Feb
24
After watching a video outining the major tenets of the Bauhaus movement, it is easy to see how the movement gained popularity. The movement embraced that intimate knowledge of the materials and the craft. It was thought that without the knowledge, an artist could not fully exploit the materials.
Wabi Sabi, as a phylosphy, also embraces a holistic approach to the arts. Bolder in its statement, the movement assumed that Japaneese artisits were inately intuned with the beauty of objects. As a result, being in tune with nature meant being in tune with the arts and vice versa.
Dec
26
STORIES OF HOUSES: ‘MAISON À BORDEAUX’ BY REM KOOLHAAS
A wealthy married couple with three children lived in a very old and beautiful house in Bordeaux in France. For many years this family was thinking about building a new home, planning how it could be and wondering who the architect would be. Suddenly, the husband had a car accident and almost lost his life. Now he needs a wheelchair. The old beautiful house and the medieval city of Bordeaux had now become a prison for him. The family started to think about their new house again but this time in a very different way.
Nov
13
Creating a Photo Essay | Collective Lens
Creating a photo essay is a combination of art and journalism. As with a written essay, the elements of a photo essay should be structured in a way that easily conveys a story to the viewer. Each individual photo contributes to the overall story, theme, and emotions of the essay. The photos you choose must not only be compositionally and artistically strong, but also informative and educational. Finding photos that have both qualities can be very challenging, but the result can be very powerful.
There are two types of photo essays: the narrative and the thematic. The narrative essay tells a story through a sequence of events or actions. They may follow an individual or activity over a period of time and present this story in chronological order. A thematic photo essay focuses on a central theme e.g. homelessness, the environment, etc. and presents photos relevant to that theme.
Regardless of what type of photo essay you choose to present, the following elements should be considered during its creation:
Oct
16
On Style - WSJ.com
There used to be easy tip-offs when a watch was fake, like light weight, shoddy artisanship — and the fact that no working Rolex sells for $50. But these days, many fakes are so costly and carefully built that they require an expert to identify.
Now one Swiss watchmaker, Vacheron Constantin, has created a wristwatch that it says is impossible to counterfeit. What timing: The watch will be launched on Oct. 22 in New York, just as the luxury-watch industry is facing a possible global recession.
Oct
05
Next Papercrete Workshop - Nov. 14, 2008 - Papercrete Construction, Papercrete Information
INTRODUCTION TO PAPERCRETE
Current papercrete construction methods and papercrete research are covered in detail on this site. Papercrete construction involves using waste paper for affordable, sustainable housing. In the United States, we discard enough paper each year to build a wall 48 feet high around the entire perimeter of the country. Even though about 45 percent of discarded paper is recycled annually, 55 percent or 48 million tons of paper is thrown away or goes into the landfills.
Sep
29
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine
Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often used to quickly transform hand-drawn sketches on a sheet of paper into lively and colorful digital images.
However, to master Adobe Illustrator isn’t easy; and the creating process of professional illustrations requires both time and patience. Therefore tutorials can turn out to be real life- and time-savers as they show exactly what needs to be done in order to create professional illustrations and how masters of illustration actually manage to do their magic. One year ago we’ve presented a hand-picked collection of Illustrator tutorials. Now it’s time for a fresh portion of healthy and creative Illustrator material.
In this post we present a collection of excellent Adobe Illustrator tutorials for beginners and advanced designers. The new selection isn’t enormous, but big enough to provide you with some good starting points.
Sep
25
A sculpture garden of readymades
September 25 - October 25, 2008
Opening: Thurs., Sept. 25, 6PM
540 W. 21st St.
Untethered is a sculpture garden of everyday objects deprogrammed of their original function, embedded with new intelligence, and transformed into surrealist and surprising readymades, including a photocopier that reads the night sky; a PDA turned guitar; and a piano that plays the Internet. The exhibition features pieces by 15 artists working at the intersection of art and technology, including current and former Eyebeam residents and fellows, as well as leading international artists.
Sep
25
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
September 27, 2008 - February 15, 2009
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary will be the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Design when it opens in a new building at 2 Columbus Circle in September 2008. The exhibition features work by 50 international established and emerging artists from all five continents who create objects and installations comprised of ordinary and everyday manufactured articles, most originally made for another functional purpose.
