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Watch this awesome stop animation project created with Post-It Notes by Bang Yao Liu from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
The remarkable French marionette street theatre Royal de Lux unveiled their latest creations this past weekend. As the highlight of the Estuary 2009 Arts Festival in Nantes, the theater company drew a gigantic crowd to view a gigantic fairytale. Nantes also happens to be the home of Jules Verne.
A simple story depicted a sad, giant, deep-sea diver searching for his lost niece who was stolen by Icelandic giants. The tale was told over multiple days and locations throughout the city finally culminating in the reunion of the diver and his niece.
Beautiful piece of cinema – blinding poetry in motion.
Jeff Desom
Vizh-oo-uh-lee-spee-king – BFA 2009
Published April 27, 2009 Design and Art Faggotry Leave a Comment
Lots of interesting pieces at this year’s BFA show at UH. The show is still on going so please check out their work. Keep an eye out for Jen Tam’s ceramic sculptures and Jeff Nisbet, Frida Lam, Ricky Chan, Kathleen Tomas and Hiromi Tsuchiya – just to name a few outstanding artists.
Chae Lee told me about this amazing machine called a Print Gocco. It’s basically an easy bake oven type of tool for screen printing. How cool is that? Apparently they come in different model sizes, the smaller card sizes run around $100-150 and the one pictured above is closer to an 8.5 x 11 and the kit can runs around $500. You can print on all types of paper and even shirts!
Gocco (プリントゴッコ ,Purinto Gokko, “Print Gocco”) is a self-contained compact color printing system invented in 1977 by Noboru Hayama. Gocco became immensely popular in Japan and it is estimated that one-third of Japanese households own a Print Gocco system. Using flash bulbs similar to those found in old cameras, an original image is thermally imprinted on a master screen.
The name “print gocco” is derived from the Japanese word gokko (ごっこ ?), loosely translated as make-believe play. Riso Kagaku president Noboru Hayama explained, “We [as kids] learned rules and knowledge through make-believe play. The spirit of play is an important cultural asset. I thought that I wanted to leave “play” in the product’s name.”
A new concept design from Ji Woong feature a zipper that lets you zip them up to eliminate cable knots. This concept idea has the volume controls on the zipper pull. Looks rad.
Chupa Chups Lollipops Logo Designed by Salvador Dali
Published April 24, 2009 Design and Art Faggotry Leave a Comment
A universal design required the services of a universal artist, so one day in 1969 Enric Bernat travelled to Figueras, 150 km north of Barcelona, in order to pay a visit to the world famous Salvador Dalí. Over lunch and in less than one hour this great artist sketched out on a piece of newspaper what was to be the basis of the Chupa Chups logo still in existence today. The brand name was centred in the middle of a simple and attractive design based on a daisy. Following the recommendation of Dalí, the logo was then removed from the side of the lollipop and placed on the crown in order to ensure legibility.
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