For the past several weeks, I have been working two days each week at White Flower Farm. It has been a great experience, I get to spend lots of time thinking and dreaming when I am alone with the plants and then also get to interact with a bunch of people. Going to be working the rest of the summer on this schedule.
All this week it seems like it has been raining. If you take a minute to really think about it, rain is remarkable. There is water falling out of the sky constantly over a large area.
I found myself in a store that sold all type of floors. Everything including wood, carpets, tiles, and more could be found here. I had my camera with me because I didn’t want to risk leaving it in the car, so I took these photographs.
It was a successful first year at the Hartford Art School. I have been home for a week now. Moving back into my room has proven to be a large task. In addition, I have started working on adding my work from my year of art school to the portfolio along with a major update to this site. Other large announcements coming soon as well. Thanks to all my friends and professors for a remarkable year!
Patrick Coyne, editor and owner of Communication Arts, gave a very insightful talk for AIGA Connecticut. His talk was wonderful and was about the progression of the magazine throughout it’s history and design in a future and digital environment.
I am very pleased to announce that I am involved with AIGA Connecticut as the student representative to the board of directors and as the student leader at the Hartford Art School next year. I was fortunate enough to meet Patrick and travel with him as we headed out for a great board dinner after the talk.
It was a wonderful evening and I extend my thanks to Patrick and everyone at AIGA CT.
The weather was like spring yesterday and again today. We have been spending some time outside enjoying it. I just wanted to share some updates about what has been going on here.
Currently, I am starting a blog for the Hartford Art School and will let you know when we launch the online publication. Some work from my first year at school is up on the portfolio, it is just a sample and I will be posting everything after school is done in May.
For this summer, I am looking for internship opportuinites, either remotely or in the area and freelance jobs. Contact through the email in the sidebar to the right if you are interested.
Lastly, “Creative Grab Bag” is coming out in August and is up on Amazon, more details on the book coming soon. Hope everyone is doing well.
This past Friday I attended the opening of The Polling Place Photo Project, A Citizen Journalism Exhibition at the Hartford Art School. The exhibit was curated by William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand of Winterhouse and they were both great to talk to. It was a wonderful experience and displayed the project in many different formats, there were also films by Andrew Sloat.
The Polling Place Photo Project was a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that encouraged voters to capture, post and share photographs of primaries, caucuses and general elections. By documenting local voting experiences, participants contributed to an archive of photographs that capture the richness and complexity of voting in America.
The project was conducted in partnership with the AIGA and supported by The New York Times. The exhibit runs through March 18th and here is more information about it.
The opening of the Annual Goldfarb Student Exhibit was several weeks ago at the Joseloff Gallery at the Hartford Art School. It was a juried exhibit of student work and my Backwards Posters were selected for the show! There were many remarkable pieces of work and it was a great night to see everyone.
Aaron Draplin and Chris Glass, friends and contributors to my book, Creative Grab Bag, have designed these two logos for two economic recovery programs. They were led by Steve Juras of Mode Project. Read what Steven Heller and Naz Hamid think. Great work guys.
These two third year graphic design students, Tom Lovell and Shaun Hughes, start the project entitled Keep Us Busy. They placed themeselves in a storefront window for a week where they designed, explored, experimented and interacted with others through their creativity.
The project, Your Message Here, is an installation displayed in storefront window that people can submit messages to.
I remember the smell of a new box of crayons and I haven’t smelt that in so long, until the other day. It was a remarkable smell. I have spent a good amount of money on fancy art supplies, none of which were crayons. It is a weird realization and one that I think makes me a bit sad. I am going to school for art and I didn’t buy any crayons. Crayons were most likely the first thing you made art with when you were a child, they are basic and simple and you are always able to make something colorful out of crayons. I missed crayons and was glad to find myself coloring recently, but am also glad to be moving forward in art and design.
It feels remarkable to have a new president of the United States of America. Congratulations to President Barack Obama and best of luck with bringing about change, we will be there with you along the way. Thank you Mr. President.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
From the beautiful Apple advertising campaign. Watch the Commercial.
Josh Silver, a british professor and inventor has created a pair of eyeglasses with lenses filled with water. The strength of the glasses can be changed by the wearer, making them easy to use by anybody. These water-based glasses were discovered through this Core77 article that I came across..
Silver has devised a pair of glasses which rely on the principle that the fatter a lens the more powerful it becomes. Inside the device’s tough plastic lenses are two clear circular sacs filled with fluid, each of which is connected to a small syringe attached to either arm of the spectacles.
The wearer adjusts a dial on the syringe to add or reduce amount of fluid in the membrane, thus changing the power of the lens. When the wearer is happy with the strength of each lens the membrane is sealed by twisting a small screw, and the syringes removed. The principle is so simple, the team has discovered, that with very little guidance people are perfectly capable of creating glasses to their own prescription.
Art of Music looks like a very interesting show that features the works of art that are connected with works of music.
Moonlight Chronicles are wonderful zines with the drawings and writings of Dan Price.
The Moonlight Chronicles are hand-written and illustrated journals about my simple life at home and travels abroad.
Joanna, from A Cup of Jo, and her fiance Alex had some really nice engagement photos taken by the talented Max Wanger.
Wishing all of you a Happy New Year. Thanks to everyone who made life beautiful. This year I will learn, grow, explore, create, and love more. Go forth and explore the new year.
This book is brilliant. How to Be an Explorer of the World takes the reader on a journey by providing a collection of “explorations” which the book challenges you to do. The book is well designed using only white, black, and orange and shows you how to document the interesting things that are always around us. Keri Smith has created a very interesting book that is well worth your exploration.
Company is a design studio based in London.
We focus on visual identity projects as we like the journey they take, and enjoy developing concepts which work on various media; printed and digital.
Wayne Daly was born in Ireland in 1979.
Studied graphic design at the Waterford Institute of Technology and London College of Printing, where he currently lectures.
PlayLab is a design studio in Brookyln, New York.
PlayLab is an exciting and fun place where ALC4 and JSF1 make things for themselves and for others.
I recieved this book, Over and Over, for Christmas this year and I couldn’t have been more pleased with it. I knew it was in the box when I opened it and with much anticipation I found “a catalog of hand-drawn patterns” which is exactly what this book is. It is quite a diverse collection of patterns with many different styles presented providing a wonderful viewing experience. Well done Mike Perry.
