hank de ricco’s sculpture in the snow & otherwise
david weinrib’s notes* about hank de ricco’s 27 pole piece:
think totem poles . . .
think brancusi . . .
think david smith forged shaft series . . .
walter de maria lighting field project . . .
out west & west . . .
broadway dia centimeters room . . .
one hundred buddhas in kyoto . . .
arlington […]
posted 26 December 2010
x-mess photo from fire island girl . . .
today is the fourth sunday of advent and let us not forget that popular culture
has made much of the inclusion of nikolaos the wonderworker (*greek:
nikolaos o thaumaturgos) and his feastday of december 6th. saint nicholas
(model for santa claus, whose modern name comes from the dutch word, sinterklaas) is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, […]
posted 19 December 2010
categories photos
winter design solstice . . .
mm: making meaning
industrial design studio: matthew burger • jeff kapec
december 11th – 15th, autumn semester 2010
pratt studios 43, pratt institute, brooklyn, nyc.
id seniors & project topics:
mayang anggraeni • headphones
jessica doutrich • hybrid animals
elice ferrell • hats
kousaku haruguchi • patient room
chia-lin hsu • stomach monsters
chelsea johnson • emotional dolls
taehoon kim • trash can
adam miller • […]
posted 16 December 2010
categories education
form, texture & pattern inceptions in paper, for ralph pucci . . .
congratulations to all of the students from pratt institute’s school of art & design that participated with ralph pucci international on their conceptual paper project. i would especially like to congratulate all the id graduate & id undergraduate students, along with their industrial design faculty advisor, josh longo, for the quality of work that […]
posted 9 December 2010
walking the earth . . .
people put their foot to the ground everyday without even thinking about it or being consciously aware of what’s happening; the behavior that we call walking can also be described as a physical repetitive motion of a body falling forward. usually people are wearing some sort of boot, shoe or sandal and if their inside, […]
posted 15 November 2010
art & design books . . .
wonderful art & design books for the * five senses at the new york art at book fair at moma’s ps 1 in queens, this past weekend, november, 5th through 7th. philip aarons, of printed matter, said, “the new york art book fair is the premiere venue to find what’s new in art publishing. while […]
posted 12 November 2010
bruce mau & institutional education . . .
a superb story teller and design provocateur, bruce mau was in brooklyn last night to discuss the future of institutional education and how to advance development at bastions of higher learning at an exponential rate. i encourage you to take a look at the (unfortunately slightly off center, poorly focused in the dark room) short […]
posted 5 November 2010
categories education
mm roadtrip & philip johnson’s glass house . . .
making meaning was able to pilgrimage from brooklyn to new canaan connecticut, on two occasions (october 22nd & 23rd) to see philip johnson’s estate with it’s cultivated menagerie of architectural splendor. for more information on how to visit philip johnson’s 47 acre, 50 year diary of architectural interpretation, please see the following link: philip […]
posted 2 November 2010
brains & beauty: making meaning’s visual narrative at midstream
many would generally include in a broad definition of design, to varying degrees,
a mixture of art and science. bruce mau recently commented that he see it as,
“a mixture of brains & beauty.” i like to think of our making meaning design students as hybrids, where we (jeff kapec and myself) are asking them […]
posted 28 October 2010
categories education
the design process, concavity & objects in space . . .
the design of aesthetic, ceramic vessels involving concavity from swedish artist, eva hild are currently on exhibit at nancy margolis gallery, here in new york. she is a ceramic sculptor known for her large scale, organically shaped stoneware forms. (the ny times has described eva’s work as “astonishing” and proclaimed her “a new star in […]
posted 21 October 2010
categories design
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