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Monday, November 18, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
I draw flowers everyday
WEEK 1 - DAY 7
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Bangkok - I looked on Youtube and at first I just got videos from tall buildings or top 10 city tourist attractions. Not what I had in mind. Then I found this one. It focus on people moving and living their lives in the big city. Unpretensious but we can imagine walking on the streets and mingle with that people. Here's another one with sounds and colors of the city. That's more like it.
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Issey Miyake - Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances.
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Some traditional Thai music I found on Youtube. I'm fond of Youtube. Watching the dancing, the sounds, the clothing and thai instruments. There's also a story without words in the video.
Bangkok - I looked on Youtube and at first I just got videos from tall buildings or top 10 city tourist attractions. Not what I had in mind. Then I found this one. It focus on people moving and living their lives in the big city. Unpretensious but we can imagine walking on the streets and mingle with that people. Here's another one with sounds and colors of the city. That's more like it.
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Issey Miyake - Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances.
"I did not want to be labeled “the designer who survived the atomic bomb.”
Official site
David Hockney - English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer.
Official site
Hockney was 72 years old in 2010 when he said that thing about flowers. He's amazed by the Ipad possibilities to make drawings. Reading about it ...and smiling!
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
INSPIRATION1
I don't have iPhone or Android mobile phone. That's right. A smartphone is not a priority for me. Why? First because my mobile phone is still working. Shall I buy a smart one and throw that stupid away? Second, I really don't have the money for it. Third, I think that if I had a budget I would prefer to buy an ipad, a tablet. I can see why I need a tablet. Myy laptop is big and I don't feel confortable going around with it under my arm...And I have a new argument - I could draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning...
INSPIRATION2
A shophouse in Bangkok, Thailand
6. HANDS ON
I take lots of photos as a way to keep record of things for the future. At first I wanted to take photos of things. Now I feel that things want to be photographed. It's not just for creative work purpose. I have a terrible memory. One day many years ago I started to carry a camera with me. A simple one. A small one. Nothing fancy. Also since the moment I started to carry a camera I really begun to look at things I didn't see before. This is a good exercize to anyone. Not just for designers. It's just like what is said by the instructors in the video of the day:
What's in this? A shopping mall. A graffiti on the wall - I buy, therefore I am. And then, a sweet surprise. In a coffee shop at the shopping mall I found a cake I love. It was my favorite as a child. It's called "tíbia". The first one I ate in maybe 20 years or more. Yummy!
Official site
David Hockney - English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer.
Official site
Hockney was 72 years old in 2010 when he said that thing about flowers. He's amazed by the Ipad possibilities to make drawings. Reading about it ...and smiling!
Art for Free
They dropped into the inboxes of his acquaintances -- direct, lyrical images of flowers and landscapes seen through his bedroom window. This was art for free, which is radical in itself. The art market has worked out ways to charge even for conceptual art, but so far not for these images.
“I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning,” Hockney told Bloomberg last April. “And my flowers last!” These were executed with his thumb on the iPhone screen. “Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?” he said.
Source for this excerpt
5. INSPIRATION
INSPIRATION1
I don't have iPhone or Android mobile phone. That's right. A smartphone is not a priority for me. Why? First because my mobile phone is still working. Shall I buy a smart one and throw that stupid away? Second, I really don't have the money for it. Third, I think that if I had a budget I would prefer to buy an ipad, a tablet. I can see why I need a tablet. Myy laptop is big and I don't feel confortable going around with it under my arm...And I have a new argument - I could draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning...
I'M WITH STUPID
But...
...a lot of people id trying to convince me that I should. Like 30 things you no longer need because of smartphones! NEED. There are many things we think we need but in fact we don't need. And, by they way, smartphones and mobile phones in general, still need to be better on one tiny detail. They only work when the battery is full. So don't you just go and throw away all this old school stuff, you might need it!
A shophouse in Bangkok, Thailand
I take lots of photos as a way to keep record of things for the future. At first I wanted to take photos of things. Now I feel that things want to be photographed. It's not just for creative work purpose. I have a terrible memory. One day many years ago I started to carry a camera with me. A simple one. A small one. Nothing fancy. Also since the moment I started to carry a camera I really begun to look at things I didn't see before. This is a good exercize to anyone. Not just for designers. It's just like what is said by the instructors in the video of the day:
If I go around the world with a camera I see different things. The world is the same but I see things differently. Because if I have a camera I become sensible to a number of features normally invisible to me...
But why does he smoke so much?
WEEK1 - DAY 6
Museum, All 60 Square Feet of It, Celebrates the Eccentric
A History of the World in 100 objects - A 100 part series by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, exploring world history from two million years ago to the present.
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil McGregor
Stefano's animated notebook! So funny!
(Oh, bugger! It seems I'll have to keep a notebook after all!)
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
...the sound of silence is also good!
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Museum - Cortlandt Alley - Btwn Franklin St and White St - New York City, NY 10013
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Man Ray - American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements.
Official site
Jasper Morrison - Jasper Morrison was born in London in 1959. Recent projects include the design of furniture for Tate Modern in London, "Luxmaster" for Flos, Folding Air-Chair and Low Air-Table for Magis.
Official site
Design Museum on Jasper Morrison
Naoto Fukasawa - Product designer.
Official site
Interview on Design Boom
Tim Brown - Ceo of IDEO. IDEO is an awardwinning global design and innovation consultancy. Winner of 38 Red Dot awards, 28 iF Hannover awards, and more IDEA awards than any other design firm.
Reading about Tim Brown.
IDEO on 60 minutes - interview with the company's founder, David Kelley, pioneer of "design thinking".
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
INSPIRATION1
A History of the World in 100 objects - A 100 part series by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, exploring world history from two million years ago to the present.
100 objects - Wikipedia
INSPIRATION2
T shapped skills - The vertical part of the T are things you know well and deep, while the horizontal part of the T is the skill to go broad, dealing with other people carrying other kinds of knowledge.
IDEO's CEO Tim Brown interview
INSPIRATION3
6. HANDS ON
Scissors. If it wasn't for Design 101 I would not know. My favorite scissor is missing. My guess is that that I threw it away with wasted paper on my last collage session in September. Now I must buy another one! Oh, yes, I never have enought scissors. The big blue one I found on the street! The short one I bought for my nephew. He did some collage with me. It can cut paper but it's soft with a child's hands. The black and yellow is my favorite now hence the petite one is gone.:(
I use scissors to do collage. I was first fascinated by a collage of Picasso. It's Femme nue allongée. I saw it in a museum in Paris.
But that emotion wasn't enough to fuel me. I never tried collage until recent years. It started maybe after 2004. Collage was total addiction for several months. Now I don't do it so often.
This is a collage made by my nephew Gabriel when he was 4 years old.
Now he's 11 years old and prefers to play video games.
FEEDBACK!! ( On iversity platform)
iversity platform is a bit tricky. Some people left comments on my scissor's photo but I can't track the comment to its origin!
I like the idea that you have taken your collection and made them into art. Why didn't I think of that???? You have inspired me. Thank you.
:o)
Nice composition :)
I like all of them.scissor maniac, you are not alone :)
I'm a fan of collage, specially the traditional one, It' s more kinetic...nice collection!
Of masks and men. And women.
WEEK 1 - DAY 5
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.
A 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.
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.
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.
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.
A 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
6. HANDS ON
7. On the internet I found...
The scale of the universe
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
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.
The scale of the universe
Eating Dim Sum in Hong Kong and Atomic Olives in Barcelona!
WEEK1- DAY 4
2.PLACES TO KNOW
3.PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
MartÍ Guixé - Spanish designer living in Barcelona and Berlin. In 2001, as a statement against the limited scope of the traditional designer and to open new possibilities for the industry Guixé started an ex-designer movement, defining himself by the same name.
Official site: See if you can find Olive Atomic Snack - Three-dimensional tapas, in the shape of atomic models, 2000 Presented in H2000O, Galeria H2O, Barcelona.
4.QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
Dim sum means ‘touch your heart’ and with as many as 150 items on a restaurant menu, and 2,000 in the entire range, it is a challenge to not find something you love. As Cantonese people tend to avoid fried foods early in the day, steamed dishes dominate most dim sum menus. There are also snack-sized portions of pan-fried, deep-fried, and baked served in bamboo containers, which are designed to be eaten communally and washed down with tea. Hence, going for dim sum is known as yum cha, which literally means ‘drinking tea.’ Usually a brunch or lunch affair, it is a common form of family, co-worker and other group get-togethers.
INSPIRATION1
Dim Sum - Dim sum is usually linked with the older tradition from yum cha (tea tasting), which has its roots in travelers on the ancient Silk Road needing a place to rest. Chinese food small bite-sized or individual portions of food traditionally served in small steamer baskets or on small plates.
The serious Eats Guide to Dim Sum
INSPIRATION2
Books of Martí Guixé
1.SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
As Design 101 did not provide music for this day I found this song about Dim Sum - Only won - Dim Sum. Enjoy!
2.PLACES TO KNOW
Hong Kong! How did I knew about Dim Sum? I learned about it on No Reservations. Youtube has the short clip on Bourdain's eating Dim Sum in Hong Kong.
The streets of the cities are like our body arteries. They carry life. To walk on the streets is the best way to feel the city. So I like to move and not just exploring monuments. The streets of the cities are living monuments. Let's walk Hong Kong streets!
3.PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
MartÍ Guixé - Spanish designer living in Barcelona and Berlin. In 2001, as a statement against the limited scope of the traditional designer and to open new possibilities for the industry Guixé started an ex-designer movement, defining himself by the same name.
Official site: See if you can find Olive Atomic Snack - Three-dimensional tapas, in the shape of atomic models, 2000 Presented in H2000O, Galeria H2O, Barcelona.
4.QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
Dim sum means ‘touch your heart’ and with as many as 150 items on a restaurant menu, and 2,000 in the entire range, it is a challenge to not find something you love. As Cantonese people tend to avoid fried foods early in the day, steamed dishes dominate most dim sum menus. There are also snack-sized portions of pan-fried, deep-fried, and baked served in bamboo containers, which are designed to be eaten communally and washed down with tea. Hence, going for dim sum is known as yum cha, which literally means ‘drinking tea.’ Usually a brunch or lunch affair, it is a common form of family, co-worker and other group get-togethers.
Source of this excerpt
INSPIRATION1
Dim Sum - Dim sum is usually linked with the older tradition from yum cha (tea tasting), which has its roots in travelers on the ancient Silk Road needing a place to rest. Chinese food small bite-sized or individual portions of food traditionally served in small steamer baskets or on small plates.
The serious Eats Guide to Dim Sum
INSPIRATION2
Books of Martí Guixé
Martí Guixé's Book Food Designing
"(...)So Guixé has squared potatoes, cut tomatoes into different sections at least ten times, built structures using olives as joints; he has cooked pasta through the pasta itself, threading pennette into spaghetti; he has found a way of sponsoring food, so that he could offer it to people who could not afford it, designing logos out of the ingredients themselves; he has rethought the very simplest of sugar cubes, placed chocolate pips in pears, given cakes their own special image by decorating them with a graphic representation of their content; but above all he has forced us to eat more freely, always using our hands, sometimes even removing food from the walls, where he had stuck it on using Nutella as glue, and on other occasions actually slipping a lolly ice directly in the index."(Excerpt From the introduction from Guixé's 2010 book Food Designing, written by the design critic Beppe Finessi)
6. HANDS ON
Cooking envolves a lot of design. Because design is about the process. I am not a designer. I am not a food designer. But I know how to cook Portuguese traditional dishes!
"A food designer is somebody working with food, with no idea of cooking".
Cooking envolves a lot of design. Because design is about the process. I am not a designer. I am not a food designer. But I know how to cook Portuguese traditional dishes!
"A food designer is somebody working with food, with no idea of cooking".
Inga Knölke, Photographer, 1999
Take a piece of paper and fly away
WEEK 1 - DAY 3
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Deep Purple - Smoke on the water
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Itsukushima Shrine - it's on the island of Itsukushima (popularly known as Miyajima), best known for its "floating" torii gate. It's in the city of Hatsukaichi in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Isamu Nogushi - Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. He created sculptures, gardens, furniture and lighting designs, ceramics, architecture, and set designs.
The Nogushi Museum
History of Akari - Nogushi started to add electricity to the
traditional Japanese paper lamps. Akari (‘bright’) was the name he gave to them.
Sadako Sasaki - Sadako's 4,675 Days of Life
Eric Demaine - former child prodigy and a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Demaine's research interests range throughout algorithms, from data structures for improving web searches to the geometry of understanding how proteins fold to the computational difficulty of playing games.
Official site
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
Every time we design something checking out what has been done in the area is crucial. It can saves us time and worries. We must learn with success and with errors made before us. We have to find references, examples.
5. INSPIRATION
INSPIRATION1
Thousand origami cranes Japanese legend- There's an ancient Japanese legend that states if someone folds a senbazuru — an arrangement of a thousand origami cranes tied together — a crane will come to them and grant them a single wish, such as long life or recovery from serious illness or injury. They are also a popular wedding gift (symbolizing a wish for a long and happy marriage), due to the immense time involved.
Isamu Nogushi - Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. He created sculptures, gardens, furniture and lighting designs, ceramics, architecture, and set designs.
The Nogushi Museum
History of Akari - Nogushi started to add electricity to the
traditional Japanese paper lamps. Akari (‘bright’) was the name he gave to them.
Sadako Sasaki - Sadako's 4,675 Days of Life
Eric Demaine - former child prodigy and a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Demaine's research interests range throughout algorithms, from data structures for improving web searches to the geometry of understanding how proteins fold to the computational difficulty of playing games.
Official site
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
INSPIRATION1
Thousand origami cranes Japanese legend- There's an ancient Japanese legend that states if someone folds a senbazuru — an arrangement of a thousand origami cranes tied together — a crane will come to them and grant them a single wish, such as long life or recovery from serious illness or injury. They are also a popular wedding gift (symbolizing a wish for a long and happy marriage), due to the immense time involved.
How to fold an origami crane Youtube video
INSPIRATION2
"When you put a crease in a piece of paper, you're essentially changing the memory of that piece." - Erik Demaine (from "Between the Folds").
Documentary Between the folds Youtube video
INSPIRATION3
INSPIRATION3
Robert Lang: The math and magic of origami - TED conversations video
6. HANDS ON
Today we were asked to take a sheet of paper and represent ourselves as an origami bird.
Friends will be friends
WEEK 1 - DAY 2
1.SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Patti Smith - Horses (Debut album, 1975)
2.PLACES TO KNOW
Chelsea Hotel - Chelsea Hotel is an historic New York City hotel and landmark, known primarily for the notability of its residents over the years. Here's a game. Think of an artist. A writer. A musician. An actor. Now check the list and see if he ever checked in the Chelsea Hotel! Think Dylan Thomas. Answer: yes, he did.
A blog about Chelsea Hotel
1.SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Patti Smith - Horses (Debut album, 1975)
2.PLACES TO KNOW
Photo: Google view
Chelsea Hotel - Chelsea Hotel is an historic New York City hotel and landmark, known primarily for the notability of its residents over the years. Here's a game. Think of an artist. A writer. A musician. An actor. Now check the list and see if he ever checked in the Chelsea Hotel! Think Dylan Thomas. Answer: yes, he did.
A blog about Chelsea Hotel
Chelsea Hotel site
3.PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Patti Smith: American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement. Her debut album is Horses. In 1967, Patti Smith moved to New York City from South Jersey. It was the year I was born.
Her official site.
Robert Mapplethorpe: He was responsable for black and white portrait gracing the cover of Patti's album Horses. They were close friends and shared a small room at the Chelsea Hotel. I'm familiar with his photo work.
His official site.
- Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
- If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
- It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Reading more quotes
3.PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Patti Smith: American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement. Her debut album is Horses. In 1967, Patti Smith moved to New York City from South Jersey. It was the year I was born.
Her official site.
Her advice to the young!
"To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it. [Life] is like a roller coaster. It’s never going to be perfect — it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it’s all worth it."
Robert Mapplethorpe: He was responsable for black and white portrait gracing the cover of Patti's album Horses. They were close friends and shared a small room at the Chelsea Hotel. I'm familiar with his photo work.
His official site.
Dave Carnegie: American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. I read his famous book How to Win Friends and Influence People. It was first published in 1937 in an edition of only five thousand copies! It became a best-seller!
- If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Reading more quotes.
Muhammad Ali: American former professional boxer, generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the sport's history.
The official site
- It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Reading more quotes
Find it here.
6. HANDS ON
6. HANDS ON
The brief for the day was to ask a friend to take a photo of us. Then we should take a photo of ourselves. It seems a simple task. But it wasn't. In fact I am in touch with several people that carry a camera almost everyday. But they are just some acquaintances of mine, not friends. I didn't feel at ease to go and ask them to take a photo of me even if I know that they would agree to do it.
Then I remembered that I have a cousin that's professional photographer. But I lost touch with him! Where can Luís be these days? Then I found a friend I could call and ask to do it. Unfortunately he has lots of free time because he's unemployed. So I set a meeting point. It would be on the beach, at Buarcos, near Esplanada da Praia. I went there and waited. It was a beautiful and sunny afternoon! I took some photos of the waves. Then he called and said something had came up. I went to the beach and stared at the sea for a while. Then a man came with a little dog, a total stranger.I asked him to take a photo. He was in a hurry and I had to convince him. So it was like shoot and go! This is the result. I love the beach and spent a lot of time in this place.
The next day my sister visited and I asked her also to take a photo of me. It's in my office. I'm surrounded by children illustrated books, comics, books about painters and designers.
And finally I took a photo of myself. It doesn't say a lot about me except that I like to wear long hair and the color purple!
What I send to iversity was a collage of these last two. I think I failed. The photo of the beach was perfect!!! Because - "when fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade!" Oh, well. Learning.
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