FROM ARTHUR DES PINS ROOFTOP SHORT: REVOLUTION OF THE CRABS
One of our favorite Summer Pastimes …the movies of Rooftoop Films.
Now you can enjoy the movie from the comfort of your own cubicle…
Alrightie now! For all you kids out there with a sweet tooth, it’s time to get creative!
Häagen-Dazs® ice cream, creator of the majestic Dulce de Leche creamy delight is looking to you for the winning idea for their next delectable flavor.
To enter: write, draw, photograph, video tape your flavor idea and submit it online at Häagen-Dazs.com/Scoop. While you’re there, be sure and check out all the entries thus far…some great selections like Banana Flambe, Champagne Brunch and Sesame Chocolate Chip, (at least they sound good). The winning flavor will be sold as a Limited Edition in both your local grocery store and in Häagen-Dazs shops across the country.
Even sweeter, the winner of Scoop: The Häagen-Dazs Flavor Search will be given the culinary opportunity to work with Gourmet magazine’s Executive Chef Sara Moulton in NYC to launch the winning new flavor.
Get a move on…the last day for entries is February 9.
iProduct is yet another iSpoof on our iObsessed society. Humorous, yet true…we should all be ashamed of ourselves! But let’s get real here. We’ll eventually get over it and buy that iStuff when it’s on sale or when something better has come out.
a boy and his computer via tamerakremer’s flickr
Design Blog to Watch:
Be A Design Group
With more graphic design blogs starting up every week, it takes something unique to get noticed. Be A Design Group has risen to the top of the clutter with a team of practicing designers who deliver consistently provocative design commentary. They tackle a broad range of design topics but always present their observations with a firm point of view that is sure to spark discussion. By challenging and empowering its readers BADG has earned some of the most dedicated readers in the blogosphere. Be sure to check out their design podcast that will be entering season three in February.”
Build a Robofrog with Photoshop
.psd magazine is a very popular magazine in Poland and has just arrived on our shores. The first US edition includes a Photoshop tutorial to create that friendly robofrog you see on the cover. The Magazine also includes a DVD of walk-thrus. The first issue is in Barnes and Noble now…or you can visit .psd at www.psdmag.org/en.
Tiphanie Brooke, a super talented graphic designer / industrial designer teetering on the edge between fine art and commercial art and her memoirs sometimes highlight that emotional struggle. Look at her work but click on “memoirs” and you’ll find a designer to empathize with. http://www.antigirl.com/
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Michael Bell-Smith, Self Portrait NYC, 2006
Video Loop 2:00 min
Art Fag City has compiled a list of what they think are the best and worst exhibitions and talks of the year. ”…The list obviously can only include those exhibitions we’ve seen, so if you are wondering why, for example, the Goya show at the Frick, Amy Sillman at Sikemma Jenkins or “Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran,
Tourism and the American Landscape”, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum have been slighted, please bear in mind the inherent fallibility of a list put together by one person. You can only see so many shows, and sometimes you have to miss exhibitions you know you shouldn’t.
Check out the full list at: http://www.artfagcity.blogspot.com/
From Michael’s “Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena“
What to observe. Above, the tiles are moving left and right in alternating rows. In the ‘half-shifted condition’, the ‘mortar lines’ (the horizontal lines between the tiles) appear to slope alternately upward and downward. This gives the impression that the tiles are wedge-shaped. As seen when the tiles align or make up a chequerboard, the lines are actually parallel, and all tiles are perfectly square and of the same size. So during the movement, the illusion “comes and goes”.
From: http://howtobuyart.blogspot.com/
No, it’s not the title of a Tom Wolfe piece circa 1975. It’s the new travelling exhibit from the Museum of Art and Design.
If you still think knitting is for grannies and retro grrlz, check out the ways artists are now using knitting to make provocative, conceptual works. The MAD exhibit aims to show us that our distinctions between high art and lowly crafts are arbitrary, based on the materials used rather than on the power of the piece.
As regular blog readers know, this a subject dear to my heart. When chauvenist blowhards ask rhetorically where all the great women artists of the past are, I always invite them to see the textile halls at the Victoria and Albert. For centuries, women used fiber and fabric — the only materials available to them — to create expressive art. Women were grappling with abstraction centuries before the Cedar Tavern had a liquor license.
The Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting travelling exhibit will be available starting in July. For booking information, contact the museum.
Photo: Althea Merback’s art, Museum of Art and Design
Letter from the Editor,
T’is the season…in case you’ve been naughty and are looking to redeem yourself with good Ol’ Kriss Kringle before the holly jolly day, be sure and log on to https://www.lighttounite.org/ and make a difference. Move the match to the candle and light it. Every time someone does this, Bristol-Myers will donate $1 to the National AIDS Fund…It only takes a second to raise a dollar!
Enjoy the last issue of Notes on Design for 2006. See you in January!
Happy Holidays & Best Wishes,
Anjula Duggal
Editor
Design Sessions. Notes on Design
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