Photographer and teacher based in New York > Amy Stein

From spy :
Some public actions lacking a clear commercial purpose may be percieved by the public in different ways. Some feel a romantic quality in the lack of self-interest. Others critizise them as something invasive, a viewpoint that incites a second thought about the flood of commercial images that shapes our landscape

Nice add.
Lego> an alternative form of entertainment. One that actually builds minds and imagination.

via flickr

From Amelia Roberts > London based graphic designer.

The Virtual Water project > www.traumkrieger.de
300g of beef = 4500 litres of water…

Water is probably one of the most precious resources and vital for everyone’s everyday life. In spite of this obvious fact, people use large amounts of water: drinking, cooking and washing, but even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, etc.

One of the most important research papers in this field is Chapagain, A.K. and Hoekstra, A.Y. (2004), »Water footprints of nations«, Value of Water Research Report Series No. 16, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands.
Designer Timm Kekeritz created a poster, visualizing parts of their research data, to make the issue of virtual water and the water footprint perceptible.

The water footprint of a person, company or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the commodities, goods and services consumed by the person, company or nation.
The idea of the water footprint is quite similar to the ecological footprint, but focussing on the use of water.

www.traumkrieger.de/virtualwater/

Tous les créatifs connaissent jusqu’à un certain point le travail de Sagmeister > On aime, on aime pas, mais personne reste indifférent. Depuis longtemps Sagmeister travaille sa griffe avec une certaine dévotion particulière, ce qui lui merite une notoriété dans le monde du design graphique, de la pub. La récente pub Absolute ANTHEM est incontestablement une “inspicopie” des expérimentations typographiques de Stefan Sagmeister par l’agence TBWA\CHIAT\DAY New York.

Maintenant le débat est ouvert; Est-ce que la popularité d’un style ou d’un artiste justifie l’appropriation de sa démarche artistique dans le processus de commercialisation publicitaire?

Dans un monde gris je vois souvent noir…

Merci Marion-Isabelle pour le fil.

Absolute ANTHEM par TBWA\CHIAT\DAY New York

ABSOLUT ANTHEM from tr3nt3trois on Vimeo.

Et maintenant Stefan Sagmeister

Aussi petite parenthèse, ceci rappel le travail de Julien Vallé et Karim Zariffa intitulé Things I have learned in my life so far résultant d’un workshop intensif d’une semaine dirigé par Stefan Sagmeister à Percé en Gaspésie.

Sweet Dreams from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

Written/Directed/Animated/DP/Edited/Sound Design by Kirsten Lepore
Music by Chelsea, Kirsten, and Megan Lepore

Graham Hill at Gel 2009

Graham Hill at Gel 2009 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.

The US alone currently has enough surplus housing to put the entire population of the U.K., with room left over for Israel.
The abandoned houses project is as breathtaking as it it depressing.
You can purchase prints from this serie and parts of the proceeds are going to a charity or non-profit organization.

After a successful viral campaign in DC, Greenpeace has brought Mark Jenkins’ Polar Bears to Rome to help sway some support for actions against Global Warming at the upcoming G-8 summit. Sitting in heavily-touristed areas, the homeless bears displayed signs encouraging the G-8 leaders to act against global warming. One sign read, “My home has melted” and “I’m a climate refugee.”