Art in One Form or Another

Why Street Art Matters

Some city councils get it, others don’t. Tapping the creative talents of street artists, illustrators and graphic designers is an effective and cool way to make bland public spaces, old buildings, bridges and car parks new again, and to freshen up the concrete jungle. (via).

Shepard is Painting the Streets

Shepard Fairey Paints Asbury Park from Adam Worth on Vimeo.

 

Open the Door to Ping Pong

A major want: Designed by Tobias Fränzel, this innovative door turns into a ping pong table when needed. After the game is finished, it goes back to being a regular door.

Look forward to an App Store for your wall

FRAMED*, a new project conceived by the super-talented Yugo Nakamura, intends to revolutionize how you display art on your walls.

Creative + Capitalism at its Best!

Everybody has a product idea and Ben Kaufman's mission is to help bring (at least some of) them to life. Ben and his team are doing it through his brainchild, Quirky. They crowd source an idea and have the community help to create the product as a team. Oh yeah, if your opinion gets included in the process, you earn a % of sales.

iPad = iMisrach!

While all of the talk of the talk of the iPad (for better or worse) was about it's functionality, design and evolution of the iPhone, it was the background of the screen that rocked my world. Watching the news conference via Engadget's site, I was thrilled to see my favorite photographer's, Richard Misrach, image (Pyaramide Lake, at night, taken in 2004) as the desktop of Steve Jobs' iPad. I'm sure not many people realized that (I'm guessing about 10), but that got me more excited than the new release from Apple.

Moleskin Takes a Detour

My Moleskin notebook is as important to my daily life as my Mac. Owning one is an experience in an of itself. So, it's great to see that the brand is creating a tour out of the notebook experience, called Detour. The international program is dedicated to culture, creativity, worldwide featuring artists, architects, film directors and writers among others. Great idea!

Between the Lines

I headed over to the Museum of Art + Design to check out “Slash: Paper Under the Knife,” the third show in the museum’s Materials and Process series, explores the sometimes violent, always intricate art of paper cutting. My favorite piece was Ariana Boussard-Reifel's "Between the Lines" who cut out every word in a book! 

Guggenheim Makeover

For an exhibition opening in February called Contemplating the Void, the Guggenheim asked over 200 artists, architects and designers to "imagine their dream interventions" in the museum's spiral space. This should be interesting!

Art Basel Time Piece

Yup, the guy manually changes the hand every minute. Commitment I'll never have.