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Design Jobs: New York Media, Daily Mail, CUNY Brooklyn College

Nadine Cheung — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:30:35 +0000

This week, New York Media is hiring a graphic designer, while the Daily Mail needs a photo editor. CUNY Brooklyn College is seeking a digital designer, and Niche Media is on the hunt for an associate art director. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro.

Graphic Designer New York Media (New York, NY)
Photo Editor Daily Mail UK (New York, NY)
Digital Designer CUNY Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY)
Associate Art Director Niche Media (New York, NY)
Layout Artist Mullen (Boston, MA)

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In Brief: Pizza Museum for Philly, Getty Images Creative Grants, Tino Seghal as Young Grinch

Stephanie Murg — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:30:47 +0000

Montana’s Grinell glacier photographed in 2008 by Project Pressure, a non-profit that is developing the world’s first glacier atlas consisting of hundreds of images of the world’s retreating glaciers.

• Studies show that pizza tastes even better when consumed in the midst of pizza-related memorabilia, and so Philadelphians are in a for a treat with Pizza Brain. The pizza museum-cum-restaurant is the creation of Brian Dwyer, who owns the world’s largest collection of pizza memorabilia. NPR recently caught up with the pizza fanatic and his team as they put the finishing touches on the place. “We want this place to feel like [an] interactive art installation,” Dwyer told Elizabeth Fiedler. “Instead of just putting it all in a bunch of cases that are very linear and sterile, where you just kind of stare at it and say ‘There’s a thing’ and walk away, this is like, ‘Oh! What’s this little thing?…There’s a pizza face!’” His buddy Ryan Anderson had a slightly less ambitious goal: “All that I want is to not make this place look like an Applebee’s or a Hard Rock Cafe or a Cracker Barrel with ephemera just like stapled to the walls.”

• Photographers Linka Anne Odom and Klaus Thymann, alongside agencies Good Pilot and Mother London, have been selected as the recipients of this year’s Getty Images Creative Grants. The two teams will each receive $15,000 to cover the costs of developing new imagery to strengthen the communications of a non-profit organization they have chosen to support. Odom and Good Pilot are collaborating with D-Foundation to pursue a project that aims to recruit volunteers to increase effectiveness of medical care provided to vulnerable people in India. Meanwhile, Thymann and Mother London will visually highlight “global glacial history”: the photog will travel to Bolivia to document the fieldwork of Project Pressure and the impact of glacial retreat on the local population.

• In other Getty Images news, the sale of the photo giant is moving right along. Final bids, due Monday, August 6, are expected from Carlyle Group and CVC Capital Partners, according to a report from Reuters. The price tag could be as much as $4 billion.

• Can Tino Seghal turn questions into art? That’s the question posed by Lauren Collins in a profile of the artist that appears in the August 6 issue of The New Yorker. The story includes an interesting portrait of the artist as a young Grinch, describing an 11-year-old Seghal’s decision to cancel Christmas. “I wrote my parents a letter and said, I don’t want to be part of this Christmas thing,’” he told Collins. “I rejected my presents. This whole kind of Christian colonizing of what was a collective, pagan ritual—I’ve mellowed out a bit, but I was enraged, somehow, by that.”
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Last Chance to Register for Mediabistro’s Social Curation Summit

Guest — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:28:32 +0000

The Social Curation Summit kicks off tomorrow, July 31, in New York City, and time is running out to register (full-access passes go up $100 at the door). Join social media pros, brand marketers, entrepreneurs, and VCs for sessions revolving around brand loyalty, next-generation storytelling platforms, and filtering. Attend expert panels, including “Inspiration for DIY Communities,” “Leveraging Community for Curation and Commerce,” “The Social Media Mixtape,” and more. The summit is the must-attend event for anyone interested in the emerging technologies that are transforming the way we share, follow, and engage online—Pinterest and Tumblr, anyone? Connect with more than 40 expert speakers, including Derek Gottfrid (VP of Product, Tumblr), Scott Belsky (CEO, Behance), Oliver Starr (Chief Evangelist, Pearltrees), and Steven Rosenbaum (Author and CEO, Magnify.net). Check out the full speaker lineup and program here. Time is running out to save, so register now and save $100.

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Boost Your Brain Power with Frank Lloyd Wright

Stephanie Murg — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:03:34 +0000

A successful industrialist once advised, “Work smarter, not harder!” That magnate was, of course, Scrooge McDuck, but we can imagine the same sentiment coming from another dapper, cane-wielding Beethoven lover with a bunch of rascally nephews: Frank Lloyd Wright. The late architect’s brainy, right angle-eschewing ways live on in the Frank Lloyd Wright Designs Memory Game ($13.95 from Bas Bleu), which challenges players of all ages—or at least those between 3 and 103 years old—to match up images of Wright-designed art-glass windows, carpets, skylights, and more. It sounds simple until all of the nature-infused patterns and telescoping triangles begin to congeal into one big Usonian blur. We suggest investing in a few sets and staging your own FLW Memory tournament. Both the winning and losing teams get to take home spooky Wright marionettes, which we hear come alive at night and rearrange furniture.

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Wish Big: TED Prize Grows to $1 Million, Now Open for Nominations

Stephanie Murg — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:54:38 +0000

Chef and food revolutionary Jamie Oliver accepts the 2010 TED Prize.

With an elite list of past recipients that includes architect Cameron Sinclair, photographers Edward Burtynsky and James Nachtwey, and street artist JR, the TED Prize has proved to be a powerful global platform for designers, artists, and big ideas. So who do you think should be the next creative and/or brilliant person to be granted ~~$100,000~~ $1 million to help achieve a big wish? Nominate him, her, or even yourself here, where TED has opened nominations for the 2013 prize winner. You have through August 31 to tell TED Prize director Lara Stein and her team about your nominee’s megawish. “A successful nomination will offer a compelling wish, demonstrate how this wish can catalyze a paradigm-shifting action, and show evidence of the nominee’s ability to bring this action to fruition,” say Stein and TED Prize deputy director Anna Verghese. “It will also include a plan for how the larger TED and TEDx communities can participate in the realization of the wish.” The winner, to be selected in the fall by a jury drawn from members of the TED community, will reveal his or her wish during TED2013 in Long Beach, California.

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New Website for NYC’s New Museum

Stephanie Murg — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:34:27 +0000

New York’s New Museum, which celebrated the big 3-0 with a stunning new SANAA-designed home on the Bowery, is celebrating its 35th birthday with a fresh online HQ. Today the museum debuted its new website, designed by NYC-based Kettle to address four major new online initiatives: “to expand the conversation about contemporary art in a global context, premiere new works, share our history, and provide expanded resources on exhibitions and programs both past and present,” according to a statement released today. Refreshingly, these goals have already been translated to specific facets of the overhauled site. History comes alive in the museum’s new digital archive, a site within a site that provides access to more than 8,000 written and visual records, as well as a searchable database of over 4,000 artists, curators, and organizations associated with the museum’s history. Meanwhile, the latest and greatest is featured in First Look, a series that will showcase a new digital artwork each month. First up: Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz’s “Image Atlas” (2012). And with an eye beyond the Bowery, the site includes an interactive, international guide to over 400 independent art spaces from 96 countries and Six Degrees, “a blog about new ideas elsewhere.”

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Tom Sachs to Receive Aspen Award for Art

Stephanie Murg — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:09:00 +0000

Fresh from his triumphant mission to Mars, Tom Sachs has been named this year’s recipient of the Aspen Award for Art. Previous honorees include artists Roni Horn, Marilyn Minter, Fred Tomaselli, and Ed Ruscha. Sachs will pick up his honor next week during ArtCrush, a three-day benefit gala for the Aspen Art Museum (its new Shigeru Ban-designed building is slated to open in 2014) that kicks off on Wednesday with a wine-soaked soiree and culiminates in a Friday bash at the museum, where we hear that Sachs has “a special intervention” in store for gala-goers inside the tent. After a seated dinner, Oliver Barker of Sotheby’s will take the floor for a live auction of artworks by the likes of William Eggleston, Tom Friedman, and Amelie von Wulffen, who has a solo exhibition opening today at the museum (where she is this year’s Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence). The real pocket-emptier, however, will be Sachs’s own “Poche Vide” (pictured). Completed this year, the mixed media work contains all of the tools for a modern mogul—something of an Aspen specialty—there are speakers, amplifiers, oodles of dials, a kitchen knife, and a necktie, just in case. It’s the perfect accent piece for your chic chalet-cum-rustic ski cabin.

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Everybody Loves Raymond Loewy, Including David Lynch, Who May Prefer to Call Him ‘Robert’

Stephanie Murg — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:39:56 +0000

American Spirit. Industrial designer Raymond Loewy with one of his designs, the Pennsylvania Railroad’s S1 steam locomotive; filmmaker and Loewy admirer David Lynch.

The late-night show of our dreams is hosted by David Lynch. What this theoretical program lacks in guests or commercials (you’ll recall how the filmmaker feels about product placement) it would make up for in good ‘ol fashioned variety: one night our distinctively coiffed host is screening The Seashell and the Clergyman or enthusing on his favorite hobby of chopping wood (especially pine) and the next he’s shooting on site in the dream forest at Club Silencio, the members-only Paris nightclub he designed. The Wall Street Journal recently caught up with Lynch in the penthouse suite of the Chauteau Marmont, where Steve Garbarino posed “20 Odd Questions” that covered topics ranging from his accessories (“I have a deep love for my Swatch watch.”) to his stint as a WSJ deliverperson back in the 1970s, when he was making Eraserhead.

In Lynch’s words, his L.A. paper route has all the makings of a haunting film. “I’d pick up my papers at 11:30 at night. I had throws that were particularly fantastic. There was one where I’d release the paper, which would soar with the speed of the car and slam into the front door of this building, triggering its lobby lights—a fantastic experience,” he says. “Another one I called ‘The Big Whale.’ There was a place, the Fish Shanty, on La Cienega. A big whale’s mouth was the front door you entered through. I’d throw a block before it, and hit the paper directly into the mouth.” Lynch is not inclined to fandom, preferring to get his kicks from a mix of coffee, transcendental meditation, and American Spirit cigarettes, but he does cop to a love for Loewy…Robert [sic] Loewy. The famed industrial designer usually goes by Raymond, but as far as we’re concerned, Lynch can call him whatever he wants. Meanwhile, the WSJ has corrected the error in its online edition.

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There’s an App for That: TED Books

Stephanie Murg — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:13:02 +0000

Brainy nonprofit TED is following through on its promise to turn its passion for “ideas worth spreading” into slim volumes that it hopes readers will consider worth downloading—for $2.99 a pop or less, thanks to a new subscription model (three months, six books, $14.99). The technology, entertainment, and design mavens have launched an app that provides easy and instant access to TED Books, short (10,000 to 20,000 words) nonfiction works that are meant to explore one big idea in a way that can be absorbed in a single sitting. “TED Books are to books as TED Talks are to lectures,” according to TED’s Chris Anderson. The free app, designed for both iPhone and iPad, beefs up the images in TED Books while adding features such as video, audio, links to maps, online resources, search, commenting, sharing, and automatically updated editions. With 16 titles published—including Living Architecture by Rachel Armstrong—and an ambitious schedule that promises a new one every two weeks, now is the time for TED to do something about those still-cringeworthy virtual book covers.

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Design Jobs: Amazon, Bath & Body Works, John Paul Mitchell Systems

Nadine Cheung — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:40:29 +0000

This week, Amazon is hiring an art director for its visual design team, while Limited Brands is seeking a senior designer for Bath & Body Works. John Paul Mitchell Systems needs a beauty art director, and Hearst Magazines Digital Media is on the hunt for a digital photo editor. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro.

Art Director, Visual Design Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Senior Designer, Bath & Body Works Limited Brands (New York, NY)
Beauty Art Director John Paul Mitchell Systems (Los Angeles, CA)
Digital Photo Editor Hearst Magazines Digital Media (New York, NY)
Art Director TMG (Washington, DC)

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Have Coffee with Daniel Buren, Latest Artist to Collaborate with Illy on Covetable Cups

Stephanie Murg — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:29:41 +0000

A view of Monumenta 2012 at the Grand Palais in Paris. (Photo: REUTERS/Benoit Tessier)

Just when you thought that illy couldn’t out-dazzle its collaboration with Anish Kapoor, the espresso purveyor has teamed with Daniel Buren. The latest addition to illy’s “Artist Cups” series was created in conjunction with Buren’s Monumenta installation, “Excentrique(s),” which recently turned the Grand Palais into a kind of rainbow-kaleidoscope. Tasked with creating a site-specific work for the 14,500-square-foot nave of the Paris building (and following in the footsteps of previous Monumenta artists including Richard Serra and Christian Boltanski), the French artist was initially stumped. “The breakthrough came when I finally realized that this iron and glass architecture was based on the circle and the main tool used to design the building was a compass,” said Buren in an interview with Marc Sanchez, artistic director of Monumenta. “The most important thing for me was the confrontation between a device placed quite low down—a sort of ceiling made of hundreds of clear, colored circles—and the great height of the nave of the Grand Palais. I expected this extreme tension to emphasise not the hugeness of the building but its volume, left as empty as possible. As if to give shape to the air circulating in it.” The exhibition closed last month, but the colorful circles live on as saucers in illy’s Daniel Buren espresso cups. The beautifully packaged set of four, now available in illy’s online store, combines the Monumenta circles’ blue, yellow, orange, and green (chosen because they were the only available hues for colored film that was stretched over specially made circular steel frames) with Buren’s signature stripes, in black and white.
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Fresh Faces: New Director for Rose Art Museum, RISD Names Dean of Architecture and Design

Stephanie Murg — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:53:20 +0000

• We’re still waiting for an opera devoted to the happenings of a few years ago at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum: secret meetings, deaccessioning schemes, legal threats, resignations, and finally, renovations! Having clarified the differences between an art museum and an ATM, the university is ready to restore the bloom to the Rose with a new director: Christopher Bedford (pictured), chief curator of exhibitions at Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts. He’ll begin his new role on September 15 at the ripe old age of 35. Among his top priorities: to integrate the museum’s collection into the university’s curriculum and “to commission a major work of public sculpture for the exterior of the museum that connects to ideas of social engagement and social justice,” Bedford said in a recent interview. “Those concepts are central to my thinking and to the core ideology of Brandeis, too.”

• The Rhode Island School of Design looked across the ocean to find its new dean of architecture and design. Pradeep Sharma, who starts this fall, comes to Providence from England’s Bath Spa University. As head of the Bath School of Art and Design, he managed the school’s operations, finances, facilities, assessment, academic program development, as well as the student experience, all while maintaining his own ten-year-old design management and consultancy practice. With degrees in electrical and information sciences as well as industrial design engineering—and a doctorate in management in the works—he is as enthusiastic about digital technologies as he is about hands-on studio learning. “Pradeep brings a keen interest in howthe architecture and design disciplines can work together with the fine arts and the liberal arts to inform each other’s practice,” said RISD provost Rosanne Somerson in a statement announcing his appointment.
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Quote of Note | Stella McCartney

Stephanie Murg — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:56:18 +0000

“You know, the first thing I did when we started the Olympic collection [for Team Great Britain] was ask the athletes, ‘Do you care what you wear? Does it make a difference?’ They were surprised: most people don’t ask them questions about what they wear. Ninety per cent of them said feeling good about their clothes helped with performance. And they said they wanted to look like a team when they walked into the Olympic village. The nice thing was many of them were clearly excited to have a designer involved; there was a sense it gave them something of an edge. Then I also asked them how often they worked out.

We really wanted to take away any anxiety associated with getting dressed, so we made a look book the way we do for our regular collections, and then color-coded the clothes to show what goes together. That’s really how I approach everything. I want people to feel welcome when they come into our stores. Because I think if you’re not happy in what you are wearing, it makes a massive difference to how you feel. And if you are happy, you can keep your clothes for ever.”

-Stella McCartney in an interview with Vanessa Friedman for the Financial Times

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Fab Nabs $105 Million in Latest Funding Round

Stephanie Murg — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:23:27 +0000

Design flash sale site Fab.com (which now goes simply as “Fab”) has a lot to celebrate: its first full year of operations, in which five million members purchased an average of 3.4 products—from mod chairs and typography-themed t-shirts to artisanal biscotti and Muhammad Ali memorabilia—per minute, and a freshly closed round of venture funding. Led by Atomico (the tech investment firm founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennström), the $105 million in Series C financing will help the company expand operations. At the top of the to-do list: building its own warehouses and amassing inventory to avoid drop-shipping delays. By the time the holidays roll around, the company aims to average just a few days shipping time on all non-custom orders, according to founder and CEO Jason Goldberg. “We believe Fab will both define and dominate its category for years to come,” said Atomico partner Geoffrey Prentice, who will join Fab’s board of directors, in a statement announcing the new financing. “After all, design is everywhere, and design is global.” Fab raised a total of $48 million in two previous funding rounds and in January made its first acquisition: indie fashion marketplace FashionStake.

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Quote of Note | Vivienne Westwood

Stephanie Murg — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:32:04 +0000

(Photo: Juergen Teller)

“See that book on Halston on the table? I’ve never looked at his work, and I was just looking at it now. His stuff is very ’70s, and maybe if he hadn’t lived, you wouldn’t have had the clear ’70s look that influenced other people. So I do think that my fashion is qualified by the age in which I live. It’s all very eclectic, and I can tell you how it got to be that way. In the ’70s, when Malcolm [McLaren] and I opened that shop [Let it Rock], he was very fed up with hippies, and he was looking at ’50s rock ’n’ roll. He never was a hippie, anyway, because he hated authority, and as a young person he wouldn’t have liked all the people dressing in a certain fashion. But it was the beginning of an age of nostalgia—the ’30s, Saint Laurent’s ’40s collection—and the way I analyzed it in hindsight is that we wanted to be rebels, and therefore we went back to the ’50s, our own lifetime’s culture, because we thought that was rebelling against the adult world. I knew the Teddy Boys the first time around. Anyway, people didn’t like it; they were still into this hippie, ’70s feeling at the time. But that was the beginning of the age of nostalgia. And so now they’ve been through everything, and there’s nothing really left to invent, and it’s just become very, very eclectic.”

-Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, in an interview with Tim Blanks that appears in the August issue of Interview

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