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Lettrs app

Lettrs app

With the tagline, "Take time to write...", there's nothing wrong with this authorable app.  Powering the correspondence cloud to share old letters and write new ones, lettrs is the "post office in your hand" to deliver personal letters, via their … [Read more]

Blissdom Conference 2013

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          BlissDom is the premier conference for women who find and express their bliss by publishing online.  BlissDom ’13, the ninth conference held in Dallas, Texas, from March 21 to 23, 2013, is a … [Read more]

What is Digital Interaction Design?

Interaction design is the design of the interaction between people and devices, systems or services.  This interaction usually involves the "new technologies" of computing and communications. But interaction design remains a creative activity - like … [Read more]

Apps for Collectors of Anything

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Many blog posts have been written about list of apps... apps for engineers, apps for entrepreneurs, apps for education, apps for the frazzled mom.  Here's a new list outlining my favorite iOS apps that allow me to collect and curate objects of all … [Read more]

The Church at Auvers sur Oise

Vincent van Gogh, The Church at Auvers-sur-Oise

Vincent Van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853 and began drawing as a child.  He continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his … [Read more]

Bereft

Bereft,  $2500

Somehow this one will be hard to part with... Inspired by a fashion editorial spread for Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garcons.  Isn't she captivating? Sad, but with a twinge of a Mona Lisa smile? … [Read more]

Louis Vuitton at Selfridges London by Yayoi Kusama

Wendistry | Louis Vuitton at Selfridges London

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has created a concept store for Louis Vuitton at Selfridges in London.  Born March 22, 1929, Kusama is a Japanese artist and writer.  Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, … [Read more]

Jenny Saville

Wendistry | Jenny Saville

Born in Cambridge in 1970, Jenny Saville is a contemporary British painter and associated with the Young British Artists.  She studied at the Slade School Of Fine Art between 1992 and 1993, and at the end of her postgraduate education, the … [Read more]

Chinese Art Market… Bubble?

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Over the last few years the center of the world art market has been moving away from Europe and America to China.  At least that is what the leading trade magazines are saying.  According to a number of art market analysts, in 2011 the Chinese … [Read more]

Most Anticipated Art Openings this Fall

Wendistry | Most Anticipated Art Openings this Fall

A key figure in the proliferation of the Pop Art movement, Roy Lichtenstein is the subject of this fall's retrospective at The National Gallery of Art. This particular Lichtenstein work, Look Mickey, was adapted from a 1960 Disney comic. October … [Read more]

TEMP- Art Incubator

Wendistry |  TEMP- Art Incubator

NYU graduates team up and  launch TEMP, an incubator for young artists and curators in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City.  Energy and artful exuberance is at the heart of TEMP, a 4,500-square-foot gallery space opening on September … [Read more]

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera, Detroit Industry Murals

In honor of Labor Day today, I present Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957), Frida Kahlo's on-again off-again husband.  The Detroit Industry fresco, above, was conceived by Rivera as a tribute to the city's manufacturing base and labor force … [Read more]