Homage to Sol LeWitt

“When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.
The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”

—Sol LeWitt
Guggenheim

Sol LeWitt, Master of Conceptualism, Dies at 78
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

Published: April 9, 2007

Sol LeWitt’s deceptively simple geometric sculptures and drawings and ecstatically colored and jazzy wall paintings established him as a lodestar of modern American art.

Call It What It Is

"...To understand the intrinsic differences between plagiarism (normally regarded as a bad thing) and preservation (normally regarded as a good thing), we should look at various means by which newer typefaces are derived from older ones. There are indeed many approaches. Outlining them can be helpful in considering the practices surrounding revivalism in general."

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This text was first published in 2003 in the type specimen booklet for Tribute.

Emigre, also known as Emigre Graphics, is a type foundry in Berkeley, California, founded by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko. It also published Emigre magazine between 1984 and 2005.

Bruce Mau: Institute without Boundaries

The Institute without Boundaries will carry out an interdisciplinary project that involves students, teachers, and industry and community experts. The ambition of the project is to generate a housing system that achieves a balance between extremes of urban sprawl and urban slums and enables people to build sustaining, universal, and healthy human dwellings and communities. We will start locally and seek collaboration with other schools and institutions around the world to work on this challenge.
Next program begins in September 2007.
Early deadline is April 10, 2007 and all applications must be received by May 31, 2007.

Bruce Mau is a Canadian designer. Mau is the creative director of Bruce Mau Design, and the founder of the Institute without Boundaries. To know more about Bruce Mau click here.

Bruce Mau: An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

New Project: Looking for ideas 3

"Mindball® is a two persons game controlled by the players brain waves. The player being most relaxed wins the game.
Mindball is based on a concept (Brainball) invented by The Interactive Institute www.tii.se which is a cross scientific research institute, working within the areas of IT, art and digital media."

"Brainball is a game that goes against the conventional competitive concept, and also reinvents the relationship between man and machine. Instead of activity and adrenalin, it is passivity and calmness that mark the truly successful Brainball player. Brainball is unique amongst machines since it is not controlled by the player's rational and strategic thoughts and decisions. On the contrary, the participants are dependent on the body's own intuitive reactions to the game machine." Smart Studios Projects

"Brainbar is a mechanical bar that mixes drinks adapted to the visitor's brainwaves. The bar reads the brain frequencies that represent levels of stress and calm. Depending on how the bar is tuned it will then mix a drink to enhance or suppress the guest's feelings."

Graphic Designer or Visual Communication Designer

"The longer I stay in this industry, the more I realize the difference between producing graphically appealing (pretty) solutions and creating strategic communication designs that produce results." Posted by Mark Busse on Saturday, March 10th, 2007
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"The pencil crayons and the felt pens may be outdated as tools, but I would like to think that they are still relevant as metaphors. And I wish that designers would take back the power of the words “graphic” and “arts”, because as career definitions continue to blur, they might find it’s the most valuable asset they have." By marian bantjes on Mar.27.2007
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Using Eyeliner together with Isadora software

"Eyeliner is a new projection technique that enables projection of 3D phantom images to blend with the physical space in a very convincing way. The technique consists of High Definition projections that are projected onto an invisible foil material set up in a special angle. Using the Eyeliner it is possible to build virtual set designs and let animated or filmed objects and characters blend in with real people and spaces. The Eyeliner is thus capable of creating a new and different narrative space on stage. A narrative space which makes use of special effects otherwise only known from movies and computer games.

The Eyeliner is partly developed by the Danish company Vision4 which also holds the Danish rights and know-how to use this new technique.

For a filmed example of the use of the Eyeliner in the staging of H.C. Anderson’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier click here."

Example from the 3D performance True Love Is Yet To Come at Donna Karan’s Studio in New York City. The perfomance marked the opening of last year’s Performance Biennale Performa05 in NYC. [blogged by Lene Mailund on Digital Experience]

Eyeliner 3D: Gorillaz & Madonna Grammy Awards

Theater

Illusory Characters With Startling Stage Presence

By STEVEN McELROY

Published: April 2, 2007

With new software that controls digital video, the creative team at 3LD (or 3-Legged Dog) are hoping to produce some dazzling, perhaps even shocking, effects on stage.

3 LD Art and Technology Center

What is Yupo?

"YUPO is a state-of-the-art synthetic material offering all the attributes of the highest quality papers with the added benefits of extraordinary durability.

Yupo Corporation in America is the largest manufacturer of synthetic paper in the Western hemisphere. Its parent company in Japan has been the industry leader in reserching and developing the highest quality synthetic papers for more than three decades.

Yupo paper offers a unique experience. Multi-layered and composed primarily of polyolefin resin, Yupo paper is 100% tree-free, 100% water resistant, and Uv stable."

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