- ARCHIVE / Aktuell
- NYTimes / Martha Rosler
Cut and Paste
Above: Invasion (2008). From the NYTimes article by Carol Kino on the artist Martha Rosler. Make sure to watch the short video interview with her, stunning images.
- Posterpage / Galeira Plakatu Kraków
New Web Exhibition
Above: From Rene Wanner’s latest web exhibition, a poster by Andrzej Krajewski. Interesting data on Polish theater posters from the last twenty years. Wanner also shares an excellent resource through the Galeria Plakatu Kraków, a seemingly exhaustive overview of theater, film, and other cultural posters from Poland’s seminal graphic tradition.
Danke Schön, Rene!
- GD1 F08 / Pencil, Pen, and Ink
Madeline Queripel
Above: Strong sharpie sketch (4×7 inches) by Madeline from a recent in-class Graphic Design One exercise. Each student was asked to answer seven questions using only hand drawn images in the grid below. Having completed that, they had the freedom to explore a combined message as seen above.
Above: Madeline’s sketch grid (4×7 inches). The [...]
- An arresting development.
St. Paul, Minnesota
Above: From the Star Tribune’s photo series from last night (Sept.4, 2008). That’s me on the left with my old black messenger bag. (Thanks to K for finding this.)
As it happens, a friend and I were caught between two opposing sides last night and were arrested while we were trying to return to [...]
- The Uptake / RNC Free Speech Zone
Scenes from September 2nd, St.Paul.
Above: From The Uptake, video by Chuck Tomlinson from the aptly named
RNC Free Speech Zone, complete with metal fences. Beware the terrifying youth dancing to Madonna. Which reminds me, (see second officer from left),
“Aren’t you a little short to be a stormtrooper?”
Surreal. Thank goodness for The Uptake.
- Guardian / Rage Against the Machine
St. Paul Performance Cancelled
Above: Come wit it now! Found in the Guardian of all places, some good YouTube links from yesterday’s CANCELLED Rage appearance in St. Paul. YouTube has many more links to an acapella version of wawa tikka wawa tikka tikka tikka wawa tikka wawa… Guess they were too rough around the edges for [...]
- Gulf Times / Talisman opens
Qatar Now Series: Manar Al-Muftah
Above: Fresh newspaper clipping from The Gulf Times in Doha. Shokran, Manar!
Here is another link to The Peninsula, also published in Doha. Arabic and English text can be found on the main VCUQ page. My hero and yours, Leland Hill, helped arrange the work in the gallery. Mabrouk to you both!
Awaiting [...] - Site M 003
The Benefice
Above: Visual notation by John Malinoski, 2008.
Pen and marker.
- Heeft McCain verkeerd gegokt…
…met Sarah Palin?
Above: Dag, from Amsterdam, Holland. Bored with your usual news sources? All the world’s a stage, check in with Newseum daily. Front covers and links to newpapers around the world.
- Tata for now, Nano.
Factory closes under protest.
Above: The Indian Peoples Car, the $2,500 Tata Nano. See this interesting development reported in CNN International, local farmers usher along the Singur plant closing over protests their land had been bought too cheaply or not compensated at all. (Tata’s own article.)
The more things change, the more they stay the same. See [...] - Minneatures / Plasticgod
Soo Visual Arts Center
Above: Invitation from the Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis announcing an upcoming show by Plasticgod. The exhibit is presented in collaboration with ROBOTlove. Opening at Soo September 5th, 2008.
- RNC 08 / St.Paul, Minnesota
Étudiants, à St.Paul!
Above: Aug. 31 2008, St. Paul, MN. As close to the RNC Convention as die liebe Bettina and I could get today. Welcome friends, and here are our local crack stormtroopers! It seemed to get serious when the National Guardsmen, just in the back, could be seen donning their gas masks as well.
The [...] - Chris Burns / Will I Do Anything…
… good design tells me too? Presenting, for your consideration,
Daniel Eatock’s “No Smoking Signs” collaboration project.Chris Burns writes: The No Smoking sign is not the best example for things I need to be told not to do. But, it’s an excellent battleground for those who wish to creatively tell people to please stop killing themselves.
What [...] - Guardian / Polish Posters
Film Poster History and Analysis
Above: From the Guardian, a welcome review by Paul Rennie on the history of the Polish film poster. With Poland playing an awkward role in the renewal of archaic Cold War tensions and games, the irony of this history of state-sponsored design is striking.
Tangentially, it is also interesting to note this [...] - Guardian / Obama Iconography
Video from Denver show.
Above: From the Guardian, a great short on an exhibit at the Democratic Convention in Denver. Look for the Obama as Lincoln images.
- Seeing the News
Marumushi Newsmap
Above: Screenshot of the US page of Newsmap from today. The dark red areas are World News related categories. Notice how world news, and not national news, dominates the remaining language options.
Above: From Newsmap, Australia.
Above: From Newsmap, France!
Above: From Newsmap, Germany. Here, economic news, in purple, is prominent (as well as in France.)
Above: From [...]
- The Uptake / MPLS
Journalists notes seized.
Above: From yesterday’s The Uptake, shades of Chinese intimidation tactics
for a trio of journalists/artists, who specialize in documenting police activity during political demonstrations.
St. Paul is hosting the Republican convention, let’s hope this kind of thing
was just a mistake?
- Dear Mrs. President
Toronto, Canada
Above: The Globe and Mail, from Toronto, Canada via Newseum. In dazzling orange, the self-proclaimed leader of the order of “the traveling pant-suits,” Clinton knocked more than few out of the park last night.
Also featured on the Resources page, check in with Newseum daily,
front pages from around the world.
Click the image above for a [...] - PO4 / Poster Offensive
St. Paul, MN
Above: Screen grab from The Poster Offensive, detailed info on an upcoming exhibition of posters, PO4. Opening August 29, 2008 at the The Black Dog Cafe, featuring a long list of participants, including the smashing Aesthetic Apparatus,
Dan Ibarra and Micheal Byzewski.
- Piotr Szyhalski / Labor Camp
IF/THEN: You Decide Leaflets
Above: Piotr Szyhalski, Ideaology leaflets, front and back. IF/THEN: You Decide is a compelling part of the upcoming Faculty Show at the MCAD Gallery. For more, go to Szyhalski’s excellent Labor Camp. The project is based on propaganda leaflets dropped over Iraq.
- Gabe Hudson / Dear Mr. President
McSweeney’s and Gabe Hudson
Above: Screen grab from Dear Mr. President by Gabe Hudson.
Feel free to write your own letter.
Die liebe Bettina found this recently and it is apropo to a new school-wide problem running at MCAD this fall, “Dear President _____.”
McSweeney’s 28 has the full compendium of letters, filed under Gabe Hudson’s Dear Mr. President [...] - Qatar Now / Talisman
Manar Al-Muftah
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, Zai (2008). The artist celebrates her first exhibition. Mabrouk, Manar. The first of many. Enshallah!
Qatar Now: Manar Al-Muftah: Talisman opens on September 3, 2008
and runs through October 4.
UPDATE: From Manar, her artist’s statement for Talisman. An important window into the mind of an emerging artist.
“Arabic is deeply rooted in my repository [...] - Site M 002
Hunger
Above: Visual notation by John Malinoski, 2008.
Pen and marker.
- Please choose Hillary Clinton
No other way to win?
Above: Obama and Clinton at one of the ten-million recent debates. Perfect together. As the great mystic Ali G. has said, “Hear me now.”
Hillary Clinton for Vice President is the only possible choice. If Obama chooses one of these who-are-those-guys Governors, I see dark clouds ahead.
I think she would help truly [...] - nuestra heroína
Roqaya Al-Gassra, Bahrain
Above: Out of the blocks in modesty track suit. Al-Gassra is a new hero, missing the final by just 0.1 seconds. Run, Roqaya, run!
Can’t help but recall that a former colleague, Mary McLaughlin, always thought this would be an excellent design problem for the fashion students at VCUQ.
See this story from Bahraini TV [...]