Mark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using the urban environment as his context. His work has been featured in various publications including Time, The Washington Post, Reuters, The Independent and on the street art blog Wooster Collective.
Boston-based type foundry, Font Bureau, is seeking at least $2 million damages for unauthorized use of type fonts on Jay Leno and Saturday Night Live. Font Bureau alleges the broadcaster bought one software license yet widely distributed unauthorized copies of three fonts: Bureau Grotesque, Interstate and Antenna. The type designs are used in such highly visible programs as “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” “Saturday Night Live,” and “The Jay Leno Show.”
One has to wonder if design studio, Number 17 (designers of the Jimmy Fallon & SNL logos) has any part in lending.
Amazing shots by Hector Santizo at the 2009 Burning Man. Love this year’s theme.
Our second interview is with contemporary artist/sculptor, Diana Al-Hadid. Diana was born in Syria in 1981 and raised in Ohio and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She has an MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as a BFA in sculpture and a BA in Art History from Kent State University. She has been the focus of several solo exhibitions and international group exhibitions, including New York, Philadelphia, Berlin, London, Istanbul and Sharjah, UAE. Diana creates broad and spacious sculptures constructed from various mediums. The colossal-scale of her pieces articulate her concern with the architecture, mythology, theoretical technologies and the inevitable deterioration of ambitious human constructions. Read the full post
Current TV’s all access program, ‘Embedded’ follows Mos Def through Japan. Loved every minute of it!
Really loving the mural painting of the Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye onto this sub-par table. The legs could use some work. More images after the break.
Rem does a 3 part interview that discusses his hatred of the term ‘starchitect’, contradictory times, journalism and current works in Asia, including one of my favorite OMA projects, the Seoul University building. Of course CNN shows Herzog & de Meuron’s Prada work instead of OMA’s. Silly kids.
Eleven is delighted to present I Dont Like Mondays, its first solo show with London-based artist Ben Turnbull. Turnbull perverts objects associated with childhood to both reveal a darker side of youth and critique the way it’s often pictured in the media. His new series of works – seven school desks on which images of weapons have been painstakingly carved – is a direct comment on contemporary school life, alluding to the horrific crimes repeatedly splashed out in headlines, from knife murders in South London to the Virginia Tech and Columbine massacres. By whittling the desk down to expose these deadly shapes, Turnbull also hints at a latent feeling of violence, it’s as if the weapons were already there, waiting to be used.
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, recently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
We drove up to 116th St. and Broadway to see one of the world’s most accomplished designers speak on happiness and life lessons, Stefan Sagmeister. It was truly an endearing, comedic and humbling lecture. Loved every minute of it.
Here is he speaking in July for TED
We were extremely excited to speak at this year’s Click NYC 2009 conference at the Art Directors Club last Thursday. The Click event is based out of London and was started by Creative Review magazine. The conference focuses more on web and digital design in advertising. We purposefully spoke for 8-10 mins on 2 non-digital projects, NPNY08 and our Nike U.S. Open tees, hopefully giving the audience something different to look at.
We met tons of wonderful people and were very proud to participate.
Last night made for eventful (live) TV, with Letterman taking the cake (easily!!). My opinion on the whole Polanski debacle is clear but on the oft-chance that some ambiguity still persists; the good Chris Rock crystallizes things
Maxwell- Pheonix tise
Had a conversation last night over several rounds of drinks (Ward 8 to be precise) and it tethered itself to the idea of people, specifically friends/lovers, how they, much like everything else ease in and out of our lives. Along an unpredictable rhythm, some stay longer than we would like while others fade far too soon. So while eye have all of you here, in one place: Thanks for everything. Truly!
We just recently watched the horror classic ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ by the great Roman Polanski. Loved it! Loved Ms. Mia Farrow and her impeccable style. Excellent movie poster too, view everything larger after the break.
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1) Copenhagen as a city definitely represents a sensibility eye can retire myself to yrs from now. Trip highlights were aplenty but if am forced to play favorites (and in no particular order): birthday meal @ noma ; Giacometti sculptures as seen in the Louisana Museum; grass grazing in Fredriksburg gardens, bottomless coffee @ Laundromat cafe
2) Currently listening to: “A walk across rooftops”- Blue nile.
3) Its here- the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”. Autumn as articulated by John Keats.
4) Lastly, the above image being evidence enough. Glad football season is underway. Giants-Colts is my superbowl pick. Going to go out on a limb and predict a Manning will be victorious @ QB
What New York looked like before it was a city. Exhibition is up until October 12th. Check out the beautiful imagery & site.
uhmm…speechless!!!
3D drawing on a new level. Meet Rhonda.
Type foundry, Fontsmith have stepped up their game to the likes of OurType with a amazingly great website that displays their beautiful products to the highest degree. It is easily the best example of beautiful type done on the web that we’ve seen in a long while. An awesome shopping experience!
Will be the first to admit that Ted [1932-2009] was never my favorite kennedy (that distinction goes to Bobby). He was unlike his brothers, less steeped in glamour and mythology. He was all the better for it. Because with that, he gave us all the kennedy we deserved- a human, gray-haired one.
Listening to “Air – Casanova 70″
Up next on the Netflix queue.
Leading contender for best ad in 2009. Looks to me like it was all on one single-shot take.
Copenhagen in T- 20 days.
“To live is the rarest thing in this world…”Oscar Wilde
Made for an interesting read in between (multiple) reaches for coffee. Although, to be fair, dining al fresco certainly livens any conversation.
“And I say: That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what’s her name & address?” —The last line of Jack Kerouac’s introduction to The Americans by Robert Frank, 1958.c. On view @ the Met this fall.
Passion pit- “Manners”, is holding up quite well on multiple listens. Proving to be a strong buy.
Aesthetic pieces I can certainly get behind.
Credit: William Eggleston (Untitled).
“Brief interviews with hideous men”: From a density standpoint, certainly one of the more conquerable of DFW’s output. Above all, a good read.
Currently listening to: “I got lost” c/o Dinosaur Jr
Who had have thunk it but eye just might have found GOD through architecture . Sundays @ 10am.
One of the very best photographers around: Boogie. Served best by the “Brazil series”. Very glad to have told him so during my stint in NYC.
P.S: The name you might be seeking out right about now is Thomas Allen.
England recently launched their new football kits designed by underground fashion darling, Aitor Throup for Umbro (love the new site). The ultra sleek, super refined, minimal get-up are so well designed that all sports teams should take note. Be sure to check out the well developed ad campaign that have Englanders of all-sorts wearing the new digs. More images after the break.
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Spezify is a search engine for the visually inclined. Well designed and impressive functionality. Combining text, imagery, video, twitter & et. al posts into a nice grid system.
In real-life situations. Thanks for sending this over Won!
Fontshop’s blog, ‘FontFeed’ posted a nice little critique on the cover of the July issue of Esquire Magazine that features supermodel, Bar Refaeli covered in hand-created type by superdesigner, James Victore. Love his quote here:
“I have an exquisite wife, and I practice on her. Also, we worked with three different models. Everyone is different. The flesh is different, the curves are different.” – Victore
It explains that while this cover is very nice to look at, the process has been done before…a couple of times over. No harm in that though.
We are longtime admirers of the work of artist/illustrator/designer, Marion Bolognesi, especially her ‘Eye Series’.
