The
Royal Air Force Museum London will be launching in Summer 2013 a signature exhibition c
ommemorating and celebrating the
national institution that is
Airfix. This will
chart the history of this Great British
Institution by displaying
original Box Art as
well as Airfix’s most
popular models from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s in the Museum’s Art
Gallery.
In
preparation, this
post will focus
upon the history* of
the company, its founding in the late 1940s by a
Hungarian immigrant, through its boom years in the 1960s, the later
years of decline and under investment, and
finally its current resurgence in the market place.
Look at the ways in which Airfix products
are developed, including the
painstaking research
and the cutting edge technology used
to design and manufacture modern kits. (
text inspired by numerous sources)
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posted by infini
on Dec 26, 2012 -
17 comments
Stephen Biesty is an award-winning British illustrator famous for his bestselling "Incredible" series of engineering art books:
Incredible Cross-Sections,
Incredible Explosions,
Incredible Body, and
many more. A master draftsman, Biesty
does not use computers or even rulers in composing his intricate and imaginative drawings, relying on nothing more than pen and ink, watercolor, and a steady hand. Over the years, he's adapted his work to many other mediums, including
pop-up books,
educational games (
video),
interactive history sites, and
animation. You can view much of his work in
the zoomable galleries on his professional page, or click inside for a full listing of direct links to high-resolution, desktop-quality copies from his and other sites, including several with written commentary from collaborator
Richard Platt [site, .mp3 chat].
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posted by Rhaomi
on Feb 4, 2011 -
24 comments
Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most
infamous hack,
masher-upper,
digi/net artist.
His work stands for a
growing culture of artists who
run wildly through
animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted
data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI
renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As the
Lisson Gallery, London, opens its archives to Arcangel's curatorial eye, could digi/net
art be set to
infect the real,
fleshy world, like a rampant
Conficker Worm? Has
YouTube become the truest reflection of our
anthropological selves? Are we destined to roam the int3erw£bs like the
mythic beasts of yore, hoping,
in time, that
digi art can free us from the confines of this fleshy void?
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previously]
posted by 0bvious
on Dec 8, 2009 -
20 comments
