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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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]