this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

digital one, consider for a moment how this
cupboard/sideboard by Ettore Sottsass Jr.,
differs from that of the furniture we recently
studied by Carlo Bugatti. Be prepared to
discuss it. both names are linked





















In 1980, Ettore Sottsass, Jr., one of the senior
Italian designers of the time, founded the Milan
design cooperative Memphis with two colleagues,
Andrea Branzi and Allesandro Mendini. Memphis
pieces, such as the "Casablanca" cabinet displayed
here, were self-consciously flamboyant riffs on the
postmodern design then in vogue. Although the
cooperative lasted only for five years, its risky
exuberance expanded the boundaries of modern
furniture and continues to influence designers today.

The Plain Beauty of Well-Made Things


digital two, please read the linked article

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Arising from our class discussions. Digital 1 ( both sections ) , carefully read and generally commit to memory for next weeks class, not the class immediately threatening, but the next.

The following ....

Try to identify the defining or central characteristics of the individuals, the works, or movements linked to the names below.

I vigorously suggest that you follow the links or connections along their natural progression, perhaps from person to person, or work to work, or even movement to movement, as one might also follow a country path wandering along. Just look about. Try to both appreciate the works themselves, and try also to begin to perceive the enduring connections between them, and recognize that they are as art works or moments in Art History, inextricably bound to each other by context. Each person or work having an effect, an influence upon the other.

It is some of the finest of modern art and represents some of the pivotal
redefinitions of style and ideas, in Modern Art History.


Try not to be obsessive with the minutiae, endeavour to comprehend the work or movements in rather broad strokes (sorry about the pun) so to as better understand the general historical context and the progression of styles, philosophies and ways of working. If you find this all a trifle overwhelming, just think of it as gossip, because some of it frankly, is. Cool


























Thursday, September 10, 2009










digital too, visit this site.

Friday, September 04, 2009


design two - do work hard on your layout project, as it does tend to show when you don't ...



.... search, investigate, explore - try new things. Go back the way you came and look again, keep moving, collect, experimento, eat ice cream

www.lapp-pro.de/ check this out.

The name light graffiti struggles to do these displays justice.

The fantastic spectacles of colour - which are the latest trend in street art - are as impressive as fireworks.


A host of light sources, from flash lights and bike lights to blinking LED lights, are used to 'paint' a picture straight onto the camera lens. Also known as light drawing or light painting, these arresting images are created with long exposure cameras in the dark. Sometimes the exposures run on for longer than an hour.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1210538/Pictured-The-incredible-light-graffiti-created-host-light-sources-shine-straight-camera-lens.html#ixzz0QA1wXtTJ