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The poster above, by Jan van Toorn for the Van Abbemuseum, is a museum exhibition promotion but it is also a bold critique. It manages to disclose the banalities of both the art market and of accepted visual communication processes. The work represents Van Toorn’s career-long concern with reclaiming the media as a channel of…
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If you’re familiar with the slightly off-beat webcomic Cyanide & Happiness, you’re probably aware it isn’t exactly the most…sensitive material around. It is, however, quite frequently absolutely hilarious if you’re not the type to take political correctness entirely to heart. There are quite a few fans much more devoted than I am, one of which…
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imgfave: ★ discovered on imgfave.com (social image bookmarking)
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laughingsquid: Art & Copy, A Documentary About Advertising and Creativity
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laughingsquid: Art & Copy, A Documentary About Advertising and Creativity
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theatlantic: Gawker’s Traffic Numbers Are Worse Than Anyone Anticipated: What does the network’s traffic look like now that two and a half months have passed? Turns out, according to Gawker’s public statistics, things are much, much worse than was originally reported. Yes, the redesign cut traffic in half almost instantly, but instead of coming back,…
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The Atlantic: First Drafts, Ctd: “The Artist’s Creativity Does Not Matter”
The Atlantic: First Drafts, Ctd: “The Artist’s Creativity Does Not Matter” theatlantic: cavecitysink writes Creativity and genius do not belong to the artist. The artist is a worker. A person who chops and nails and smells like old sweat. A work of art is like a ceramic vase: not in that both are finely wrought…
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morehandclaps: You guys. You guys. I can’t stop making horrible gifs now, you guys. Lesson for today – animating masks in Photoshop is a bitch.
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nevver: Hey Oscar Wilde
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nevver: Hey Oscar Wilde