Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Of masks and men. And women.

WEEK 1 - DAY 5





1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY






Another Youtube video with some good music and with beautiful faces that makes you wonder who are indeed the most beautiful women in the world. Those on magazine covers? Also the lovely dresses with lively colors and patterns.

2. PLACES TO KNOW

Africa,Mali, land of Dogon. Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali.
Welcome to Bamako

3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER

Bruno Munari - Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design) in modernism, futurism, and concrete art.

site about Bruno Munari's work

Charles Eames - Charles and Ray Eames are among the most important American designers of this century. They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design (e.g., the Eames Chair), industrial design and manufacturing, and the photographic arts.

A site about Charles and Ray Eames

A short documentary - Powers of 10

Saul Steinberg - He was born in Romania. He's renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in The New Yorker for nearly six decades and for the drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures.

A site about Steinberg

A famous New Yorker cover presents the view from Manhattan of the rest of the world showing Manhattan as the center of the world.

Jonathan Ive - London-born designer Jonathan Ive is Apple's senior vice president of Design, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.

J. Ive's Tumblr

Design Museum  article on Jonathan Ive

Jonathan Ive on Dieter Rams



4. QUESTION OF THE DAY




5. INSPIRATION

INSPIRATION1

Bruno Munari's Book - Design as art

INSPIRATION2

The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of the country of Mali, in the West of the Continent of Africa.

Dogon Mask Dance Vimeo video.

Dogon Mask Dance on Youtube

The Dogon Country

Old photos from the Dogon Country


INSPIRATION3

Saul Steinberg's masks

Saul Steinberg's talks

The oldest maks found on Earth


Musee de la bible et Terre Sainte 001


6. HANDS ON





On the left, one of my best friends. My mother. 
We have different ways to see the world.
But we share optimism.

7. On the internet I found...

The scale of the universe

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