http://www.kevinmcfadin.com/blog Mon, 14 May 2012 14:27:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wander Blog http://www.kevinmcfadin.com/blog/wander-blog/ http://www.kevinmcfadin.com/blog/wander-blog/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 14:27:55 +0000 Kevin http://www.kevinmcfadin.com/blog/?p=1709

‘We asked some of our favorite illustrators to imagine a postcard from everywhere and nowhere at once. We’re blown away by the results, which we’ll be sharing every day on this blog. We hope you will  be too.’

The Wander Postcard Project

 

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I found these posters as expired auction listings and I hope you enjoy this rather lazy image dump.

via Hallå!: 25 Vintage Posters from Sweden – 50 Watts.

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Forget two turntables and a microphone—focus instead on two turntables and some wooden arms. In Drawing Apparatus Robert Howsare turns a pair of turntables into an automated drawing machine, swapping rotating vinyl for two wooden arms that draw geometric patterns as the turntables spin around.Varying the speed or shortening the wooden arms leads to different patterns being created, with Howsare seeing the resulting images as markers of temporality rather than simply drawings. As he explains:The revolutions of the records create drawings that serve as a markers of temporality. The drawings also speak to the idea of the editionable print through their ability to be replicated using domestic materials.The simple device follows in the traditions of automated drawing machines pioneered by computer artist Desmond Paul Henry and continued by many others. And just like watching a record spinning around can be pretty hypnotic, so is watching the mechanics of this device at work. Don’t think it takes requests though.

via Two Turntables Are A Drawing Machine | The Creators Project.

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20,000 Open Access Digital Images

via National Gallery of Art offering open access images « History Faculty Library at Oxford.

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via Film Brochure and Ticket Illustrations – Film Awards – Film – The BAFTA site.

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Mechanics of the Day « The Graphic Side of Life.

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R.I.C. 5th JURIED SHOW – Call for Entries!

Enter HereRichmond Illustrators Club is now accepting entries for our 5th Juried Show! The deadline to submit is April 13, 2012. Selected work will be shown at Ghostprint Gallery in Richmond, VA in June 2012. A catalog will be produced and distributed at the show and by request through the club view a PDF from last year’s catalog.

How To Enter

Entries must be submitted through the online form.

Images must be 700 px on the longest side, RGB, 72dpi, JPEG format.

Jurors

Sterling Hundley

Alice Cho

Noah Scalin

George Pratt

Martin Gee

via Current Show « Richmond Illustrators Club.

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