Illusion & Surrealism « Tang Yau Hoong Architectural Lighting Architectural Lighting Magazine Editorial Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Publishing Engineering & Science Swoon in Studio : A Warm Welcome on a Cold Night Posted on January 10, 2011 A visit to Swoon’s studio is a full immersion into her passions; meditations on humanity, the process of collaboration, and sculptures you can inhabit. Swoon adding color to the busy streets of “Cairo” (Sunday Afternoon) (photo © Jaime Rojo) In the rustic warm light of a triple height cavernous space that might have served as a town hall a score of printed artworks on paper lay scattered across the wooden floor. Tiptoeing between the images to cross the formerly grand chamber, the familiar faces of children and adults who you’ve met on walls across the city look up at you. Together these figures, a de facto retrospective of Swoons’ last few years on the street in NYC, are burned into the retina of many a Street Art fan, and yet they lay here on this whitewashed wood-slatted floor without any ceremony at all.
ART OR DEATH I forgot to post the wall I painted on august for this year DESORDES CREATIVAS fest. Pics by Mutante Creativo. A quick collaborative piece done in Ordes with the big Escif, during the Desordes Creativas fest. 100 (Really) Creative Business Cards Whichever business you’re in, and especially for anyone in the field of design, such as web designers, a business card can be as important as your website identity. A business card creates a physical connection and bond between you or your business and your customers. Just like in a website, business cards can become great interactive elements, but with the added ability to have real textures, different materials and shapes. In this article, we’ll take a look at 100 truly outstanding business card designs which show that there are truly no limits to the design of a business card.
The Banksy Paradox: 7 Sides of the World’s Most Infamous Street Artist Banksy Paradox: 7 Sides of the Most Infamous Street Artist Article by Urbanist, filed under Street Art & Graffiti in the Art category. (Check out our complete guide to Banksy Art and Graffiti.) Banksy is probably the most popular, yet most mysterious, urban street artist in the world – and he works at incredible extremes. He has become an internationally known as a subversive graffiti artist – yet manages to maintain a secret identity. He is a counter-cultural prankster, but has art in major cosmopolitan galleries around the globe.
100 Best Photoshop Tutorials of All Time that Yield Professional Results Photoshop tutorials are one of the most popular subjects on the web, as the digital art community continues to grow and new designers bring their unique skills. However, quality Photoshop tutorials that teach you a useful effect, have a quality finished result and are well explained are harder to find, and with the large number of tutorial sites available, it can be hard to sort the quality from the mundane. In this massive roundup, we’ve collected the top 100 best Photoshop tutorials that have ever been created, that yield professional results, teach you a useful effect, are well explained, and will have you designing like a pro in no time. These tutorials are collected from niche tutorial sites around the web, and range in age from creation in 2008 to a few tutorials that were created just last week. So, if you think you’ve seen all there is to see from Photoshop, guess again and check out this post.
René Portocarrero René Portocarrero Period: The Vanguard 1912 - 1985 Mujer de Perfil Woman in Profile, 1979 gouache on heavy paper 30 x 22 inches Born in the neighborhood of El Cerro, Havana, in 1912. He began painting from an early age and at 14, he entered the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts. Having a strong temperament and unable to adapt to this apprenticeship, he left the institution and started working on his own.
Cuban Art and the Search for a National Identity « art mundus Antonio Gattorno Once Cuba had finally gained independence from Spain in 1902, the country underwent a period of adjustment, introspection, and the establishment of a more defined national identity. Artists actively participated in this soul searching. Their new approach to art was innovative, experimental, joyful and varied. Drawing upon influences from Europe and Mexico they created a very distinctive Cuban ‘style’ often composed of bold lines and equally bold colours. Antonio Gattorno (1904-1980) is said to be the father of modernism in Cuba.
Cuban art Cuban art is a very diverse cultural blend of African, European and North American design reflecting the diverse demographic of the island. Cuban artists embraced European modernism and the early part of the 20th century saw a growth in Cuban vanguardism movements, these movements were characterized by a mixture of modern artistic genres. Some of the more celebrated 20th-century Cuban artists include Amelia Peláez (1896–1968), best known for a series of mural projects and painter Wifredo Lam (1902–1982) who created a highly personal version of modern primitivism. In Havana Centre, a small neighborhood of artists have transformed the walls around them. October 2002 In the late 19th century, landscapes dominated Cuban art and classicism was still the preferred genre.[1]