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In a nod to the political posters as a form of public discourse Rome is full of many official and seemingly unsupervised locations to hang them. These poster spots often have a layers and layers of posters in various stages of decay. All of the posters I had a chance to see looked to be slickly produced numbers, probably designed by a particular campaign, candidate or party.
Continue reading Dispatches from Rome: Public Display of Graphics
A short visual essay on some of the more interesting street graphics seen while wandering through Rome this summer.
Continue reading Dispatches from Rome: Word on the Street(Graphics)
(Image: Richter and Lipson) Researchers Hod Lipson and Charlie Richter at Cornell University have developed a tiny flying robot using the principals of insect flight and a 3-d printer. The Pentagon’s Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is no doubt salivating, at this exciting new development. According to the New Scientist, DARPA, “has said it wants a 10-gram aircraft with a 7.5-centimetre wingspan that can explore caves and other hiding places, relaying GPS data and images to base.” That’s right, the next war won’t be televised, it will be printed. More from the New Scientist post:
The Artist team Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker have been busy wrapping the entire future site of the Whitney Downtown location a cascading collage that will soon cover the whole site. The pair represents the first of three commissions by the museum that will inhabit the site. Tauba Auerbach and Barbra Krueger will each have a crack at it next. Here’s the Whitney’s description of the commissions:
Giant fruit, stripes and fruit, what’s not to like? For more information, check out the New Yorker and NYTimes articles about the project.
This visual essay is a collection of the more interesting street graphics I came across on a recent trip to Paris. I would consider this an incomplete survey as my time was short I wasn’t able to see many neighborhoods.
Continue reading Dispatches from Paris/Word on the Street(Graphics)
He will be missed. To read a full obituary of this amazing artist follow this link to an article by Joanna Connors of the Plain Dealer.
On a hot day in June, I ventured far away from the tourist buses and nineteenth century bliss that constitutes much of Paris and headed on a quest to find Galerie Anatome. Comparable to the Print Center or IPCNY in organizational structure and gallery space, Galerie Anatome is a non-profit space dedicated to exploring contemporary design and the graphic arts. What an amazing space! Check out their website for more information about their exhibitions and programing, which look very smart and expansive. The staff was very nice, although their english was only marginally better than my french. They seemed amused and tolerant of the sweaty, American blogger, smiling, gesturing wildly and taking pictures of their great space.
Many, many, many more pictures and information about this amazing space after the jump.
The prolific Weiki Somers is an artist/designer who, in collaboration with Dylan Van Den Berg, form Studio Weiki Somers. Some of her recent work has caught the media’s attention. These pieces are constructed out of human ashes that have been run through a 3-D printer to create sculpture that combines objects of mundane consumer life with moments of sublime nature. Beyond the creepy/beautiful factor, what is Somers pointing to with this loaded conceptual work? Here is a quote from the designer:
Curious and compelling work that asks many more questions than it answers.
Anne Lindeboom (b. 1920, d. 1984)
John Steegman (b. 1939, d. 1985)
Pietertje Vos (b. 1942, d. 2007) via Fast Company
It has been said that the unique custom printing is the future of mass production. For yoga mats and Board shorts the gauntlet has been dropped, in this case by Shortomatic and Yogamatic two ventures promising to quickly produce a pair of shorts or a yoga mat with any image you can upload. They describe the process:
They also solicit invitations for any would be board short artist to join their community, making your design available to others (in a profit sharing model similar to Threadless). These designs can be viewed on a ‘gallery’ page and are produced in limited editions.  Not one to miss a branding opportunity or a trend the NY Times has reported on this product here.
Now at long last I can consume and conform in my own unique way!
If I were asked why Printeresting doesn’t produce an actual printed publication, beyond the obvious reasons (no resources), I would say that we don’t need to: a great magazine showcasing good art and modeling clever printing already exists. That magazine is called ESOPUS. And here is a review of their onolicious current issue.
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