Melinda Beck is an illustrator and graphic designer living in Brooklyn. Anyone having a little toddler and watching Noggin, like us, all the time, is very well familiar with her work as she did beautiful animated tv spots for the Noggin network. Love her style.
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Why can’t you make it through the checkout line without flipping through page after page of pregnant celebs in Us magazine? Alison Jackson knows why. In her work, she photographs the people you think you recognize doing what you really want to see. And in the process, she’s questioning our shared desire to get personal with celebrity culture. Funny and sometimes shocking, Jackson’s work contains some graphic images. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 17:36.)
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Flashbacks, anyone?
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Publikum Calendar emerged fifteen years ago amidst the turmoil and war in Serbia. Co-founded by George Mill and Nada Ray, it has grown into an international collaborative publication, publishing works by Serbian and international artists, most notably Paula Scher, Mirko Ilic, Oliviero Toscani, Marina Abramovic, David Byrne, Barbara Kruger, Tadanori Yoko, Slavimir Stojanovic, Karlssonwilker, Andrea Dezso, and more.
The 2008 Publikum Calendar designed by Sean Adams features works by 12 international graphic artists from Asia, Africa, Europe and America. It is a multi-disciplinary project consisting of a wall calendar, a book, a video documentary, and lecture series and exhibitions. 2008 Publikum Calendar exhibition at AIGA National Design Center is at public view from December ’07- February 22, ’08.
On February 22, at the exhibition closing reception, lovely Debbie Millman, the 2008 Publikum Calendar curator, will moderate a talk with Chip Kidd, Luba Lukova, Matteo Bologna (designers featured in 2008 edition) and George Mill & Nada Ray (Publikum Calendar founders).
Location: AIGA National Design Center, New York, 6-7:30pm, 02/22/08
AIGA, 164 Fifth Ave, New York
View a five-minute video documentary about the 2008 Publikum Calendar with Sean Adams, Debbie Millman, Chip Kidd:
More info on: www.publikumcalendar.com and www.thebraindesign.com
Illustration by Jennifer Daniel for the The New York Times» Against the Machine
Great concept: Modular shoe shelf and stool (PDF) by zurich based Michael Mettler.
I picked up 365 Penguins
This hilarious, oversize picture book integrates challenging math concepts and environmental concerns into a clever narrative. On New Year’s Day, a family receives an anonymous package containing a penguin. The young narrator chases the bird around the house as it runs amok and knocks over lamps and furniture. His sister, Amy, finds a note, I’m number 1. Feed me when I’m hungry. Just as the message implies, there are more to come; by the end of the year, 365 in all. Penguins, penguins everywhere. As they arrive, readers must recall the number of days in each month–by the end of February, they are calculating the number of penguins in all. Then Father decides to organize them, first into four groups of 15, later in boxes by the dozen, and, finally, into a cubic formation. By summer, the heat, noise, and smell are unbearable. On New Year’s Eve, ecologist Uncle Victor arrives and the mystery is solved. The engaging story is illustrated in a flat retro design with a palette dominated by orange, blue, gray, and black and white. The comical birds watch TV, dance with their teenage sister, and eat everything in sight. The text provides endless opportunities for word problems, and units on penguins and global warming will never be the same.
–Barbara Auerbach, New York City Public Schools
Less is More by Douglas Wilson.
‘He Who Cares Wins’ by Hazel Nicholls
Museo Aero Solar – the first flying museum, build with recycled plastic bag, that flies using only solar energy. A solar flying canvas. Any plastic bag of any size, color, and thickness is useful. From village to village, from country to country, from continent to continent, from solar system to the un-known, the “museo aero solar” will be traveling and growing with solar and human energy. Each time it lands there will be more plastic bags added to it from the local community which will determine its shape and content, and in this way increase the flight distance. A museum where dimensions, shape, color and location are in constant mutation – the more bags, the bigger its dimensions and the larger its collection. …where the air is his own territory. …. a viable solar vehicle as an alternative to the un-sustainability of our airplanes. In search of new frontiers, where each launch will be questioning and challenging the existing military air division of this world…
Museo Aero Solar – The First Flying Museum – a project initiated by Tomas Saraceno
Alte Fabrik Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
January 24-27, 2009
Next station of Museo Aero Solar: Tirana, Albania in February 2008 | www.air-port-city.org
Some people like bloggers. Some people don’t. Some people really don’t. Enter, Lee Siegel, the author of a book published January 22nd titled Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob.
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You were born in New Jersey. You’ve been there. You’ve never been there. You know it from movies. TV. Songs. Newspapers. You’ve Googled it. YouTubed it. Wikipediaed it. Flickred it. You’ve never even heard of it.
So ask yourself: is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world? The Pierro Gallery and iheartphotograph.com invite photographers, designers, and artists of all kinds to participate in this global open call for work.
Is it possible to take a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world?
Jordi Ferreiro designs and leads workshops for kids to make art in and about space. He sets them free with rolls of colored tape, the same he uses in his own work. About his workshop at the Centre d’art La Panera in Lleida, near Barcelona, Jordi says:
“The kids was freaking out because they never have ABSOLUTLEY FREEDOM for drawing in the space, without paper and with the 3D possibility. They starting making really small rubbertape drawing, and later was have been constructing houses, spiderwebs… really really cool!”
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Google rank will become a political argument. Instead of saying “this is why I am right” political leaders will say “type ‘Iraq war’ in google and look at how my speech comes up first”. Google will be perceived as the ultimate organizer of relevance, and as nobody can control it it will provide the needed crowdibility (that’s a new word I just made up) politicians have lost. If you are on top of google you are right, and you are right because the population put you there.
Eight things I think I think, by Laurent Haug
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I *heart* Feist
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The evacuation skirt, by Yael Mer, inflates into a kayak with the right amount of volume to carry a grown up woman.
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I am completely in love with this Kids Play Market
Tooble: Browse, Search, and Download YouTube Video directly to your iPod! In one easy step, tooble automatically downloads, converts and imports any YouTube video to play on your video iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or even on your computer with iTunes. Now all your favorite videos are with you and ready to play, no matter where you are.
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Information Architechts Japan present the 2008 Web Trend Map, in all its beautiful beta glory. This time they’ve taken almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites and pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map. By popular demand, they enlarged the poster size from A3 to A0. They guarantee it will make a great addition to your home or office. I am *thrilled* to find swissmiss on the map. Hooray!
Or view the clickable online version.
