An artist is born to create, and when you pair that creativity with a sense of adventure and fearlessness, you get Wouter van Buuren. This 39-year old Dutch photographer risks his life scaling buildings, or anything for that matter, for vantage points high enough to make the landscape seem as if it is being seen from a...
Yves Béhar is a visionary. Founder of fuseproject, a San Francisco based design agency, Béhar aims to break into new markets and disrupt old ones by bringing a humanistic approach to his work. You may remember him for the world’s first $100 laptop for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization.
The small village of Vernazza in Cinque Terra, Italy experienced an apocalyptic combination of natural disasters on October 25, 2011. “Torrential rains, massive flooding and over 100 mud slides took the lives of 3 residents, terrorized locals and visitors, caused over 108 million Euro in damages and left the town buried in over 13 feet of mud...
Now you see him, now you don’t. Vanishing artist Liu Bolin camouflages himself in order to vanish in a chosen scene. Liu has disappeared in environments ranging from the everyday to the exotic and bizarre.
Accessing stock images has come a long way since the 80s. Thirty years ago, when stock houses began creating categorized collections of ready-to-use photographs, stock photography was considered a breakthrough for publishers. Unfortunately for designers of the time, though, using stock meant spending countless hours weeding through thousands of negatives in a physical collection, which kept the use of...
Recently, the Italian magazine Grazia apologized to readers in response to a doctored image of Duchess Kate Middleton that appeared on the May cover of the magazine dramatically shrinking her waistline. While the magazine protested that the image was not edited to make the already svelte Duchess look thinner, the practice of doctoring photographs to make women appear slimmer in...
Published on his blog back in April, designer Jamie Wieck’s “The 50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should Know” — or as it’s become better known in certain circles, “The 50″ — is in the words of Wieck himself, “a condensed primer for students and graduates-to-be.” The list of 50 illustrated tips range from: You are not the first;...
Jacqueline Law’s (@Waleikcaj) Tumblr blog Hovering Art Directors has been shared amongst designers on twitter and facebook recently. It made me smile; a great social observation of the design workplace. Familiar? addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sessions.edu%2Fnotes-on-design%2Fresources%2Fdesign%2Fhovering-art-directors%2F'; addthis_title = 'Hovering+Art+Directors'; addthis_pub = 'sessart';
Take a look at these beautiful photographs of individuals staring out of plane windows, by Brooklyn-based Matt Low. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sessions.edu%2Fnotes-on-design%2Finspiration%2Fphotography%2Fwindow-seats-by-matt-low%2F'; addthis_title = 'Window+Seats+by+Matt+Low'; addthis_pub = 'sessart';
The 6th Affordable Art Beijing (AAB) fair is officially taking place on May 14-15, 2011 at 798 Space. Founded in 2006, Affordable Art Beijing (AAB) has grown to become one of the most highly anticipated art fairs of the year. Founder, Tom Pattinson, and his team have handpicked over 1,000 works of original Chinese contemporary art, from small prints to...
