FRANCESCO CLEMENTE at DEITCH PROJECTS

FRANCESCO CLEMENTE
WORKS 1971 - 1979

MAY 3 - JUNE 2, 2007
Opening Thursday May 3, 6 - 9 PM

DEITCH PROJECTS
76 GRAND STREET 
NEW YORK, NY 10013
212 343 7300

Deitch Projects is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition of Francesco Clemente’s work from the 1970s. Created in Rome, Delhi, Madras and Srinigar between 1971 and 1979, the approximately one hundred works in the exhibition document the development of Clemente’s artistic vision. The works reflect the cultural and political context of Rome in the 1970s as well as Clemente’s artistic, literary and musical influences.

[ He's one of my most favorite artists. Most. ]

National Television

National Television is the creative works of Brumby Boylston, Chris Dooley and Brian Won. Super show reel with a client list to boot!



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ADC Paper Expo

Adobe CS3 Mural Installation

Brand New School is certainly no stranger to the design world. They recently shared honors with Psyop and Buck as "Design Studio of the Year" at the Cream O' The Crop Awards back in Febraury. Once again they show us why they are one of the best design agencies out there with their latest Adobe CS3 Interactive Mural Installation.



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Audrey Kawasaki

Audrey Kawasaki's work both erotic and disturbing, but innocent. Influenced by both manga comics and Art Nouveau, she paints with a sharp graphic quality on natural wood grain surfaces.

James Welling

James Welling has a different take on the oh-so-popular silhouette technique. Truly stunning photography.

We Feel Fine.

We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.

We Feel Fine was nominated for three 2007 Webby Awards in the following categories: Best Navigation/Structure, Best Visual Design / Aesthetic, and Net Art. Vote for them!

While You Were Away

While You Were Away is a great platform of experimental and professional works, focusing mainly on interactive design and information architecture. Simple and clean, WUWA's site is an excellent example of the importance of considering functionality and user experience when designing and developing an easy to navigate and easy to view portfolio.



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DREZIGN

Featured in Computer Arts Magazine, Semi Permanent, Los Logos and Web Design Index by Content 2.0 to name a few, DREZ (a.k.a. Karoly Kiralyfalvi) shows a great variety of talent from logos and digital prints to spray paint cans and clocks; a true sign of a designer constantly at work.



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The Strengths of Nations

Dick Klavans, Bradford Paley, Kevin Boyack, and ISI data, developed this amazingly insane information design poster which studies the variations in how different nations pursue science. Holy crap. Way to go smart design.

What is Castle?

Castle Magazine is an online pdf mag consisting of illustrators, designers and fine artists from around the globe. Check out the latest issue and view their blog. Some high quality stuff.



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Lillian (Lilly) Piri

Another young talent, Lilly Piri's drawings are ethereal but strangley resilient. She's been showing in galleries since 2004, and has been published in many magazines (such as Black+White, Hotpress, Harper's Bazaar) and books (like Semi-Permanent05 & 06 London Books, Faest 5, and Curvy Three).

Linotype FontExplorer X 1.1.2

Linotype's updated FontExplorer X 1.1.2 (released January 4, 2007) is the latest font managing system that seems to have it all. With a nice clean set up (similar to iTunes), new features including: customizable conflict tables, an updated font detector enabling you to purchase missing fonts directly from linotype, and plug-ins allowing for missing fonts to be activated from CS applications, this program comes off as the possible missing link to easy font organization. Free and available for both PC and Mac.




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Just Say AH!

Most commonly known for his stylized renderings of women - super heroines, damsels in distress, figures in fantasy - Adam Hughes can be put right up there with Alex Ross and Jim Lee. Best known for his incredible "naturallistic" renderings, his style has graced the likes of Wonder Woman, Cat Woman, Tomb Raider, GEN-13 and Justice League to name a few.

Drawn & Quarterly

Drawn & Quarterly is a great Canadian Publishing house ... many of you have seen their books, but perhaps never checked out D+Q. They've become one of the most influential art and literary comics publishers in North America, if not the whole world. They represent over 40 artists -- Chris Ware, Chester Brown, and Gabrielle Bell ... to name just a few.

The Preps

Jacques Sebastian-Alton shows off his incredible talents on his newly redesigned site thepreps.com. Did I mention he's a self taught 19 year old graphic designer/finance and law student? Be sure to keep your eyes on this kid.



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Laura Owens

Artist Laura Owens has released a new book, available on YouWorkForThem ... her work creates fantasy landscapes through a beautiful mix of abstract and representational worlds.

iLK™

France is one of those countries that seems to pump out solid designers time and time again. They've always held their weight within the design world, and iLK™ is just another continous reminder as to why that is. Clients include Nike, Lacoste, Glamour, Rockstar and more.

www.ilkilkilk.com

More Than A Friend

Based out of Montreal, MTAF upholds a mandate for creating experimental works that combine both the amazing fine art and crucial comic book styles of Krista Bursey and Jason Wasserman. Be sure to check their work out. Especially Vulture Culture... It comes highly recommended like a good cup of coffee.

More Than A Friend



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Catalina Estrada

Born and raised in Colombia, and living in Barcelona since 1999, Catalina Estrada brings all the colors and power of Latin-American folklore and refines it with a subtle touch of European sophistication. Her ability for creating fascinating illusive worlds, full of colors, nature, and enchanting characters, bursts in all of her works: art, graphic design and illustration. Presented as a fresh and new design talent by Communication Arts and Computer Arts magazines, her work has also been featured by Die Gestalten Verlag, Swindle, DPI, Ppaper and Graphic Magazine. Some of her clients include: Paul Smith, Coca-Cola, Nike, Honda, Custo-Barcelona, Salomon, Chronicle Books, among others.

Avocadolite.

Check out AVOCADOLITE's newest artwork contribution to VEKTORIKA MAGAZINE, #9: Asiana Issue.

Koi Klub. Yoske Nishiumi.

Berlin-based Japanese designer, Yoske Nishiumi has started a really cool creative movement called Koi Klub. This collection includes everything from art pieces, sneaker designs, magazines and a free-monthly nightclub.

Dalek: Desperate, Rejected & Angry

March 31, 2007 through April 28, 2007

JONATHAN LEVINE GALLERY
529 West 20th Street, 9E New York, NY 10011 ph:212-243-3822
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm

For Desperate, Rejected & Angry, DALEK formulates shapes found in the natural and mechanical world to create a continuous, abstract narrative. Drawing on wood panel and then painting in a dramatic color scheme, DALEK’s familiar characters form a subtle dialogue juxtaposed with darker backgrounds. For his new works, DALEK achieves a delicate balance of form amidst a hostile, violent and bleeding world. Each painting becomes an excerpt for an ambiguous story, unfolding notions of human survival.

X-acto perfection, Nikki McClure.

Nikki McClure of Olympia, Washington is known for her painstakingly intricate and beautiful paper cut illustrations. Armed with an X-acto knife, she cuts her images from a single sheet of paper and creates a bold language that translates the complex poetry of motherhood, nature, and activism into a simple and endearing picture.

Anton Ginzburg's Totem Doppelganger

They're available now at KID ROBOT!

Contemporary art and vinyl collide with artist Anton Ginzburg's Totem Doppelganger. This installation was originally exhibited in the 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2006, and can now be repeatedly installed in your home. Scaled down from the original work, the set features three eerie, wide eyed look-a-likes that can be stacked on one another or displayed independently. The set comes packaged in a window display box designed by the artist.

Anton Ginzburg is an artist and designer based in New York City. His work has crossed many different mediums including fashion art direction, television and print advertising, book design and fine art.

Helvetica. A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit.

So this may be old news to a lot of you, but it's definitely worthy of a post just in case.

HELVETICA is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.

Practical Stagg.

Check out PRACTICAL STAGG this Friday at SENSEI. Mmmmm.

Hello. Welcome to 3R5's blog. Let's go.

Oh the first 3R5 blog posting... well I'm just going to dive in. Really quick, we hope that everyone will post to our blog to share must-sees, must-haves, up-and-comings, and more-to-comes. You know ... your own openings/shows, updates, art, your friend's art, your friends'/co-workers'/family's openings/shows, inspiration, ecetera, ecetera.

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THE SQUARE FOOT SHOW
For starters, check out the Square Foot Show at Art Gotham Gallery:


3R5's close friend, Steve Raggie, is part of the show ... check out his submission to Project 02: Skulls Interpreted.

April 5 - April 19, 2007
547 West 27th Street (b 10th and 11th Ave)
5th Floor, New York, NY
http://www.artgotham.com

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ARTIST TO WATCH:
ANTIGIRL
Buy some of Antigirl's work... she's amazing.



NEW GALLERY & DESIGN FIRM TO WATCH:
ESPEIS. Watch out for this gallery in Wburg BK. Best design gallery around. They also have a GREAT design firm, COMMONWEALTH. Check them both out for sure.


NEW BLOG TO WATCH:
LITTLE PEOPLE
Amazing small lil worlds.

xoxo
Aki