design:related - maiabee's inspirations

Things for sale that I will mail you

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:00:06 GMT

David Horvitz is selling stuff to get into Bard. I want the Star Sand from Okinawa!

"If you give me the total of the above (excluding the independent study fees) I will send you all (except under certain circumstances which we will discuss) the art-work I make during my graduate school studies. I just got accepted into the Bard MFA program. It is expensive. I am poor. If you just buy one semester, you will get the art made for that semester. If you pay for all three, you will get all three. This is an edition of 3, one for each semester. Get it while it lasts.

I will also be accepting small donations by anyone. For every donation I will send you a unique edition of one art-work on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. It will be a conceptual piece and the paper will contain instructions as to how the piece should be carried out. This will only be for donations $20 or more."

GOTTA LOVE THIS NUTJOB!

ANNE ADAMS

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:01:00 GMT

FROM THE NY TIMES:

From 1997 until her death 10 years later, Dr Anne Adams underwent periodic brain scans that gave her physicians remarkable insights to the changes in her brain.

“In 2000, she suddenly had a little trouble finding words,” her husband said. “Although she was gifted in mathematics, she could no longer add single digit numbers. She was aware of what was happening to her. She would stamp her foot in frustration.”

By then, the circuits in Dr. Adams’s brain had reorganized. Her left frontal language areas showed atrophy. Meanwhile, areas in the back of her brain on the right side, devoted to visual and spatial processing, appeared to have thickened.

When artists suffer damage to the right posterior brain, they lose the ability to be creative, Dr. Miller said. Dr. Adams’s story is the opposite. Her case and others suggest that artists in general exhibit more right posterior brain dominance. In a healthy brain, these areas help integrate multisensory perception. Colors, sounds, touch and space are intertwined in novel ways. But these posterior regions are usually inhibited by the dominant frontal cortex, he said. When they are released, creativity emerges.

Dr. Miller has witnessed FTD patients become gifted in landscape design, piano playing, painting and other creative arts as their disease progressed.

Dr. Adams continued to paint until 2004, when she could no longer hold a brush. Her art, including “An ABC Book of Invertebrates,” a rendering of the mathematical ratio pi, an image of a migraine aura and other works, is at two Web sites: members.shaw.ca/adms and memory.ucsf.edu/Art/gallery.htm.

MADE HER THINK

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:22:15 GMT

Power to your Tchotkes!

Last year everyone was wearing antler horns, skulls, daggers, and birds around their necks, and a lot of jewelry designers seemed to follow suit. Soon the market was bombarded with Urban Outfitter type knockoffs and it was hard to find a unique piece of jewelry without feeling like a sheep drowning in mainstream bauble kitsch. It's a good thing Meredith Kahn started her own line of wonderful jewelry called "Made Her Think". Although you see a lot of imitators that use the same iconography as her ( ie skulls and horns) - her pieces are worth the price and stand out from the rest of those cheapy necklaces that are currently being sold on the street next to stinky incense and fake bags.

Her lovely gothic storybook style website ain't too shabby either!

"The ideal of joy in both life and death underlies the dark allure of Made Her Think, a prolific and imaginative jewelry collection by designer Meredith Kahn. Meredith draws upon the mystical energy of Mexico's Day of the Dead celebration to create feminine, edgy pieces with a uniquely spiritual quality."

FRANK HORVAT

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:23:49 GMT

SNAP SNAP SNAP THOSE PHOTOS BABY!

Frank Horvat was born in 1928 in what was then Italy and is now Croatia. He studied art in Milan and a meeting in 1951 with Henri Cartier-Bresson decided his fate as a photojournalist. He traveled the world in the early 50s and sent his work back to Paris Match, Life and Realities among other magazines. In 1956 he settled in Paris and began to photograph fashion with a reportage style: real life situations, ambient lighting and 35mm cameras.

During his long career, Frank Horvat has contributed to every major magazine and his work has been exhibited in Paris, London, Prague, Berlin and New York.

HENRY CLARKE

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:21:43 GMT

In his quarter-century of work for American, British and French Vogue from 1950 to 1975, Clarke created indelible images of elegance: women with veiled hats, swan-long necks and stomachs sucked in like greyhounds as they showed fashions haute and haughty. "But he never made photographic effects to the detriment of women," says Vogue's Susan Train, who worked with the photographer as jet travel brought exotic locations into fashion.

TIM WALKER

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:57:54 GMT

Tim Walker -I love you.

NEED I SAY MORE?

Tim Walker is a photgrapher based in London. Tim’s interest in photgraphy began during work experience at Condé Nast where he set up the Cecil Beaton archive. After graduating from Exeter Art College, he worked as a freelance photographic assistant before working as Richard Avedon’s assistant in New York. His career as a photographer was launched when he came third in the Inpependent Young Photographer of the Year Award, and he went on to contribute to high-profile magazines including Vogue, W and Harper‘s Bazaar. He has also shot advertising campaigns for clients including Barneys, Comme des Garcons, Gap and Yohji Yamamoto.

GIANLUCA FALLONE

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:23:33 GMT

Gianluca must be eating a lot of Argentinean beef to feed those neurones in his brain that allow him to make these eyecatching, eyeball-popping graphics with his Adobe Illustrator expertise.

Yo Gianni! Pass me some of those meatballs so I can get some juices in my lobes and make all these purdy colors too!! AY CARUMBA!

from the Innurnetz:

Gianluca Fallone is a 23 year old Argentinian illustrator and designer. His work is amazingly detailed and uses a ton of textures. Also, his use of glowing colors totally sells me on his work.

sidenote*: I bet if you ate some shrooms those glowing colors will really take you to outer space...mannnn

HRH PRINCESS TINA

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:59:29 GMT

Dear Princess Tina, If you could kindly ship me your entire fall collection that would just be superfuckingfantastic- drop your pants off - AMAZING! I love your bears, I love your threads, I dont want to be threadbear without such wants....I adore your tinkly trinkets- But why am I having such a hard time finding them? Maybe I should move back to Sydney then eh.. If only I could get all the spare thread from all of China and gather them into a huge 50% polyester/50% cotton mountain shaped like a heart, I will roll it across the pacific ocean for you- LIKE A GIANT TUMBLEWEED OF LURVEEE OH the hearts in my eyes doth shine so bright... like a baby harp seal's eyeballs // buh-bye!

My, What Lovely Monsters you have!

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:00:42 GMT

Emily Golden Twomey- you are the hidden gem in a rainforest full of squiggleys and doodles plus doodads- keep up the lovely work because you are the latest star to capture my cerebellum..Dear dear pendulum of eye+candy...tick-tock-tick-tock- magick!

Chris Hipkiss

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:42:14 GMT

Lovely Pen marks, Chris! ( b 1964- West London UK) Other than this somewhat unusual behaviour in a boy so young, Hipkiss enjoyed a normal childhood, taking pleasure in his time at the local Catholic and Grammar schools and at home, and never at a loss for things to do. His habit of drawing repeated motifs did start young, however; at the age of two, he covered a pillow-case with ‘spiders’ rendered in black biro. Unsurprisingly, his favourite place in school was the art room.