August Heffner presented an educational lecture to an engaged crowd of AIGA DC members earlier this month. It was a tour of his experiences as a designer and Assistant Creative Director for the in-house design studio of the Museum of Modern Art. He did an excellent job of speaking to how design constraints can lead…
Yesterday, I was very sad to hear about the passing of Hillman Curtis. He was a role model, an artist and groundbreaking designer in digital media . I spent countless hours with his book, Flash Web Design. It opened up a new direction and showed the potential of the web for creative visual expression. I…
The new “liquid architecture” exhibit at the Hirshhorn by the artist, Doug Aitken.
It’s fair to say that this entry is an excuse to post another cool cat picture. It’s also another excuse to talk about the Phillips Collection exhibit SnapShot again. This image of a cool cat called a Caracal is at the National Zoo in Washington DC. I happened to call my Mom yesterday as she…
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of spending a few hours at the Phillips Collection exhibit, Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard. If you have any interest in the way artists respond to and utilize new technology – run don’t walk to this exhibit. It will be somewhat bitter sweet to think about the current…
Advancing Environmental Understanding through the Power of Film
Hard work, sudden flash of brilliance or both?
My childhood experiences were connected with the act of making things.
Last Sunday, in addition to the state of the art look at museum mobile development the Washington Post had a mini review of the Phillips Collection mobile applications called The Art of the Tour, phone vs. iPad. I had looked at the Phillips Collection iPhone app earlier in an entry called Using The Phillips Collection…
The piece provides an up to the minute look at how museums have been folding mobile technologies into exhibits and how mobile technologies are transforming the museum experience