DVF Headquarters

While this is old news for some, the DVF headquarters deserve a little re-visit as often as possible. Gorgeous.

“The headquarters building for Diane von Furstenberg (DVF) Studio, a fashion design company, is a new, six-story structure built behind two landmarked facades in New York City’s Meatpacking District. The building houses the company’s flagship store, a 5,000 SF flexible showroom/event space, design and administrative offices for a 120-person staff, an executive suite, and a private penthouse apartment.”

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The Pierce Sisters

Pull up a chair and prepare to be entertained and disturbed… but mostly entertained. ☺

Watch:  http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/the_pearce_sisters/

http://www.pearcesisters.co.uk/

Yosinori Yamamot

Yosinori Yamamoto produces magnificently understated Tatara Zukuri ware. Yosinori uses a clay body and glaze that have a special quality distinctive to the Kansai region. Organic edges are left on the ceramics as an appreciation of a rough, unrefined style.

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Elsa Rady

Elsa Rady is an amazing potter.  Her work is fluid and balanced while maintaining crisp silhouettes and bold lines.

Bio

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Yang Yongliang • Magic Maker

Yang Yongliang is a young artist born in Shanghai who has a passion for traditional Chinese culture. At an early age he learned Chinese painting, calligraphy and seal carving. These traditional infuences can be seen in his work in which he combines the style of traditional Chinese ink painting and modern urban lanscape photography. His prints show the contradictions he sees between the modern and traditional culture in Shanghai. From a distance his prints appear as harmonious natural scenes but up close you see they are scenes of dark urbanization.

More of his work can be viewed on his website: www.yangyongliang.com

Michael Freimuth – Creative Dynamo

Michael Freimuth is an art director, designer and illustrator based in NYC.  In addition to working full-time as an art director at Tender in Manhattan, he is th creative director at large for Chicago-based Proximity Magazine and the design journal, Material.

http://www.michaelfreimuth.com/

Matthias Heiderich

Matthias Heiderich plays with scale and shapes on the industrial scene.  Through Matthias’ eye, heavy, noisy environments play quiet and more colorful portraits.

http://www.matthias-heiderich.de/

Alistair Bell – Woodcut Artist

ALISTAIR BELL
NIGHT HERON II
1980
Woodcut
3.5 x 5.25 inches
Edition/20

Bell worked as a draftsman in a structural steel plant until 1967, when he turned his attention to being a full-time artist. He soon established himself for his talent in the graphic media including drypoint, etching, lithography, wood engraving and woodcutting. By his own admission, Bell was always drawn to subject matter in which the linear, rhythmic quality of shape predominated. His depictions of boats, birds and animals are charged, expressionist renderings at once recognizable as quintessential “Bell” interpretations.

Imagination submerged: Sea Creatures circa. 1718

Order and Natural History:  at the herzog august bibliothek, in wolfenbüttel, germany:
The impact of europe’s increasing contact with distant lands in the 18th century cannot be overstated and fantastic
tales abounded of the unknown world of their natural history. The period’s intense interest in botany and zoology
resulted in fanatical collecting of strange, never-before-seen plants and animals. here is a preview of one of the
books on show -‘Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes de Divers Couleurs et Figures Extraordinaires’, published by Louis
Renard in Amsterdam in 1718.