If you weren’t there, you missed a good’n. The AIGA Upstate New York Chapter had a social event at Abilene Bar in Rochester on Thursday, October 30th, 2008. We counted at one time 60+ people in attendance. We call that a good turn-out.
Looking forward to our next events through-out the Upstate.
If you are in Pittsford, New York, you can stop by Nook to see the set of posters. Nook is a boutique that focuses on designer based, hand-made goods. We appreciate them to volunteer their wall space to display a set of posters. Read the rest of this entry »
Being invited to participate in art exhibitions are always good things. That means someone remembered the work that I created. A few years ago, I produced three online mapping projects that involved mounting a camera on my car and capturing images on various road trips. The series is called: Drive Project. Stephanie Schuster, of the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, invited me to display some of the artifacts in an exhibition called Highways & Byways: American Road Culture on display August 31 - October 18, 2008
This exhibit includes 74 works of contemporary art by 18 artists from around the country. The work is inspired by, related to, or depicts American highways & byways and includes an array of media from graphic paintings to retro photographs.
My submission to the show was 6 framed photographs and one video installation. The photos are true sequences from the first drive project in 2005. The video was a timelapse from Rochester, NY to St. Louis to Rochester, NY. The video runs 1:07. I was able to present it using an idea that I sketched up a while ago. It is a pedestal that holds a car headrest that has a monitor mounted inside of it.
In coming up with promotional projects for my clients, I made the investment into a 1.25 inch button-maker. Made the purchase from an online company called: BuyButtonParts.com . It was the best price I found online. They have a primative web site structure but included a video on making a button. This was news to me. Never before have I seen one of these contraptions in action, but was pleased to see this video. WATCH IT.
After doing a few designs and scaling the buttons out, my conclusion is that the 1 inch is too small and 1.5 is too big for promotional buttons. 1.25 inch gives me just enough space to goof around, yet be very specific with my imagery and message.
A very cool thing about having my own machine is that it is easy to “One-Off” a button or make a series of limited edition button sets. Love it. Sending away to order you have to buy 50 - 100 of one design. Not fiscally responsible if you want to have some fun.
We thought it would be a good idea to get this out of the way before Robin headed back to school and I started into the fall with my new projects. We hustled through it to get to the end of “phase one”. It is such an improvement of the space. We only wish we had more funds to get the rest of it done.
The project started because the “stars were aligned”. We can say they were not that way for long! When a project like this begins… it can never be done fast enough!
Note: the boys were “troopers” through all the people in and out of the house and all the dust. It was a very good thing when the dust settle and they got their bath!
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I will be catching up on my site and adding a good chunk of content about “Web Design for Artists”. I will be giving a talk at the Glass Art Society Annual conference. Very exciting stuff. I promise to practice (about) everything I preach!