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, “Madame, it took me my entire life.” 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!!!!
For her final year project at the Glasgow School of Art, Eleanor Stewart created a stop motion music video for Aaron Copeland’s 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.
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!"
Interesting stairs designed by Gabriella Gustafson & Mattias Ståhlbom. Nice looking and different, but... don´t they seem a little bit difficult to climb? More designs by them in TAF Arkitektkontor´s web site.
These other stairs are absolutely FANTASTIC!!!!!! I´d give anything to have stairs like these at home!!!!! Designed by Petr Hájek, Tomáš Hradečný, Jan Šépka, cooperation Jan Kolář, Martin Maršík, from the architectural and design office HŠH architekti.
Although I would be happy enough with these too: I love the way the light comes through! The author is Jan Šépka, from HŠH architekti too.
A friend who studied Art with me sent me a beautiful music video by Oren Lavie: "Her morning elegance". I find it very imaginative... it makes me want to go to bed right away, and try to copy all those movements!!
I hate it when clients look at a logo, painting or any other form of art a designer created and not very delicately say: "It couldn't have taken you more than 10 minutes to design that"... or "Even a child could have done that". Here´s a story for all of them...
Legend has it that Pablo Picasso was sketching in the park when a woman approached him.
“It’s you — Picasso, the great artist! Oh, you must sketch my portrait! I insist.”
So Picasso agreed to sketch her. After studying her for a moment, he used a single pencil stroke to create her portrait. He handed the woman his work of art.
“It’s perfect!” she gushed. “You managed to capture my essence with one stroke, in one moment. Thank you! How much do I owe you?”
“Five thousand dollars,” the artist replied.
“B-b-but, what?” the woman sputtered. “How could you want so much money for this picture? It only took you a second to draw it!”
To which Picasso responded, “Madame, it took me my entire life.”
"To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse".
Go to "Random quotations" or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four or five words of the very first quote of the page is the title of your book.
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