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What Came First? by Kyle Bean

On a side note, I love Kyle Bean’s work – you should spend a few minutes checking out his website.

Cape Horn by Jon Contino

I Hate Design and I Love Design by Black Panda

The Circle – Black (framed) by Mads Jakob Poulsen

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I am a big fan of all things Markus Raetz. The fact that he now made a Typographic Illusion Scultpure makes me swoon.

Slate Sculptures by Stephen Kettle @ Amusing Planet.

Stephen Kettle, born in Castle Bromwich Birmingham in 1966, is a British sculptor who works exclusively with slate. After leaving school, Stephen served seven years in the Royal Navy and left the service in 1989 to work in his Fathers construction business. It was during the following 15 years that Stephen honed his skills that he now employs in his sculptures, using techniques that were passed to him from his Father and a host of other tradesmen along the way.

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In terms of form, the author diverges from a documentary style and its affected neutrality, still adopting some frontality. The image is organized in horizontal strata, like in an archeological section. From the sidewalk to the building, the grounds are positioned at intervals and allow different urban temporalities to coexist: the everyday life, the ephemeral, the unceasing move of the passers-by, and the great transformations, building sites and new towers. Beyond the balance of these compositions, the author breaks the rules of the documentary genre, playing with the edit and the color to present us a type of “augmented reality”, bringing into light the paradoxes of the most dynamic city of China.

For graffiti artists, part of the thrill is doing something illicit, something secret that carries a threat. There are plenty of artists and doodlers who would love to express their creativity on walls, trains and other city surfaces but don’t have the desire for mayhem that is so necessary for graffiti artists. For those folks, the Walls Notebook should prove to be a fairly terrific substitute.

The Walls Notebook gives you pages upon pages of walls upon which to scrawl your name, doodle stick figures, draw rude pictures or add literally any type of adornment that strikes your fancy.

The pages of the notebook bear pictures of NYC walls, trains, vehicles and all sorts of other urban scenes. You can leave your distinctive mark on every one of them and feel like a true graffiti master when you’re done.

This beefy 160-page notebook provides plenty of space for taking out your frustration with the man or just honing your bubble lettering skills. Anyone who has ever looked at a clean, untouched train car and though “Man, that would make one sweet canvas” can now make that dream come true for about $17. Not a bad deal, and certainly cheaper than bail.

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In 1972 Ed Catmull (founder of Pixar) and his colleagues created the world’s first 3D rendered movie, an animated version of Ed’s left hand. This is the film that they produced. It includes some “making of” footage (around 1:30) and some other early experiments.

Ghostly International introduced me to the geometric digital work of Andy Gilmore and I am very grateful.

Buy prints of Andy’s work in the Ghostly store.

I think this guy was a science advisor on Star Trek (or at least on Voyager )

Several years ago, Rockwell International decided to get into the heavy duty transmission business. We were getting ready to tape our first introduction video, as a warm up, the professional narrator began what has become a legend within the trucking industry. This man should have won an academy for his stellar performance. Now remember this is strictly off the cuff, nothing is written down, this became the biggest talk in the industry, vs our new product which we were introducing. I think you will enjoy this once in a lifetime performance from this gentleman.

Happy Friday!

[from neatorama]

Wow! If you’d like to get absolutely no work done today, you should dive in to the amazing gallery from the 2011 Bridges Conference held at the end of July in Coimbra, Portugal.

The Bridges Conferences, running annually since 1998, brings together practicing mathematicians, scientists, artists, educators, musicians, writers, computer scientists, sculptors, dancers, weavers, and model builders in a lively atmosphere of exchange and mutual encouragement. Important components of these conferences, in addition to formal presentations, are hands-on workshops, gallery displays of visual art, working sessions with artists who are crossing the mathematics-arts boundaries, and musical/theatrical events in the evenings.

Awesome!

Instead of using paper, artist Lorenzo Durán uses leaves to make papercut art. If you think about how delicate a leaf is, you can imagine how challenging and intricately painstaking each piece of art must be to create. He must have a very steady hand!

[via My Modern Met]

Via [Fubiz]

Chalk and pen on blue emulsion by Liz Collini…

These embroidered portraits by Daniel Kornstrumpf had me drop what I was doing and stare, in awe.

(Thank you Jon)

Hyper realism in art is mesmerizing. Take a photo in one hand and then take a look at one of these artists’ oddly perfect paintings and prepare to be shocked.

Victor Rodriguez

(Images via 10awesome, designyoutrust, thecuriousbrain, vivalablonda)

The Mexican artist Victor Rodriguez is able to create stunning paintings that are both hyper realistic, and yet still exhibit a very unique styling. Victor’s work is known for its high contrast and wackily fun subject matter.

Tom Martin

(Images via plusgivens, plusgivens)

Many realistic painters like to show off by featuring food products that look good enough to eat. Few take it as far as Tom Martin, who is able to render a complicated food wrapper perfectly. That pile of candy bags takes on a whole new level of importance when it’s hanging on a gallery wall.

Steve Mills

(Images via curatedmag, birminghamfreepress, artfans)

Steve Mills can render a scene like no one else. Everything is perfect, down to the most minute detail of a piece of peeling paint, to the point that no one would believe these were paintings if they weren’t told.

Roberto Bernardi

(Images via booooooom, robertobernardi, recave)

Roberto Bernardi loves to play with light and reflections in ways that make one’s head spin. Mundane subjects are no longer mildly interesting in his paintings, as they form the crux of a gorgeous canvas.

Pedro Campos

(Images via bumbumbum, hyperrealism, bumbumbum)

Pedro Campos’ work speaks for itself. Try grabbing a can of Coke and you’ll end up busting through an expensive gallery piece. Perfect marble spheres manipulate reflections with uncanny accuracy.

Mark Goings

(Images via apt3design, hespegallery, mgoings)

Mark Goings can make a trailer into a piece of art with a few strokes of his brush. Light and shadow interplay beautifully to capture a scene perfectly. The subjects seem to be in three dimensions, as if one could simply walk right up to them.

Eric Christensen

(Images via fineartamerica, judithhalegallery, avartgallery, ericchristensenart)

Eric Christensen likes his wine! If a nice merlot sounds good right now, these paintings will be quite a tease. Eric loves to portray bright still life settings straight from the table of a vineyard.

Jason Degraaf

(Images via preview-art, mymodernmet, eighteensixtyseven, hyperrealism)

Jason Degraaf will paint anything that is difficult to portray accurately, almost as if he delights in the difficulty. Splashing water, reflective surfaces, and finely detailed subjects are his bread and butter.

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I am *completely* mesmerized by Tony Orrico’s spirograph art. Absolutely intriguing. I wonder if he is in somewhat a meditative state when doing these large scale drawings.

(via Brain Pickings / BOOOOOOOM)

Mark Mawson latest series is called “Aqueous II”. He drops of coloured paint into a tank of water and captures the results on camera. “My favourites in the series are the blue toadstools. It was from my first session in the new series and reminds me of a world in a Dr. Seuss book,” said Mark .

Brandon Bird.

While at the Architectural Digest Home Show, I discovered the amazing artwork of Amy Genser. These mixed media relief pieces are made of rolled up paper and resemble an underwater reef. I can’t imagine how much time it takes to roll up all of those pieces of paper. Pictured above is “Float.”

Float detail

Yellow Tide

White Undulation

Midnight Flow

Word Puzzle universal wrapping paper — design and art direction by Fabio Milito and Francesca Guidotti. Simply locate the holiday you need, circle it, and you’re good to go.

[via David Airey and The Dieline]

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Kronid Gogolev’s wood carvings, amazing!

Meghan Gerety makes beautiful, simple drawings of tree silhouettes on paper. But, there’s something exceptional about them. They’re done entirely IN PENCIL.

I love artists who are all about the process.

For once, we can definitively place this post in the art category :)

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I want this print called Modern Art by Craig Damrauer that was just released today on 20×200.

These paintings became a way to explore how driving in weather shifts and changes the views outside the car as well how the driving experience informs our basic interpretation of environment. We easily understand how painting can mold cultural perception, which in turn influences landscape design to become more like painting (view points, scenic routes, etc.).

Alvaro Verduzco is an emerging artist who studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Mexico City and the Goldsmith’s College in London. Drawings and paintings are fundamental in his works and the process -using different kinds of materials like masking tape, watercolor, acrylic-, is as important as the final product. Starting with non-figurative structures, a stain will gradually gain its shape as the work advances and mutates into themes from the vernacular, figures seem like they are waking up. His images grow alive from visual elements that he observes in everyday life. Sometimes he mixes abstract with figurative, especially in big format works created without previous sketches.

Gregory Thielker

IKEA has released a new book called Homemade is Best, created by design agency Forsman & Bodenfors. Inside the book are 30 classic Swedish baking recipes for everything from small biscuits to large cakes — all using pictures. Inspired by high fashion and Japanese minimalism, the 140-page book is stylized with the ingredients getting just as much attention as the end result. Very interesting and eyecandy-licious (and delicious too, I’m sure!).

Client: IKEA, Joel Idén
Agency: Forsman & Bodenfors
Art Director: Staffan Lamm, Christoffer Persson
Copywriter: Fredrik Jansson, Anders Hegerfors
Account Director: Susanna Fagring
Account Manager: Ewa Edlund
Planner: Tobias Nordström
Photographer: Carl Kleiner / Agent Bauer
Retouch: F&B Factory, Henrik Lagerberg
Stylist: Evelina Bratell

In 2008, Kaki King charmed and impressed the TED community with her melodic and exuberant style of guitar-playing. Yesterday, TED’s Media Production Specialist Angela Cheng spoke with Kaki over the phone in hopes of learning more about her influences, the ever-changing music writing process, and what she gleaned from TED.

How was your day?

Good. I ran around a lot and lost track of time. It would have been more fun if it wasn’t for the rain. I’m doing this new project where I’m looking for twelve artists to provide blank guitars for them to design or re-create. And the theme of each piece would be the title of one of my songs. I haven’t been on tour for the last two months, which is rare, and I’m a bit of a workaholic so I’m keeping busy. Otherwise I go stir-crazy.

Do you enjoy touring?

I’m very used to it. There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I’d feel very comfortable there. I’m very comfortable in many many cities.

You’re originally from Atlanta, but New York is now your home. Do you ever miss the South?

Yes. My mom and dad and uncle and sister all live in Atlanta. I have relatives in Texas. I do try to visit as much as possible. It’s wonderful that all my family is there and I get to go there and chill out. It’s very peaceful. I have a very strong tie – not necessarily to the South – but to nature.

How much of the South is in your music?

I definitely will say that being in the vicinity gave me a lot more access to bluegrass music. Bluegrass is not a clear influence. But you have to play bluegrass music at a very high level of skill. Anything involved with taking things to a higher level of skill really interests me.

A lot of people have characterized your music as “percussive.” In fact, you started off wanting to play drums. Does it make sense to say that percussion has a lot of influence on your style?

Yes it does, and not only “percussion,” but the independence between the hands that you learn as a drummer helped me become a much more creative guitar player.

You started off as a solo musician, but now you collaborate with a full band. What was it like making the transition, in both writing and playing?

The writing remains the same. I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments. The great thing about havinga band for the first time was that I didn’t have to work as hard onstage at making all of these different sounds myself. I could just sit back and let the band play the parts I had written.

Do you have a typical music writing process?

Right now I’m at the very beginning of the new writing process for a new album. The process changes for every record, every song. For my first two records, there was an intimacy between me and the songs because I hung out with them so much. You have less time the busier you get. At this point, after putting out an album, I have to re-learn the songs that I’ve written.

In the past, most of what I’ve written, I’ve written during times of pain or loneliness, and the music is therapy. Things change when you get older. I’ve followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don’t have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don’t. Right now I feel a bit older and wiser and I don’t need to go out and create a painful or sad situation or feel estranged from the universe.

Also, all experiences are relevant to making art or music. Right now I’m learning the piano. I’m not going to become a piano player, but I do know that in some way it will open up my world and give me inspiration for my music.

READ MORE: Kaki talks about her experience at TED, being remembered by Al Gore and what it’s like to be short. What was your experience at TED like?

I remember so much about TED. I still have friends I’ve met at TED. It’s interesting because leading up to the conference, I was completely unprepared. My record [Dreaming of Revenge] was released just 10 days after TED so I had been doing all sorts of promo work. But once I got there, I was looking at the speaker program and it was like, “Oh wow, this is going to be incredible.”

I obviously remember <a href="Jill Bolte Taylor’s talk – I was in the audience for that. And I also remember Phillip Zimbardo, who wrote The Lucifer Effect. In fact, I went out and bought The Lucifer Effect after the conference. There were also these incredible underwater pictures of leopard seals. And of course watching Al Gore present a completely new talk was great.

I was just in Nashville to perform for The Climate Project. When Al Gore introduced me, he mentioned that he had seen me at the TED Conference last year. I was surprised and happy that he remembered me.

Did you know about TED before you were invited to perform? What made you accept the invitation?

I’d known about TED Talks because I had seen them online. Just knowing that it’s a place where you can go and have your mind opened by the brightest minds working, calculating, and discovering – it would have been foolish not to accept.

We were talking in the office about all the great statements you made onstage…..

I had to come up with something because my session included Peter Ward, John Hodgman, and that woman who spoke about dark matter and I thought, “I gotta put this somehow together” because otherwise I just get up there and play and people will be like, “There’s a dumb musician.”

You mentioned onstage that people like to comment on your height. Does that annoy you?

Ha, not really. I am quite short but that never comes across when I’m onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.

I ran across this in National Geographic last night; the PEACE symbol is 40 years old this year.  It was created by a British designer, Gerald Holtom, in 1958 for anti-nuclear demonstrations.  The origin of the symbol is very interesting and can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbol#The_peace_symbol

PEACE -

Ask ten people what Helvetica is and you will most likely get this response: 7 will tell you they have no idea, 2 will say that it is a font, and 1 will tell you it is a typeface.  Although “font” is technically correct, “typeface” is probably more accurate, and if you know this, you might be a snob. 

So why watch a documentary about a typeface?  Strangely enough, though few recognize or admit it, typefaces (fonts) have a significant effect on us everyday.  Every printed letter exists in some typeface (what your reading right now is Times New Roman), and that typeface effects not only the read-ability of a text, but the emotion that it conveys as well.  Wait a minute…

Did he just say fonts effect my emotions?!  No, I said typeface effects your emotions (cause I just might be a bit of a snob on this topic).  If you strongly agree or disagree with this statement, you should watch this documentary.  I was fortunate to grow up with a close friend who became a graphic artist and industrial designer, who opened my eyes to the power that something as simple as a “font” can have on a viewer.  Helvetica, the documentary, does just this; it tells not only the history of the Helvetica typeface, but also conveys the power of typography, graphic design and global visual culture.  It is a very concise and visually beautiful film that just might make you think twice the next time you pick a font and start typing a report for work.

 Here is a link to the film’s website: http://www.helveticafilm.com/

Check it out – watch it – and next time we meet we can have a few beers and debate once and for all whether “serifs” or “sans serifs” rule!

If you haven’t visited http://www.ted.com/ yet, then you need to right now!  Who is TED, you ask?  Turns out, TED is no-one; TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.  What started out as an attempt to combine these three fields into one harmonious meeting of the minds has grown into something truly wonderful.  TED conferences, currently held yearly in Monterey California and other global locations, bring together many speakers from very diverse backgrounds from all around the world.  In the true spirit of sharing knowledge, TED makes these talks available by streaming and download for FREE on their website!

 Talks are generally 20 minutes or less, and therefore, very to the point.  Topic range wildly, from science, economics and design, to art, literature and mathematics.  You can search for talks using common queries like subject matter or speaker, or in more interesting ways, like “most inspiring” or “most ingenious.”  You would be hard pressed to not find something that turns your crank.  One feature I particularly like is TED’s built in video viewer.  You have all the common features like play, stop, pause, forward/reverse and volume, but you also get an interesting overlay when you place the mouse over the video.  An overlay pop-up appears at the bottom of the video and shows the content of the talk in a time-line fashion.  This time-line allows you to skip to a particular part of the talk that may be of more interest to you, and definitely helps if you want to show someone else just one part of a talk in particular. 

There are so many good speakers and topics its hard to know where to start; my personal two favorites are:

#1: Ron Eglash: African fractals, in buildings and braids - this one is awesome!

#2: Vusi Mahlasela: “Thula Mama” – my favorite new artist, this guy is amazing (I reviewed his latest CD here)!

 There is a wealth of free knowledge available on the web, but rarely is it presented in such a fun, clean, and creative manner.

I pondered this for a while and concluded that very little gets invented, or done for that matter, without a “need” first existing.  The “need” provides a focus and/or a direction for our creativity.  Creative thoughts, ideas and contraptions that pour forth from a person are largely just novelties until they meet a need of someone else – then they become inventions.  There are exceptions to the rule, of course, like pet-rocks and Chia pets (no one needs this stuff, but these inventors created a market for themselves), and sometimes inventions happen by mistake.  But generally it is a need that must be fulfilled which acts as the reigns for that wild horse creativity.  Together, need and creativity (freedom) get things done.  Maybe this grossly over-simplifies things?  It seems like a bit of a paradox, though.

Creative thinkers “think outside the box.”  But usually we use this term about people when we are trying to solve a well defined problem.  The problem exists, it has definite borders and limits, it is quantified; kinda like a box.  So a good solution to a “box” problem is to think “outside the box.”  That’s wacky.  It’s been said that “Creative problems require creative solutions.”  This is a bit more accurate of a statement I think, but I would argue that a “creative problem” is just like any other problem, it’s just that it has not been exhaustively researched yet.  After close examination and good research, I believe a “creative problem” becomes a “box” problem and again, creative thinkers think “outside the box” to come up with a novel solution.

I made a statement earlier (be it right or wrong), that the spewings of creative people are really just novelties until it meets someones need and becomes invention.  Novelties is probably the wrong word, though, so how about art.  I would gladly put pet-rocks and Chia pets into the realm of art, because I think that is what they really are.  You could argue that we “need” art, but I don’t think my love for art as a need, as much as a passion.  Art, for me, elicits feelings, emotions and desires; but it does not meet a need like an invention does.  What happens when you combine art and invention?  Masterpieces are born!  I use to drive a Subaru Justy; it was a great basic car that met my needs.  A Ferrari, on the other hand, is a masterpiece; it would meet my need for basic transportation, but it is also a thing of beauty, a work of art.

OK, OK, OK so what does any of this have to do with Haikus?  Well it’s probably not accurate or fair to say that all creativity without a need is just art.  Take the Haiku for example (wikipedia).  Here is an art that “imposes” some relatively strict guidelines but is wide open to creative implementation.  Traditionally an English style Haiku has a 5, 7, 5 pattern, separated onto three lines.  The 5, 7, 5 pattern is generally created with sounds.  Those are the “rules”, so now what?  That’s it – you can do whatever you want.  It’s actually quite beautiful.  Your given a “box” which has an inherent necessity to be filled.  How do you fill it?  You think “outside the box.”  The Haiku represents a necessity, or is itself a necessity.  Therefore, “Haiku is the mother of invention.”  Hmmm…I’m not sure if I buy any of this.