Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture
This sculpture was made to contemplate the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
A sand tracing pendulum located at a shop in Port Townsend, Washington, called Mind Over Matter (since moved to Sedona, Arizona), produced some very interesting patterns.
http://twistedsifter.com/2013/01/the-earthquake-rose-pendulum-art/
Good work requires good tools, but good tools do not necessarily create inspiring environments. Yes, in design area, we have fabulous computer labs all sorts facilities. We are wealthy but not happy because our labs look like Apple stores rather than an art school. So we decided to take a step to customize our virtual environment and we are announcing a competition for designing desktop images and screen savers for theses labs.
Here is a fun and thorough presentation about screen savers:
http://www.scribd.com/embeds/78375321/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-1hj0l32t50lshdkbkjzd
You can simply code the screensaver with processing or if you want to explore Xcode follow the link: http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000088.php
All other hacky or techy ways are accepted as long as approved by Shane.
Animated GIF’s are also OK.
Desktop image should be no smaller than 2560-by-1440 px. and size for the saver should be relative and 16:9 aspect ratio.
Prizes are stunning! Winners will get a VAP credit and a lunch with design area faculty! The winner will be responsible for assisting the installation and maintenance of the work.
The selection will be made by a closed jury and the results will be announced on this blog.
Please submit to a@paganstudio.com no later than February 18, 2013.
Debunking the misconceptions, half-truths, and dangerous mythology of creativity.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/23/popular-lies-about-graphic-design/
TypingLot is an urban type collection. Cropped and stacked on an instagram account the typology is fed to the website. Started a year ago collection presents more than 700 types and still going on.
Today the City of New York manages over 11,000 payphone kiosks across the five boroughs – and we know that with the rise of mobile phones and digital media, the way that New Yorkers share information is changing rapidly. In order to modernize our powerful communications infrastructure, the City of New York is hosting Reinvent Payphones, a public design challenge that seeks to rally urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and/or virtual prototypes that imagine the future of payphones.
Have ideas on how New York City can reinvent payphones to create a safer, healthier, more sustainable, accessible and informed city? Submit your prototype by February 18th and you could help to shape the City’s future.
Have your work seen by the entire AIGA design community and judged by distinguished AIGA Medalists!
http://www.myfavoritemedalist.org
Take part in the AIC College of Design Cincinnati Student Chapter’s First Annual My Favorite Medalist Challenge.