Art & Design
Art and design that intrigue.
Design Inspiration leads to Colorful Exhibition of Labels
The craziness all started one day when I took a color palette from Colourlovers.com and started designing geometric patterns only using the palette’s colors. This lead to some intricate designs and then to an idea to use these designs in label templates for an exhibition. We asked the folks on the ColourLovers forum if any [...]
Cora’s National Art Award
I’m stunned and proud! My daughter just won a gold key award from the 2008 National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards with the sculpture she created shown at right. It’s made from styrofoam and photographs, and it stands about 12″ tall.
Over 100,000 student works are submitted each year at the state level to this competition, [...]
Express Yourself re: President Bush
The Chronicle of Higher Education is asking readers for back-of-the-envelope designs for the George W. Bush Library at Southern Methodist University. Although your idea won’t have an impact on the real library (which will be designed by celebrity architect Robert A. Stern), this will be a chance for you to vent your frustrations/adoration for this [...]
Colour Lovers Unite
The pattern shown at left is “wood nymph” by misat.
If you love color, but if you have trouble understand what works well together, then you have a friend in ColourLovers. This site offers all sorts of articles, tools, and guidelines for the color-illiterate. But, individuals who have color snapped can also benefit from this site. [...]
