Edvard Munch’s paintings have been targeted again by thieves after an armed gang yesterday stole one of several known versions of The Scream along with Madonna from the Munch Museum in Oslo
Piers noticed that someone has lined the floor of a phonebox outside a supermarket with a rather nice lawn — via BoingBoing
I have no idea who did it. It looks really awesome, and feels nicer than bare concrete as well. Probably only going to last a couple of days, but I really like this kind of anonymous, socially-focused art. It has a very honest quality to it. It’s in Mount Lawley, Perth, Australia, at the Supa Valu near the corner of Beaufort and Walcott, if anyone wants to have a look.
Check it out I’ve just created my own living colour cell over at Colorcell.
It’s an interesting site where you can create colour palettes called cells containing 4 colours. People vote for their favourite cells and you can view stats like the most popular cell for the day etc. Cells are ranked and are either alive and well in the living space, or dead in the cemetery. Of course there are only 100 spaces in the living space so it’s a fight for survival.
That’s the basic jist of the site. There’s more to it and it’s not unlike one of those digital pet things but not annoying.
Let’s see how long it takes for my cell to die. With any luck it’ll live on in the hall of fame.
Yep, U2’s new album Vertigo
, due out in November, was stolen at a photo shoot. The guys are gonna release it to the iTunes music stores if it turns up online elsewhere, like on file-sharing networks. And I’m guessing if they can find it online too. Hmm…
Apple has taken the G4 powermacs off the web store. Yeah you can still check out their specs and whathave you, but click on the buy now
graphic. I defy you to purchase one on this site, you just can’t. This means that work will now be purchasing me a G5 instead! (insert numerous sarcastic damnings of all sorts).
Next week will go down in history as the only one where I actually want to go to work. This one was the one I least wanted to go back to work as I spent the previous week doing life drawing and painting classes at The Rocks.
And finally, checkout how mac fans are showing their love ‘n’ support for Steve Jobs.
How many other CEOs of other huge techy companies spark such a public response?
Telstra ‘Paint a Payphone’ Art Competition
Telstra are running a competition, the winner will get their artwork displayed on selected Telstra payphones across Australia, and at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Prizes are very encouraging, with an iBook pack for 17s and under, and 10,000 bucks for 18s and older.
I wonder if this is one of those things that crap graffiti taggers* shun because it’s legitimate? I can see it now, the sensitive graffiti artist in the crap tagger posse enters comp with a gorgeous design, wins and gets thrown out of said posse for doing something other than write a bad alias illegibly.
* I am aware that graffiti art is not all people essentially lifting their leg and marking their territory. This stuff, I think, is crap. There is plenty of fantastic graffiti out there, including tags that are meticulously executed, with more attention to typography than a lot of designed stuff.
Tubesville is a custom amp shop in NYC that builds whimsical custom amplifiers like this Victrola-like iPod amplifier / speaker cabinet combination.
You can also connect the old CD Walkman upto it instead — via boingboing
Taking a leaf outta the Cafe Press book, ComiXpress steps it up with offering to print and sell your indie comics online. You’ve even got an option to have a ComiXpress ad printed in your book, meaning you get a discount and your soon to be numerous fans remember where to buy your masterfully sick creations. But you’ll also need mini-posters and flyers to ram down prospective fans’ throats, and yes, the ComiXpress guys can and will do it.
I would like to introduce these guys to the transparent gif, their logo is really quite nice ‘n sexy, but the opaque ghosting rectangle thing is letting ’em down.
A rather unusual crop formation has appeared in a Wiltshire field. The Hello Kitty crop circle was created by Circlemakers and New York artists surface2air to celebrate her 30th birthday and is approximately 60m in diameter. The photo is by Steve Alexander, whose web site includes a lot of impressive aerial photos of crop formations.
You can bet the wingnuts from Crop Circle Radius will be insisting that it’s all the work of aliens — via Pagan Prattle
Work has been trying to get everyone to get their holidays down by the end of June. Hey, I’m down with forced time off, no prob. Well no prob for me any way.
So far every set of dates I put through, (I need to take a week), gets knocked back, Sorry, Redtape Corp work is suppose to start any day now, and so is Super Confused’s work
. Redtape Corp’s work is yet to manifest in my inbox, and Super Confused work is just starting up, albiet VERY slowly.
So I’ve locked in next week.
I’m looking forward to my activites next week, I’ll be floating around the art rooms at the Julian Ashton Art School in The Rocks, brushing up on my drawing and painting. I rang up to enroll this morning and got a delightfully airy receptionist. After giving her my credit card details, I asked her if she could email me a list of the art supplies. She laughed and replied, Oh, we don’t even have a computer, just bring what you feel comfortable with. We’ll see you next week.
How cool is that? Being a web/graphic designer, THIS is exactly what I needed.
Needless to say, my geekier work colleagues found the idea of a week without computers quite scary.
One Plus One Equals Three has a quite an interesting page of what is design quotes for you to stroke your chin at
Here is my quick sketch of my awol tea strainer from my previous entry, The Office Kitchen Vortex, as requested by Phil.
Idea Protection is one of the must have bookmarked links for legal info on protecting your precious money making and / or creative ideas.
It’s always nice to get positive feedback on your design efforts from your audience.
Nice!
The contest to design a commemorative quarter for this year’s Canada Day was won by Nick Wooster, aged 11, of Saanichton, British Columbia with this great, cartoony moose design.
Possibly the cutest coin I’ve ever seen — via BoingBoing
Utah-based artist Tom Forsythe, who won a five-year legal battle with Mattel over his photographs of Barbie dolls sometimes naked and paired with kitchen appliances on Tuesday said the court decision cleared the way for other parodies of iconic American brands. The ruling late last week by a federal judge in Los Angeles was the second major blow in two years to a bid by toy maker Mattel to defend Barbie’s image from use by artists and singers
Paul Curtis, a Yorkshire graffiti writer, has come up with a really clever writing technique: he lays a template with his tag over a dirty wall, then sprays the template with solvent, leaving behind a clean patch bearing his message. It’s inverse graffiti — he’s selectively cleaning up dirty walls.
He decided to commercialise the process and tagged Smirnoff ads in Leeds, and that’s where he got into trouble: he’s been ordered to remove
the clean patch of wall and get rid of the ad — via boingboing
Curators at The Museum of Modern Art are looking at adding graphic design to it’s collection. Currently they display works in Architecture and Design, Drawings, Film and Media, Painting and Sculpture, Photography and, Prints and Illustrated Books.
Q: Is Graphic Design, not Simply Posters, Museum Worthy?
A: Super short answer, yes.
Q: Why has it taken so long?
THOUGHTS: Modernising MoMA: Design on Display
For all you Home Star Runner fans, be sure to check out this week’s update, including photos of The Cheatar, a giant fibreglass guitar with a sexy The Cheat design. The guitar will be auctioned off for charity along with other over-sized guitars, after being on display for a Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame exhibition in Cleveland.
The Cheatar is modelled with one of those sexy 80’s hair metal band members from Limozeen.
What is Art Direction?
Art Direction and the Web
The linked articles above are a good read for any designer, art/creative director and/or aspiring ones, in all mediums not just web. Yes, you can have art directors in web design, and yes there is a need for them.
I went for a job interview a couple of years ago for a web design posititon. When asked what I’d like to be doing in 5 years time I said art direction. My interviewer (marketing manager), looked puzzled at me and said this isn’t graphic or printed design, so we won’t need an art director. I went on to explain (very unsuccessfully), that no matter the medium design is still design. Silence. He then reworded the question and I answered the same. I didn’t get the job.
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