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Tag Archives: Art
Pantone: Working with color
Pantone is a company synonymous with color management in the commercial world – particularly print media. It was started in the early 1960s by Lawrence Herbert who recognized the need for colors to be standardized when design projects moved from … Continue reading
Posted in Artists and Designers, Design in the World, Elements and Principles
Tagged Angelica Dass artist, Art, art education, art education resource, color, commercial art, design, design element of color, design textbook, elements and principles of design, Nick Smith artist, Pantone
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A Life in Glass: Blaschka Scientific Models
In several recent posts I’ve talked about creativity and the wide range of things that might inspire it. I included links to written and visual resources that I had collected for future use. Today I want to look in more … Continue reading
Kristiina Lahde and the Elements and Principles of Design
In today’s post I want to return to our blog’s roots – talking about design elements and principles as they appear in visual art. To do that let’s look at two pieces by Canadian artist Kristiina Lahde. Lahde is a … Continue reading
Serious and Curious Information
Every so often we need to step back and check out what is swirling around us. I’m talking about the serious and curious information we find on the internet. The stuff that encourages us to be serious and curious in … Continue reading
Design Exercise: Altered Chairs
I recently came across this calligraphic letter “T” by Marc Andre Robinson. Rather than apply pen to paper Robinson has deconstructed a large assortment of chairs, using their inherent linear elements as the strokes that form the letter. What a … Continue reading
Peter Fischli and David Weiss: Serious Play
The Sausage Photographs:The Fashion Show Rarely do I sit at my desk laughing out loud when I write this blog. In fact, I can’t remember ever feeling like I was going to fall out of my chair from laughing while … Continue reading
Posted in Artists and Designers
Tagged Art, David Weiss, Fischli and Weiss, installation art, Peter Fischli, Photography, sculpture
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Painters and Optical Devices (Part 2 Degas)
This is the second of three posts looking at how some representational painters have used optical devices and photography in their quest to capture images of the world around them. In the first post we described aspects of Johannes Vermeer’s … Continue reading
Posted in Artists and Designers, Design in the World
Tagged Art, Edgar Degas, optical devices, painting, Photography
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Motel Rooms and Parking Lots – Exhibiting Outside the White Box
This last weekend in San Francisco was absolutely beautiful – warm and sunny, the perfect day for a walk by the bay. It was also a perfect day to get out and see some art that wasn’t being shown in … Continue reading
Painters and Optical Devices (Part 1 Vermeer)
While writing a recent post describing how painters have depicted three-dimensional space I started thinking about a related topic that is also interesting. I’m referring to the influence of optical devices – mostly cameras and photography – on the way … Continue reading
Posted in Artists and Designers, Design in the World
Tagged Art, camera obscura, optical devices, Painters, painting, Vermeer
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The Artist’s Studio
One of the biggest transitions for young artists happens when they leave school. All of a sudden they are on their own, no longer surrounded by kindred spirits and with no studio in which to work. The question becomes how … Continue reading