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Watching Vik Muniz making art with wire, sugar at TED
Vik Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire, clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and takes us on a tour of his incredible images [...]
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Paula Scher’s “Great design is serious, not solemn” talk at TED
Paula Scher looks back at a life in design (she's done album covers, books, the Citibank logo ...) and pinpoints the moment when she started really having fun. Look for gorgeous designs and images from her legendary career [...]
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Chinese Calligraphy: candidate for world heritage designation
Chinese calligraphy has been submitted to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a candidate for the Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity (MOIHH) designation. With a 3,000-year history, Chinese calligraphy developed along with the evolution of Chinese characters, Li Shenghong, an expert with the Chinese National Academy of Arts, said recently [...]
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Chinese Calligraphy: Master Yue Le
In previous post in which I discussed chinese calligraphy, I talked a little bit about chinese calligraphy's history, and my impressions of its influence in contemporary chinese design. Since a lot of people have been asking me for more on the topic, I've decided to post on YouTube some videos of a trip my wife, a couple of friends and I did to Zhu Jia Jiao, one of the many river towns just outside Shanghai. In Zhu Jia Jiao, we've met Master Yue Le, a local artist that makes his living on creating banners/posters for tourist that visit that town: with our little domain of Mandarin, we've asked him to create some banners to represent something he would consider typical [...]
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Design in China: “Chinese Graphic Design in the 20th Century” exhibition at China Central Academy of Fine Arts