“Driving can be beautiful.”
VW Canada launches a new campaign in the streets of Canada’s major cities to promote the launch of the 2012 Jetta GLI. The idea behind the campaign: pop-art galleries with artwork inspired by the Jetta’s new design!
PBS Arts releases another video for their “Off Book” series, this time focusing on Etsy’s retail online platform. Not only has Etsy revolutionized the retail culture for the local craft community, but also positions itself as a platform where customers and artists can connect and share ideas.
”It’s not a juried site, it’s totally open. That’s a really revolutionary way to look at art” -Vanessa Bertozzi, Director of Community & Education, Etsy
For more inspiration from PBS Arts take a look at our previous posts: Typography & Visual Culture Online
Yesterday our Brand Marketing team got the chance to experience MoMA’s new exhibition, “Talk to Me”. The new exhibition dives into design and the communication between people and objects:
The exhibition focuses on objects that involve a direct interaction, such as interfaces, information systems, visualization design, and communication devices, and on projects that establish an emotional, sensual, or intellectual connection with their users.
If you happen to live in NYC or plan to visit soon, I would definitely recommend stopping at the MoMA before November 7th!
Here’s a glimpse of my favorite examples from “Talk to Me”:
1. Eyewriter - It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis to draw using only their eyes
2. Touch Hear - By touching a word or phrase, one can listen to its pronunciation or its meaning. The gadget whispers the missing information into the ear, without interrupting the flow of reading
3. Situationist App - iPhone app that alerts members to each other’s proximity and get them to interact in random situations
4. Phantom Recorder - Conceptual medical device that re-imagines phantom limb sensations as nostalgic memories
5. Artificial Biological Clock - An object that recieves information from her doctor, therapist and bank manager and alerts her when she is physicallly, mentally and economically ready to start a family
![By Ray Perfetti | Studio Manager NY
Here in the NY design studio, we love infographics! Every Powerpoint loving presenter has at least dabbled with the chart and graph tool. When done effectively, they are elegant ways to visualize complex ideas and information.
What better way to illustrate this point than making something as complex as the United Stated Annual Budget visually interesting, interactive and informative. Our hats are off to Anil Kandangath for creating Where Did My Tax Dollars Go. Here are some other infographics that inspire us:
Death and Taxes by WallStats (A poster version of the United States Budget)
The portfolio of Nicholas Felton
The portfolio of Tim Leong | Art Director of Wired Magazine
[via Gizmodo, via Fast Co Design]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljwymkq6Ru1qbxn9no1_500.png)
By Ray Perfetti | Studio Manager NY
Here in the NY design studio, we love infographics! Every Powerpoint loving presenter has at least dabbled with the chart and graph tool. When done effectively, they are elegant ways to visualize complex ideas and information.
What better way to illustrate this point than making something as complex as the United Stated Annual Budget visually interesting, interactive and informative. Our hats are off to Anil Kandangath for creating Where Did My Tax Dollars Go. Here are some other infographics that inspire us:
Death and Taxes by WallStats (A poster version of the United States Budget)
The portfolio of Nicholas Felton
The portfolio of Tim Leong | Art Director of Wired Magazine
[via Gizmodo, via Fast Co Design]
“Like a concert tour but with sketchbooks” is the mantra to The Sketchbook Project: 2011. Another fantastic example of art as experience.
Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the country.
After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.
As someone who’s constantly trying to add rigor to “exercising my creative muscles” this is a great motivator that welcomes me into a larger community, involves me in an experience and allows my scribbles to live on and be experienced by even more people.
If you’re interested, join here.
