Balloona Lisa is a new installation we created as part of the We Are Family exhibition at The Post Family, May 21 / 2010 . Comprised of 483 Balloons pinned to a grid creating a pixel image of the Mona Lisa, Balloona Lisa is an absurd take on the worlds most recognizable image.
Check out the timelapse installation:
Balloona Lisa from Plural on Vimeo.
If you didn’t make it out to the WeAreFamily @PostFamily this past Friday, I’ve uploaded around 700 images from our installation to the Plural Flickr. Scanroom was one of two new works we created for the show. Using a custom program developed with Mike Bingaman, a projection of a scanner fills up the entire back wall of the room, while a webcam located above the projection captures/scans everything in the room every 13 seconds and saves the images. It’s our take on a modern camera obscura ;)
ay 28th from 6-8 PMRafal Olbinski & “Freedom on the Fence”
Friday / May 28 / 2010 / 6–8pm
The CIPBA, along with STA and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is proud to present the film, “Freedom on the Fence,” produced by Andrea Marks and directed by Marks and Glenn Holsten. This 40-minute documentary of the history of Polish poster design will be followed by a presentation by one of the film’s featured artists, Rafal Olbinski. Mr. Olbinski is a master Polish-American painter and poster maker, and he will be serving on the Biennial jury during the weekend.
Make your reservation. Space is limited.
SAIC Auditorium 280 S. Columbus Dr.
Students: $10 | Others: $20
Jury Exhibition
Saturday / May 29 / 2010 / 6–8pm
Don’t miss the highlight of the Biennial jury weekend: the grand opening of the 2nd Biennial Jury Exhibition. Held at 661 W Diversey Pkwy, this exhibition will feature more than 80 works of these seven masters. Every paid attendee will receive a gorgeous 120-page color catalog of the exhibition and a 24” X 36” Biennial poster by Paula Scher, printed by our friends at the Graphic Arts Studio in Barrington, IL. The evening will also feature a raffle and live auction of Miki Shim-Rutter’s famous poster dresses—each transforming one of the judge’s posters into a wearable work of art.
Make your reservation. Space is limited.
661 W. Diversey Pkwy.
Students: $25 | Others: $50
Price includes poster by Paula Scher (right) and exhibit catalog.
The CIPBA and STA, along with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, are honored to present a lecture by Takashi Akiyama. Professor Akiyama teaches design at Tama Art University, and he is the director of the Takashi Akiyama Poster Museum in Nagaoka, Japan. His signature style is recognized worldwide as a powerful blend of energy, humor and social commentary. For decades, his work has been lauded by the world’s most important international competitions, including a gold medal in the 1986 Warsaw Bieniale. Professor Akiyama will present the illustrated posters of Japan, posters of the Chinese cultural revolution, and his own work. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to meet a master.
Make your reservation. Space is limited.
SAIC Auditorium 280 S. Columbus Dr.
Students: $10 | Others: $20
UNCOVER, DISCOVER, DISCARD
Michael G. Bauer
Emilie Halpern
Sidonie Loiseleux
McIntyre Parker
Erik Yahnker
Curated by Jessica Minckley
@Golden Age
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 29th 6-9pm
May 29th - June 27th, 2010
Sentimentalism is a touchy subject that can’t be touched. It can only be felt, experienced and remembered. UNCOVER, DISCOVER, DISCARD brings together five young artists to explore the taboo of being emotional. Each artist will engage in this discourse of sentimental phenomena in a different way —Yahnker takes a comic approach, Parker is documentary, Halpern is obtuse, Bauer is diagrammatic and Loiseleux is removed. Read more here.
Don’t miss this show.
The New Typography
@MoMA through July 26 / 2010
from MoMA:
In the 1920s and 1930s, the so-called New Typography movement brought graphics and information design to the forefront of the artistic avant-garde in Central Europe. Rejecting traditional arrangement of type in symmetrical columns, modernist designers organized the printed page or poster as a blank field in which blocks of type and illustration (frequently photomontage) could be arranged in harmonious, strikingly asymmetrical compositions. Taking his lead from currents in Soviet Russia and at the Weimar Bauhaus, the designer Jan Tschichold codified the movement with accessible guidelines in his landmark book Die Neue Typographie (1928). Almost overnight, typographers and printers adapted this way of working for a huge range of printed matter, from business cards and brochures to magazines, books, and advertisements. This installation of posters and numerous small-scale works is drawn from MoMA’s rich collection of Soviet Russian, German, Dutch, and Czechoslovakian graphics. They represent material from Tschichold’s own collection, which supported his teaching and publication from around 1927 to 1937.
Organized by Juliet Kinchin, Curator, and Aidan O’Connor, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design.
This Week, May 17 – 21 is Chicago Design Week 2010.
Be sure to attend the events, and see all the banners/website/collateral/cases/scoutbooks/buttons/etc we made for the week.
Also, check out getuncommon.com to pick up your official Chicago Design Week case.
