Alexandria, VA-based artist Megan Nolton of Art Shark Designs creates wonderful Gocco cityscapes, including images of New York City, Baltimore, Paris, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington DC. I love the red umbrellas!
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Ben Franklin Bridge by Sean Kinney
NYC-based Sean Kinney plays with LEGO for a living! He has produced commissions for galleries, museums, television, publications, celebrities, and companies like Google, ABC, Mazda, JP Morgan Chase, ELLE, and FAO Schwarz. A few of the sculptures are available for sale, as are posters and prints of his work, which you can purchase in his online shop.
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Edmund Bacon and I are two of the very few people who graduated from both Cornell and Cranbrook, so I have to have a soft spot for him. More than that, though, I really respect the fact that his vision for a public plaza in downtown Philadelphia, conceived as an undergrad at Cornell and realized years later when he was the Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, shifted as skateboarders adopted the [arguably unsuccessful] public space as their own. How many dedicated professionals have the confidence and humility to accept when their work takes on a life so vastly different from their original vision? How many of them actively support such a radical change?
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I really hope you’ll be able to attend the opening reception for A Mad Tea {Towel} Party! at the Nicholas Gallery downtown. I curated this exhibit, which opens Fri, 11 Jul 08, 6-11 pm, and which includes work by 25 artists and designers worldwide, most of whom have never before shown in Cincinnati.
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Upon the completion of his addition to the Cranbrook Science Institute, Steven Holl gave a lecture in which he described architecture as “the choreography of people across space.” I had never thought of it that way before but, once he said it, it seemed so obvious. In fact, it not only explained a lot of my interest in architecture, but it connected it to my experiences within graphic design and even helped me better understand my seemingly disparate interests in film, literature, and cartography.
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