Unusual billboards

Some nice out-of-the-ordinary billboards, good food for thought.

100,000 Paper Airplanes

100,000 paper airplanes were thrown from the rooftops of six 7-11 story buildings in Grand Rapids, Michigan creating the effect of a quarter-mile long rainbow. Along with the thousands of paper airplanes, thousands of musicians came together to play a beautiful melody. This event is part of the Art Prize competition and was done Sunday by Rob Bliss.

http://www.artprize.org/artist/id/2691

Love the pie, hate the chart

This site by "visual & data journalist" David McCandless is very inspiring.

Scissor Sisters Music Video

So sadly, the second I wanted to put up here has embedding disabled on Youtube, probably because the Scissor Sisters don’t want to be more popular. So here’s the thing: click on this link and watch the video: Eyeball Rape

Ok, so the song's not really called Eyeball Rape but here's the thing I absolutely love about that video. If I was standing in a

ditch taht I'd just dug and somebody had a gun to my head telling me the only way out of death would be to describe

ANYTHING that's happening in that fucking Scissor Sisters music video, I would probably just pull the trigger myself.

Tim Burton in New York

Tim Burton will have a major exhibition at MoMA starting November 22, 2009 and running through April 26, 2010. The exhibition will showcase over 700 pieces, starting from childhood into his present day career, including paintings, drawings, storyboards, puppets and more. MoMA will also screen a retrospective of the directors 14 films throughout the course of the show.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/313

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004737.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Advertising vs. Reality

Check out this German site, which compares food packaging and advertising to…unappetizing reality. Mmm.

Beatles Rock Band Intro

The new Beatles Rock Band video game was released a few weeks ago. MTV who are co-owns
the new game hired Passion Pictures a London based 2-D production company to create a cinematic intro for the game. Known for the Gorillaz music videos', Passion Pictures uses 2D drawn animation, computer animation, stop frame animation, mixed media, and live-action. Directed by Pete Candeland this intro for the video game is beautifully drawn and fantastic to watch in every sense of the word.


watch the video here : Videos // The Beatles™: Rock Band™

check out more of their work here : http://www.passion-pictures.com/

From Bill

Our friends in Wisconsin sent this fresh, new Penzeys Spice logo. You should be able to download it.

Competitive Coloring

Jonsi and Alex from band Sigur Ros have posted a coloring book and competition.

The BP3 Album Cover.

When I first saw the cover art for Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 last July, I like many other hip hop purists thought, "How could Jay break from the 10 album tradition of always appearing on the cover of his albums, by doing some conceptual artsy fartsy shit errr stuff?"

After seeing how the cover and subsequent album art was constructed, I'm now converted. Pure DOPENESS.

Check out the art director of the whole project Dan Tobin Smith

water?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW5eBfZhE4M&feature=player_embedded#t=149

came across this today, found the motion graphics very appealing as well as the fact that a lot of information was able to be communicated with very minimal narration. the music choice was interesting, i guess it added a little bit of hope through the awareness of a quite devastating subject.

All Your Dreams Belong To Us

London based street artist D*Face has a U.S. debut exhibition at Jonathan Levine Gallery. Mark Dean Veca is also showing with a smaller solo exhibit.

Monet's Water Lilies at MoMA

This Sunday, MoMA will be putting all three of Monet's "Water Lilies" on view for the first time since 2001. These pieces will be shown until April 16, 2010.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/arts/design/11monet.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

Jonathan Hoefler and Steven Heller Interview on WNYC Radio

Today on WNYC Radio typographer Jonathan Hoefler of the type foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones and graphic designer Steven Heller were interviewed by Leonard Lopate on his "Please Explain" segment. The two designers discussed how typefaces are created, used and why typography has been so important to culture and design.

You can listen to the radio segment here:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/09/11/segments/140481

Color as Structure Show

"Color as Structure"

Timothy Callaghan, Don Kimes, Valerie Molnar, and Richard Roth

September 15 - October 17, 2009
Opening Reception: Tuesday September 15, 6-8pm

One of the exciting things about doing a project like this is the gift of being able to view work through one's own particular lens, in this case how color has ordered the work of a varied group of artists. Timothy Callaghan, Don Kimes, Valerie Molnar, and Richard Roth all share a concern for color as a way of structuring their work by either building or maintaining a framework, or through the creation of hierarchies or systems of organization. That they also share a concern for historical paradigms, visual culture and everyday life is also apparent, as is the lack of a shared point of view.

For Valerie Molnar and Don Kimes it is the actual construction and destruction of the physical manifestation of color-as-structure that the work is built upon. For Molnar, each color-infused thread, stitch by stitch, becomes a network of units producing a buoyant, cheerful formalism. For Don Kimes the color structure deals with recovery and reinvention, resurrection and recreation--- the image literally regenerated by nature and intention. One can clearly see the color codes referencing the ubiquity of visual culture in the 21st century in Richard Roth’s “object” paintings whose existence as a personal, ideal ‘collection’ is carefully controlled and maintained by the artist. And in Timothy Callaghan’s contemporary ‘plein air’ paintings which are built on a platform shaped by flattened color space and are descriptive of a daily life of leisure, consumption, and politics one can see these color structures and frameworks as a scaffold upon which the image is ultimately constructed.

Julie Langsam

September 2009
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Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser. Courtesy of SVA.

Milton Glaser’s SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design

SVA (West 26th)
Chelsea
601 West 26th Street, 15th floor, 212-592-2010
August 31 - September 26, 2009
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ComD Agency

Next Tuesday is the first information meeting of the year for the ComD Agency. This is the student run club that will be focusing on creating a dialogue between Advertising students and Art Directors through lectures, studio tours, portfolio reviews and other events.   
Tuesday, September 15 12:45 PM Steuben, room 403   
Since this club is just forming, it seems like an excellent chance to get involved from the start. I'd like to see some of my top students get involved.

Staples

This spot perfectly combines a truthful insight and ironic use of music. Today across the city, many parents will be humming this tune.

Art & Copy

We will not be attending Art & Copy as class, but if you have the chance to see this documentary during its very short engagement, please do, the reviews are very good.

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon Show at

International Center of Photography
1133 Ave of the Americas, (at 43rd St)
New York (Thirties/Forties)
NY, 10036
United States
Phone 212-857-0000
Hours Tue-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri 10am-8pm (5-8 pay what you wish); Sat-Sun 10am-6pm

Milton Glaser...

Hey everyone this is Clint,

I found an ad in the paper for an exhibit entitled Milton Glaser's SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design. It opens August 31st and is open until September 26th. Location: School of Visual Arts Visual Arts Gallery, 601 W 26th St (Btw 11&12th Aves) 212-592-2145 Times vary and its FREE