Posts Tagged ‘arts’

Arts & Business/Kosmos & Chaos

Magazine -> #7 Chaos

Mikael Strandänger is CE of Arts & Business Sweden. The firm’s very name sums up its vision and mission in its pursuit of reconciling two apparently antithetical worlds. How, it may be asked, can two realities, one of which, according to common lore, is the epitome of order as much as the other is of disorder, possibly co-exist without c...

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Muthesius Academy of Arts

Magazine -> #18 Food for the mind

The history of the “Muthesius Academy” in Kiel, Northern Germany, goes back to the beginning of the 20th century: the school’s course concept is based on the ideas of the “German Werkbund”, an organization that was founded in 1907 by a group of artists, architects, writers and industrials and that promoted the idea of combining traditiona...

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The twenty senses

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

Design starts with sensation. The senses, both visceral and intuitive, play a major role in the process of making a designed environment. Whether the result is order or chaos, the designer must think and feel using every part of the mind and body. Graphic design is not about following templates or formats (though so much of it is), rather it’s mo...

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SVA. School of Visual Arts in New York City

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City was founded in 1947 as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, with 35 students and three instructors. Today, SVA is one of the leading visual arts colleges in the U.S., with a student body of over 3,000 undergraduates, 400 graduate students and 2,200 continuing education students from almost every stat...

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School of Graphic Design at the London College of Communication

Magazine -> #25 Innovage

The School of Graphic Design at the London College of Communication is a part of the University of the Arts, London, Europe’s largest university for art, design, fashion, communication and the performing arts. It is a collegiate university comprising the six London Art Colleges; Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins College of Art and...

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Sint-Lucas Visual Arts, Gent

Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The Error

Sint-Lucas Visual Arts is located in the city centre of Gent, one of the major cities in Flanders. Gent’s history dates back to the early Middle Ages, and the city centre resembles an open air museum with splendid monuments, fairy-tale fronts and statues. The extraordinary fascinating patrimony turns Gent into one of the focuses of the cultural l...

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Self-portrait and Haptic Interface Design Workshop

Magazine -> #24 Self Portrait

Since I started working on Haptic Interface Design and especially on the field research into the haptic quality hidden in various textures, my digital camera has been working exactly as my third eye: it automatically focuses on and catch what I do not see exactly with my two naked eyes but I feel by touching, hearing, smelling or by instinct. Ac...

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Estonian Academy of Arts Tallinn

Magazine -> #24 Self Portrait

History of Estonian Academy of Arts goes back to 1914, founded as Tallinn Industrial Art School. After Estonia’s re-independence from USSR, in 1994 Estonia became European Union member state, and in 1996 the institute was renamed as Estonian Academy of Arts and certified as a sole public-low Art University in Estonia. Our institute is member of ...

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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...
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