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 MINI Launches the Book Wash MeIt's always tempting to write "Wash Me" on a dirty car or to draw something on a fogged windscreen with your finger.Everyday situations like this were the inspiration for this publication, says Nico Ammann, art director and photographer of the works featured in the book to be published by MINI Switzerland in a limited edition of 2,000. The upshot is a colourful volume depicting a wide range of subjects, and one that will appeal not only to MINI fans. The common thread is that none of the ten artists has ever before worked with the automobile as a medium, and each has transformed it into a transient work of art. The following artists and authors contributed to the book project: Smash137, Fabian Bertschinger, Marisa Pichler and Gigi Burn, Tika, Euro, Aurèle Sack, Stefan Ege and Seak, August, Remi Jaccard and, last but not least Dieter Meier, also famous as the singer in the band Yello. Designer Alfredo Haberli provided two sketches and an article. The author and journalist Michèle Roten and Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Otten, director of the design department at Zurich University of the Arts, likewise made creative written contributions to the book, which will be out in early November. more www.was... (45) added by Levent OZLER |
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 Parsons Presents U.S. Launch of Alphabet City's WaterParsons The New School for Design presents the U.S. launch of Water, the latest publication in the Alphabet City series co-published by the MIT Press.In each volume, writers and artists address a single theme from many perspectives, revealing its processes and possibilities. The theme of the latest issue, water, tackles how this vital resource - a transportation conduit, industrial feedstock, and agricultural necessity - is coming under new pressures from the nano (migration of pharmaceutical molecules into the system) to the macro (dwindling supplies due to a ballooning global population and climate change). Parsons Interim Product Design Director Robert Kirkbride and Alphabet City Director John Knechtel will host a reading featuring contributors Mei Chin, a recipient of a MFK Fisher Distinguished Writer Award from the James Beard Foundation; composer Melissa Grey; and Bhawani Venkataraman, an associate professor of interdisciplinary science at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. The event kicks off a 24-hour "Infrastructure Slam," where students from across the university will work in interdisciplinary teams to brainstorm solutions to issues that threaten local, regional and global infrastructures. The results of the slam will be exhibited at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center through November 22. more astore.... (23) design directory Parsons > Design Education added by Levent OZLER |
 The Art Interview: 19th International Online Artist CompetitionThe Art Interview - 19th International Online Artist Competition is a quarterly, international, juried exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures in any medium.It is open to all living artists worldwide aged 16 and up. Participation in the Art Interview Biennale Exhibition and a total of € 17,000 in cash may be awarded each quarter to all winners. First place winners receive up to € 10,000 plus a featured interview in Art Interview Online Magazine. The competition is run completely over the Internet, which eliminates the need for you to send slides or arrange for physical transportation of your artworks. competition deadline Dec 31, 2009 more design competitions more info www.art... (72) design directory Art Interview > Art Awards added by Levent OZLER |
 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Presents Free Public Lecture by Artist Jaume PlensaPaul Coffey, associate dean of academic administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) today announced two exciting programs involving Jaume Plensa, a Spanish artist known throughout the world as the creator of the Crown Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park.First, Plensa presents a public lecture entitled "In the Public Space," Wednesday, November 11 at the Art Institute of Chicago's Rubloff Auditorium. Plensa will discuss the creation of the Crown Fountain-one of his most important and ambitious pieces of public art, made possible in part by a collaborative effort with SAIC faculty and students-as well as other internationally renowned projects installed around the globe. Members of the public may attend the lecture for no charge, and no pre-registration is required. upcoming event Nov 11, 2009 United States view on map more upcoming events more School of the Art Institute of Chicago Presents Free Public Lecture by Artist Jaume Plensa design directory SAIC: School of the Art Institute of Chicago > Art Education added by Levent OZLER |
 Learning Modern: Bauhaus Legacy in Downtown ChicagoThe legacy of the Bauhaus informs a wide-ranging exhibition of installation, design, video, and digital works co-organized and presented by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and the Mies van der Rohe Society at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) this fall.Learning Modern is now on view through January 9, 2010 in the SAIC Sullivan Galleries, 33 South State Street, a vast exhibition space carved out of an architectural landmark, Louis Sullivan's former Carson Pirie Scott department store. As well as recent and site-specific works by such emerging and established artists and designers as Angela Ferreira, Andrea Fraser, Walter Hood, Narelle Jubelin, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Kay Rosen, Staffan Schmidt, and Catherine Yass, the exhibition features such architectural experiments as Thom Faulders's The Ames Room Project (2009) based an optical demonstration from 1946, and Ken Isaacs's Knowledge Box (1962/2009, pictured), seen here for the first time since the early 1960s, when the cover of Life magazine heralded it as a revolutionary new multi-media environment for learning. event ends Jan 9, 2010 United States view on map more design events more Learning Modern: Bauhaus Legacy in Downtown Chicago design directory SAIC: School of the Art Institute of Chicago > Art Education added by Levent OZLER |
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