pictoplasma festival, berlin . . .

the pictoplasma contemporary character design & art festival / conference 2012 was curated by lars denicke and peter thaler:
pictoplasma contemporary character design & art festival
image references with the green boarder below are the following:
a) the bar at the babylon, rosa-luxenburg-strasse nr. 30, d-10178 berlin
b) workspace in berlin mitte at .hbc, karl-liebknecht-strasse nr. 9, d-10178 […]

buchstabenmuseum, berlin . . .

recently, i had a chance to visit the buchstabenmuseum in berlin with my artist friend ruth thomas. this is an interesting, kind-of quirky place that’s located in mitte, near alexanderplatz’s ‎ U & S bahn, on the karl-liebknecht-strasse 13. the space itself is small, but it could possibly grow larger with time. teresia alfredsson, who […]

making meaning: a march reprise . . .

i was able to be involved yesterday, in the critiques for making meaning with jeff kapec & his iD seniors. we were also joined by judy nylen, john medley and two former mm students: collin velkoff & matthew speedy. here are just a few visual impressions of the senior’s studio projects, as works in progress. […]

to capture the essence of light in space . . .

in the past week, i went to visit my two friends, nancy skolos and tom wedell, in canton massachusetts. among other things, nancy and tom are poster junkies, going strong in the 21st century, living with their cats, thor & saffy, in their house that looks like a ufo that fell to earth in the […]

toolloop exhibit, boston, massachusetts, 2003 revisited . . .

two original images from my photography exhibit: toolloop | wheelock college, 180 the riverway, boston, massachusetts, september through october 2003 |

& three, slightly more recent / revisited images from the original context | bill bancroft’s woodshop, 37 antwerp street, brighton, massachusetts, june 2009 |

& two, more recent / revisited images of another dimension | series […]

a window into work from johannesburg . . .

below, is a video from kyle brand, as a window into some interesting work being shown currently from the department of industrial design’s 2011 student exhibition at the university of johannesburg, fada (faculty of art, design & architecture), south africa. along with the industrial design, there is also work from the departments of interior […]

swedish symposium at linnæus university . . .

the master of fine arts program in design at linnæus university is a 2 year advanced theoretical and applied program, located at the nexus of the university as well as the business environment. the program draws on a multidisciplinary approach, a highly qualified faculty and extensive links with leading european companies to offer the students […]

oh, öland ! . . .

autumn 2011: matthew burger visits ölands folkhögskola, on sweden’s beautiful öland island, in october . . .
i was asked by a enthusiastic, versatile, instructor, louise häggberg, to visit her design students and colleagues at ölands folkhögskola (öland folk high school). here’s a very brief description of the basår design program. the duration of the program […]

building community with design . . .

“from cellphones and cookers to cities . . . that’s design guru stuff too.” *
about an exhibit by the cooper hewitt museum at the united nations’ visitor center, 1st avenue & 46th street, nyc. design with the other 90%: cities, until january 9, 2012: * the new york times: rescued by design
moorhead & […]

printed matter | imprimés | drucksache

today was a good day under blue autumn skies, at the new york art book fair, at moma’s ps 1. there were too many wonderful exhibitors to give them all credit, so i’ll only mention a small fragment of the whole here. e-flux’s airstream trailer book coop was parked outside the main building of ps […]