Space Camp: Tom Sachs

Curator: Dress Code
date: June 1, 2012
Categories: Experience Design, Promotional Design & Advertising
Tags: art, Nike, space
Launched on the eve of Tom’s SPACE PROGRAM: Mars, this joint venture between Tom and the Nike design team fuses, in several significant ways, the design sensibility Sachs brings to space travel. This video was directed by Van Neistat of HBO fame.
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Fields of Force: Andy Gilmore

Curator: Kim Pimmel
date: May 9, 2012
Categories: Illustration
Tags: abstract, art, illustration, Print
Seen up close, Fields of Force by illustrator Andy Gilmore is surprisingly simple and geometric, but when seen as a whole, emotional and hypnotic.
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The Celestial Handbook: Lutz Bacher

Curator: Hilary Greenbaum
date: April 2, 2012
Categories: Illustration
Tags: art, language, space
Lutz Bacher’s series of eighty-five prints entitled The Celestial Handbook, now on view at the Whitney Biennial, is obviously not a graphic design project. But the set of works, which are nothing more than framed pages from a forty-six-year-old, self-published book about astronomy, poignantly address the gap that sometimes occurs between the visual and verbal articulations of an idea—a gap that has both inspired and plagued the field of graphic design.
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Josh Vogel Video: The Scout

Curator: Erik Marinovich
date: February 23, 2012
Categories: Design for Entertaining
Tags: American, art, Craft, Handmade, sculpture

I’ve long been a fan of The Scout and the videos they produce regarding the topic of craftsmanship. In their most recent feature they introduce us to the wood sculptor Josh Vogel of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co. Of the many artists and craftsmen working today, Vogel’s work and ethos left a considerable impression on me. 

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Burning My Time: Rafaël Rozendaal

Curator: Eike König
date: December 19, 2011
Categories: Motion Graphics
Tags: art
When I first encountered the work of Rafaël Rozendaal—a Dutch-Brazilian artist born in 1980, living and working everywhere—I was surprised by its simplicity. He seemed to be transporting the humor, naivety and fantasy of a child via a modern medium. However, when I met him in person, I got to explore in-depth his amazing condensed view on the world that surrounds us.
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