Creative Something: Why not now?
Today is the biggest opportunity for you as a creative.
To create and sell your art, to become a professional photographer, to make that documentary, or to quit your job and write a best-selling novel. The revolution has come, and with it the standard day job and the once too big to fail…
Start Now!!!
téjà vu: Conditional Design: A Manifesto for Artists and Designers
Through the influence of the media and technology on our world, our lives are increasingly characterized by speed and constant change. We live in a dynamic, data-driven society that it continually sparking new forms of human interaction and social contexts. Instead of romanticizing the past, we…
Educated to Death: 0206: To Hell with Curriculum, the Joy is in the Interaction
#education #revolution #occupyedu
I’ve devoted much of the past decade either preparing to teach or teaching. Never once have I been interested in being called a teacher. My sole interest, though often disrupted, has been to interact with other humans and share my love of learning—my love of…
Deconstruction of Sidney Nolan’s iconic 1946 painting, Ned Kelly.
New artwork available for purchase on society6
The structure of the poster’s proportion in dialogue with the painting’s colour and composition gives rise to the subtle symmetry of the new image. The key emblem of Kelly’s letterbox mask is retained, while new shapes emerge that quietly hint at other Australian symbols like the star of the Southern Cross.
Scout’s Honour
Ongoing research for future work has led me to re-discover the history of General Baden-Powell’s Scout Law which was originally published in the 1908 volume Scouting for Boys. For more than a century, Scouts and Guides around the world have taken this oath to live up to the ideals of the movement. It’s wonderful in it’s simplicity and timelessness.
Principles are important what are yours?
Creative Something: Fear of the critical finish line
I’m always afraid of finishing anything.
Hours or days or sometimes even weeks go into a project and, when I’m there at the end where the big picture is starting to seem a lot clearer and I’m only making small changes, I’ll start to get scared.
Like a runner who sees the finish line but…
Creating Raves Not Avoiding Plans
Great article on artist Paul Elliman at Frieze.com.
Above, some type treatments from his on-going ‘Found Fount’ project.
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E N G A G E M E N T I N I T I A T I V ECloses: 31/05/13
Along with having a ridiculously long name for a competition, this is a comp not to miss!
Brought to you by our buddies at Old School Design School and Desktop Mag and a special hand picked panel of international adjudicators is proud to provide a valuable opportunity for you to learn from global leaders. This new initiative breaks away from the traditional design competition model and instead facilitates personal and community growth over egos.
More/Than/This (Blog) ™: Quote No. 062
Suppose as you went to preschool and school, teachers were telling you that there were two kinds of businesses, one to make money for yourself, another to solve the problems we see around ourselves. And you can use your creative power either way. So you would have grown up with the idea that there…
The Daily Affair: Project Projects - Productive Posters
Productive Posters was part of the Kounkuey Design Initiative’s exhibition at the Van Alen Institute in April 2008, and traveled to Eastern Michigan University’s gallery as part of the exhibition the “The Posters of Discontent.”
Design notes from poster installation
Originally…
A Date with Robbe-Grillet
Thanks to this lecture from Project Projects and this old post from Rob Giampietro, I am now obsessed with pantoums. In a pantoum, the second and fourth lines of the first stanza are repeated as the first and third lines in the following stanza with two new lines introduced in each stanza making for this strange recursive, rhythmic cycle. By the end of this poem, A Date with Robbe-Grillet, I couldn’t stop smiling:
A Date with Robbe-Grillet
What I remember didn’t happen.
Birds stuttering.
Torches huddled together.
The café empty, with no place to sit.Birds stuttering.
On our ride in the country
the café empty, with no place to sit.
Your hair was like a doll’s.On our ride in the country
it was winter.
Your hair was like a doll’s
and when we met it was as children.It was winter
when it rained
and when we met it was as children.
You, for example, made a lovely girl.When it rained
the sky turned the color of Pernod.
You, for example, made a lovely girl.
Birds strutted.The sky turned the color of Pernod.
Within the forest
birds strutted
and we came upon a second forestwithin the forest
identical to the first.
And we came upon a second forest
where I was aloneidentical to the first
only smaller and without music
where I was alone
where I alone could tell the story.— Elaine Equi
My new show opens this saturday.
New Thoughts on Luxury
1-25 May
Opening reception Saturday 4 May, 2-5pm.
Blockprojects
Melbourne, Australia.Hope you can make it along at some point if you’re in town.
More/Than/This (Blog) ™: A Disruptive Education...
The always enlightening Thomas Friedman interviews Harvard Education Specialist Tony Wagner in this important NY TImes Op-Ed. Wagner posits that our K-12 and college tracks are “not consistently adding the value and teaching the skills that matter most in the marketplace.” It’s not a new…
The Hidden City Philadelphia Festival celebrates the power of place through the imagination of contemporary artists, inspiring people to explore the city’s history and imagine new futures for our urban landscape. Artists of diverse disciplines and media create site-specific work that illuminates abandoned, obscure or inaccessible sites throughout the city.
(This is very cool.)
Friends of Graphic Design: Be Honest Participants
As promised, here’s a run down of what was discussed at the Be Honest Participants meeting today.
Schedule & Logistics
2:00 Set up Volunteers
5:00–6:30 Invite Only guests
6:30–8:00 Student Showcase
8:00–9:00 Tad Carpenter
9:00–10:30 Tear down Volunteers
- All Be Honest participants …
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