Friday, 6. November 2009, 14:22:42 We appreciate good design, but sometimes content is king, and this blog is one of our favorites. We love how she highlight designers and artists she find interesting! Although she spend a lot of time reporting on other people's work, she also sparks off interesting discussions. Like her Picasso story proved. Her posts are mostly about design, but she also knows a thing or two, as her design portfolio proves! Put your hands together for our Spanish graphic designer Henar!
I really didn't expect this when I logged in on saturday. It was very early, and I was exhausted after a really long sleepless night working on a presentation. I looked at the screen, trying to focus, and what do I discover? I´M MEMBER OF THE WEEK!!!!
Thanks to all the people at my.opera that wanted to make me MOTW! I hope a lot of members will visit my pages and hopefully find something interesting enough.
I want to thank everyone that wrote all those nice messages, you are all so kind! Thanks to this, I´m meeting a lot of great people. I especially loved the comment by Hovsep Avedissian, mentioning my Picasso post: Hi To which Picasso responded, âMadame, it took me my entire life.â And here you go as the member of the week congrats for all entire life.
THANKS SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH EVERYONE!!!!! I´ll try to keep up the good work!!!!
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnât do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Would you change your normal behaviour just for FUN????? Can fun encourage people to change their daily routines?
Check this great street marketing action: THE PIANO STAIRCASE.
The Fun Theory, an interesting initiative by Volkswagen: Fun can obviously change behaviour for the better!!!! There´s even a Fun Theory Award, for the best ideas that prove that fun is the easiest way to change people´s behaviour for the better.
"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple defintions, there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated".
"There is no difference between a designer and an artist. They both work with form and content. I try to create art, whether I make it or not is not up to me, it's up to God".
For her final year project at the Glasgow School of Art, Eleanor Stewart created a stop motion music video for Aaron Copelandâs Rodeo Suite "Hoedown". In it cowboys, horses, and other typical characters from the Wild West come to life from the pages of the musical score.
Great idea, and beautiful video!!!! I´m sure she´ll continue creating amazing new projects in the future.
Last friday I spent all morning visiting an old school friend´s workshop. I´d seen some photos of her hat designs, but having the opportunity to have her explain how she makes them, and trying them on was soooooooo much fun!
More than hats they seem to be small installations or sculptures, and they´re so different, original and fun! I love the first one with the leaves and the grasshopper, and I also tried on one with lovely red and orange butterflies. She uses all kinds of different materials, objects and even toys to create them, and her workshop is full of big plastic boxes containing just anything you could imagine.
Here´s a selection of some of her beautiful creations:
Her web page is under construction, but I hope she´ll have it ready and filled up with lots of lovely photos very soon.
The image "Commercial War" by Chinese artist WANG Qingsong focuses on the power of ads and the misconceptions that ads can create. He presents this fight for advertising as a war between enemies, a struggle over financial power and business gain.
There´s a big struggle between companies to position their ad in the most optimal placement in public places. All kinds of slogans and images bombard us every day. The agencies with more power and influence usually get the best spaces, and spend huge ammounts of money "renting" the best places. In fact, sometimes they spend more money in the "space" than on the actual billboard advertisements. Nowadays, everything is advertised. If a product is not, then it seems it doesn´t exist.
In his photo, old ads come down as new ones occupy their lost space on the huge wall. It´s definitely an interesting photo, which makes me think about the the power ads have over our daily life. We don´t really notice anymore, but we see an amazing ammount of different ads every single day, on TV, a bus-stop, magazines, internet. These words and images exert so much power on our mind and eye...
Which ones do we remember at the end of the day? Which are the best ones? I would say, the ones that catch my eye are usually the ones with a simple and original message and a clean and simple design. I love ads which make me smile when looking at them, and think "I wish I had designed that!"
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