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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Spaceship Chanel
A rectangular patch of sand in Central Park may be the last place you’d expect to find a gleaming “Star Trek”-style spacecraft. But an art pavilion that resembles just that will make a temporary landing there this fall. The art pavilion will occupy Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield from Oct. 20 to Nov. 9. Called Mobile Art, the structure itself was designed by the renowned London architect Zaha Hadid and will occupy the Rumsey Playfield, midpark at 70th Street, from Oct. 20 to Nov. 9. (It is Ms. Hadid’s first New York building, albeit temporary, and has already made stops in Hong Kong and Tokyo and is headed later for London, Moscow and Paris.) Yet beyond its artistic mission, the pavilion is a provocative advertisement. Chanel, the fashion brand, commissioned Ms. Hadid to create the traveling structure to house works by about 15 hot contemporary artists. Each was asked to create a work that was at least in part inspired by Chanel’s classic 2.55 quilted-style chain handbag, so named because it was first issued in February 1955.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/arts/design/24zaha.html?th&emc=th
Demolition uncovers Mail Pouch ad
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Friday, July 18, 2008
REYKJAVIK
The Art Newspaper - REYKJAVÍK. Swiss artist Christoph Büchel has infuriated citizens of Reykjavík by plastering posters around the Icelandic capital as part of the Reykjavík Arts Festival. Büchel used a poster for the right-wing Swiss political party SVP (Schweizerische Volkspartei) which shows three white sheep kicking a black one off the Swiss flag. He translated its slogan, “Creating security”, into Icelandic. “[We] received a huge number of complaints about the posters, and demands that they be removed immediately. People felt they were racist, and in many cases they simply tore them down,” a spokesman for the City of Reykjavík, told The Art Newspaper. A field with four real black sheep and a Swiss flag was also part of the installation. However, because of its remote location, few Icelanders found it. In May residents of a town near Reykjavík staged demonstrations after the government decided that their area should accommodate refugees from Iraq. Clemens Bomsdorf
VENDRE MAGAZINE
Vendere Magazine @ Grain Edit -
http://grainedit.com/2007/11/26/10-years-of-vendre-design-magazine-covers/
Vendre was a monthly trade magazine for graphic designers in France. It was founded by Etienne Damour in the 1920s. The magazine’s chief editor was Roger-Louis Dupuy, who in addition established one of the first advertising agencies in France. Paul Nicolas would later become chief editor and guide the magazine through the 1950s and 60s. During this time period the magazine was mostly text-based. The articles dealt with the creative and technical challenges its readers would of faced. Illustrators and designers include Rene Chag, Ducordeau, M. Legand, Paul Funken, Roger Troubat, Francois Szalay and Henriette Mayo.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
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