A few photos from the Bordo Bello reception last night at AIGA National Design Center here in New York. As it turns out, my ‘Promise’ board was not up for auction. In fact it had already gone thru an auction in Denver, and I was able to meet the proud owner. Pretty rad.
Thanks to all who came out. If you want to check out the show but missed it, there is still time.
It’s kind of late notice, but I wanted to let you know that the ‘Promise’ skateboard I designed for Bordo Bello has been on exhibit at the AIGA National Design Center here in New York City, and tonight is on silent auction from 6-9pm. I’ll be there to check out all the work tonight. Perhaps I’ll see you?
A couple days have passed since my opening, and I still have lots to process, but one of my favorite parts of the week has been the two 4’x8’ collaborative panels I put directly in the middle of my work.
I wasn’t sure how it would work out, but I was confident that, being at an art school, it would at least not go untouched. So far, it has been quite productive. Above are some process shots from when I was there, and I hope to get some more throughout the month.
One thing I was (pleasantly) surprised by is how messy the corner became. I love how it turned into a working space. It’s like an extended space of the studio in my Brooklyn apartment.
Title slide for my artist talk coming up this Thursday at Beard Arts Center at Indiana Wesleyan University. I’ll be speaking around 4pm.
My wife and I each have shows up from May 4-30. If you are nearby, please come check out our work.
swissmiss | Friday Link Pack
We were featured in swissmiss’s Friday Link Pack! Thanks for the supprt, Tina!
So rad. Thanks to everyone for the continued support.
I’m happy to announce that I have a show coming up at the Beard Arts Center at Indiana Wesleyan University April 4–30 at the Marion, Indiana campus. (The opening reception is May 4 from 4-6pm.)
I am currently working on getting many loose collages ready for presentation, and I’m working on coordinating with the gallery to create an interactive section of the show where I can collaborate with visitors on new work.
What makes it all even better is that my wife, Julia, will be showing her photography in the gallery next door. If you live in the area or are able to make it out, it would be great to see you there.
Is Formal Design Education Necessary? - The Industry
Jordan Koschei has written a nice recap from the debate the other night. I appreciate his note that the debate ended just as the my team was hitting our stride. One more round and we could’ve won.
Launching is lonely, but thanks for all the help spreading the news today, Tumblr. It’s appreciated.
I am pleased to announce a new side project I’ve been working on called Analog is Heavy.
Analog is Heavy is where I will make a selection of collages available as digital wallpapers to equip all of you gadgets. Each artwork is $2, and comes as a bundle of files. (The files are optimized for Apple products, but should still work on other screens.)
There are only six artworks now, including the “Launching is Lonely” wallpaper, but there will be more coming soon. And if you see something you like, snag it now, it might not be on the site forever.
To accompany the launch, I’ve created it’s own Tumblr. Please follow along there to keep up and help me spread the word.
Thanks for buying art!
More to come soon…
Last night I had the great honor to debate at Designers Debate Club. The motion debated was “Formal design education is necessary for practicing designers.”
On my team, debating against the motion, was Tumblr’s Peter Vidani and Huge’s Kate Proulx. On the team debating for the motion was the lovely Alice Twemlow of SVA’s DCrit, Pentagram partner J. Abbott Miller, and Founding Partner & Principal at Mucca Design Matteo Bologna. Moderating it all was Scott Stowell, Proprietor of Open & instructor at Yale and SVA. Scott is also a RISD grad, and I got to see him speak in 2004 when I was attending there, although he has no recollection of this.
I hate to report that my team lost the debate, but it is true. I’m sorry. I just hope it wasn’t because I spoke in a phony accent for my opening argument or that I argued what I called the Three D’s: Curiosity, Devotion and Dedication. It was all from the heart, I swear.
It was all in good fun, and I hope that I could be invited back for another one. Thanks to Keenan and Jon for the invitation If you get the chance, do go to one of the next debates, I’m sure it’ll be worth it.
Thanks to Julia for taking photos from the audience, as well as the one of all of us strangling each other.
We’ve got session 3 of Designer’s Debate Club coming up on Wednesday, February 13th. The motion to be debated:
“Formal design education is necessary for practicing designers.”
We are teaming up with the AIGA New York for this one and Parsons is hosting. All proceeds of this event go to benefit Inspire/Make Workshops: An AIGA/NY Initiative. Inspire/Make Workshops is a series of free classes for high-school students who want to learn how to design and develop for digital media.
I’ll be arguing against the motion, and I hope to see you there.
Housekeeping: Trying New Things
Just a quick post to say I’m sorry for the barrage of new posts tonight.
I’ve decided to keep this blog up-to-date with new collage work, and I’ll probably post some of my favorite photos along the way as well. For those interested, Flickr will be my updated archive of photography.
I’m also experimenting with a new format for writing, just not sure when I’ll have something to share.
Thanks for reading,
I spent most of this past weekend making collages in my home studio. I posted them to Instagram and Flickr as I made them, and the above image seemed to really resonate with people. In fact, my friend Carolyn Wood left the most beautiful comment anyone has ever left me on Flickr, and I think it’s worth sharing here.
When I see beauty it steals my breath and I gasp and I could just fall into it because it is so deep and beckoning and achingly more than my heart can bear and so dangerous I could get lost in it and lose my mind to it. Fall into light on water, fall into the sky, fall into the words that speak of worlds inside another person’s mind, fall into the letters pressed into paper, fall into the curve of the letters, fall into the music, fall into the moment captured on film, fall into his eyes, fall into his arms, feel his heart beating against mine. Is this a painting? Is this sculpture? Is this a painting of sculpture, is it from so long ago that we’d fall back through centuries to see the hand that made it, to know if these were limbs from dreams or ones he could touch or stroke, transposing the bone and muscle and flesh to canvas and then you, you with your fingers add the deepest place of beauty I could fall other than love, the starry night of galaxies and the supernovas spilling energy across an immensity my mind cannot hold. It is forever, it is a billion forevers, it is blood splattered across a body or a body made of stone, is it a warm pulsing heart within stone, is the stone broken, broken before you tore the paper, is it an image of that which clutches my heart before I fall fall fall into beauty, before I fall into love.
Thank you for this, Carolyn. I hope more of this happens this year.
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Nothing is sacred. Everything is sacred. (by Able Parris’ Flickr)
As you might know, most days I take a photo of a certain sign on my commute on the F train each day I can. I call it Daily Kentile. I’ve been doing it since July 2012, and other folks have even joined with me. On Instagram, they are hashtagged #dailykentile, and there is a growing collection of varying views of the beautiful Brooklyn landmark.
Last month my iPhone 3GS died while I was away on holiday, and I went about 5 days without a phone until my brother lent me his old Motorola Razr, pictured above. Having had an iPhone (although mine was quite outdated now I know) for years has caused me to be accustomed to certain interactions. Let me just cut to it: I had a very difficult time using this borrowed phone.
It may sound odd to you, and perhaps even arrogant, but I enjoyed the days I spent without a phone at all more than dealing with simply trying to type out a text message on T9 on this thing. Luckily, my wife and I were already anticipating our upgrade date in which we were going to get brand new phone, but that wasn’t until January 7 so I had to use this thing for a few weeks.
I tried to take photos with it often, though, but I’m not entirely sure how to get them off the phone so I took this photo of one of my Daily Kentile snaps. I think I had room for a few more before upgrading to a new iPhone of which I am very fortunate to own.
You can follow me on Instagram if you are interested in keeping up with #dailykentile and my other New York adventures.
(Image via Able Parris’ Flickr)
