Waldo “Wally” Hunt, the man responsible for the modern renaissance of the pop-up book industry, passed away earlier this month at the age of 88. After selling his West Coast-based advertising agency in the early ’60s, Hunt ended up in New York City. Disillusioned with his company’s fate, Hunt looked for a new passion. He found it on Fifth Avenue when he caught a glimpse of a Czechoslovakian children’s pop-up book in a toy store window. From that moment on, Hunt essentially became the pop-up business. Pop-up Book Online Workshop: http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~ctg/projects/popups/ Paper Computing: http://hlt.media.mit.edu/paper_computing/index.html
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A great layout design with interesting way to play and flip a page. And a different way to read a page!! Incorporate that in your booklet design?
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Zaha Hadid One of the architects I listed for your "Booklet of Mastery" project!! amazing curve!
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http://www.jimcarrey.com/ created by http://65media.com/
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Liesbeth Bussche // Urban Jewelry belgian designer liesbeth bussche creates jewelry for urban space. brussche's large-scale sculptures take on the same forms of jewelry such as earrings and necklaces. concrete balls become pearls for earrings and warning tape. is made of woven beads. the artist is currently exhibiting at the 'what's new?exhibition at galerie sofie lachaert until 8 november 2009.
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uniqlo is one of the best simple clothing stores with great web campaign! they have a store in NYC.
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Kuler is the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you're creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community. You can even reference an image to pick out its color from specific spot.
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Marimekko is a Finnish design coporation that is famous for its colorful pattern design for fabric. It makes domestic products from its branded fabrics or the pattern design, such as bag, clothing, ceramic, bathroom and kitchen collections. Each pattern or collection is designed by mostly Finnish designers. Learning the design concept and reading specific designer's vision is a good exercise to inspire and generate your own.
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Born in 1915 in Kalofer, Bulgaria, Stefan Kirov Kanchev — the son of an iconographer — studied mural painting in the National Art Academy with Dechko Uzunov. His studies as an artist eventually led him to graphic design, and a long career during which he produced book covers, typefaces, trademarks, stamps, posters, logos and more. In 1971 he was honored with the Bulgarian title of National Artist, though to date, his work remains largely unknown in many parts of the world. In an effort to to preserve his life-long accomplishments, a Bulgarian website has collected a number of examples from Kirov's impressive body of work, a selection of which we are delighted to share with our readers today.
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Gagosian opens new space again and this time it's a boutique!
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Great Lecture about his works, the culture of massive wasteful consumption and the aesthetics of data, statistic and presentation. "Feel the cultural issues with visuals." TED version (Interactive Transcript available for the lecture) http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking_stats.html Youtube Version Part One is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6TbSJFbyUQ Part Two is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUxoLK7KFvU
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Scale, Size, Repetition, Movement and Composition /////////////////// Chris Jordan's Running the Numbers series continues with new work, including Lightbulbs. This photo collage represents the 320,000 lightbulbs that equal the number of kilowatt hours of electricity wasted in the US per minute, due to inefficient household electricity use. Jordan's work is a frightening wake-up call that is based on waste, consumerism, planned obsolescence and the ravages to our environment. The work consists of large, detailed prints put together by using thousands of tiny photographs. The importance of the individual among the collective is made visually clear, and the sheer overwhelming nature of these problems cannot be escaped. More @ http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=9 http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/011776.php NOW ON VIEW @ Kopeikin Gallery 8810 Melrose Avenue West Hollywood, CA. 90069 Running The Numbers Sept. 12 through Oct. 18, 2009.
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Noma Bar -- Negative Space
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Use salvage materials to make a house. Rearrange broken pieces to create a roof with characters. The builder, Mr. Phillips, calls it Storybook house, I think it is Mymble's house, a character from the Moomin, by the Finnish illustrator and writer Tove Jansson. I grew up watching the Moomins and Mymble is always the mischief in the show and annoyingly sly. I dun like her and she reminds me of me! In the next Photoshop exercise, we'll learn how to use bit and pieces of images to create a visual whole. Much like what Mr. Phillips did with unwanted picture frames corners, broken glasses or tiles to assemble a rustic mural, we'll break apart what we scanned to reconstruct a simple scene of 1 of 4 seasons.
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PhotoShop Class Exercise Sampe: Visual Language [Photoshop] Form a visual quote>> Use found images with each word from any 1 of the following quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller. Each word image should come from a product. 1. "Love is metaphysical gravity." 2. "Either war is obsolete, or men are." 3. "Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking." VIA @ http://wrongdistance.com/
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This site is a selection of "art" related news. Art is indeed a big word that needs quotation and explanation. As one can immediately relate art to "beautiful things made by artists", I see it as an aesthetic of life, inquiry of our environment and general merriment by anything that flares "STATE OF THE ART". Since I'm teaching Foundation Computer Art (149) and Computer Art (349) at California State University, Long Beach, these entries serve as inspiration, expanded knowledge and assignment related items for those classes.
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Richard Serra: 40 years of works Amazing work of art that transcends time, space and placement of body. The immersion of self and the intimitation of envelopment are equally beautiful and sublime. Only if we can wrap our mind around the physicality of material and its tension that stretch us far from our reality. Too bad I couldn't make it, sigh, so closed though~
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Bee-made vessel by Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny
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funky Moscow video production house
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Make your furniture today~ DIY rules.
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Is there a need to capitalize theory and how? Imaginery Foundation celebrated 25th T-post (tee/zine subscription) with Marshall McLuhan's insight.
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Performance artist Jilian Mcdonald's horror makeup in subway. i dare you trying it in hk mtr *wink*
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my friend's public art initiative turned venture capital... there is universes/galaxies through the black hole, you never know...
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looking for new music? of Montreal just released a new one!
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