Art&Design in Russia

Last weekend I visited an exhibition "Sreda" which represent a documentary review about art events in quite young Kharkiv's art group "SOSka"  and their personal works. The main emphasis has been done on their project "New history" that took place in Kharkiv's art Museum. As the members of "SOSka" group claim, the project aimed to create an open dialoge between different cultural formations.  Works placed in the museum exposition according to the intervention principle demonstrate a general tendency to create a new Post-Soviet social reality documentation. For example, Alexander Vaindorf's video "Detour. One particular Sunday" is placed next to "Zaporosian cossacs writing a letter to the Turkish sultan" by Ilya Repin. Narrating about one general theme - illegal immigration with all resulting effects . But not the works or even their conceptual message were the main subjects of "Sreda", but t

I was on the exhibition .It called "House,house,house" in design center Flacon. "The house - as a habitat and a field for artistic creativity" Exhibition of decorative-applied art. Here were te artists from Moscow and St.Petersburg :Butina Anna,Garanina Veronika and so on. The main direction of work were stained-glass , products from glass,painting and embroidery.  Of course,the exhibition has inspired by the work and development of many ideas. Also in this gallery were just pictures which hang in there constantly and sell. They showed me as rather interesting ,because there used equipment mosaic decoration elements and elements of photoreality. 

Due to a couple of facts - such as Arduino practice and the lesson you had recently on disabled-oriented design I'd like to bring your attention to the following article: http://www.popmech.ru/article/11294-govoryaschie-perchatki/ As it is in russian, I'll briefly outline the article: a couple of the students from Donetsk, Ukraine have just earned the Microsoft Imagine Cup by combinig a couple of gloves, gyro and some electronics into a device that recognises the sign language and transforms movement of hands into the digital-synthesised speech, thus removing the margin between the mute and the usual people who as a rule do not understand it. In my opinion, this is an outsanding example that perfectly fits our current studies - and something worth thinking over. Here is a link to the site of the project development team: http://enabletalk.com/

Yesterday I found very inresting article about DMY in Berlin 2012. This is the link on this exhibition  http://www.core77.com/gallery/dmy-berlin-2012/ I Think that it will be usefull for everybody,because artists use very unusual technics to create their work. also you can  look on the site were it located  http://www.core77.com/gallery/  there you can fing a lot of usefull and knowleadgable inforation.

Vanessa Paradi       First off all, everyone understands that this exhibition dedicated to fashion. But even in other areas of design we can look for an inspiration and can use many popular fabrics and colors in product design.       Secondly, a little informashion about my experience. Karl Lagerfeld photography exhibition is dedicated, as the name suggests, a Little Black Jacket. Nearly three hundred pictures already published a book, had to make a trip around the world. Among the models posed for the "Iron Chancellor", all the world's beauty last thirty years, including Uma Thurman, Tilda Swinton, Claudia Schiffer and Yoko Ono, as well as a small group of men (including Kanye West). Each image Carine Roitfeld thought out, for the past ten years as the editor of French Vogue. In her worldview jacket can not only be thrown over his shoulders, and transform into a hat.          Thirdly, as you can see, with just one thing in different guises, styles

A few weeks ago, I visited Moscow Design week at the Central House of Artist. It showcased product and graphic designs from Russia and other countries. My wife is an art historian. She studies the very best that history has to offer. She expresses distress when we go to a modern art exhibit and she realizes that all the displays there are… less than good. I felt the same way about Moscow Design week. The first floor had graphic design. It looked very similar to what I imagine a unicorn fart to look like. Color was everywhere! I almost became epileptic with all the bright colors and simple designs that were pressing in on me from all sides! Don't get me wrong, they all were very interesting individually, but once you throw them all together… watch out! It seems that simple colors and a minimalistic design is what is in fashion this year in graphic design. I love simple bright colors and minimalism, so I'm quite happy about it. Let me take you upstairs now into t

IN TIME "..творческий диалог, в котором феноменальность – «игры по правилам» – теряет свои устойчивые смыслы, переходя в образность новейшего времени, в торжество нелинейного равновесия, в непосредственность импровизации play. «InTime» подтверждает, что художник всегда действует вовремя, открывая реальность в ее незащищенности и бескорыстии, обнаруживая абсолютно скрытые процессы времени, неотделимые от жизни пространства" (Sorry for russian - it's completely untranslatable)   First of all, I have to say one important thing about this exhibition - I didn't get it. So my opinion here is absolutely subjective and probably doesn't match opinion of the artist, who made this exhibition. The idea of this exhibition is really deep and complex, my inference - analyzing of Time abstracting from human value judgments , an attempt to rethink it's function in our lives. Also it was in searching of new symbols and artefacts that could make it more