Sir Ken Adam (born Klaus Hugo Adam; 5 February 1921) is a motion picture production designer most famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s. He was hired for the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962.
Dr. Strangelove's War Room
In 1964 he designed the famous war room set for Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. He turned down the opportunity to work on Kubrick's next project 2001: A Space Odyssey after he found out that Kubrick had been working with NASA for a year on space exploration, and that would put him at a disadvantage in developing his art. This enabled Adam to make his name with his innovative, semi-futuristic sets for the James Bond films such as Dr. No (1962),
Dr. No sketch by Ken Adam
Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
Thunderball
The supertanker set for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) was the largest sound stage in the world at the time it was built. His last Bond film was Moonraker (1979).
Prachtig vormgegeven boekjes voor kinderen en hun creatieve ouders.
Het idee is simpel op iedere pagina een regel tekst, de rest laat je aan je eigen fantasie over. Je geeft je eigen invulling aan het verhaal door de plaatjes zelf te tekenen.
Accidentally found; Villa Volpi is for sale. For a mere €33.000.000 one could be the owner of this operaticly designed neo-roman villa, situated near Sabaudia in Lazio. This being an area south of Rome. At the beginning of the 20th century, Lazio was marshland, inhabited by poor farmers and musquitos.
Mussolini made it into a huge project to get the swamps dry and new cities build. This is how Latina, Pontinia, Sabaudia came into existance. Designed in what we now call Rationalism. The term fascistic seems no longer applyable, since the tenth Biennale dell'architettura.
Latin modernisme one might call it. Or "una metafisica construita" as the catalogue of the ehibition of the same name calls it.
Jan Rothuizenis an Amsterdam based artist. I came across"his"room ofCohen, which was a part ofthe'Soft Atlas ofAmsterdam'in a magazinestandonhis siteand discoveredthe project "Somewhere over the Rainbow". Herehe makesaself-portraitwithout self, which consists ofphotographscollectedfrommen.All pictureshave been chosen because itisinsomewayrecognizable. Not only in the present butalso inelements of the pastandevenimageswhich hehimselfrecognized as possible future looks. " In an exhibition thephotographs were exhibitedin chronological order, so theystart forminganimaginary life. Itbegins withababy andends withanold man. A good assignment for starting art students, I reckon...
Andy Macgregor, handsome model and wicked stylist in one... Always a delight to look at his website. So delectable. What I like about his work is the craftiness of it. No wonder we [the old fashioned teachers of beauty] still want students to draw, cut and paste...
Today I discovered Jim Denevan. Some pictures onFaceBook / design-dautore.com made me curious. Jim makes temporary drawings on sand earth and ice that are eventually erased by waves and weather. Contrary to the seventies land-art, this, in my opinion doesn't try to bear more importance then it can offer us: an extra way of seeing the specific beauty of a place...
There is also a certain kind of contemplating quality in the making of these works. Listening to the story in this film, you recognize the meaning of the work for himself.
De Britse schrijfster, kuntschilder en beeldhouwster Leonora Carrington is in een Mexicaans ziekenhuis overleden. Ze werd gezien als een van de laatste grote surrealisten en is bekend om haar spokerige, dromerige werk. Carrington werd 94 jaar oud.
Het overlijden is door de Mexicaanse raad voor de kunst bevestigd, maar een doodsoorzaak is niet bekendgemaakt. Carrington (wiki) behoorde tot een groep artistieke en politieke vluchtelingen die in de jaren veertig van de vorige eeuw emigreerde naar Mexico. Daar vormde ze een invloedrijk trio met Frida Kahlo Remedios Varo.
In Carringtons werk figureerden vogels, katten en eenhoornachtige dieren vaak in bevreemdende situaties. Ze schreef artikelen, romans en gedichten. Maar het meest bekend is ze van haar schilderijen waarvan ze er duizenden maakte en die onder meer in grote steden als New York, Los Angeles, Londen, Parijs en Tokio werden geëxposeerd.
De Briste, geboren in 1917, vertrok op haar twintigste naar Parijs waar ze in contact kwam met Salvador Dalí en Max Ernst. Met laatstgenoemde kreeg ze een relatie, maar nadat Ernst door de nazi’s werd opgepakt raakte ze depressief en kwam in een kliniek terecht. Ze wist echter te ontsnappen en richting Mexico te vluchten.
Vi Hart, who presents herself as a Mathemusician on YouTube does some awsome droodling. Once you catch up with the tempo of her talking and drawing, the lesson is simple and fascinating. You can droodle more focussed and you'll probably get quite into dicovering the laws Vi Hart lays out...
I know how I'm gonna spend my next boardmeeting.
Oh boy... She has some more breathtaking droodle principals to share with us... Watch also Stars!
Exhibition: Isotype International Picture Language, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2 December 2010-15 May 2011
As a politically engaged graphic artist and designer Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) portrayed the world in wood and linoleum cuts. During the 1920s, he conveyed his vision on social wrongs and the rise of Nazism in Germany in his prints. He did this in such a simple, direct style that anyone - regardless of their education and nationality - was able to understand his images. This prompted the Viennese social scientist Otto Neurath (1882-1945) to ask him to design the symbols for the ’International system Of Typographic Picture Education’ (ISOTYPE). During his long career, Arntz made more than 4000 coherent, powerful and legible symbols and figures. We still see their traces around us on a daily basis: in pictograms featured on objects ranging from traffic signs to gameboys, and in information graphics.
This book displays many Isotypes and explains the system and its context. This overview of Gerd Arntz’s life and work includes a selection of his political prints and other rare visual material that was never published previously. With contributions from Flip Bool, Gert Dumbar, Mieke Gerritzen, Nigel Holmes, Max Kisman, Paul Mijksenaar and Erik Spiekermann.
"You have two brains: a left and a right. Modern brain scientists now know that your left brain is your verbal and rational brain; it thinks serially and reduces its thoughts to numbers, letters and words… Your right brain is your nonverbal and intuitive brain; it thinks in patterns, or pictures, composed of ‘whole things,’ and does not comprehend reductions, either numbers, letters, or words."
From; The Fabric of Mind, by the eminent scientist and neurosurgeon, Richard Bergland. Viking Penguin, Inc., New York 1985. pg.1
Betty Edwards invented Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. She thought up terms like: L-en R-modus modus... Read about it in the pretext of her book.
