Good 50X70 is a communication design competition focusing on five of the burning social issues which the UN recognizes as the plagues of our millennium: AIDS, Environmental damage, Human rights violation, Underdevelopment and War.

For each of this issues Amnesty, Amref, Emergency, Greenpeace, Lila, our endorsing charities, created a brief for the contestants to answer by designing a poster. Our jury will shortlist 30 finalists for each category and from them 10 posters will be selected as “Good 50×70.” One poster from all the categories will be selected as Grand Winner of the contest. All the finalists posters will be gathered in an exhibition. The same artwork will be also collated in a catalogue. The aim of the contest is to raise public awareness particularly amongst people inside the communication industry, and the relevance and importance of social communication.

thanks to core77

Plateforme Bureau proudly presents: IN-STORE vs. KS1 Amsterdam, March 29th-31st

The In-Store is a Paris based itinerant urban shop showing an emerging urban culture, gathering on the same platform a hand-picked selection of fresh brands, artists, products and a special French music selection.

Location :
K-SWISS AMSTERDAM / KS1
Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 262
1012 RS Amsterdam
Opening hours: 12.00 – 21.00

With a special focus on FAKE-REAL Magazine issue #2

Cool! via Computerlove

Strange detailed collages of forms by Reed Anderson

By Ricky Allman

I love the colorful painting of Mary Putman (at the Gross McCleaf Gallery)

From Berlin & New York comes a fashion, pop & art bi-annual newspaper magazine. nice! Check their website Made by Von Birken

Do it sharp — if you can’t, call it art.

Charles Traub’s Advice for Young Photographers at State of the Art

Global employs a faceted geometry, in the midst of definition, yet near a precipitous point of coming undone. In Redux a small detail of a cut diamond is amplified to the point of having little reference to the source material. Color and shape seem to multiply, creating a large, window-like point of entry and departure.

Jered Sprecher: Furniture of the Universe at the Jeff Bailey Gallery

“Irma is a genius at combining form and content,” said the graphic design historian Emily King. “She finds formats and materials that perfectly match her subjects. Her books are beautiful, satisfying objects that aren’t simply exercises in formal skill. She uses design to deliver content in a brilliant fashion, interweaving stories, creating tension and surprise”…
…Boom always loved books but discovered book design by accident. Born in the Dutch city of Lochem in 1960, she studied painting at art school in nearby Enschede, and wandered into a lecture on books one day…

read the complete article at Herald Tribune

In Dario Robleto’s work what had been old and discarded is once again made vital; its prior life informs its current meaning. In his art, objects that existed in one state and for one purpose have been transformed, either in bits or in total, into new objects that rely on the associations with their parts’prior existence for meaning and purpose.
His titles and elaborate lists of materials serve as liner notes that provide insight into his complex sculptural narratives.Interweawing culture, science, and history, his objects and installations reflect an underlying optimism for regenerating the past as propositions for the future.

At Praz-Delavallade

This imposing building is believed to be the world’s tallest wooden house rising 13 floors to reach 144ft. The house is also crumbling, incomplete and under threat of demolition from city authorities who are eager to end Nikolai Sutyagin’s 15 year project. Driven to inspiration by his formative years spent in a Soviet communal flat, Sutyagin felt lonely living by himself. Building began in 1992 and was only going to reach two stories high, however, convinced by a trip to see wooden houses in Japan and Norway, he decided he had not used enough roof space efficiently enough and decided to keep building… continue reading at world architecture news

Impressive work by Polish artist Grzegorz Przyborek.

via Moon River

…Stine Vogt and Svein Magnussen showed 16 pictures including these two to trained artists and non-artists (psychologists) enrolled in Norway’s top graduate programs in their respective disciplines, using eye-tracking cameras and software to monitor where they looked. The viewers were unaware of the purpose of the test — they were told the study was about pupil size and response to pictures. In the first phase of the experiment, viewers simply looked at each picture in random order, and in the second phase, they were asked to view the pictures again, but to concentrate in order to remember them…

continue reading at the Cognitive Daily

Russell Crotty

“..The idea is to draw whatever is around you, with whatever means, which in Russell Crotty’s case is a ballpoint pen. The place could not be anywhere but Malibu, north of Los Angeles on the coast. There are no skylines like that in Nebraska—only in Malibu, in the hills rising from the ocean—and in fact because Crotty draws nighttime skies, his place is fixed exactly by the position of the stars. There is no escaping where he is…”

By Don Goddard in the NewYorkArtWorld and at Hosfelt Gallery
via Moonriver

Beautiful work from Made Thought for Design Miami.

Today the site 150volksvertegenwoordigers.nl will be launched in the Netherlands. It’s a service where all the personal information about the 150 members of the parliament (de tweede kamer) can be found. I was pleased to do the design of the site…

Universal Everything made this stunning movie for the launch of Audi TT in Australia.
via pixelsumo

I’m co-editor at Search & Distroy.

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Damien Hirst. Opening concurrently at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills and Davies Street, London, Damien Hirst: Superstition is the artist’s first exhibition in Los Angeles in over a decade. In these works, Hirst expands on the iconic motif of the butterfly as a symbol of the beauty and inherent fragility of life, reaching new heights of complexity, refined detail and radiance.