Archive for December, 2008
Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas Boston, je voulais écrire ici une note un peu comme un journal pour ne pas oublier une de ses choses qui me plaît ici. Ce souvenir que je veux garder porte très bien son nom : Memorial Drive.
Boston est délimité par le Charles River, une rivière de plus en plus étroite plus on entre dans les terres; elle se déverse sur l’océan à l’extrémité de Boston. La rivière est entre-coupée de plusieurs petits ponts qui rendent la traversée presque invisible entre Boston et sa rive-nord : Cambridge. Sur le bord de cette rivière du coté de Cambridge longe une route appellée Memorial Drive. Elle est interdite aux camions, n’a presque pas de feux de circulation et s’accompagne d’une piste cyclable et d’un chemin pietonnier. Tout cela, bordé d’arbres et d’herbes et d’une superbe vue sur… Boston. Jour et nuit, ce trajet est tout simplement superbe. La vue unique me fait penser à quel point je suis ici, dans le moment présent, dans cette nouvelle ville, cette vision que j’ai associé à Boston et qui est maintenant gravée dans ma mémoire. On pourrait tellement croire que Boston est une ville américaine comme tant d’autres. Sûrement, oui, à certains niveaux. Mais j’ai réussi à y attacher quelque chose d’unique, une image d’elle que j’ai enregistré dans ma mémoire, un amalgame de tout ce que l’on voit en longeant le Memorial Dr.
December 29th, 2008
December 23rd, 2008
HEC Montréal s’est doté d’un nouveau site. Vu le travail colossal qui était à faire pour ce site, pas étonnant que ça fait quand même pas loin de 2 ans que je l’avais désigné. J’aimerais ajouté que j’avais adoré travailler sur ce projet et surtout avec ces clients! Voici mes maquettes.
December 21st, 2008
I found a great article in the AIGA web site about the difference between art and design. What’s even more interesting are the many comments you can read at the end about what real art should be. Here are some that I liked :
- One cannot portray ideas and emotions in the modern art world being swayed by the preceding works of the artist before him or her, yet in order to express new thought an artist has to carefully step through a field of what has already been accomplished. (…) the artist needs to fill the holes that the predecessors had not. (…) The artist needs to balance a new school of thought based on prior and present inquiries without trespassing on the questions that have already been answered. - by T. O’Meara
- I disagree with T O’Meara’s post, because eventually and inevitably, all ideas will have been explored. i appreciate the irresponsibly spontaneity of someone who makes their art without considering past or future trends. architects did this in the early 1900s, youth culture did this in the 60s. both movements were reacting against something, rather than carefully deciding how to fit in amongst existing circumstances. you don’t need to evaluate what’s been done - you have to ignore it, or react against it, to come up with something completely new. - by Anonymous
- Artists create artwork (just as in the Renaissance) for commissions, for shows, for political reasons – the point of being an artist is to create something to be seen. There is always an audience. Whether the artist is creating a piece of work for a single friend or a widely publicized opening, there is someone looking at it and interpreting it. Artists speak to people through their work, and typically how well they do that determines how successful of a career they have. So, in my opinion, artists are designers and designers are artists. There are career choices that tend to separate us and force us to label ourselves one or the other, but our purpose, our methods, and our reasons all are the same – we have to do what we do, we do not have a choice – we have to create to live. - by Katie Fillingim
- The processes of the two [design and art] can be quite similar, the results may look quite a bit alike, both are done for an audience and often for money. But despite all that, they function much differently. Design solves problems. Art asks questions. - by Evan
December 16th, 2008
“…it’s that they believe that artists can’t make money — the classic “starving artist.” What’s missing today is the notion that artists and designers are among the most passionate people about what they do; and this world needs more passion. There’s too much logic, too much systematic thinking, too much hope that the systems will save us…”
- John Maeda, in an interview by architects.org.
December 12th, 2008
Credits: Clothes: kdon and Discollection, Hair: Shai, Makeup: Patron, Model: Margaret Torgerson , Photo: Kris Krug, Graphic design: Roxana Brongo.
December 11th, 2008
Credits for all pictures: Clothes: Lauren Osmond, Model: Holynde (Richards), Hair & Makeup: Tamar Ouziel, Photographer: Kris Krug, Graphic Design: Roxana Brongo
December 10th, 2008
Love it. (Akris Spring 2009 Ready-to-wear via Notcouture)
December 9th, 2008
So I finally signed up into different social media web sites (anything so socialize, even online, to know more about people in my new city). And now I’ve forgotten to blog. Social media is infinite, I don’t know where to write/talk/answer/post photos etc, should I connect all of them and write only in one place? But twitter quotes are not fully interesting for my blog, and posting images from my portfolio on facebook doesn’t seems to fit. We’ll see if I can find some balance…
December 8th, 2008
I would like to discuss about artists who use graphic design as a style. I would like to share about this idea that graphic design can be use in a non-commercial way and as a pure artistic tool.How do you create art with design?Where do you exhibit you work?Which galleries/cities/places understand that design can be art?
December 2nd, 2008
