Here are some examples of how these two forms of visual art, that create beautiful images and presentations.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Cartoon Design, and art illustration
Cartoon and Design meet for advertising, illustrating , and for communicating .
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The "COR" building.
There is a new building in Miami's Design District. Unlike most its buildings, this one is a lean, green , eco machine. It is a collaboration between Chap Oppenheim architecture and design, energy consultant Bruno Happold, and structural engineer Ysreal Seinuk. The forty million dollars 25-story , "COR" building , will include mixed-use of residential and commercial spaces, with of course the integration of green technologies. The new technologies include wind turbines, photovaltic panels (works with light) , and a solar hot water generation .
Placed within a beautiful landscape of the city of Miami , the building will seek to attract creative and design-oriented businesses, and professionals to the interior of COR features, commercial, and residential spaces. However, the prices are quite expensive ranging from 400 000 to 2 million dollars. Each residential unit will include Energy Star appliances, recycled glass tile flooring, and bamboo-lined hallways. COR supports 113 residential units, 20 100 squares feet of office space and 5 400 square feet of retail space ( already having a furniture store and a cafe ). Its completion was estimated in 2009.
This shows the contribution of Design in eco or "green" projects. I believe that Design has the power to attract people into green products or green habits, not necessarily with such a magnificent building, but with smaller things present in our everyday life ( like recycling , green cars and so on).
Limited Edition Experiences
Like Art Basel and Design Miami ( taking place in Miami), now a new exhibition is taking place; The Limited Edition Experiences , is an event that brings a posh lineup of famous fashion houses and creators to the Design District . This unique event will bring for the first time almost a dozen labels ,and brands ,that will have opened pop-up sores, which are temporary places offering limited edition products. It takes the place of a 18-block neighborhood to do so, and of course, is now turned into a fashion destination .
Gucci, Proenza Schauler , Christian Dior and more will participate in the event. Indeed, Design District retailers will participate , and have design showrooms that have their "special" exhibitions . Limited Edition includes cultural programming, public lectures , and free-standing stores and The Factory , where many brands will install their pop-up boutiques in the historic Moore building (which also launched Design Miami for the fair's fist three years).
This event is mainly based on Design District that will also include galleries.
If you have the chance to go: It is open to shoppers from 11 a.m to 7 p.m , but closed on monday December 13 and 20 . It's held in the Moore Building, 4040 NE Second Ave, Miami.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
"Black Math" , by Andy Gilmore .
New York based Andy Gilmore known as a draftsman, designer and musician.With important clients, as Times Magazine, he has established a solid reputation with his works being featured in countless publications, and shows and exhibits around the world. His brilliant art embraces geometric and kaleidoscopic visual experience. Being a musician, music inspired him by the physics of sounds and acoustics. The feeling is surreal, futuristic and feels out of this world. His work emphasizes works and innovation in art, that could not exist without computers. Moreover ,his art has a message and is a type of design expression.
This shows in one of his latest projects entitled "Black Math" , that was shown at the Pool Gallery in Berlin , starting July 6th till august 22nd of summer 2009.
Here are some of his designs from "Black Math":
Barami
Barami is a furniture store in Old-Montreal, located on St-Jaques and Notre Dame (just a few minutes away from the port). Their business runs with having workshops copying famous designs, of the most famous designers, including the Eames , Le Corbusier and Barcelona Chair. They offer a great variety of styles, greatly inspired from iconic designs.
Selling for cheaper, these famous and fabulous designs are available to more people . The furniture designs are mainly modern and contemporary pieces.
Their prices are much lower then the original pieces ( their sales do down to more then 50%).
This is another workshop and business inspired by Design , and which i think shows the importance of design in our world , and in our lifestyle.
For more info about the shop here is the website:http://www.baramifurniture.com
Art Deco , The Modern Style ( Modern expression)
Art Deco, the art design movement developed in 1925 till 1940, greatly affected decorative arts , such s graphic arts, visual art, and more. As a part of decorative art and a part of design, furniture was greatly influenced by Art Deco . Opposing to Art Nouveau which had carving lines and floral motifs , Deco embraced simplicity and beauty of efficiency rather the decoration. It led to the formation of a"New design-philosophy", having its main elements influenced by the "machine". Most famous and advanced designers in the 1930's such as Pierre Charear and Rene Herbst (along with architects and designers formed the Union des Artistes Modernes.), became anti-past style and anti-ornament. Indeed , in favor for the machine and the "beautiful in the useful"
Rene Herbst - Shadow Chair 1928, nickel-plated steel tube and elastic rubber cord.
However, this did lead to more innovations: the French designer Le Corbusier and his associates ( who where considerd the pioneers of "design") used massively more material as steel and aluminum , glass, and plain though leathers , to form stackable and transformable furniture ( which is very common the the 21st century).
Moreover, it is said that Art Deco started in 1925 because of the Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, the show that year gave Art Deco its name.
Le Corbustier
Le Corbustier Considered as one of the more aristocratic of Deco designers was Ruhlman . He produced superb work with furniture that has the same equivalence of the french court designers of the eighteenth century , specially with cabinet markers such as Reisner. In decorating he undertook a unique, new , and individual style with color-schemes. Unlike vivid colors usually used in Art Nouveau, he was interested in the harmonies of black and gold, grey and silver, brown and white. This will dramatically change the look of a room the piece of furniture is in, because it gives it a fresh modern look.
Ruhlman, CB130
Art Deco has established itself with the different designers embracing it in their art. It is a new type of art , which had its own business and production . Indeed, it expanded and got popularized for a wider range of clientele. Department stores had workshop of their own to create the same famous designs , and techniques for cheaper.
Designers like Pierre Legrain , preferring to design table, and cabinet lacque more then cabinets, was inspired by African models . He was more interested in original, simple, and elegant furniture using pale sycamore and chrome.
Pierre Legrain, Chair wood, bars and iron tacks.
Deco is evidently very inspiring to many artists and designers, which use it not only to make furniture or different type of artwork , but to express themselves. Like every genre of art and style it sets its own mood, that leads to feeling the comfort and influence of design on us.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
The Bauhaus Workshop in MOMA ( New York)
For the first time since 1938, when the school was shut down by the Nazis in 1933,the Bauhaus school is having an exhibition at the MOMA museum . The exhibition includes 400 artworks that reflect the school's production , which include , industrial design , furniture, architecture, graphics, photography , photographs, ceramics, painting and sculpture and more.
The workshop started November 8th 2009 till January 25th 2010.
Check out the MOMA website for more information:
Drawing inspired by design
For an individual project in drawing class, I was inspired by design , and specially 3d. However, the drawing i did of a butterfly in a "cubic" way , is mostly inspired by design with the organization of the different geometric forms.
The dimension of the drawing is only 2.5 by 3.5 inches (it was a trading cards project, the size is approximately the same as baseball cards).
Paola Antonelli's speech in TED (2007)
Paola Antonelli is a Design curator working at MOMA( Museum of Modern Art, of New York), she's an architect but focuses more on writing about Design. In her speech , she introduces design in many aspects of life , and emphasizes that it is "art" .
Her speech is very inspiring , specially to design lovers ( like me).
Furthermore, this link should be shared and I think it sends a good message, and a better understanding of design and its role in every aspect of life.
Here is the video you could also watch on the TED website , here is the link: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/paola_antonelli_treats_design_as_art.html
Revolving Design.
Revolving Design is a style of design using photoshop, that goes into 3D and its illusion (not just the tool in photoshop). The work is done by Youhanna Hojeily a graphic designer.
His work is experimental and at the same time introducing new techniques and ideas in using Adobe illustrator CS3 .
Furthermore, the artist has his own blog called Revolvingdesign's weblog , where he explains in detail his experimental study, and provides photos and sketches of it used in his project.
Like many bloggers, it is his space to express himself.
Here is the link to his blog: http://revolvingdesign.wordpress.com/
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
IQ font!
The IQ font , is developed in a new way, mixing design and drifting.
The typography designers working on this project really stepped out of the box!
Here is the link and the video (very cool!):
Friday, November 20, 2009
Fantastic graphic designer!
About three months ago, as I was wasting time on facebook , i was surprised to find something very interesting , even surprising!
It was an invitation to a blog called "amalgam", in one of its meanings is a mixture or combination. When i visited the blog i discovered a real mixture , Maya Zankoul the blog creator, is a young Lebanese graphic designer. She makes comics (using illustrator) to criticize people's actions. Of course, being comics, her sketches and stories are filled with humor.
Her idea became a success ,as more and more people visit her blog , and like her ideas. She also published a book with various comics , that was in the top 5 books in Virgin Mega store Lebanon.
The funny thing is, Maya Zankoul used to be in the same school i was in , in Saudi Arabia.
I think she's FANTASTIC!
Check it out!
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