a blog about design, art, craft, the handmade and some other things in between.
Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
— Erik Adigard
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Artist Annie Vought. Paper Cut Letters.
“I took the girl to walk in circles”. 2012. paper cut letters
via annievought.com
"Email, text messages, instant messaging and Twitter are all examples of fun and immediate means of “written” communication. Through the computer I am in touch with people I may never have seen before and I can respond in real time to a loved one. But with the ubiquity of this access and convenience, we are losing the tangible handwritten letter. Handwritten records are fragments of individual histories. In the penmanship, word choice, and spelling the author is often revealed in spite of him/herself. A letter is physical confirmation of who we were at the moment it was written, or all we have left of a person or a time.
I have been working with cut out correspondence for the past four years. I meticulously recreate notes and letters that I have found, written, or received by enlarging the documents onto a new piece of paper and intricately dissecting the negative spaces with an Exact-o knife. The handwriting and the lines support the structure of the cut paper, keeping it strong and sculptural, despite its apparent fragility. In these paper cutouts, I focus on the text, structure, and emotion of the letter in an elaborate investigation into the properties of writing and expression. Penmanship, word choice, and spelling all contribute to possible narratives about who that person is and what they are like. My recreating the letters is an extended concentration on peoples’ inner lives and the ways they express their thoughts through writing."-Annie Vought.
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Artist Peter Gentenaar Creates Beautiful and Ethereal Floating Paper Sculptures.
Dutch artist, Peter Gentenaar, creates floating paper sculptures. These are hung inside a church in France. http://www.gentenaar-torley.nl
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Keeping The Winged Victory Safe.
Photo: The New York Times. Nov. 12, 1939: "This photo, published shortly after the start of the Second World War, ran with this caption: 'The Winged Victory of Samothrace, another great achievement of the ancient Greek sculptors, packed for removal in accordance with plans for its protection formulated far in advance of the war.' A 2009 exhibition at the Louvre showed photos documenting how art was relocated for safety during wartime."-Via the great NY Times Lively Morgue tumblr. http://www.livelymorgue.tumblr.com/
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A Shotgun Ride For A Night With A NYC Taxi Driver. "Things I See From My Cab" by Max Cohen.
via vimeo.com
"Cohen is not your typical cabbie — he’s a struggling filmmaker, getting his MBA, who drives on the weekends. Cabbies can always spot a puker. “It’s like the cabbie version of gaydar,” he says. The weirdest thing he’s found at the end of a shift? A didgeridoo."-- Jessica Bennett and Jon Groat, http://storyboard.tumblr.com.
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