One of my photos from Venice, now featured on Fotolia.com, was used in the book, Da Capo, by Antonio Morena, Donatella Melucci, Annamaria Moneti, and Graziana Lazzarino, with the caption “Un giorno di pioggia” (A day of rain).
Artistic
Artistic masterpieces rendered in Pantone swatches
Vincent van Gogh, “Self-Portrait”
Leonardo da Vinci, “La Gioconda”
René Magritte, “Son of Man”
Edvard Munch, “The Scream”
Andy Warhol’s, “Marilyn Monroe”
Just the other day, Pantone named Marsala the color of 2015, and the decision, er, “has critics seeing red.” The only thing that gets art and design people more worked up than Pantone swatches is the rampant overuse of Comic Sans. Art and design people LOVE Pantone. … thus it was inevitable that someone would do what London artist Nick Smith did, and create quasi-“pixelated” versions of famous art masterpieces, only using Pantone swatches.
Smith currently has an exhibition called “Psycolourgy” at the Lawrence Alkin Gallery near Covent Garden. The show runs through February 20.
(via Dan and dangerousminds.net)
Stanley Kubrick’s Underground NYC
In 1946, Stanley Kubrick, then aged only 18, took these photographs of the New York Subway and had them published by LOOK magazine. He photographed for the magazine from 1945 to 1950.
According to Helen O’Brian, head of LOOK’s photographic department, Kubrick generated the highest number of published articles of any photographer she had worked with. At the time, Kubrick was the youngest photographer LOOK had had on its books.
Jung Lee’s Neon Type Installations
Korean artist Jung Lee is showing her first exhibition in Dubai at Green Art Gallery. Lee has two series—Day and Night and Aporia, which means “coming to a dead end” in Greek.
The Aporia series was inspired by Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discoursem which tells the story of the ineptitudes of people in love. According to Barthes, when one falls in love the beloved becomes a mystery and one will ceaselessly try to figure out the reasons for their mysterious feelings. The desire to express one’s love produces lies and conflicts leading to a dead end. For Lee, those empty phrases reveal the solitude and sorrow of modern people today.
In the works entitled Day and Night, Lee focused on ‘God’ and ‘Love’ as the two main words reflecting her interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy where he highlighted the belief that true faith and love would lead you to heaven. Lee produces a cluster of those “divine” words and places them floating over the sea as reproductions or in a heap, demonstrating one’s desire to salvation. Thus Lee’s constructed photographs evoke amorous intensity with a coolness that enables the viewers to find their own way into this world, to have their memories stirred, to consider what it means to be alive in time.
(via @designmilk)
Making a Fireplace
Mike deserves 99% of the credit for this, but I’m not above taking my 1%.
Other Photologs:
Manhattan: Waking, Resting
(via Fast Company)
Lego Masters
Andy Warhol’s, “Marilyn Monroe”
Leonardo da Vinci, “La Gioconda”
René Magritte, “Son of Man”
Edvard Munch, “The Scream”
Vincent van Gogh, “Self-Portrait”
Marco Sodano, Art Director of Geometry Global in Milano Italy, created this unique campaign for Lego: All children are authentic artists with Lego.