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Made in Polaroid

admin — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:45:43 +0000

Polaroid is honoring its founder Dr. Edwin Land’s passion for the arts with the launch of the Made in Polaroid exhibit. An art show featuring more than 50 pieces created by a mix of artists, designers, photographers, actors and musicians who are united in their passion for creativity, all pieces will be auctioned with proceeds benefitting Free Arts NYC, a non-profit that provides arts and mentoring programs to under-served children.

ALED LEWIS
Sleep Deprivation
3” x 4” ZINK Paper, mounted on paper 24” x 19.5”

The exhibit explores the infinite number of ways technology can enable creative expression. Featuring pieces that range from single mounted images to multi-print mosaics, each artist taps a different approach to tell a story with photos. All works were created exclusively using the Polaroid GL10 Instant Mobile Printer, the first product from Lady Gaga’s Grey Label line.

JOEY REMMERS
Entangled
3” x 4” ZINK Paper, digital, oil paint 24” x 13”

The exhibit opens to the public on September 7th at Phillips de Pury & Company’s gallery at 450 West 15th Street in New York City. All pieces from the exhibit will be auctioned on September 14 at Phillips de Pury & Company’s gallery at 450 Park Avenue in New York City. For more information and to view works from the Made In Polaroid exhibit, visit www.polaroid.com and at www.philipsdepury.com .

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International Group Exhibition for Forest Preservation

admin — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:01:59 +0000

On May 13th the international group exhibition ‘The Enchanted Forest’, which is dedicated to the forests and their inhabitants all over the world, will open at Strychnin Gallery Berlin. The show should remind people of the drastic damage that is constantly done to our forests as well as their beauty, uniqueness and importance. Many lovingly and elaborately crafted sculptures as well as paintings and photographs by over 30 international artists will display both the desolation of deforestation and the forest‘s magic and liveliness that we have to save.
10 percent of the price of every sold artwork will be donated to a project of the WWF.

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Childhood Photos

rama — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:25:39 +0000

hey mister! have you ever seen the fantastic photos of yeondoo jung? in my favorite series, wonderland, the photographer uses film, fashion, and some clever set design to recreate children’s drawings. holy smokes!

thanks to typefiend for the heads up!

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Artists Within (Their Studios)

rama — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:45:37 +0000

I’ve been eyeballing this book, The Artist Within, for several months. It is a collection of photographs of animators and comic book artists in their studios. I didn’t know if it would be ho-hum or super-awesome but I found a copy at the library yesterday. It is dynamite. Short biographies proceed each photograph and the pictures are so huge that you can explore the nooks and crannies of everyone’s workspace. Some of the studios are so big and beautiful that they made me sad. “Someday… someday…” I promised myself.

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dreaming of spring time

amanda — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:35:54 +0000

Lisa Solomon’s colour palettes help me dream for spring time! Her polaroids are great, too.

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Polaroid is History.

rama — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:46:25 +0000

Polaroid instant film will be history by next year according to this article from the Washington Post.

Photograph by Brooke Mackay.

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Selvedge!

penelope — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:46:14 +0000

While perusing magazines in the bookstore, I stumbled upon Selvedge — and instantly fell in love. I know nothing of fabric or textile design. But the patterns and photos and textures are sublime. I ordered a subscription and every time it comes in the mail, I get my notebook out while I read it because the ideas just flow. Inspiration galore.

(They have a free trial digital issue on their site, if you want to see what I’m talking about!)

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Shawn Roche

penelope — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:04:14 +0000

Yes, Shawn Roche is a photographer (and this is Illustration Friday). But this blog is about what/who inspires us, so I’m blogging about him. I met Shawn, oh, six years ago or so (?). I was an art director at the time and he was this photographer in town who rode around in a beat-up brown truck, and I kept bumping into him at various places. He showed me his book on the sidewalk one day (a hand-bound black book) and I nearly fell over dead it wow-ed me so much. (Of course, I tried to act all cool, but when he left I ran it up to my fellow art directors to show it off.) Later that year I even had the good fortune to work with Shawn on a project, which, thanks to him, turned out great. (Am I doting here?)

Anyway, the way he looks at things amazes me. And the way he’s able to capture things and people amazes me even more. It’s pure, raw, undefined talent. It’s like he made a deal with the devil and can now use light like magic.

He’s worked for some great clients (like W) and just started a new blog in Sept.

(Shawn is also one of the people who encouraged me and advised me to go freelance, which I publicly thank him for now.) :)

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Just Jinky

Melanie — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:43:59 +0000

Our focus here on IF Blog is of course, illustration. And I would have it no other way. But one of my primary sources of inspiration is photography and there is no photographer I find more inspirational, more “jinky” (whatever that means… must be an Aussie thing) than Barb “Jinky” Uil. Her photographs of children and families burst with life and juicy color. This is a woman who truly understands the magic of childhood and captures it joyfully, beautifully in the bubble of her lens.

But her photos display a thorough understanding of some of the finer elements we employ in illustration and design too. She knows how to limit her palette so that the colors all sing together, how to crop for dynamic affect, how to eliminate everything that doesn’t contribute to the subject at hand and finally, how to tell a story with a single image. Oh, the stories she tells! The children, the families, the chickens (!) in her photos are not just generic smiling faces… they shimmer with individual personality and gleam with originality. And they never fail to make me smile. Visit Barb’s official portfolio site here or her beautiful blog here and then try and tell me she doesn’t immeditately have you grinning from ear to ear too. I won’t believe you.

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food for thought

Melanie — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:31:07 +0000

You know, kids, there’s a lot to be said about making a living from art… and even more to be said about the art of living. I try my best to do both, with fluctuating success. Too often the making a living from art part supersedes the artful living part and everything comes unhinged and unbalanced. But there’s one particular blog out there that is not art related (well, not in the traditional sense although in my mind, pretty much everything is art if you look at it the right way … generally, with the head tipped to the left side, eyes squinched just so, thru a veil of dog hair) that constantly inspires me to really master that artful living thing… to make everything I do meaningful and true. It’s The Traveller’s Lunchbox.

It’s total food porn over there. Everything is completely sumptuous, incredibly photographed and wonderfully conceived. I confess that I have never tried my hand at any of the recipes so generously provided there. In truth, I’m a fair-to-middling cook and ’round here, the husband tends to do most of the daily meal preparation whilst (whilst!) I scowl into my computer monitor. But I intend too. I aspire to. I really, really want to. And I want to do it just like Melissa Kronethal, with beauty and intention and a real explorer’s spirit and only the finest ingredients.

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