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Stunning creative work on Björk's wanderlust video

2008-04-18T10:51:00.000-07:00

The Wanderlust Video:

The making of the Wanderlust video:

Beijing Logo Design Process

2008-04-18T09:31:00.000-07:00

I got this in an email that is going around, so I do not have a proper source to credit. But I thought it was powerful to share it with you anyway.

Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding [Via Telegraph.co.uk]

2008-04-17T11:23:00.000-07:00

Interesting article on the english newspaper The Telegraph's website about artificial intelligence & web design.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&xml=/earth/2008/04/16/sciweb116.xml

Excerpt:
For two decades, computer scientists have played around with evolutionary software that can gradually evolve and mutate to carry out a task efficiently, or hone the design of a wing, robot or whatever, without the need for a programmer to get involved.
Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding'
A grouping of some of the sites with human controlled design properties or genetic design evolution

Now these techniques are being used to allow web sites to keep themselves up to date and to adapt to the latest fads and fashion, reports New Scientist.

Not only are they quicker to evolve than possible with human intervention, they offer the chance to come up with new ways to organise material in the web that work best for users.

The Young Illustrators Award 2008 Exhibition in Zürich, Switzerland

2008-04-14T18:37:00.000-07:00

[Press Release]
The Young Illustrators Award
can’t wait to be hold by the most ambitious hands.
In 2008, the „Illustrative“, the worldwide biggest art exhibition, exclusively dealing with illustration, proclaims, in collaboration with Swatch, a competition illustration, book art, comic, concept art or animation branch out into the field of art. The section of exhibition which is showing the laureates of the Young Illustration Award reveals the most imminent tendencies of the genre and is a thrilling seismograph for new development in the field.

Young Illustrators Award
In the sphere of the art festival „Illustrative“, which is going to take place in Switzerland, the organizers proclaim, in collaboration with Swatch, a competition
again this year, which addresses young illustrators. Young talents between 20 and 40 years are invited, to register and post their works in the field of graphics, illustration, animation, book art and audiovisual illustration.

Required are up to 8 freelance works, showing an “illustrative character”, which means: being in the broadest sense graphical or drawn. This includes freelance drawings, digital works, printgraphic, animation, book objects or graphical installations. Analog as well as digital works can be handed in. Artistic quality and originality are essential for the jury’s assessment. The international jury is represented by publishers or well known artists.

Young @ Heart, moves.

2008-04-12T14:50:00.000-07:00

Here's a film that caught me completely off guard. It's about the Young @ Heart Chorus from Northhampton, Massachusetts. I had no expectations going in and did indeed come away with "a new lease on life" as the movie's website, advertises.

The trailer is at the end of this post, but if you do nothing else see Mr. Fred Knittle's rendition of Coldplay's Fix You:

Trailer:

Thank You, Design from Copenhagen

2008-04-11T07:15:00.000-07:00

Check out "Transistor" by Copenhagen based design studio Thank You for a lovely MTV ID made up out of animated beads.

Fashion Of The Future - Clothing in The Year 2000

2008-04-11T06:55:00.000-07:00

The male of the year 2000 will have a mobile telephone, and a belt pocket with candy for cuties!

Web Standards, Yo.

2008-03-30T14:11:00.000-07:00

The Poetic Prophet knows, flows and owns web standards.

Design Coding.

Paid Search.

DJ Ramsey Scratch Tape Decks

2008-03-21T12:45:00.000-07:00

This is some of the most innovative hip hop making I've seen in a long time. I'd like to see Ramsey team up with some dope mc's and produce an album using his tape-scratching skills.

Extensis' Type Casting: What's Your Type?

2008-03-14T08:36:00.000-07:00

Funny viral promotional website by type foundry Extensis. Do the quiz to find out what your type is, or drag two charcters to the stage to see how they'd match up in live action.

Breez Evahflowin' & Dirt E. Dutch: Don't Be Afraid.

2008-03-09T13:34:00.000-07:00

YouTube Version:

Video produced by Elasticbrand.

Blip TV Version:

Excellent interview by Freelance journalist Adam Bernard with the Dynamic Duo here.

GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES, Cammi Climaco and Emily Roz

2008-03-04T04:04:00.000-08:00

March 7-April 5, 2008
Opening Reception, March 7, 6-10pm
GARDENfresh Gallery, Chicago
119 N. Peoria #3D
Chicago, Illinois 60607
Gallery hours Fri -Sat noon – 6pm, or by appointment.
http://www.gardenfresh.org

Stefan Sagmeister's New Blog

2008-02-25T12:02:00.001-08:00

Mr. Sagmeister has been at these autonomous environmental graphic design pieces for a while now, and as a crown on his achievement with them, there was a very nice exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York. (Just Closed.)

Check out his blog about this work at thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com

Joseph De Leo: The Portrait Project

2008-02-22T18:07:00.001-08:00

The anticipated unveiling of the photo installation is finally here!

Joseph De Leo: The Portrait Project

Visit Items of Importance gallery tomorrow to see this stunning display!

Opening Reception: Saturday February 23 from 6-9pm

February 23- March 9, 2008
Gallery Hours: Sat. and Sun. 12-6pm
or by appointment

Scion presents Biz Markie's Stomping Ground

2008-02-22T12:07:00.000-08:00

Check out a tour guided by none other than the diabolical Biz Markie at scion.com/broadband.

Free Troublemakers Show in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, February 27

2008-02-22T05:16:00.000-08:00

The Subphonik Crew is presents Breez Evahflowin's new project with Dirt E Dutch called Troublemakers. Check them at http://www.myspace.com/tmakers.

Their tracks are rocking the CMJ HIP HOP Charts (#3 THIS WEEK!)!

This is that Classic Hip Hop!

"Troublemakers, a collaborative effort between Dirt E. Dutch (IndieFeed Hip Hop) and Breez Evahflowin (Stronghold) is a personal yet accessible statement on how music can shape a man's life and cultural views. The album features 12 quality tracks surrounded by colorful sound bites serving as a harsh narrative to the reality ridden rhythms. The Troublemakers LP takes a
mature approach to covering various topics: politics, relationships, loss, and good times."

They're also proud to be launching
The Subphonik Beat Battle.
They need six contestants for this production battle! The winner will receive a free production class at Dubspot.

SUBPHONIK WEDS
Live-Hip-Hop-Soul-Jazz-Dub-Electronic
+ Freestyle/Jam Session
02.27.08
10pm-2am
cost: FREE

where: ROSE Live Music
345 Grand St. Btw. Havemeyer and Marcy
L train to Bedford
J train to Marcy
or G train to Metropolitan

hosts: Core Rhythm + Baba Israel
live beats: Baba Israel + Yako 440

Shirin Neshat at the Gladstone Gallery through February 23

2008-02-19T04:27:00.000-08:00

Press Release:
Shirin Neshat
January 19 - February 23, 2008

Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new video installations and photographs by artist Shirin Neshat, her third solo exhibition at the gallery. Neshat’s work engages the viewer through powerful images, sweeping scores, and evocations of human passions and desires, while examining the social tropes that both stratify and unite. Neshat pitches these dialectics of East/West, man/woman, and oppressor /oppressed, to such a degree that these seemingly immutable polarities become malleable locations for query. In two new films and accompanying photographs, Neshat continues her exploration of Shahrnush Parsipur’s novel Women Without Men.

In adapting the magical realism of Parsipur’s fantastic retelling of the 1953 coup d’etat in which the CIA reinstalled the Shah of Iran, Neshat continues a project she began in 2003. Neshat dissects the individual narrative threads of Parsipur’s interwoven tale of five Iranian women as they each seek freedom from their oppressive lives. Their struggle parallels that of their nation, a country in crisis fighting for a sense of independence from foreign forces. Neshat’s project is two-pronged, consisting of a feature length film as well as a series of video installations exploring the psychologies of the five main female characters.

MUNIS follows the story of young woman whose intense passions for social justice are perpetually stymied by her oppressive brother. Happening to witness the death of a political activist drives Munis to take her own life, beginning a magical encounter between herself and the dead activist. Only in death can Munis finally experience the strange carnival of political unrest; however, she finds that ‘reality’ in close proximity can be both promising and disillusioning.

FAEZEH explores the anguish of a religious woman whose dreams of marriage and family are shattered by rape. Escaping the city to a magical orchard, she encounters visions of a veiled woman driving her to madness. This piece ultimately captures the emotional, psychological breakdown of a Muslim woman whose entire sense of conviction, morality and religious faith is crushed after a sexual assault. Uniting three of the characters from the novel, Neshat explores the unique sexual, political, psychological and religious dilemmas that emerge during this pivotal time in Iranian history.

Shirin Neshat was born in Qazvin, Iran, and moved to the United States in 1974. She currently lives and works in New York. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Dallas Museum of Art; Wexner Center, Columbus; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Serpentine Gallery, London; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Leon, Spain; and the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. She has been included in Documenta XI, the 1999 Venice Biennale, and the 2000 Whitney Biennial. She was awarded the First International Award at 48th Venice Biennale, the Hiroshima Freedom Prize, and the Lillian Gish Prize.

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am - 6pm
515 West 24 Street New York, NY 10011 212 206 9300 FAX 212 206 9301 Gladstonegallery.com

Ceramic Sculpture by Dong Won Shin

2008-02-14T10:50:00.000-08:00

Check out some wild and lovely sculpture by Korean Artist Dong Won Shin.

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: The Other Side

2008-02-13T20:01:00.000-08:00

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
The Other Side

February 21- April 5, 2008
Reception for the artist
Thursday, February 21, 6-8 pm

Julie Saul Gallery
535 West 22nd Street, 6th floor
New York, NY 10011
www.saulgallery.com

From Julie Saul Gallery:
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

We are pleased to announce our second exhibition of Cuban born artist Maria Magdalena Campos Pons. Her ovure is a rich exploration into African diaspora and notions of loss, separation and dislocation associated with her Afro-Cuban identity. The Other Side follows her major mid-career survey organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The show continues to reflect her interest in memory and displacement with two new unique nine-panel Polaroid works and several large-scale works on paper. For Campos-Pons, the immediacy of the Polaroid process allows her to respond and perform within the studio.

In the work Blue Refuge, Campos-Pons incorporated painted constructions and sculpture into her performance. Fixed in the center panel a figure sits wrapped in an orange cloth. The expansive blue background references both winter landscape and sea, while a web of strings ground the figure in space. Aestically, the contrasting colors of orange and blue isolate the form, while also envolping it into the calming environment. The body is used to reference history, personal identity and is both literally and figuratively bound to the landscape. In contrast, Dreaming of an Island is a work on paper that references to the longing of another place.

Born in Matanzas in 1959, Campos-Pons was educated in Cuba at the National School of Art (1976-1979) and Instituto Superior de Arte (1980-1985) and graduated from Massachusetts College of Art in 1988. She is one of the most significant artists to emerge from the post-Revolutionary era. She moved to North America in 1991 and now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with her husband and son where they Co-founded GASP. The retrospective Everything is Separated by Water at the Insianapolis Museum of Art included forty works in many mediums borrowed from collections at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Gallery of Canada and the Norton Museum in Miami. Copies of the monograph with scholarly essays by curator Lisa Freiman and Okwui Enwezor are available.

For further information or images please contact Lisa Fontana at 212-627-2410 or lisa@saulgallery.com

Jeremy Scott

2008-02-12T09:34:00.000-08:00

Check out some fabulous work by Fashion Designer Jeremy Scott.

Kate Clark Press and Exhibition

2008-02-08T04:28:00.000-08:00

Artist Kate Clark has been getting nice exposure in the press lately. Read an interview on Chief Mag.com for example and NY Arts.

If you'd like to see her work in person, head on over to the Islip museum:
I Dream of Genomes
Reflections on identity, artificiality and evolution

Islip Art Museum
February 6 through March 22, 2008

OPENING RECEPTION, Sunday, February 10th 2-4pm

curated by Janet Goleas
FEATURED ARTISTS
Kate Clark, Julia Condon, Andrea Cote, David Gamble, Michelle Hinebrook,
Lisa Kellner, Kathleen Kucka, Catamount Mayhugh, Steve Miller,
Meridith Pingree, Jake Rowland, Hope Sandrow, Birgitta Weimer

MORE INFO: http://www.islipartmuseum.org/exhibit18.html

New FabCrew Portfolio Site

2008-02-07T08:59:00.001-08:00

Ben and Dan of the Indianapolis based FabCrew are a graphic designer and illustrator respectively who do some seriously badass graffiti as well. Some of the best in the country, I do not hesitate to say.

Give them a look.

Promo for Cartoon Network by Shilo

2008-02-06T04:29:00.000-08:00

In the tradition of "don't forget to animate the lyrics" (See Kanye Wests' "The Good Life" earlier on this blog) we found one, very nicely executed promo by Shilo, for Cartoon Network. Again, we feel two sided about this: beautiful execution, great typography, but not a terribly original idea. However, pretty edgy for a kid's network promo which also deserves kudos.

[By way of Motionographer.com].

Bruno Munari Exhibition

2008-02-01T04:18:00.000-08:00

Scultura da Viaggio, 1958
Ferro Verniciato, 43x50x54cm
Collezione Privata, Milano

Via SHIFT magazine comes a lovely article on the inspiring Bruno Munari.

The presence of Bruno Munari spanned so many decades of Italian culture – roughly from the early 30s to the 90s and influenced various fields as painting, industrial and graphic design and pedagogic methods: the temptation to call the Milanese, "master" is almost an inescapable temptation only softened by his love for lightness of touch and the constant use of irony and paradox that elude the pomposity of such a definition.

Bruno Munari Exhibition
Date: October 25th, 2007 - February 10th, 2008
Place: Rotonda della Besana
Address: Via della Besana 15 Milano, Italy

KleinReid to premiere new work at the New York Gift Fair's accent on design section.

2008-01-29T14:25:00.000-08:00

POTS / PENDANTS / PRINTS / PORCELAIN PUBLICATIONS
KleinReid Premieres Designs at the New York International Gift Fair
Accent on Design / Booth 4004
Jacob Javits Center / February 2 - 6

Contact kr@kleinreid.com or 718 937 3828 for details.

KleinReid
fine porcelain : handmade in ny since 1993

Also: Check out our StillLife Wood Set in Time Magazine, "At Home with
Nature" pg. 53 / Feb 4 issue