It’s interesting how often I end up writing about music, but music truly is an integral part of the design process. The artists to which I’m currently listening directly influence the style and aesthetic of each and every project. Enter The Designers Mixtape, a place for designers to share their musical tastes.
Discover New Music With Pandora
Powered by the Music Genome Project, Pandora allows you to build your own radio station based on the music you like. Start with your favorite band, and branch out to new musicians that you may have never heard.
rAndom international
rAndom international is a team of three RCA graduates – Flo Ortkrass, Stuart Wood, and Hannes Koch – who all have a real digital-age aesthetic. I want me some PixelTape!
8861 miles
“A collaboration between 2 danish artists, one living in Denmark (Peter), the other living in Australia (Lene). 8861 miles apart their work takes form in sketchbooks, travelling back and forth between the continents.”
iPod Nano Spoof
You have to love Apple spoofs. Impossibly heavy.
Pop Surrealism
I just read the TRAFFIC Magazine article interviewing Kirsten Anderson, and started on a quest to find out more about Pop Surrealism. Soon I realized that this is what many of my painting peers in art school were doing without even knowing it. Here are some links: TRAFFIC Magazine Interview JUXTAPOZ ART & CULTURE MAGAZINE […]
Despotism (1946)
I was just taken back in time to 1946 watching this film by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. The Internet Archive provides Despotism, which explains how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. One of the ranking spectrums includes economic distribution which really strikes a chord in America today with our complete reliance […]
Art Tracing Module 002
Sustain Ability recently completed an interesting conceptual project. Two artists paint a painting, attach a global positioning device, and leave the painting in a public place. They allow it to be abducted, and then monitor its location using Google Earth, where its travel patterns are mapped out and put on display. Brilliant.
The iPod Flea
Scott Kelby put together this Apple spoof for the iPod Flea. Have a laugh.
Wired Covers Steven Sacks, Founder of bitforms
In Wired’s article, “The King of Digital Art”, Steven Sacks discusses how he’s planning on taking new-media art to the mainstream public.