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The opportunity: The Art Institute of Chicago was asking for “surrealist objects” last week as a promotion for the current Magritte exhibit. The objects will be selected by the curator of the Magritte show and will be displayed in the Art Institute’s Modern Wing for one day. I created a surrealist object and submitted it […]
Art museum bathrooms. Clean, sharply designed, austere. Much like the white walls of a museum, most bathrooms within art museums have a modern, contemporary yet neutral feel. Among the granite tiles and light gray walls of the bathroom in Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art lays an object on the floor next to the door. A […]
Boredpanda.com reports: October Jones (real name Joe Butcher), the prolific writer and illustrator… is at it again with a fun series of sticky notes featuring a grimly determined cat named Peppy posing next to motivational messages. He draws them and leaves them in the trays of the train he takes for unsuspecting fellow commuters. If […]
Do you love amazing views? Do you love amazing architecture details? The next place you should visit is–surprise! Walgreens. Walgreens recently moved 40 steps from its cramped quarters above the Billy Goat into the first and second floor of the landmark Wrigley Building next-door. Despite challenges with the layout, the store is absolutely amazing to […]
Without one color in the spectrum of light, everything looks much different. We need the range of all the colors in the spectrum to see the immense possibility of everything. Are you an expert in something? If you aren’t, do you like giving your opinion on things? How about at your job? When someone else […]
Think of a creative department. How many designers are normally on staff? A couple. Maybe up to six or eight. You’d normally have one manager for these two to eight designers. Just how many graphic designers are there in America and how many marketing managers? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the number of […]
A dog sits in a kitchen and smells unseen fresh bread. He patiently waits for this delicious treat. For the past couple hours here at Panera I’ve been looking up at the painting, appreciating how the yellow in the painting matches the yellow Panera wall. It’s almost as though the painting is a mini mural. […]
Watch a little boat fly up and down the Chicago River releasing green dye (youtube video). The pattern the boat follows looks like the one would use mowing the lawn. Next year I wanna see zig-zags! If the boat was leave a trail where it would spell out something, what should it spell? Here’s a […]
Looking for some creative sources? Here are 60 (formerly 45) websites that bring interesting posts. You could subscribe to them using an RSS reader like feedly.com. 3quarksdaily: 2,000 readers A Creative Universe: 664 readers Art in America: 232 readers Art Threat: 422 readers artforum.com ARTINFO Blogs ¬ª Feed: 2,000 readers ARTnews: 711 readers Arts & […]
Giant yellow tennis ball is attacking Wrigley Field! What would that yellow sphere be? Ideas are explored on my baseball blog, Supernova at Wrigley Field captured in 1958 Topps baseball card. It’s a fun interdisciplinary blog post covering baseball, world history, pop culture, and science all from 1958.
