Posts in the category education

thinking with your hands & . . .

the artist embodies in himself the attitude of the perceiver while he works . . .
from art as experience, by john dewey
stanford university: dewey’s aesthetics
thinking with your hands & willy guhl . . .
zurich’s design museum is exhibiting the work of swiss designer willy guhl
| * july 6, 1915 † october 4, 2004 […]

posted 1 February 2023

categories design, education

illustrated with new meaning: map making . . .

edward fairburn | artist & illustrator
edward fairburn: i manipulate paper maps to construct other forms,
usually portraiture. i call this process topopointillism;
a direct combination of topography and pointillism . . .
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atlas of the new dutch water defence line
atlas of the new dutch water defence line | atlas nieuwe hollandse […]

posted 13 December 2022

categories design, education

michaelina wautier: the five senses . . .

michaelina wautier | * 1614 † 1689 |
michaelina wautier’s paintings, the five senses, on display at the coolidge gallery, museum of fine arts, boston, massachusetts . . .
the new york times | by milton esterow:
for centuries, her art was forgotten, or credited to men. no more . . .
boston: the work of michaelina […]

posted 2 December 2022

categories education, photos

untitled, number seventy-two . . .

untitled, number seventy-two . . .
untitled |ˌənˈtītld|
adjective
1 (of a book, composition, or other artistic work) having no name.
2 (of a person) not having a title indicating high social or official rank:
lesser untitled officials.

mio:
matthew’s inanimate objects. red tractor seat & achille castiglioni
says “hello” from a flea market sunday in regensburg . . […]

posted 15 October 2022

categories design, education, photos

windswept 750th year celebration . . .

750th anniversary celebration | freienohl-meschede . . .
750 unique windswept freienohl fish kites from meschede’s community participants in conjunction with the organizational efforts of local artist & educator
carly brandelius schmitt . . .

an article about this venue from, Zeitung für Meschede, entitled: kultur gemeinsam mit menschen vor ort schaffen . […]

posted 28 August 2022

categories design, education

frost’s road not taken, iD students & sketchbooks . . .

the road not taken by robert frost
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two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
and sorry i could not travel both
and be one traveler, long i stood
and looked down one as far as i could
to where it bent in the undergrowth;
then took the other, as just as fair,
and having perhaps the better claim,
because it was grassy and […]

posted 8 July 2022

categories design, education

everyday hero: improvisation . . .

ubiquitous quality factor number 13 •
everyday design hero:
improvisation . . .

“the aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity & familiarity.”
philosopher ludwig wittgenstein
01) lightness . . .
02) enhancing civility . . .
03) beautility . . .
04) robust, resilient & […]

posted 13 March 2022

categories design, education

everyday hero: wabi-sabi . . .

ubiquitous quality factor number 12 •
everyday design hero:
wabi-sabi . . .

“the aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity & familiarity.”
philosopher ludwig wittgenstein
01) lightness . . .
02) enhancing civility . . .
03) beautility . . .
04) robust, resilient & repairable […]

posted 13 February 2022

categories design, education

abstraction dancing towards the concrete . . .

abstraction dancing towards the concrete and
navigating ambiguity, with the iD1 crew for
immersion workshop week 1, as well as
design 1 | bid1en1-entwerfen 1:
* winter semester 2021-22 . . .
oth | iD studio participants:
alexandra arauz • amelie koch • amelie kurdzel • anne lichtenegger • bastian draken • carly brandelius schmitt • christian walter […]

posted 4 February 2022

categories education