kirsten Hassenfeld and Jon Kessler."
Article from Artkrush

The ADC 87th Annual Awards

Don't miss the January 18, 2008 entry deadline for Professionals and the January 31, 2008 deadline for Students. It's your chance to win a Gold Cube in the 87th Annual Awards. Enter your Advertising, Design, Interactive, Photography and Illustration, even unpublished work in Playground. There are also breakout categories, ADC Hybrid and ADC Design Sphere, and sponsored awards from Corbis and Yahoo!

So go ahead, enter now!

About the ADC
The ADC is the premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind. Founded in New York in 1920, the ADC is a self-funding, not-for-profit membership organization that celebrates and inspires creative excellence, connecting creative visual communications professionals from around the world.

Mission
To promote the highest standards of excellence and integrity in visual communications for the industry and to encourage students and young professionals entering the field. In short, to provide "visual fuel."

Mandate
To provide a forum for creative leaders in Advertising, Design, Interactive Media and Communications to meet, learn, participate, and explore the direction for these rapidly evolving industries.

Not Yet A Member? Join Now.

The Art Directors Club 106 West 29th Street New York, NY 10001 212.643.1440 www.adcglobal.org

Design Addict

Welcome to Design Addict, your resource for modern, post-modern and contemporary design of the 20th-21st centuries where you'll find information on designers and producers, on furniture, lighting, dinnerware and accessories.

New Photographers 2007

"This year, in our quest to inspire you with new directions in photography, we reached out even further to creative tastemakers around the globe. The long list of possible artists to present was informed by colleagues and friends in creative industries worldwide.

And here they are - the 35 photographers we've chosen: New Photographers 2007."

Re:Solutions Day Conference

January 19th, 2008
9am-5pm
As creatives, its our job to wonder. To inquire, to be inquisitive, to question, to challenge. So, let me challenge you with you this simple question. Do you think it’s possible that one day, say a day like January 19th, 2008, could change your life? Okay, maybe not your life, but your career? Do you think that in a single day, between morning coffee and a little before dinner that you could get inspired to such a degree that when you sit at your desk the following Monday, everything, yes capital E everything, looks different? Thats what Re:Solutions is all about. Changing the way you look at things-your job, your work, your clients, your business. It’s a day that challenges you to discard your current perceptions about small budgets, tight deadlines and timesheets, challenges you to take a different route to work on Monday, stop shortcutting the design process and start pushing yourself. Again. Re:Solutions. It’s a day of thinking, debating, exploring, experimenting, inspiring and yes challenging you to challenge yourself tomorrow and the next day and the day after that and the day after that. Do all of this with the help of the Publix branding team, Mucca Design, a typography workshop by Thomas Scott and so much more! Check the site for upcoming details and how to register.
AIGA Orlando

Richard Avedon Foundation

Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish-Russian family. After briefly attending Columbia University, he started as a photographer for the Merchant Marines in 1942, taking identification pictures of the crewmen with his Rolleiflex camera given to him by his father as a going-away present. In 1944, he began working as an advertising photographer for a department store, but was quickly discovered by Alexey Brodovitch, the art director for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar.
In 1946, Avedon had set up his own studio and began providing images for magazines including Vogue and Life. He soon became the chief photographer for Harper's Bazaar. Avedon did not conform to the standard technique of taking fashion photographs, where models stood emotionless and seemingly indifferent to the camera. Instead, Avedon showed models full of emotion, smiling, laughing, and, many times, in action.
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Richard Avedon Foundation

Watch videos from the WebbyConnect Summit

Watch video from the WebbyConnect Summit panel "Experts. Masses. Who Knows Best?" now on The Webby Awards site. Experts from industry innovators like StumbleUpon, WebMD, DailyCandy, del.icio.us, and CondeNet analyze the debate over top-down vs. bottom-up content creation, and discuss which one may win out in the future.

Watch the "Experts. Masses. Who Knows Best" discussion from the WebbyConnect Summit.

Corbis Buys Veer, Whither the Fonts?

November 06, 2007

I can only find one source at the moment, but it looks like Corbis bought Veer today. This is more stock photo than type industry news, because imagery makes up the bulk of Veer’s sales. I wonder what this will mean for their independence which has propelled them into such success over the last few years. But more importantly for our readers: what is the future of fonts at Veer?

According to the report by The Stock Asylum:

Corbis said the acquisition advances a “strategic marker approach to establish a network of brands to serve different types of customers and accelerate its growth in the commercial space.”

Oh, that clears it up.

It’s no secret that digital type is a not a major money maker. Large organizations like Adobe have gradually shrunk their type activity since the booming ’90s, blaming low profit margins as a cause. This decade has belonged to the independent foundry and lean, innovative resellers like Veer, FontShop, and MyFonts.

Veer has no in-house type design team, as far as I’m aware. So the overhead in the fonts department, is assumedly low. To the designers and buyers of Veer fonts, this news is hopefully benign. But one wonders if a mother-company like Corbis will be down with all the elaborate printed typographic goodies which has made Veer a designer favorite.

Update: Corbis has posted their press release, a masterpiece of buzzphrases and opacity. It does state that “the companies will maintain distinct customer propositions and leverage cross-selling opportunities for Corbis’ industry-leading Rights Services and Veer’s discerning type face collections.”

Update: In a story for PDN, Daryl Lang further confirms that the acquisition won’t make much of a difference to the consumer.

Thanks to Jürgen Siebert for the tip.
See also: Veer Scripts : Veer Acquires Walcott Fonts : Veer Launch

By Stephen Coles

The Street Photography of Matt Stuart

Matt Stuart has the ability to tell stories in pictures and the timing and decisiveness are just spectacularly in the right moment. The next time one would whine about not having any good sceneries to shoot photos, the street photography of Matt Stuart would definitely give inspiration and insight.

More photos can be found at his site which would require Flash 8 to work.

Welcome to the PhizzPop Design Challenge!

36 teams enter. 1 team leaves.

The PhizzPop Design Challenge pits top interactive, Web, and design agencies against one another to push the limits of technology and creativity in a battle royale. Think Mad Max for design.

The regional teams have been selected and will duke it out in New York, Boston, Chicago, Austin, and Los Angeles, with the regional winners competing against one another, and San Francisco winner AKQA, at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, TX.

PARIS PHOTO - THE EYE OF THE WORLD

Over the decade since it first began, Paris Photo has won recognition as the world's premier fair for still photography.This unique event offers a deep and broad view of the medium, with the best of fine art photography from the earliest days until now and a forward-looking survey of what's happening in this art form today.

Paris Photo is organizing its eleventh edition determined to maintain its standards of excellence and its support for photography in all its diversity. From November 15th through November 18th, 2007 it will bring together some hundred galleries and publishers from the world over.With its exhibitions, book signings, prize award ceremonies and lectures, during those five days Paris Photo will be the eye of the world.

See You in Elle: Announcing the Yours by Design Contest

Designer Chris Rubino says that one of the most exciting moments of his life was when he first spotted someone on the street in Tokyo wearing a t-shirt that he designed.
Soon you could be saying the same thing, but first you have to create the winning design in Yours By Design, a new contest sponsored by Elle.com, designer Thakoon Panichgul, and the tres chic boutique Kirna Zabete.

The spoils include a feature in Elle, a $1,000 Kirna Zabete shopping spree and the thrill of having your t-shirt sold at the boutique in New York, Tokyo, and online. The prize also includes a "virtual mentorship" with Thakoon, which we kinda hope translates to interactive holographic likenesses of you and the designer but more likely involves e-mails.

Your canvas, should you choose to accept it, is Thakoon's ruffly sleeved t-shirt. Just print out the online template and go to town. The only directive is that your design be in keeping with Thakoon's aesthetic. So you have until December 15th to figure out how to be "sophisticated and ethereal."

SEOUL APPOINTED WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2010

The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) announced on October 20, on behalf of the International Design Alliance (IDA), Seoul as the winner of the World Design Capital (WDC) 2010 competition at the closing session of the Icsid Congress held at Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco.

Seoul received wide praise from the five-member expert jury, which consisted of internationally acclaimed designers Marc Newson and Patricia Urquiola; Sergio Chiamparino, Mayor of Torino (Italy), World Design Capital 2008; Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, President of Icsid; and Jacques Lange, President of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda).

The jury unanimously endorsed Seoul’s bid to become the World Design Capital 2010. “The jury was highly impressed by Seoul’s application,” confirmed Prof Dr. Peter Zec, Icsid President, WDC Founding Chair and WDC 2010 jury member. “Seoul’s remarkable achievements in design-led development – particularly in the past decade – exemplify the spirit of the WDC designation.”

Icsid went on to explain that Seoul’s application detailed the far-reaching impact of design on the social, cultural and economic development of the city, and with the recent profusion of high-tech Korean consumer products around the globe—from brands such as LG Electronics Inc., Samsung, Hyundai, Daewoo, Helio and Kia—Seoul has been defining its international image in terms of its design capabilities….

11.04.2007 by Ulrike Reinhard

Make My Logo Bigger Cream

Clients and designers: They never see eye to eye. In some cases, they never even see each other face to face. Designers want clients to understand things like composition, typefaces and the importance of white space. Clients want designers to render their names in 72-point Comic Sans, using ALL the space. But thanks to a new product especially formulated for designers by web-development firm Agency Fusion, clients and creatives just might have their solution: Simply apply Make My Logo Bigger Cream, and watch your client problems disappear.
http://www.makemylogobiggercream.com/

InDesign user Group

There are InDesign® user groups forming around the United States, Canada, and Australia. This site is intended as a place for members of these groups to receive information about upcoming chapter meetings, read the latest InDesign news, get professional opinions about the publishing industry, and learn more about InDesign through online tutorials and demos.

Site Design and Development

This site is designed, developed, and maintained by Chris Converse. A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology with a BFA in graphic design, Chris has evolved into a multimedia designer and developer in the Philadelphia area, and has worked in the mediums of print, CD-ROM, websites, animation, DVDs, photography, and package design. His portfolio includes brands such as The Wharton School, Tylenol, Motrin, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Wyeth, AstraZeneca, Adobe Systems, Campbell’s, and Comcast.
http://chrisconverse.com

The Hypermedia Research Centre

"The Hypermedia Research Centre is a research group composed of academics, artists, artisans, designers and writers. We are based in the School of Media, Art and Design at the University of Westminster University in London, UK."

New Moves: Accidental Movement and Mogollon’s Outmigration

When performative motion art and gastrointestinal delights intertwine like this, your mind, soul and body get fed. A blissfully visual motivity piece, Outmigration is the collaboration between avant-garde dance/theater group Accidental Movement and visual arts team Mogollon; it’s a “dinner theater” performance in seven acts being held this week at the Brooklyn art/dining space Monkey Town.

Featuring a full company of dancers, performance artists, sound designers and even a collaboration with Monkey Town’s chef, Outmigration suggests a time when dinner theater was common, while simultaneously glowing with futuristic vicissitudes cast on the state of performance. It’s a truly brilliant experience and a forward-thought achievement. It’s best summed up in the question Outmigration asks you to ask yourself: “What would it feel like to be able to take off, defeat gravity and get drunk at the edge of space, where one can only keep moving?”

Outmigration runs from Thursday, October 18th through Sunday, October 21st and from Thursday, October 25th through Sunday, October 28th. Thursday performances are at 8:00pm and Friday, Saturday and Sunday performances are at 7:30pm and 10:00pm.

www.monkeytownhq.com/outmigration.html

Posted by Maxwell Williams on 10/19/2007

Cool design organizations

• AIGA
  Professional association for design.
• IDSA, The Industrial Designers Society of America
  US Industrial design organization
• The Design Council (UK)
  Britain's premiere organization for design.
• bai: agencia de innovación
  Bilbao government agency for innovation and design.
• Slovak Design Center
  Government design organization in Slovakia.
• Barcelona Design Center
  

PRINT’s Regional Design Annual.

We are now accepting entries for the 2008 Regional Design Annual. NEW for 2008: Entering your work is even easier. You can now register and pay for your entries online. Read the complete guidelines or access the official entry form (pdf).
This issue, the Regional Design Annual, is the most comprehensive survey of graphic design in the United States-and one of the biggest issues to hit the graphic design industry each year. All winning work will be organized by region and featured in the December 2008 issue of PRINT. We received more than 20,000 individual entries for the 2007 Regional Annual, from almost every state. The process of selection in all regions of the country was as stringent as ever, and, as always, we feel that the work we chose is first-rate, and that it represents the best design, illustrations, and photography being produced throughout the United States.

NEW: Get inspired with ten year's worth of Regional Design Annual Winners. Learn more about the Regional Design Annual 10 Year Retrospective DVD and website.

2010 Biodiversity Target: Act Now

In decision VI/26 the Conference of the Parties adopted the Strategic Plan for the Convention on Biological Diversity. In its mission statement, Parties committed themselves to a more effective and coherent implementation of the three objectives of the Convention, to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on earth.

Read more: Convention on Biological Diversity

Video: http://www.unep.org/newscentre/animations/cbd_web.swf

Is it time to go Freelance?

Posted by Haig Armen on Saturday, October 6th, 2007 3:58 pm

"In the UK, where I’ve been for the past couple of weeks, pay rates for design freelancers are up in many cases, particularly when it comes to digital disciplines, according to DesignWeek’s second annual survey.

Overall, pay increases have been extremely healthy over the last twelve months, with increases of 13% cited, and a further 9% over the next twelve months predicted. However, rates in more traditional print, branding, exhibition and retail sectors lag behind their new media equivalents, as the following tables illustrate."

Take a look at the tables...

Language as Sculpture, Words as Clay

By RANDY KENNEDY

Published: October 21, 2007

How Lawrence Weiner transforms text into works of art.

It’s an unusual way to meet him, given that almost 40 years ago Mr. Weiner decided that words would serve almost exclusively as raw material for his art: words spoken, sung, painted on walls, printed in books and on matchbooks, stamped on coins or manhole covers or elsewhere. In 1968, in a declaration of principles that has become a founding document of Conceptual art (a category that Mr. Weiner, as you might expect, views with great suspicion), he wrote:

“1. The artist may construct the piece.

“2. The piece may be fabricated.

“3. The piece need not be built.

“Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.”

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Two events at FullSail

Two events at FullSail to raise awareness for World Diabetes Day Nov 15^th

Poster and T-Shirt Design Contest
In order to promote the "Draw For A Cure" event below and also help raise funds for diabetes, we're holding a design contest for the promotional poster and t-shirt

Requirements:
-Submit a design where the theme is in white against black (so that we can print 1-color black t-shirts).
-The design needs to be roughly 8.5 by 11 and be saved as a vector graphic in 300 DPI resolution.
-Send all designs (or questions) to Theresa Becker at tbecker@fullsail.com.
-Deadline: designs will only be received until Oct. 26 at 5 p.m.
-The winner will be selected and announced in Propeller by Oct. 31. The winner's name will be included in all posters and receive a $25 Best Buy gift certificate.

Touched By Diabetes? Draw For A Cure
If you or someone you know has diabetes, join the "Draw For A Cure" initiative. You can choose your own medium to express yourself or, if you need a canvas to work on, we can supply it to you. Make sure to contact Avaryl Buzbee at abuzbee@fullsail.com by to give her your contact information, so we can coordinate and informative meeting with all those interested.

The goal is to have the pieces submitted by the participating artists exhibited in our campus around World Diabetes Day, to be auctioned to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (http://www.jdrf.org/). The details of the exhibit will be posted at a later time.

Joost – next-generation TV

What's Joost? It's free TV, with the choice to watch alone or with friends. Joost is packed with internet tools such as instant messaging and channel chat, allowing people to really share the TV experience. It's a completely secure platform for content owners that respects their rights, while protecting and enhancing their brands. And it's an incredibly flexible way for advertisers to reach a truly global audience, in ways that really work. Joost isn't just video on the internet – it's the next generation of television for viewers, content owners and advertisers everywhere.

Who's building Joost?
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström have been talking about the idea behind Joost for a long time. In early 2006, they started gathering the world's best engineers, web gurus and media visionaries to start building it, under the code name of The Venice Project. More than a year of very hard work later, their vision is ready for public viewing.

In that time, Joost has grown from a handful of people in a small office outside Amsterdam to more than 100 people spread right across Europe and North America. Joost is already a global venture, bringing TV to a global, highly networked community. And already, it's setting new standards for 21st-century entertainment.

Ettore Sottsass - Industrial Design

At the age of 90, Italian architect and furniture designer Ettore Sottsass is still shaking up the design world with his irreverent flair. Co-founding the design collective Memphis in 1981, Sottsass became known for brightly colored, outrageously playful designs that defined '80s style. Although his more recent furniture is a somber mélange of polished aluminum, warm wood, and clear plastic, the tone is just as impudent. The towering cabinets on view at Friedman Benda are stacks of mismatching pieces — in Cabinet nr. 72, cold metal shelves rest on a dresser of polished tropical wood teetering on clear acrylic legs. Cabinets nr. 76 and nr. 67 also walk the line between subdued elegance and cheek, but his glass works are unapologetically bright and colorful. (BR)

An exhibition of Ron Arad's aluminum chairs is also on view at Friedman Benda through October 27.

One of the most significant counter-forces to modernism in the history of design, Ettore Sottsass has made monumental artistic contributions to every decade since 1945. His remarkable career has produced a provocative body of work, including architecture, furniture, industrial design, glass, ceramics, painting, photography and a wealth of writings. With this work he has consistently intellectually and aesthetically challenged the conventional wisdom of forms and proportions for over 65 years. Having celebrated his 90th birthday in September, Sottsass continues to produce work through Sottsass Associati, the architecture and design practice he founded in Milan in 1985.

The United Nations Documentary Film Festival needs a logo

Prize: $5,000
Deadline: Monday November 26, 2007
Competition Brief

Design the official logo for “Stories from the Field: The United Nations Documentary Film Festival”

The Stories from the Field festival is presented by Media Communications Association International, New York Chapter (MCA-I NY) in partnership with the United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI) and The New School.

Until now the communications material for Stories from the Field has contained variations of the MCA-I NY logo with the United Nations logo and the title – as shown in the example here. The organization is looking for a logo that represents the festival, rather than the organizations that present it.

The logo would be used on the festival's calls for entries, programs, posters, flyers, stationery, collateral materials and the website. It would also be used to brand the various satellite festivals that are in formation. The Logo should be composed of 2 elements:

– An icon representing the festival
– The festival title


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Nike Design Director at Full Sail

Wilson W. Smith III

October 25, 2007
Check In: 7pm
Presentation: 7:30pm

Location:
Full Sail - building behind Chilis

Register online now and save!

ONLINE PRICING
$5 Members
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AT DOOR
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Wilson W. Smith III is a Design Director at Nike, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon. Becoming a Senior Designer in 1990, Mr. Smith had been involved primarily with the concepts of Nike's Cross Training and Basketball products. Establishing the design direction for Tennis footwear throughout the 90's, he created many athlete-endorsed products including Andre Agassi's signature line. In 1997, he became the first dedicated Senior Footwear Designer for Brand Jordan, and eventually inspired by, and collaborating with Michael Jordan, he created the industry leading Air Jordan 16 & 17. Fall of 2003, Wilson became the Creative Director of Nike Court, which includes all tennis & racquet driven footwear, with lead design direction for Nike endorsee Serena Williams and world #1 Roger Federer. A recent recognition, Black Enterprise Magazine named Wilson one of America's Top Black Designers.

Maira Kalman - illustrations

From April 2006 to April 2007, the artist and author Maira Kalman, known for the “Newyorkistan” cover of The New Yorker and for her illustrations in the newly updated “Elements of Style,” blogged for the New York Times.

Now “The Principles of Uncertainty,” her witty, whimsical illustrated series, has come out in book form. Tonight, Ms. Kalman — who has also designed for Isaac Mizrahi and Kate Spade, and created sets for the Mark Morris Dance Company — will sign copies at a new exhibition of her work at the Julie Saul Gallery.

“‘Style’ Gets New Elements,” by Jeremy Eichler

“The Principles of Uncertainty,” a blog by Maira Kalman

“Sidestepping the Camp in a Work by Stein and Thompson,” by Jennifer Dunning

The Art of Business: Artist's Rep or Artist's Rip Off?

Artist's representatives charge too much and won't even consider you unless you're already successful, so why even seek representation? Good question.
(creativepro.com)
By Eric J. Adams, creativepro.com contributing editor
Monday, October 18, 2004

By day you create tedious corporate brochures and inane illustrations; by night you wonder if there is an artist representative somewhere who will recognize your talent and introduce you to A-list clients with bulging budgets and glamorous projects.

Hey, we're all human, but before you spend hours chasing down an agent who will, take up to 25 percent of your earnings, first understand the rep game and determine if an artist's rep is right for you.

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Hotel Chevalier, free download

Hotel Chevalier is a 2007 short film by director Wes Anderson. Starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, the film acts as a prologue to Anderson's 2007 feature The Darjeeling Limited. The 13-minute short takes place in the eponymous hotel some time before Schwartzman's character, Jack, meets his two older brothers in India. The film was screened out of competition alongside The Darjeeling Limited at the 64th Annual Venice Film Festival. It was made available in the United States as a free download on Apple, Inc's iTunes Store on September 26th.

The film was made in the Hotel Raphael in Paris, France. Prominently featured in the short is the song "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)" by Peter Sarstedt, from the 1969 album of the same name.

Top Design: Design for Special Events

Peleg Top is the founder of Top Design, the Los Angeles-based design and branding firm now specializing in design for special events. Peleg started his firm in 1991 from his apartment and, with a strong dedication to marketing and a passion for business, he has grown Top Design into one of Los Angeles' most sought-after firms.

Initially specializing in design for the music industry, Peleg and the Top Design team art-directed over 300 CD packages and created the Grammy Awards Logo. Top also chaired the Grammy Album packaging committee for five years. In the Non Profit sector, Top Design helped Toyota Motors USA brand their corporate contributions division and helped raise over $200 million dollars for many other respected organizations like City of Hope, AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Tiger Woods Foundation.

Illustration

We have been representing the newest talent since 1929 and then known as the Kathleen Boland Studio and later the Garden Studio. Over the years we have represented the world's leading illustrators from Frank R Grey in the 1930s, who illustrated the Jane Turpin stories by Evadne Price, to the outstanding collection of contemporary artists we represent today.
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Sacred Paris

Audio Slide Show
Among the churches of Paris is a trove of artistic masterworks, from a revelatory Tintoretto to a shimmering Keith Haring.

The Kitchen

The Kitchen is a non-profit, interdisciplinary organization that provides innovative artists working in the media, literary, and performing arts with exhibition and performance opportunities to create and present new work. Using its own extensive history as a resource, the organization identifies, supports, and presents emerging and under-recognized artists who are making significant contributions to their respective fields as well as serves as a safe space for more established artists to take unusual creative risks. Read more...

Job Applicant, Beware: You're Being Googled

by Allan Hoffman
Monster Tech Jobs Expert
It’s not just what you say that can be held against you when you’re looking for a job. It’s also what you post on MySpace, write in your blog and broadcast on YouTube.

That’s because if a potential employer uncovers salacious or otherwise unflattering material about you online, that job offer you were expecting could vaporize. With 77 percent of employers Googling and otherwise researching applicants, you never know what your future bosses may think about those times you ranted about your coworkers or got sloshed at a party. They may simply decide to avoid your questionable past and move on to the next candidate.

“Who wants to be the person in HR who brings in the kid who has bong hits all over his page?” says Michael Fertik, the CEO of ReputationDefender, a services company that helps job seekers clean up their online reputations. Read more

TOCA ME design conference 08 - BEYOND SURFACE

The next TOCA ME design conference
will take place on 23rd february 2008 in munich, germany!

TOCA ME design conference once again brings together some
of today's most outstanding designers from around the world.
they present their works ranging from graphic design to web
design and product design, from video to interactive instal-
lations and allow a view behind their scenes - BEYOND SURFACE.

featured designers:

ERIK NATZKE, usa
INSERT SILENCE, canada
NANIKA/HI-RES!, uk
DVEIN, spain
MARIO KLINGEMANN, germany

sat 23rd february 2008
reithalle, munich, germany

http://www.design-conference.de

TOCA ME & LOUNGE SEVENTY-TWO present:
BEYOND SURFACE - DESIGN CONTEST

everyday we meet people, talk to people on the web, watch
beautiful faces on ads and tv. at the end of the day we
often resume that there was lots of communication but we
don't know anything about each other.

we want you to allow us a view behind your nice face. show
us your thoughts and feelings. your fears or pleasures. what
you are occupied with in your daily life. from sadness to
happiness. from global issues to personal thoughts. we are
interested in you - so let us follow you beyond surface.

don't waste any second and join the contest. there are
prizes (adobe packages) waiting worth more than 8000 euro!

all contest details can be found at:
http://designcontest.toca-me.com

Your Ear Can Be Your Guide

by SETH KUGEL

Published: September 30, 2007

For New York visitors, the current offering of narrated neighborhood walks and museum art talks can add texture and entertainment as you traipse through town. Read more...

MoMA Audio Guides
Download "unofficial" audio guides for the Museum of Modern Art here. Send us your own audio guide to MoMA and we'll add it to this page.
ART IRREVERENCE
A few alternative museum tours have cropped up in response to the audio tours available from museums themselves. Because museum commentary is generally erudite and positive, be ready for backlash. The Marymount Manhattan College students and professors, whose irreverent, layman-talking-about-art discussions: (www.homepage.mac.com/dave7/ArtMobs/FileSharing52.html) got a lot of news coverage when they were made in 2005, are still lots of fun.

What will be the key looks for autumn/winter 2007?

Know your alphabet

From fitted silhouettes, chunky heels and pearls for the girls to regimental colours, glossy macs and Xavier Delcour's luxurious tailoring for the boys, Maggie Davis presents a complete A to Z of the clothes, the colours and the styles coming your way this season.
Sunday August 26, 2007
The Observer

Weekend Explorer: The East Village

Art and Unrest in the East Village - Dig into the roots of rebellion and creativity that have made the East Village a mecca of counter culture for a century and a half. With John Strausbaugh.

Video

Swiss Artist Christoph Büchel To Present New Work

Opening reception Wednesday 29 October, 7 - 9 pm

Swiss artist Christoph Büchel creates hyper-realistic environments that are, in essence, like walking into a mind at work. His detailed installations are three-dimensional renderings of interior spaces and/or situations that often convey extreme psychological mindsets, such as that of a survivalist, a homeless person, or an agoraphobe. These fictitious yet highly believable environments – rooms within rooms – are carefully constructed so that the institutional framework of the art museum and all reference to the gallery context are removed. Read more...

Helvetica’s 50th birthday - September 21, 2007

Valencia Community College - PAC (Performing Arts Center)

Don’t miss out on this ONE NIGHT ONLY screening of this feature-length independent film about typography! Celebrate Helvetica’s 50th birthday with AIGA Orlando at Valencia’s East Campus – Building 3! Tickets are selling fast, so visit http://orlando.aiga.org/ to purchase yours now! Bring cash for popcorn and treats!

Helvetica is graphic designer and filmmaker Gary Hustwit’s feature-length film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It examines the life and legend of the most universal of all the faces—Helvetica—which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007. The film is further an exploration of how the typeface inhabits the culture and environment. Shot in high-definition on location in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium, the film is currently in post-production and is slated to begin screening at film festivals worldwide starting in early 2007.

http://www.helveticafilm.com/clips.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTUGhsNk6bk&mode=related&search=

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Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz

"P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents in collaboration with Kunst-Werke (KW) Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and the Media Department at The Museum of Modern Art, the first U.S. gallery exhibition that will feature the newly restored version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s monumental, sequential film Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). Based on Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel, this recently restored epic will be a long overdue introduction of a masterpiece of German cinema to a younger American audience. The more than 15-hour epic will be divided into 14 screening rooms—one for each episode of the film. This exhibition will be on view in the Third Floor Main Gallery from October 21, 2007 through January 7, 2008.
...Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982) was a leader of the New German Cinema movement. Political and social corruption in postwar Germany was a primary theme in his work. Hailed as a cult hero during his life, he was a prolific filmmaker, having directed more than 40 productions including Love is Colder than Death (1969), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Lola (1981) and Querelle (1982).
...Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz is presented as a part of Carnegie Hall’s first major international festival—Berlin in Lights—a 17-day celebration of the city of Berlin that will run from November 2–18, 2007, with close to 50 events presented throughout all five boroughs of New York City, at Carnegie Hall, and partner venues. For more information about Berlin in Lights, please visit carnegiehall.org/berlininlights."

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P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center - 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, 11101

Welcome to the Changents Alpha site

We believe the key to change starts with people who take amazing actions... that become riveting stories... that can turn into mass movements. And so, we launched Changents with this simple but elegant idea:

Hand the keys over to the world's do-gooders (a.k.a. Change Agents) — big or small — to tell their stories; provide their friends with the tools to get behind them; and show our members the impact of their positive actions ricocheting across the Internet.

Video upload, personal profiles and other community features are coming soon... but there is plenty to get you going right now!

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PANTONE Goe System

"The graphics industry has dramatically transformed itself since the introduction of the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® 45 years ago. Gone are the cut-and-paste hard copy graphics of yesteryear, replaced by the computer-driven hardware and software of today. To address the evolving demands of the printing, design and publishing worlds both now and for the future, Pantone, Inc. introduces the PANTONE Goe System.

This new vision of color, from inspiration to application, offers creative and reproductive flexibility. It provides an extended range of 2,058 chromatically-arranged solid colors that are easy to locate and specify using guide, chip and software formats. Colors were designed to be printed with uniform and industry typical ink film thicknesses, thus enabling equal drying times and more control for matching color on press. Goe colors are simple to mix using only ten Mixing Bases plus PANTONE Clear. The inks are readily available worldwide and receptive to aqueous and UV coatings.

Packaged in the artfully designed GoeCube, the Goe System brings the 2,058 colors to you in a variety of formats."

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REFRESH YOUR CREATIVITY: Three Excellent Exercises

Feed Your Mind

Ray Bradbury is the author of more than 500 published works—short stories, novels, stage plays, screenplays, TV scripts, poetry.

Exploring become his oxygen and the secret of his prolific creativity. Bradbury told Jack Foster that he had read a short story, an essay and a poem every day since childhood.

"If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines and music," Bradbury said, "you will automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry period in my life because I feed myself well."

Make an exploration list for your life. Fill it with readings, films, music.

Become a Sponge

Ian Schrager and Philippe Stark collaborated on designing boutique hotels like the Clift in San Francisco and the Hudson in New York City.

"Whenever we start a project, we're both voyeurs," Shrager says. "We take in information like a sponge."

Exploring is about asking questions and absorbing insights.

Make a list of 50 questions for a project you're about to begin.

Anticipate

Several years ago, Rodney Dangerfield was phoning me from time to time about a product idea. I didn't see much potential, so after three or four calls, I said, "I gotta tell you, Rodney, there's little hope or money in this product. Why are you so interested?"

A pause followed, and I could visualize him tugging his collar, as in his comedy routines. After a moment, he said, "It's not the money, Sam, it's the anticipation. Anticipation is the greatest thing in life."

I don't totally agree—there's much to be said for the pleasures of in-the-now moments—but anticipation does provide a powerful zing.

List three projects or activities you're looking forward to.


Excerpted from "zing! Five steps and 101 tips for creativity on command" by Sam Harrison, MacHillock Publishing/IPG Distributors. Harrison is a speaker and seminar leader and also an instructor at Portfolio Center in Atlanta. "Zing!" is available at bookstores, by calling (800)888-4741, or by visiting www.zingzone.com.

Put Your Content in My Pocket

by Craig Hockenberry

"While these articles are specifically targeted at the iPhone, many of the ideas and concepts I’m presenting can be useful and effective with other mobile devices. The processing power of these devices will continue to increase, bringing an end to the “dumbed down” mobile web, and it’s likely that the iPhone is just the beginning of an exciting new chapter in the storied life of HTML."

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ABOUT CREATIVE TIME

"Creative Time presents the most innovative art in the public realm. From our base in New York, we work with artists who ignite the imagination and explore ideas that shape society. We initiate a dynamic conversation among artists, sites, and audiences, in projects that enliven public spaces with free and powerful expression."

Art Underground

Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Published: 20070802

Images of New York subway mosaics from the Squire Vickers era.

Artist Biography: Tezuka Osamu

From Shelley Esaak

Depending on where you look or who's talking, you'll see Tezuka referred to as the God, Father, Godfather, Grandfather, Emperor and/or King of both manga and anime. ("Manga" and "anime," then - remember those two types of art.)

Whichever of these titles you wish to give the man, it is wholly deserved. He didn't "merely" change the future of manga and create anime as we know it, he worked ceaselessly. Over the course of his career, Tezuka created and wrote more than 700 manga series containing an estimated 170,000 pages of drawings, and another 200,000 pages of anime storyboards and scripts.

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Tezuka Osamu website

The Art of Founding Type

By John Downer

This text was first published in 1995 on the back of a poster introducing the Not Caslon typeface.

Caslon types have been in existence now for about half as long as the art of typefounding has been practiced in the western world. The first Latin types produced by William Caslon in England around 270 years ago were made the way virtually all movable types had been made up to that time: they were cast one character at a time, each by hand. But typefounding has never been just a simple matter of molding hot metal. In fact, the production process that was used in Caslon's time was painstakingly intricate and included no fewer than four distinct tasks, each involving a separate set of skills.

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Digital Design Tournament 2007

If you want to see the design process truly in action, check out Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament 2007 as it kicks off its tour Sept. 8th.
Cut&Paste is a truly global design tournament, with stops in a whopping 11 cities worldwide, all of which will serve as great networking opportunities for the local community. Eight emerging designers will go head-to-head in each city—creating designs in lightning-fast 15-minute rounds, each with a different graphic theme. Here's where you come in: All this takes place live, on stage, in front of audience. So you can sit back, relax and thank god it's not you up there, sweating all over your mouse.
http://www.cutandpaste.com

PictureBox

PictureBox is a Grammy Award-winning art, music, photography, and comics publisher based in Brooklyn, New York. PictureBox specializes in bringing artists' visions to print in startling and unexpected ways. All of our books are meticulously designed and printed to create as unique and immersive a reading experience as possible. PictureBox publishes its own books and also packages books and concepts for museums and galleries around the world.
This web site functions as both the PictureBox catalog and a hub for a carefully curated international selection of artists products.

Digital Art Publications

Take a look at this Digital Arts catalogue
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers

To receive a student discount on books from D.A.P., send an email with your name, address, school, course of study, and expected year of graduation and degree to student@dapinc.com

Typography on the web

Here's an interesting article about Typography on the web:

CSS @ Ten: The Next Big Thng by Hakon Wium Lie

Utilizing CSS style sheets, one day, Designers may get control over fonts for web pages again. The interesting stuff starts at the "A brief history of web fonts" section and down.

"When browsers start supporting web fonts, designers will be tempted to adjust more properties than just font-family. In the examples shown above, line-height, letter-spacing, word-spacing, and absolute positioning have been tweaked."

"Prince is currently the only program that supports TrueType web fonts, but it provides the proof of concept we need to begin thinking seriously about web fonts—and to begin advocating for their implementation in common web browsers."

This would be so great to get to control the design even more on the web.

There's a section on the history of web fonts. Stuff I didn't even know!

"A brief history of web fonts - This is not a new idea. In 1998, CSS2 described a way to link to fonts from style sheets, and both Microsoft and Netscape added support for web fonts in their browsers. However, neither vendor supported the most widely used font format, TrueType. Instead, they each picked a different, little-used format with few tools to support it (EOT and TrueDoc, respectively). And so web fonts disappeared from the designer’s toolbox."

Posted by Denny Butts

Conserving Pixels, Bits, and Bytes

By Jacquelyn Lewis, Published: August 2, 2007

NEW YORK— No one can pinpoint the exact moment the new era began—when museums had to start seriously addressing the conservation challenges that come with the increasing appearance of digital art in major collections—but new media expert Richard Rinehart thinks the tide turned, appropriately, somewhere around the dawn of the new millennium.

“Digital art had been collected by a few museums, such as the Walker Art Center, but it was really at the turn of the century when long-term preservation became widely recognized as a big problem,” said Rinehart, digital media director and adjunct curator at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and associate director for public programs at the Berkeley Center for New Media.

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Project M

Each summer, John Bielenberg's Project M brings together a handful of young designers to spend one month dedicated to a cause where they can make difference by using design. This summer, eight designers traveled to Greensboro, Ala.—a small town in an extremely impoverished county—where, after weeks of research, the designers uncovered a disturbing fact: One-quarter of the county's residents did not have access to clean water. To draw awareness to the issue, Project M designed and produced a powerful newsprint piece and corresponding website encouraging donors to "buy" the meters to connect residents to the water supply.
http://www.buyameter.org

Font rendering philosophies of Windows and Mac OS X

Jeff Atword asked What’s Wrong With Apple’s Font Rendering? and as I answered in the comments it comes down to philosophy:

“The primary difference is that Microsoft try to align everything to whole pixels vertically and sub-pixels horizontally.
Apple just scale the font naturally - sometimes it fits into whole pixels other times it doesn’t.
This means Windows looks sharper at the expense of not actually being a very accurate representation of the text. The Mac with it’s design/DTP background is a much more accurate representation and scales more naturally than Windows which consequently jumps around a lot vertically.”

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AisleOne - A blog about design, typography and everything else

August 22nd, 2007 10:23 pm by Antonio

I started this typeface back in April and haven’t really touched it in a month or so. Before my hiatus I figured out a few of the rules on certain letter combinations and I also started on a light version. I’ve been meaning to get back on this so I can finish it up but I’m just dreading the thought of having to create a font out of this. I love designing the characters but when I took a look at some of the font applications out there it really killed my motivation. I know it’s part of the process but I’ve always hated the “production” part of any project.

Anyway, let me know what you think.

Franco Maria Ricci

Born on december 2, 1937 in parma, italy, to an aristocratic family of geneose origin he spent his adolescence immersed in classical studies, studied geology and worked for gulf oil. in 1963 opens a graphic design studio a parma and devoted himself to art and liturature. bibliophile, aestete and at the same time a tireless worker, franco maria ricci began publishing in 1963 with his first publication: bodoni's 'manuale tipografico'.
In 1967 re-edition of another bodonian masterpiece: the 'oratio dominica'.
1970 reprint of diderot and d'alembert's 'encyclopédie'.
1973 - 1982 publication of ' top symbols and trademarks, monumental series ( 12 volumes) of trademarks by major contemporary designers.
1977 'la biblioteca di babele' is born, directed by jorge luis borges.
In 1982 franco maria ricci created fmr. numerous collections follow :
'signs of man', 'quadreria', 'lux, calme et volupté', 'impossible guides', 'grand tour', 'encyclopedie d'italia'... confirming ricci's talent in reconciling and fusing distinct old and modern themes, seeking out lost pectorial documents and unusual, unknown, or neglected personalities. ricci designs and edits these publications for his own pleasure and that of fond readers who with him are discovering the joys of modern book collecting. In 1981, franco maria ricci is made 'ordre des arts et des lettres'by the french republic.
interview with the italian publisher and graphic designer franco maria ricci, creator of the art magazine

Type City

Next time you're sapped of any typographic inspiration, simply click yourself away to the fabulous fantasy font land of Type City. Creative resource center Veer built this intensely intricate website that whisks visitors away to a seemingly endless online metropolis of buildings made completely from type. Zoom in to see more samples of the chosen typefaces, which add witty asides about the features of the type "architecture". It's the kind of typographical universe that Tim Burton might create, complete with a whimsical Danny Elfman-like soundtrack.

ART+COM: Berlim

ART+COM, with its interactive projects in the digital media has a clear and definite orientation. We cover the entire spectrum of services from consultation at the conceptual stage and advice on design and feasibility to support and back-up for the new media. We have a holistic approach to the conception, planning and realisation of projects.

We create screen applications, websites, terminals and installations, multimedia facades, functional spaces and sensory experiences for industry, culture and the research sector. Our projects are to be found on the internet, in museums, showrooms and visitor and science centres as well as at trade fairs and events.

Typography Resource

Associations:

• American Printing History Association
• Association Typographique Internationale
• Grolier Club, The
• International Society of Typographic Designers
• Letter Exchange (UK)
• Society of Typographic Aficionados, The
• Tokyo Type Directors Club
• Type Club of Toronto
• Type Directors Club
• TypeRight.org
• Typophiles, The

The New New Typography

by Dmitri Siegel

I first saw the work of French design team Vier5 (Marco Fiedler and Achim Reichert) in Tokion magazine a couple of years ago, but for almost a decade they have been creating what they call “new forward-looking images in the field of visual communication.” They have also repeatedly referred to their work as modern — by which I take them to mean not Modern as it has come to be understood, but modern as in contemporary. The duo is adamant that our times require their own letterforms — the typefaces of yesterday will not suffice. This is an ambitious project, and it carries with it an implicit critique, not so much of the Modernists of a half century ago, but of the decades of designers since who have passively forfeited the idea of being new to their predecessors. Read more...

Modern generally means something that is "up-to-date", "new", or from the present time. The term was invented in the early 16th century to describe recent trends. Learn more...

MEET Contemporary CZECH DESIGN

The Czech Center New York (the only Czech Center outside of Europe) is part of a network of 19 Czech Centers abroad administered by the Czech Center headquarters in Prague a subsidiary of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Our presence in the U.S. dates to 1995, when the Czech Center New York was granted the status of Miscellaneous Foreign Government Office.

The Czech Center is a non-profit, non-political organization.

Czech Center New York

The Road to Clarity

By JOSHUA YAFFA

Published: August 12, 2007

How a graphic designer and a typographer and their obsession with fonts and legibility led to a painstaking effort to clean up America’s road signs, one letter at a time.

"The typeface is the brainchild of Don Meeker, an environmental graphic designer, and James Montalbano, a type designer. They set out to fix a problem with a highway font, and their solution — more than a decade in the making — may end up changing a lot more than just the view from the dashboard. Less than a generation ago, fonts were for the specialist, an esoteric pursuit, what Stanley Morison, the English typographer who helped create Times New Roman in the 1930s, called “a minor technicality of civilized life.” Now, as the idea of branding has claimed a central role in American life, so, too, has the importance and understanding of type. Fonts are image, and image is modern America." Read more...

Anthology Film Archives: Auteur for a Day

Now in its fourth year, the event is meant as a celebration of the 8-millimeter, Super 8 or 16-millimeter reel (no video allowed), and the surprisingly universal conventions of amateur flicks.

Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic European, Soviet and Japanese film.

In addition to being a public movie theater, Anthology is a film museum, archive, research library, and art gallery. After 35 years in existence, Anthology remains the only non-profit organization of this type in New York.

Get involved with "My Penguin"

"My Penguin: we print the words, you do the covers. Draw, paint, scribble, scratch: this isn't about talent; it's about making your mark. Razorlight, Ryan Adams and Beck have got in on the act, can you do better?

Razorlight have stuck a cover on The Great Gatsby, Ryan Adams has slapped oil paint on Dracula and Beck has line drawn his take on The Lost Estate. Dragonette, Mr. Hudson & The Library, Johnny Flynn and Goldspot have also sewn, graffitied or collaged a cover for their favourite Penguin Classic. Want to see the results? Check out The Bands. What will you do? Remember: you can draw, paint, scribble or scratch to make your mark on My Penguin. Frame it, read it, give it as a gift or hide it away on a shelf at home. You can even send a picture of it to gallery@penguin.co.uk and we’ll show it in all its glory."

Street Culture: Ed Templeton

An icon of street culture, Ed Templeton is both a skateboarding legend and a prolific artist. His photographs, paintings, and collaborations with his wife, Deanna, capture the gritty, autodidactic aesthetic of the skateboarding lifestyle. Templeton is still a professional skater, landing pro sponsorships and running his Toy Machine skateboard company, but he also was a star of the traveling Beautiful Losers exhibition and is one of the founding editors of ANP Quarterly. Artkrush contributor Carlo McCormick talks with Templeton about his fusion of skateboarding and art.
AK: What do you find different, as well as similar, about art and skateboarding?

ET: There's some common ground between skateboarding and art, though skating is a lot different in 2007 than when I started out in 1985. Then, skaters were very much an alienated group — the kind of kids who weren't into team sports and weren't particularly liked around school. It was much more about individuals: punkers drawing their own fliers, making tapes, and putting out zines. As that scene evolved, people got into photography and putting out magazines, but it was all very natural and organic, with a much cleaner and clearer connection between skate and art. Now, with big business and stuff like the X Games, there's more of a jock element, so it's gone from something that you'd get your ass kicked for doing to BMOC status. But what I think skating has in common with art is that it's an unjustifiable recreation. Many people can be good at it, but that part is really up to interpretation — which seems a lot like art.

AK: Skateboarding, particularly as it became more urban, has changed the way people relate to their surroundings. Most of us try to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible; do you think the active navigation of skating encourages a different kind of engagement?

ET: Mark Gonzales is a great example of that. Just watching him walk down the street, you can tell he sees the world differently from anyone else. Even when I'm walking, I still see stuff as potential skate obstacles. Skating does transform you as a person from just existing in the world to being much more aware of your environment.

AK: Many of your efforts have been DIY: you started your own skateboard company, Toy Machine, rather than riding for a bigger name, you made your own art zines before working with publishers, and your paintings are very much self-taught. How do you maneuver the forces of the art market and the pro-sports world as an idealistic independent?

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The Future Face of Digital Design

By: Impti Du Toit

To succeed in today's digital design industry requires more than simply keeping abreast of the latest versions of computer programs required. Visual designers also need to keep a finger on the pulse of new technologies in a broader sense to optimise creativity in a world revolutionised by the pixel, says Eva Csernyanszky of Friends of Design Academy of Digital Arts.

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New Media Showcase: Vertices

Williamsburg's artist-run new-media space, vertexList, takes its show on the road — all the way across town to Galapagos. Along with Game Boy-enabled tunes by Bit Shifter and circuit-music man Jamie Allen, a bevy of vertexList artists screen work. Lee Arnold's S-Bahn is a portrait of Berlin's rapidly changing landscape from the windows of its elevated subway. ETeam's Artificial Traffic Jam depicts an absurdist bottleneck in the middle of the Nevada desert. In Reincarnated Scenes, Kara Hearn re-enacts scenes from movies that made her cry, playing all the roles herself and using household objects for props. (HGM)
Event Info

The Art of Digital Show - Call for Entries!

Software Cinema is a sponsor of The ART OF DIGITAL SHOW, which is an international exhibition of digital art taking place October 6 - November 11, 2007 at the elegant Lyceum Theatre Gallery, located in the historic Gaslamp Quarter of downtown San Diego, California.

Website: www.artofdigitalshow.com

QuickTime Video Clip: www.artofdigitalshow.com/trailer.html

Judge: Neal Benezra
Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The Art of Digital Show is a world-class exhibition featuring all forms of digital art -- digital painting, computer based illustration, digitally manipulated photography, digital video art, fractals and algorithmic imagery, digital manipulations of traditionally created art, digital montages and collages, mixed media with digital elements, computer animation, interactive installations, CGI, etc. The Art of Digital Show will be exhibited at the two-level Lyceum Theatre Gallery, a perfect venue for exhibiting a large showcase of awesome digital art.

The entry details can be read in the Prospectus. The online entry process is very easy, simply filling out a short registration form and then uploading your digital files. Entry deadline is August 15th at 11:59 pm California Time.

Entry Fee: Still images are $25 for the first entry, $10 for each additional entry. Video art is $45 for each entry. There is no limit to the number of entries an artist may enter. Artists who entered any work in the Art of Digital Show 2006 or any of our previous Art of Photography Shows will receive a $15 discount towards the Art of Digital Show 2007.

$3000 in Awards:
$1,000 1st Place Award
$ 750 2nd Place Award
$ 500 3rd Place Award
$ 250 4th Place Award
$ 100 (5) Honorable Mention Awards

Substantial Tangible Benefits: Intensive marketing and sales strategy. Over 20,000 people will view the Show. Broad publicity will bring considerable media attention to the art and the artists. The opening reception will be a world class event, with many buyers/collectors in attendance. An elegant Show Catalog will be printed, which is a great marketing tool for the artists. Being selected by Neal Benezra is a significant accomplishment - very valuable for one's career.

Testimonials from artists and attendees of our recent shows: www.artofdigitalshow.com/testimonials.html

For more information please contact the Curator, Steven Churchill:
Email: steven@artofdigitalshow.com
Phone: 1-858-793-0900