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AIGA DC lecture by MOMA In-House Designer August Heffner

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…

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April 30, 2012 in Accessibility, Art, ART/DESIGN, Creativity, CULTURE.

Hillman Curtis: Web Pioneer

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…

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April 22, 2012 in Accessibility, Art, ART/DESIGN, BOOKS, Creativity, CULTURE, Digital art.

Public Art “SONG 1” by Doug Aitken

The new “liquid architecture” exhibit at the Hirshhorn by the artist, Doug Aitken.

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April 1, 2012 in Accessibility, Art, ART/DESIGN, Creativity, CULTURE, Digital art, Projects, TECHNOLOGY.

Snaphots & a Wild Cat with Cool Ears

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…

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March 24, 2012 in Accessibility, Art, ART/DESIGN, Creativity, CULTURE, Digital art, Digital History.

Artists & Technology: Snapshot at the Phillips Collection

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…

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March 18, 2012 in Accessibility, Art, ART/DESIGN, Creativity, CULTURE, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY.

20th Annual Environmental Film Festival

Advancing Environmental Understanding through the Power of Film

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March 18, 2012 in Accessibility, Animation and Film, Art, ART/DESIGN, Creativity, Projects.

What do you do for Inspiration?

Hard work, sudden flash of brilliance or both?

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February 26, 2012 in Accessibility, Adobe InDesign, Art, ART/DESIGN.

The Art Life! Make something!

My childhood experiences were connected with the act of making things.

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November 29, 2011 in Accessibility, Art, ART/DESIGN, Creativity, CULTURE, Drawing.

A Museum Aficionado looks at Phillips Collection App.

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…

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October 9, 2011 in Accessibility, Art, ART/DESIGN.

Museums & Mobile

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

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October 2, 2011 in Accessibility, Art, ART/DESIGN, Computer Applications, Creativity.

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