Monday, April 30, 2007

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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Thursday, April 26, 2007

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.


Wednesday, April 25, 2007

James Welling

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

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

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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Monday, April 23, 2007

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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Friday, April 20, 2007

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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Thursday, April 19, 2007

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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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

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.


Tuesday, April 17, 2007

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

Monday, April 16, 2007

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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Sunday, April 15, 2007

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.