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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Must Reads For Beginning Artists
I’ve titled this post “Must Reads For Beginning Artists” but these are suggestions for artists and designers regardless of their level of experience. In fact, these are books that anyone with a curious mind should read. The books are listed … Continue reading
The Decorated Trucks of Pakistan
As unlikely as it might seem at first, if you’re looking for examples of flamboyant surface design and decoration, you just need to look at trucks, buses and taxis in different countries around the world. For reasons that are specific … Continue reading
Posted in Design in the World
Tagged Art, art cars, decorated trucks, design, Pakistani trucks, pattern and decoration
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Mark Bradford and The Politics of Abstraction
Industrial sanders. Discarded handbills torn from telephone poles. Hairdresser’s permanent end papers. House paint from the local Home Depot. These are the tools and materials employed by the artist Mark Bradford in the creation of his large scale paintings. Bradford … Continue reading
Food Is More Than Something To Eat
In a recent post we featured the flamboyant and cheeky food-based work of Bompas & Parr. Previously we showed you the meat centric paintings of Mark Ryden and the confectionary installations of Tanya Shultz (aka Pip & Pop). Blog readers … Continue reading
Natural Moves
Over the last several weeks I’ve blogged about the design element of Motion (Chapter 15 in Design: A Beginner’s Handbook). In this week’s post you’ll find the work of several artists/designers who employ natural forces to impart movement into their … Continue reading
Posted in Artists and Designers, Design in the World, Elements and Principles
Tagged Aganetha Dyck, Anthony Howe artist, art installations, Charles Sowers, design elements and principles, design principle of motion, Lisa Park artist, movement, Najjar and Najjar Architects, Ned Kahn artist, Theo Jansen
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Jelly Buildings and Waterfalls of Chocolate: Bompas and Parr
Sam Bompas and Harry Parr are two incredibly prolific English artist/designers who collaborate to create stand alone sculptures and large installations. Nearly all their many artworks use food as a primary material and are designed to engage our sense of … Continue reading
The Not So Passive Observer
In a recent post about the design principle of motion I promised that I would present more examples. Today let’s look at viewer activated motion. In these works the artist invites the viewer to become a co-author of the work. … Continue reading
Posted in Artists and Designers, Elements and Principles
Tagged Aaron Koblin, Aaron Sherwood, Ann Hamilton, Art, Chris Milk, design elements and principles, design principle of motion, HYBE Studio, interactive art, Karina Smigla, Marina Abramovic, Mike Allison, motion, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Roman Ondak, The Exquisite Forest
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Tamara de Lempicka, a Star of Art Deco
I recently had a conversation with a San Francisco based graphic artist who asked me about the mid-twentieth century painter Tamara de Lempicka. If you’re not familiar with Lempicka’s name I’m not surprised. Her career spanned the years between 1920 … Continue reading
Posted in Artists and Designers
Tagged Art Deco, Madonna, painter, painting, Tamara de Lempicka
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Language of Motion Part 2
In last week’s blog post, The Language of Motion, I presented several artists who use the design principle of motion in their work (Chapter 15 in Design: A Beginner’s Handbook). I’d like to use this week to highlight past posts … Continue reading