Creative Process
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Butterflies
I love butterflies, what can I say?! I like that bugs can be beautiful. There’s something odd about that dichotomy. Our casart coverings logo has the transformation of a butterfly from a prickly caterpillar to a beautiful Blue Morpho. It represents the life cycle’s transformation and beauty that can occur everyday, right under our noses. As it happens, butterflies are quite “in” these days in design, from jewelry, plates, lampshades, notecards, cachepots, fabric and even advertisements. View these magazine examples: Wow, I’d like to be able to attend this trade show…Wishful thinking. But here’s something to check out, click over to the Shabby Chic Cottage, where we are giving away…
Musical Bat and One Last Guitar
A few stories, one about a violinist creating a musical bat and another about an engineering professor creating Coil an electric guitar that can produce a customized sound, and another that I stumbled upon about a guitar maker losing his hearing as he builds his last guitar recently captured my attention in the Washington Post as being very attentive to the arts. A Swing and a Hit for Violinist by Anne Midgette is about Glenn Donnellan, a classical violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra, who has fashioned a bow instrument out of a baseball bat for children’s musical outreach programs. His video below not only Kick Starts the weekend but…
GM
I saw the report about General Motors coming out of bankruptcy on the news. I was more taken with the designers and artists creating the new car designs and the creative process for accomplishing this. The news clip showed graphic car designers adding finishing touches to their concepts on the computer and sculptors creating 3-D, small and life size models in clay. Fascinating! What would GM do without these artists? There are a whole series of videos to watch at the GM site, but here’s one specifically showing the designers. Here’s the ABC news report on 20/20: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8052475 Here’s a previous posting on cars as another form of canvas.
