My book of 30 simplified idioms, proverbs, phrases and quotes.
I find it interesting that we are able to understand a message or meaning from a phrase that should not be taken literally.
Reducing these idioms to three simple nouns doesn’t remove our ability to understand the meaning connected to these words.

Was this the guy that Madad mentioned in Cranbrook? The sifu of our sifu? Anyway, his stuff is amazing.

from 2d Design Department Head Elliott Earls…via http://ali.scty.org/

‘If You Could’ have teamed up with G&B Printers to bring you the ‘If you could do anything tomorrow, what would it be?’ Diary 2009.

On the same theme as their two previous sold out publications and limited edition print series, 2009 will see a third publication printed, in the shape of a year long diary. Drawing responses from the same question ‘If you could do anything tomorrow, what would it be?’ artists will get free reign on one of the 52 weeks of 2009, embellishing a double page spread template.

52 entries will be selected and published – one for each week of 2009.

The diary will not only be a showcase of some of the best design and illustration in the world, but also of the quality and range of G&B’s extensive printing facilities. They will be sent to the very best agencies and studios with a small number being sold exclusively online. If your work is selected, the diary will give you the opportunity to have your work in front of clients, designers, advertising agencies and more day in, day out for the entire year.

They will be printed in a very limited run, of which you will receive one, if selected.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE AUGUST 11TH

• DOWNLOAD IYC Diary 09 Brief PDF (ZIP)
• DOWNLOAD IYC Diary 09 Adobe Photoshop artwork (ZIP)
• DOWNLOAD IYC Diary 09 Adobe Illustrator artwork (ZIP)
• DOWNLOAD IYC Diary 09 JPEG artwork file (ZIP)

for newbies like me

http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/fonts.html

http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2006/09/wiedens_ad_stud.html

Love Bench Project
Public Art Project

Following my time both living in Berlin and taking residence at Irish Museum of Modern Art my impression of western society is that its population is more comfortable with expressing its sexual identity to the public than Japanese society. My idea was, if I install special benches, which are suitable for heterosexual, gay and lesbian couples in the public spaces of Museum, I was curious as to how people would use these benches. This project is an experimental public project, which will develop depending on people’s reactions.

IKEMOKU
Interactive Installation

IKEMOKU was the project that took place twice in front of the Statue of Moyai at Shibuya Station in Tokyo, a popular meeting place. While waiting, many people smoke. However, there was no ashtray around there for some reason.   Masuyama had an idea to create a new styled ashtray with lots of spines to put cigarette butts so that he could provide smokers a modest pleasure for a moment when they had to kill time.

The work was titled Ike-moku Project , which was named after “Ike-bana” (Japanese traditional flower arrangement) and “Shike-moku” (a cigarette butt in Japanese ). Ike-moku Project is a project to try to harmonize a concept of Ike-bana - creating art by putting flowers into the needles of a base - with a concept of ashtray.

In order to encourage people to put a cigarette butt on the object , Masuyama stuck ten of dummy cigarettes on it.   As a result of that, people understand such a strange, unknown and unidentified object as an ashtray and started to put butts into a spine as he expected.   It was a multiplier effect that the more cigarettes were put on it, the more the object looked like an ashtray.   Naturally enough, smokers started gathering around the Ike-moku.

Eventually, almost all smokers there put a cigarette butt on Ike-moku without wondering why they were doing so.   In about five hours, Ike-moku Project was finished with 55 cigarette butts when the work was removed due to rain.

http://www.adngaleria.com/EN/artistas/shiro_masuyama/shiro_obra.htm

http://www.iheartpapyrus.com/index.html

I met Damien in Seeking, and he was featured on the front page of QBN today.
I thought he should be featured on the front page of our blog too.

The aim of this essay is to shed light on the modernist dictum form follows function. Taking the dictum as the gist of the modernist principle of design, I would like to pursue this question: Was the dictum ever feasible as a design precept, a precept which promised to bring an end to formalism? The answer of the exponents of the modernist philosophy of design was an unequivocal ‘yes’. They claimed their architecture and design were not a result of stylistic intentions, but of a new anti-formalist design principle. Such claim poses a problem, however. If we happen to accept such understanding, our writing regarding modernist architecture and design will almost unavoidably be reduced to repeating, or at best embellishing upon, what modernists said about themselves. On the other hand, if we deem this design dictum not feasible, we have to suggest an alternative reading of their architecture and design.

http://www.wk12.com/jellytime/

ABOUT THE PROCESS IS a PDF in which many graphic artists have kindly participated, through their replies to the same question concerning their creation processes, is to arouse the interest of graphic artists, students and all graphic arts aficionados.
The question was:
When you work, do you think in terms of forms or in terms of a creation process? Do you have a clear vision of your final image or does it come only from an upstream creation process?

Here then is an outline of the working methods and thought processes of graphic designers today.
Each reply from a graphic designer is illustrated by images of his/her work (the illustration sometimes being the reply) together with the links to their websites for those who would like more information.

You can find it HERE

In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards”, no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.

http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/viewer.html

http://www.brooklynfoundry.com/video/index.php?id=1189

Holder is an artist, designer and editor whose work investigates the gap between language and object.

Will Holder’s event is in the Nash & Brandon Rooms on Monday 28 July.

Through his multiple roles as artist, writer, editor and designer Will Holder (born Hatfield, 1969, lives in London) explores the transformative processes at play in the act of publishing. Holder’s project for Nought to Sixty takes place on Marcel Duchamp’s birthday, 28^th July, and is entitled Bachelor Party. This event, which Holder has staged for a number of years, is a celebration encompassing a range of activities, including film screenings, performances and lectures.

Acknowledging Duchamp’s belief in the primacy of concept over form, yet choosing to scrutinise the form of concepts, the project foregrounds language (speech) as an adaptive material. Bachelor Party becomes an interdisciplinary platform from which to “edit, design and ‘publish’ material which ordinarily will not allow itself to be represented on paper”. Holder’s act displaces the notion of publishing from the printed page – and into the more fluid space of conversation and celebration.

Holder’s practice takes many forms, and his work includes printed journals and dialogues with other artists, as well as live readings and social events. In these various formats Holder interrogates the relationship between language and the object, exploring how text in all its forms can manifest in three-dimensions, and how the fixed nature of objects can be destabilised through linguistic interpretation. Holder’s biannual journal FR DAVID, edited with Ann de Meester and Dieter Roelstraete, provides an experimental space in which to discuss these relationships, and in which to explore the use of language in the service of the visual.

http://ica.org.uk/17227.twl 

http://www.quieroverunfantasma.com/eng/

It is no longer 2007. According to Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero mania sweeping the internation, we’re almost three months into -15 BA (Born Again). In the semi-terrifying world of Trent Reznor’s new future-based concept album, the year 2022 is Year Zero, the year we were “Born Again.” Every 12 months prior to Year Zero is denoted by negatives, thus 2007 is -15 BA. If this confuses you, give up now.

In what has to be the most innovative promotion scheme since the leaked sex tape, NIN have treated their fans to a sort of Where’s Waldo game that includes tour merchandising, a dizzying network of websites and, umm, bathrooms in European concert halls. We’d be lying if we said we weren’t checking echoingthesound, the main fan checkpoint, every hour to see what the latest update is.

In case you’ve been living under a rock (without internet), let us catch you up:

It all started with a NIN tour T-shirt. An overeager fan realized that the bolded letters on the back formed a phrase: iamtryingtobelieve, which if you add a .com to the end of it, takes us to the first piece of the puzzle. Here, we learn about the drug Parepin, which has been added to the water supplies of Orlando as protection against similar acts of bio-terrorism against Los Angeles and Anaheim in 2009 (or -13 BA…try to keep up). This site speculates whether Parepin is a medium for the government to control the minds of its citizens. When you email the site owner, who has stopped using the drug because of his conspiracy beliefs, you get this email back:

Auto-reply from water@iamtryingtobelieve.com wrote:

Thank you for your interest. It is now clear to me that Parepin is a completely safe and effective agent developed to protect us from bio-terrorism. The Administration is acting purely in the best interests of its citizens; to suggest otherwise was irresponsible and I deeply regret it.

I’m drinking the water. So should you.

OK, seems pretty clear we should avoid the water. The next site to emerge was Anotherversionofthetruth.com. The site seems innocent enough, until you click and drag the main page pictures, revealing another, more disturbing, picture underneath. When the under-picture is totally revealed, a link takes you to a message board. We can tell you what is discussed on the message board (a new drug called Opal, the introduction of the Angry Sniper character, and disturbing pictures of “The Presence”), but you should really check it out yourself. It’s complex.

Here, we should introduce you to “The Presence,” an ongoing motif in the game and the subject of Year Zero’s cover (above). “The Presence” is literally a giant fucking four-fingered hand that, supposedly, came out of the sky. It’s speculated that “The Presence” is everything from a giant tornado to the impending rapture to a government ploy used to scare its citizens. Whatever it is, it looks foreboding.

How are these sites found? Well, that’s where European rest rooms come in. Throughout NIN’s European tour, members of whatever all-star marketing squad is behind all this have been leaving USB drives in random concert venues. The drives are filled with new NIN songs (”My Violent Heart” and “Me, I’m Not”), cryptic mp3s and pictures visible only via spectrographs. These files if deciphered correctly also provide us playing the game with the next clue/website….

thisissand.com is a website for play.
It changes the pixels on the screen into digital
sand that canbe used as building material for cosmic landscapes,
Clemens-stylesand paintings, mandalas and so on.

made with openFrameworks from openFrameworks on Vimeo.

Developed by Zach Lieberman and Theodore Watson along with help from the OF community.

OpenFrameworks is a C++ library for creative coding.

Inspired by the following question: Can artists make tools, at the same time that they create artwork?