Thinking with Type | Home Core77 / industrial design magazine + resource / home Store *SOLD OUT- CLICK EACH PORTRAIT TO SEE A LARGER VERSION (if you see nothing click here for an animated gif) It took me a little while but I have finally gotten these portraits done. This is a series of 4 sort-of-blind-contour drawing prints. That means whenever the pen was moving I wasn't looking but I DID look many times to place the pen down on the page in a new (and better) position. Each is a two color print on white 110lb. paper with a rag bottom edge. Actual Size: 11.75" x 15.75" If you choose to order a single portrait, be sure to tell me the name of the print you want in the 'notes' section of your paypal payment (ex: Charles, Stan, or Lee) UPDATE: SAM is sold out, sorry! If you do NOT live in the US and want to buy prints, please email me at msutters@yahoo.com and I will be very pleased to help you out.
Lola Dupre Interview No computer used in the making of her collage; pure scissors, glue and a lot of patience. Intense work from this Glasgow based artist. We love it, and Jessica emailed her a few questions to get some insight into this talent whose works takes on avergage 25 hours to produce... She's also available for commissions. Wink wink. Tell us a little bit about yourself, Age? Name: Lola Dupre, Age : 28, Location, between several locations in Scotland, my main studio is in Glasgow and I also work and live in two remote studios in the far north of the country. Have you always created collage-based works? I have always created collage, since I was 9 or 10. I’m so curious about your process - it looks like you must use multiple prints of the same image. Indeed, I use multiple prints of the same image, printed on (typically) A4 and A3 paper. Using the right glue, brushes and scissors you can get pretty quick, and with a bit of practice you dont smudge any glue. Where/how to you source your images?
| Arabic Type, Typography, Design and Visual Culture: The Blog of Tarek Atrissi By Tarek Atrissi It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years since I graduated from SVA, the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2003, I earned my MFA in Design after two years of graduates studies at the MFA Design program of one of most prestigious art schools in the United States. 1- Reading the New York Times According to Shift Happens “Did you know” video series. One of the best habits I developed at SVA was reading daily the New York Times newspaper. 2- Design entrepreneurship Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar. Entrepreneurship in the context of design is certainly one of the most valuable skills I learned at SVA. 3- Typographic sensibility Futurismo’s Newspaper front page: Unique Italian vernacular typography from 1933. SVA refined further my typographic sensibility and nourished my continuous interest in lettering and type. 4- Public speaking I was the valedictorian of the 2003 graduation ceremony of SVA at the Lincoln Center in New York. 10- Dream big
The 50 Greatest Novels for Art Students | Online College Courses Preparing to enter the often brutally critical art world can be a tough journey. Art students need lots of support, practice and inspiration to make their time in art school the best preparation possible to take on a serious fine art career. While professors, other artists and students offer up a lot of that, books can also be an amazing place to get a little inspiration or insight into what it’s really like to work as an artist. Here are some of the novels we believe will be the best reads for young artists in training. Covering diverse genres like historical fiction and mystery, there’s bound to be something for every aspiring artist to curl up with on a rainy day. These classic novels will not only help you to be more well-read, but have a lot of insight to offer those in the art world as well. Get inspired to create your own great works by reading tales based on the lives of some of the biggest names in art history.
23 amazing free modern clean sans serif fonts for designers on studiowhiz.com On 04.01.09, In Design, by Keranm 23 fonts that will set your design apart from all the rest Fonts have come a long way, today’s designers are looking more and more for fonts that are full of life, with subtleties of space and shape. Fonts are as much about what’s not there as what is. This collection celebrates the clean modern fonts, that give a striking elegance to any page, with bold lines, white space and clean curves. Update: check out 32 free fun & funky fonts for your design project Walkway Comfortaa Tin Birdhouse Often TF Grutch Grotesk Tuffy Street Folks Alte Haas Grotesk Libel Suit Gauntlet Tondo Siple 2 Nelson ShoCard DNA 20th Century Sansumi Ambrosia Delicious Geo Sans Light Reding 1969 Duepuntozero Fertigo Pro Eurofurence That’s it for this collection – some wonderful free modern fonts in this collection. Keranm
The Tire Art of Wim Delvoye For his series titled "Pneu", Belgian artist Wim Delvoye created a series of decorative objects by hand-carving intricate patterns and floral motifs on used car tires. Through his manipulation of found objects, Delvoye transforms things that seem useful in everyday life into sculptural pieces that carry a different value from their original intended purpose. Delvoye calls his own approach to art ‘glocal’, referring to ‘local’ and ‘global’, which is his own ironical way of describing art. Find out more about Wim's work here.
40 Sexy And Creative Typographic Logo Designs I have always loved looking at well-designed logos and I like it even more when they feature great typography (hey, after all typography is sexy!) So, lately I’ve been looking for some inspiration for a new project and thought I’d check out some logo galleries to get those creative juices flowing. I hope you enjoy this post! Please take a minute to tell us which ones are your favorites in the comment section below! Ant ↓ Dash ↓ Killed Productions ↓ 365 Design ↓ Neck & Body ↓ Foot ↓ DJ Loop ↓ Ripple ↓ Typies ↓ Bio ↓ Seolution ↓ Wrong / Right ↓ Vuzum ↓ Big Shift ↓ Hole ↓ Open Box ↓ Umbrella Prints ↓ Wave ↓ Look ↓ MonKey ↓ Get Wired ↓ Spry ↓ Fhoke ↓ Half ↓ eHome ↓ Cloud Corner ↓ Crown ↓ Seven Sparrows ↓ XMas ↓ Code Maus ↓ Dense ↓ Ecofood ↓ Code Fish ↓ La Femme ↓ Hero ↓ 5 Locks ↓ Chat Noir ↓ Up ↓ Bar Code ↓ Dark Bird ↓ Your Turn To Talk So, which ones are your favorites?
Anish Kapoor And Arata Isozaki Partner On An Inflatable Mobile Concert Hall For Japan So far, 2011 hasn’t been Japan’s year. Between the wreckage caused by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the island nation this March, not to mention the subsequent nuclear reactor meltdown in Fukushima, they’ve had more than their fair share of tragedies to contend with. While relief aid organizations and charitable individuals have been sending food, water, and other essentials to help the country deal with the disasters, the folks behind the Lucerne Festival and Kajimoto have initiated a project that will feed the population’s soul in this time of crisis. Commissioning architect Arata Isozaki and sculptor Anish Kapoor, the two talents are collaborating on an inflatable concert hall venue to be completed by Spring 2012. The mobile performance structure, titled ARK NOVA – A Tribute to Higashi Nihon, will be transported and utilized to stage music and dance performances for victims of the natural disasters.