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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:08:52 GMTdesignninja's design:related inspirationsCloverfield Visual Effects
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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:08:52 GMThttp://www.designrelated.com/inspiration/view/designninja/entry/2155Pixel Street Art
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This wicked little art piece in the East Village, NYC. Chuck Close for gamers and skaters?
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:53:30 GMThttp://www.designrelated.com/inspiration/view/designninja/entry/2143Techno Viking and Berlin Street Festivals
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<div>Sometimes some home video footage can transcend time and space. Now I'm not saying this clip does that per say but Techno Viking reaches out across borders to anyone who has been at a rave or Oakenfold show. Add the post industrial / post punk / gabba world of a changing Berlin, and an internet video hero, born of post urban mythology, is born.<br /><br />Street festival madness - what might seem dangerous or mad is really modern pagan society. If you are interested in working in Europe its hard in ignore the sheer size and community of the European techno movement.<br /><br />In case you are wondering what's going on in the videos, at F*ck Parade in Berlin people follow trucks with huge soundsystems on them. The festival was created in response to the commercialization of Love Parade.<br /></div>
<div><br />Check this out for some insights into what the world is digging outside of what MTV, and Radiohead, feeds us... watch your speakers. amazing.<br /><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tUVFJtS9IBs&hl=en" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tUVFJtS9IBs&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></object><br /></div>
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Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:14:10 GMThttp://www.designrelated.com/inspiration/view/designninja/entry/2062Horton Hears A Who
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"Horton Hears a Who!" is a 1954 book by Dr. Seuss. It is the second Seuss book to feature Horton the Elephant, the first being "Horton Hatches the Egg."
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"Horton Hears a Who! also known as, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! is a 2008 American Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) movie, based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. The fourth feature film from Blue Sky Studios, preceded in 2006 by Ice Age: The Meltdown, it will be released by 20th Century Fox. Featuring the voices of Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, and Will Arnett"
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<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NvF1TNGJEXE&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NvF1TNGJEXE&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:50:30 GMThttp://www.designrelated.com/inspiration/view/designninja/entry/1960Kokeshi
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Vinyl toys predecessor?
Kokeshi dolls originate from the Tohoku region of Northern Japan, an area well-known for its onsen (hot spring) resorts. These handmade wooden dolls are thought to date back to the early 19th century when kijiya (woodworkers), accustomed to making bowls and trays, began using their woodworking skills and lathes to make simple dolls to sell as toys and souvenirs to the onsen visitors. The dolls may originally have had a spiritual significance with the kokeshi representing a wish for a healthy child.
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It has also been suggested that kokeshi, with their round heads and limbless bodies probably made in an unpainted form originally, were used as massage tools by spa bathers. The name 'kokeshi' itself is thought to derive from a combination of names given to the wooden dolls in the various areas of their manufacture. Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:32:35 GMThttp://www.designrelated.com/inspiration/view/designninja/entry/1956Faile Art Collective
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On the commercialization of street art in recent years:
Patrick Miller: I think it's all how you look at it. I think that the commercial side of it and the art side of it is happening in different ways. It's clear that on both ends it is growing and it's obviously been commodified and used as a marketing tool for a lot of companies. But then you look as it being taken seriously as a legitimate art-form. It's almost in some ways not even an art-form as much as a vehicle. Street art can be anything, all it means is it's placed on the street, for direct public interaction. I think it will be really interesting to see which artists emerge out of the movement after ten years or so. To see its long-term impact on marketing and to see it's impact on the established world or art.
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Faile (Pronounced like "fail") is an international artist collective formed in 1999 and based in Brooklyn, New York. They are recognised as some of the pioneers of global contemporary street art. The three founding members are Patrick McNeil (Canada), Patrick Miller (U.S.) and Aiko Nakagawa (Japan).
From initially wheatpasting screen printed posters on the streets of New York and major world cities, they progressed to the more permanent medium of stencil graffiti. Their instantly recognisable gritty pop culture images in posters and stencils have allowed Faile to diversify into other areas encompassing fine art, sculpture, design, fashion, music and housewares. Despite this, the core of their work remains printmaking, stencilling and painting.
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:46:54 GMThttp://www.designrelated.com/inspiration/view/designninja/entry/1937Feng Shui
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Feng Shui meaning literally "wind water" is a Chinese philosophy about the relationship between humans and their environment.Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:53:38 GMThttp://www.designrelated.com/inspiration/view/designninja/entry/1908Biomimicry
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"Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a relatively new science that studies nature, its models, systems, processes and elements and then imitates or takes creative inspiration from them to solve human problems sustainably."
"One example is the attempt to learn from and emulate the incredible ability of termites to maintain virtually constant temperature and humidity in their Sub-Saharan Africa homes despite an outside temperature variation from 3 °C and 42 °C (35 °F at night to 104 °F during the day.) Project TERMES (Termite Emulation of Regulatory Mound Environments by Simulation) scanned a termite mound, created 3-D images of the mound structure and provided the first ever glimpse of construction that may likely change the way we build our own buildings. The Eastgate Centre, a mid-rise office complex in Harare, Zimbabwe, (highlighted in this Biomimicry Institute case-study) stays cool without air conditioning and uses only 10% of the energy of a conventional building its size."
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"In her 1997 book, "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature" (ISBN 0-06-053322-6), author Janine M. Benyus introduces biomimicry, presents examples, and explains why the field is important now. She writes, "Our planet-mates (plants, animals and microbes) have been patiently perfecting their wares for more than 3.8 billion years ... turning rock and sea into a life-friendly home. What better models could there be?"
The book lists numerous examples of people who are studying nature's achievements, including photosynthesis, natural selection, and self-sustaining ecosystems, among others. Benyus then explains how those researchers use the inspirations found in nature to emulate "life's genius" for the purpose of improving manufacturing processes, creating new medicines, changing the way people grow food, or harnessing energy."
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:27:49 GMThttp://www.designrelated.com/inspiration/view/designninja/entry/1896Joseph Albers: Homage to the Square
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Albers tried to teach the mechanics of vision and show even the uninformed viewer how to see.
Hundreds of paintings and prints that make up the series Homage to the Square. In this rigorous series, begun in 1949, Albers explored chromatic interactions with flat colored squares arranged concentrically on the canvas.
The Homage to the Square series is distinguished by the carefully recorded inscriptions of technical details on the back of each panel. This codification of the making of the painting, along with the reductively systematic application of colors, anticipated much of the art of the mid-1960s, when painting was stripped of the transcendental, and (in the case of Conceptual art) the paint was often left out altogether.
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With the closure of the Bauhaus under Nazi pressure in 1933 where Albers had taught glass and design, Albers emigrated to the United States and joined the faculty of Black Mountain College, North Carolina, where he ran the painting program until 1949. At Black Mountain his students included Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Ray Johnson and Susan Weil. In 1950 Albers left Black Mountain to head the Department of Design at Yale University.
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"Albers' work represents a transition between traditional European art and the new American art. His work incorporated European influences from the constructivists and the Bauhaus movement, and its intensity and smallness of scale was typically European. However, his influence fell heavily on American artists of the late 1950s and the 1960s. "Hard-edge" abstract painters drew on his use of patterns and intense colors, while Op artists and conceptual artists further explored his interest in perception." - wikipediaSat, 01 Mar 2008 17:31:13 GMThttp://www.designrelated.com/inspiration/view/designninja/entry/1882"Painted" T-Shirt by D&G
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I'm not sure whether to be inspired or repulsed by this, so I took the high road. Here for $550 you can look like you just painted all day in a Soho loft. Is any original cultural idea or icon safe from the endless pocketbooks of the glitterati. These are the same people that are buying at Trump Soho right? The other part of me (guess which side) loves the idea that designers can repackage common themes (Starbucks anyone?) and make a mint throught the repurposing of the obvious.
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"Inspired by the décor of the Gramercy Park Hotel — namely, the Schnabel, Basquiat and Warhol paintings that hang above the lobby bar’s baroque divans — Dolce & Gabbana sent out paint-splattered pieces for its spring collection that are themselves practically works of art. Even the T-shirts. Produced in limited number, each one is hand-painted by the in-house design team and one of a kind, and comes with a tag stating such. Surely that constitutes investment dressing. Painted T-shirt, $550 at Dolce & Gabbana boutiques."Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:15:44 GMThttp://www.designrelated.com/inspiration/view/designninja/entry/1851
