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All about Designs!
Photography #fashion #lakes December 3, 2019 Laura Staugaitis All photographs © Kristina Makeeva, shared with artist’s permission Photographer Kristina Makeeva creates captivating scenes centered around Lake Baikal. The lake, located in Russia, is the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, holding nearly a quarter of the world’s fresh surface water. Makeeva takes …
Art #guns #Mexico #trees December 2, 2019 Grace Ebert Pedro Reyes is showing how an object used for harm can be molded into one that promotes life in a project titled “Palas por Pistolas.” Reyes, who originally is from Mexico City, collected 1,527 guns from the Culiacán area in Mexico. The project offered those …
Art Design History #art history #books #libraries December 2, 2019 Laura Staugaitis “The Rosebud Garden of Girls” by Julia Cameron. Virtual Library title: “Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs” by Julian Cox, Colin Ford, Joanne Lukitsh, and Philippa Wright Over the last five years, the Los Angeles-based Getty Museum has developed a program to …
Art #black and white #surreal #tattoos December 1, 2019 Andrew LaSane Italian artist Michele Volpi tattoos highly detailed conceptual pieces using black ink and the negative space of her clients’ skin. With a surrealist style and a monochromatic palette, Volpi inks diagrams of insects, plants, and human anatomy that resemble vintage illustrations borrowed from …
Art #landscapes #nature #photography #sky #trees November 30, 2019 Andrew LaSane All photographs © Mikko Lagerstedt and shared with permission of the artist Photographer Mikko Lagerstedt (previously) has once again captured the quiet beauty of his native Finland with a recent series centered around trees. Ethereal skies, virgin snow, and seemingly isolated pockets of …
Art #balloons #New York #parades #sun #Thanksgiving November 28, 2019 Laura Staugaitis If you haven’t had a chance to experience a Yayoi Kusama piece in person, the iconic Japanese artist will be debuting a sun-themed balloon in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Kusama (previously), whose wide-ranging work across a long career includes her …
Photography #cars #forests #Hawaii #rainforest November 26, 2019 Laura Staugaitis All photographs © Thomas Strogalski and shared with permission of the artist Abandoned vehicles are swallowed by the surrounding forest in “Nature Takes Over,” a photo series by Thomas Strogalski. The German photographer, normally based in Düsseldorf, was on assignment in Maui, Hawaii for …
Art #activism #museums November 26, 2019 Laura Staugaitis “Dwell: Aso Ebi” by Njideka Akunyili Crosby (2017), at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Purchased as the gift of Nancy L. Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff, Baltimore, in Honor of Kristen Hileman 2020, with its pleasing, almost futuristic symmetry, marks a timeframe to which many visioning plans …
Illustration #street art #water November 25, 2019 Laura Staugaitis Since receiving a power washer for her birthday this fall, Dianna Wood has turned her driveway, and those of her lucky neighbors, into works of art. Similar to the reductive processes of printmaking and scratchboard art, Wood removes areas of her “canvas” to reveal lighter …
Animation #black and white #China #family #stop motion November 25, 2019 Laura Staugaitis [embedded content] Animator Siqi Song explores the deeply personal implications of China’s One Child Policy in her powerful animated short, SISTER. The film uses felt stop-motion animation to tell the story of a family that conceived two children during the years—1979 …