Picturing Canada: first major history ever on Canadian children’s illustrated books
For anyone interested in children’s book illustration, this month is a milestone because Picturing Canada: A History of Children’s Illustrated Books and Publishing has finally been released by the University of Toronto Press . It’s the fruit of 11 years of research by Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman, plus their hordes of graduate students from the University of British Columbia. While there are about 60 reproductions of illustrations in this book, it is a scholarly study rather than a coffee-table book – but it is very readable and not boring in the least if you’re at all interested in the topic.
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Picturing Canada: first major history ever on Canadian children’s illustrated books
This is for you if you’ve been stranded on a desert island without access to the dire warnings about privacy protections on Facebook. In a nutshell there is no such thing as privacy on Facebook . But there are steps you can take to protect yourself as best you can and still enjoy the benefits of being a member.
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7 Steps to More Privacy on Facebook
email from phil: you gals ever do film reviews? saw “exit through the gift shop” at the ritz the other night. i haven’t seen such a bummer movie since requiem for a dream! if you get a chance go see that one with love, The subject of Exit Through the Gift Shop with one of his artworks behind him. image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/catheadsix/2592349164/in/set-72157605716679140/ Phil got it right. In the midst of Picassos selling for $106.5 million and $100 art works becoming, alas, part of their makers’ own collections, the film Exit through the Gift Shop serves as a clarifying–and confusing–film, especially for any sincere artist trying to navigate the commercial realities of selling art.
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Movie review–Exit Through the Gift Shop
The present business scenario has witnessed expansion of business operations to attract customers from different parts of the globe. This has caused an improvement in organizations shipping goods to the remotest corners of the world
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Why Do We Need to Utilize the Services of International Freight Carriers?
Maybe art, maybe some art, maybe this art, maybe some of this art, serves turning the absence opaque, that is, making it at once palpable and impenetrable, so we cannot go back, so we are stuck in the appreciation of this strange, utopic now , and any attempt to overcome it, to look for the actual empty space, meets the opacity of an object, an image, a substitute, substitute not of a reality, but of what ceased to be, of the void that hence remains beyond us, happily or unhappily, hard to say, replaced by the fundamentally meager and helplessly sublime moment of a hesitant, aesthetic, experience, too private to be credible, too credible to be intimate, and yet ours, because we want it to be, because we claim it as such, because we know we inherited it from the silence that came before. The picture – entitled (…) – is by Marek Wykowski
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We cannot go back
The image of Latin America functioned for nineteenth-century North Americans much as that of the Middle East did for certain Europeans: as a screen on which to project their fantasies. In the case of the Western hemisphere, these were largely of a pre-lapsarian past. Roxana Pérez-Méndez has consistently explored the place of Puerto Rico within U.S. culture, and with her project, Este Es Mi Pais ( This is My Homeland) at the Morris Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA, up through Sept.
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Roxana Pérez-Méndez: Your Fantasy is My Home
Mod your characters create your own tracks and race with your friends wherever you are and however you like Mumbai: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that ModNation Racers™, the eagerly-awaited creative karting game for PlayStation®3 (PS3™) & PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) – letting you mod, drive and race with your pals wherever and whenever you like.
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ModNation Racers™ -On your marks, get set, create
Every day at one o’clock, a locomotive, heard but not seen, makes its way through the lobby of CarriageWorks , an old Sydney rail yard recently transformed into a performing arts center.
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Nigel Helyer Resurrects the Past in Sydney
Queer Voice at ICA is a clear sign of how comfortable we’ve become with people, places and things that are queer, a word primarily defined by Merriam-Webster as characterizing things that are “differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal,” but which has come to have a second meaning encompassing nearly everything and everyone deviating from gender and sexual norms. Kalup Linzy, from Conversations wit de Churen The show provides both a healthy dose of both genderqueer and queer in the Merchant-Ivory “How odd!” sense. With more than three hours of rollicking, weird, obscure, hectoring and seductive video and audio material, the show’s a sushi sampler with a cupcake chaser
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Weekly Update – Queer as voices
What with all the hubbub over Flash these days, it’s nice to see an artist utilize the program as a means throughout the process of animating, not using it as a crutch. Animator and filmmaker Nick Cross gives us a detailed account of his process when he animates in Flash, including video. It’s a fascinating look into how Nick works as well as how he’s able to use Flash without making it look like it was done in Flash
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Nick Cross’s Animation Process
You think you’re doing everything right to promote your art . You’re getting into shows, shops, and exhibitions, you’re building your mailing list , and you have a solid Web presence. Still, the money isn’t coming.
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Get a Grip on Why People Buy Art
Your art isn’t for everyone. Discover 6 reasons why people buy art in this week’s Art Marketing Action podcast–an audio version of the newsletter/post of the same title. Read the newsletter here .
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Art Marketing Action Podcast – Get a Grip on Why People Buy Art
Felt Mistress AKA Louise Evans ( previously featured on Drawn!) is a UK-based stitcher, prolific tea drinker and creator of some of the best darn dolls these adoring eyes have ever gazed upon. Utilizing skills learned as a couture dress maker and milliner, Lousie works with her partner, illustrator Jonathan Edwards , on a wild and wooly array of wonderful one-off creatures. Other notable collaborations include her work with three very talented Jon’s; Jon Burgerman , Jon Knox and John Allison
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The Triumphant Return of Felt Mistress
Joy Ang shares her illustration process for the cover of the beautiful new Anthology project book . Posted by Matt Forsythe on Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog | Permalink | 12 comments Tags: anthology , Books , Joy Ang
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Joy Ang’s process for The Anthology Project cover illustration
Post by Katrina Kuntz “The Rules for Staying Young ,” the current exhibition at the New Wilmington Art Association of works inspired by the game of baseball, vacillates between form and expressive content. Some artists are drawn to baseball as a formal system which quantifies balls, strikes, fouls, hits, etc.; for them, the play of the game and its statistics serve as metaphors for greater degrees of formal order and structure.
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The Rules for Staying Young in Wilmington
While the original hardcover edition was limited to 1,000 copies, I just snagged a copy of a the more affordable and just as useful paperback edition of Pentagram Marks . The book comprises four hundred logo marks from nearly four decades of branding from the Pentagram design company. It’s a great look at a single company’s design output, even if it isn’t the best logo source book out there because of some of its datedness.
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Pentagram Marks
The recent oil spill has stripped open the hearts of business firms which keep boasting of their corporate social responsibilities etc. but, when it comes to taking the hard decision, the operations far outweigh ethics and moral guidelines. When blobs of tar are washing up on Sandy beaches of Alabama, only few scientists and researchers from BP and the like’s labs are putting their efforts to find short term and permanent solutions.
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Who Spilled My Oil?
Gift to India, Gift to USA, Indian Handicrafts Tarang , known for its delightfully intricate Indian handicrafts , has achieved yet another milestone by launching their online Gift to India and Gift to USA catelog. Filled with unique, handmade and intricate artifacts, one is bound to find an appropriate gift for the boss, colleagues or family
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Looking for handcrafted gifts for your loved ones, Point your browser to Tarang Online
Sentimental Gifts Design , My Dad #00030 You are on the “MY DAD ” template page on the ” Pages From The Heart Sentimental gifts website “.What you are looking at here is just the flat graphic template /layout from which each individually handcrafted gift starts its journey to becoming just one in Pages from the
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“My Dad”, Sentimental Gifts for Fathers Day
Illustration: Bruno Paul rug design 1910 The German designer Bruno Paul is often thought of as one of the architects of the Modern movement that dominated the twentieth century. His ideas concerning minimal decoration and the functional qualities of design were early factors that spelt out the subsequent Modernist career of Paul in both interiors and architecture. Paul was a founder member of both the Vereinigte Werkstatten fur Kunst im Handwerk and the Deutscher Werkbund, two organizations that, although still routed in ideas spanning both the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements of the very early years of the twentieth century, were also fundamental in pushing forward radical ideas concerning decoration and ornament and its use, purpose and function in modern design.
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Bruno Paul and Rug Design