Sue Coe, one of the most committed activist artists in America, has during her thirty-five-year career charted an idiosyncratic course through an environment that is at best ambivalent toward art with overt socio-political content.
posted by Trurl
on Sep 1, 2011 -
27 comments
"Pryde and I came across it one day in an old stable, on a sack of fodder. It is a good, hearty, old English name, and it appealed to us, so we adopted it immediately."
That's how
The Beggarstaffs, a short lived but influential paring of graphic designers, got their name.
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posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Jun 16, 2009 -
9 comments
A Day in the Life of Abbey Road; (sorry for the prosaic lead-in link - at least I didn't use the word "iconic!") Enjoy watching Beatles' fans and locals negotiate London's famous Abbey Road crosswalk. I miss album covers; I'm of the generation of high school kids who spent a zillion hours flipping through them in record stores. The best of them - like Abbey Road - could be high-impact and sometimes accompanied their records like a kind of graphic mini-novel. What were some of your favorites and why?
posted by Dex Quire
on Mar 10, 2009 -
42 comments
In 2005, graphic artist Kentaro Nagai was struck by the play on words between
peace and
piece in relation to global politics. This concept was expanded in an exhibition entitled
Twelve Animals, where Nagai rearranged outlines of the world's landmasses into shapes respective of
the aspects of the Chinese Zodiac.
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posted by Smart Dalek
on Feb 12, 2009 -
11 comments
Abnormal Behavior Child's got some interesting things to
look at and watch or
play with. Site self-describes as "visual poetry".
{second link's got flash/sound}
posted by dobbs
on Apr 17, 2007 -
6 comments
Teddy: A sketching interface for 3D freeform design (in Java). Noodle around with the
online applet (see the
tutorial for instructions; there's also a
demo in .avi format), or download the program so you can save your creations. An even niftier upgrade is available,
SmoothTeddy (
.avi demo), but SmoothTeddy doesn't have an online version to play with.
posted by Gator
on Feb 22, 2006 -
11 comments
The Alvin Lustig Archive - "Alvin Lustig's
contributions to the design of books and book jackets, magazines, interiors, and textiles as well as his teachings would have made him a credible candidate for the AIGA Lifetime Achievement award when he was alive...Lustig created monuments of ingenuity and objects of aesthetic pleasure." The archive collects over 400 examples of his book, architectural, and ad-design work (see also AIGA's list of
Lustig's Top-10 designs). Via
HOW magazine...
posted by tpl1212
on Dec 20, 2005 -
5 comments
King Kong's
Post Production Diary - videos of weekly progress, on all aspects of filmmaking, starting from the first day of post-production, upto the premiere.
posted by Gyan
on Dec 19, 2005 -
18 comments
CG Challenges - the largest online art contests of their kind, where artists are challenged to create outstanding artworks based upon set themes, while working under restrictions. For CG students, an additional bonus is the view of the creation process.
posted by Gyan
on May 23, 2005 -
8 comments
