Month: November 2009
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NuFormer 3-D Building Projections
NuFormer is a design firm based in the Netherlands. They have developed a computer-based projection system for creating the illusion of moving, 3-dimensional alterations to the surfaces of buildings. The results are striking, as you can see in this video on Vimeo. Bear in mind that these are not CGI in the usual sense, the…
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Gennady Spirin
Russian born illustrator Gennady Spirin studied at the Moscow Art School and the Academy of Arts, as well as the Moscow Stroganov Institute, and currently resides in the U.S. Spirin is the author and illustrator of a number of children’s books for which his illustrations have garnered awards in Europe and the U.S. Spirin blends…
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Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic
Anyone who has read my previous post about comics art great Al Williamson, knows that he is high on my personal list of adventure comics artists, but I have to admit that even I was surprised by the new book from Flesk publications, Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic, that collects…
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Dahesh Museum of Art
One of the problems confronting small museums, that are most often originally based on the art collection of an individual at their inception, is the question acquiring and maintaining a physical space in which to display the works. Maintaining a physical space is often more difficult for small museums than large ones. Even though large…
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The Zoomquilt II
Like its predecessor, The Zoomquilt I, which I wrote about in 2006, The Zoomquilt II is a collaborative art project by 34 different artists. Basically an amusement, this is an animated sequence of scenes, each one of which is related to the others by a transitional area within the image that allows for a continuous…
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Peter de Sève (update)
Peter de Sève, a terrific illustrator, New Yorker cover artist and character designer for animated feature films, who I wrote about back in 2006, has a new children’s book (Hooray!), a new blog (double Hooray!) and is the subject of a new monograph (triple Hooray!). The children’s book is The Duchess of Whimsey, written by…