B.Light Design

      

Here are the designers presenting at Hue Are You?. Some great stuff here:

My friend Cherry Sunshine asked if she could use my Upper East Slide idea for a baby hoodie.

I think it turned out great.

Christoph Niemann is an incredible illustrator who has a blog on the New York Times called Abstract City. Usually simple illustrations that just work so well at explaining what he happens to be talking about.

Yesterday’s entry makes me nostalgic for the city, and I live here.

Thomas Forsyth created these great Drawing Tops.

Thomas Forsyth - Drawing Tops from Thomas Forsyth on Vimeo.

In his own words:

A spinning-top, that uses a pen as the spindle. Simply through indulging in the enjoyable process of spinning the top a bi-product is created. Where the pen marks the surface, a beautiful map of the experience and events that have occurred is produced. I am able to draw, but I am not particularly talented at it and yet found that, through the interaction with these objects, I have created drawings that I am more proud of than any I have done before.

Via notcot.org

My friend Liz Lomax is a very talented illustrator. Her technique is called three dimensional illustration. Basically, she sculpts these incredible figures. Builds very detailed dioramas to go with them. And then she photographs the whole shebang. The photo is the finished product, the photo is the illustration. Sometimes she even destroys the sculptures after the picture is taken. And that makes me a little sad.

She’s been documenting her run ins with a recent MasterCard project she did, on her new blog. She literally finds her artwork on billboards and pay phones all over New York City. Here is what she said about the experience:

It’s very weird to run into my work. It’s exciting and at the same time I want to barf.

Of all the people I know, Liz is the closest thing to a rock star. Do yourself a favor and check out here site and blog.

www.lizlomax.com
lizlomax.blogspot.com

There is a very cool art exhibit in Madison Square Park, Pulse Park by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Since I won’t be able to explain it any better, here is what the Madison Square Park Conservancy had to say about it:

Visitors’ heart rates will be monitored by two heart rate sensor sculptures, and will activate two hundred theatrical spotlights, creating a pulsating matrix of light across the central Oval Lawn of the historic park.

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I’ve recently seen a couple of artists who “paint” with wood. Veneer inlay, to be more exact.

I saw Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s work at the James Cohan Gallery in New York and Rolf Hook’s at the Great Blasket Centre in Ireland. Using only different wood grains, they create some incredible pieces of art.

They’ve inspired me to try this technique. Time to break out the old box o’ veneer.

A few months back, I went to a gallery showing Frank Pollaro’s furniture. My jaw dropped the second I walked in. His work is incredible, truley awe inspiring. What he does with inlay is incredible. On top of that, he’s a really nice guy.

Do yourself a favor and check out this, this, this, and this.