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- Architecture, Casart® Coverings, Celebrations & Events, Creative Process, Decor, Design, Everyday, Exhibitions, Family, New Orleans, Uncategorized
Casart coverings booth
We exhibited at the New Orleans Home & Garden Show. It was our first trade show and I think successful. We learned a lot about booth preparation and did a lot of networking. We were exhausted from start to finish. It was four full days from March 26 – 29. We were glad to have been mentioned in the Times Picayune, which brought many visitors to our booth. We also had three products featured in the hot lounge, as part of “the coolest products.” We displayed a framed, faux-padded, lime harlequin that was customized with silver-stamped butterflies behind the bar, a new photographic, “carnation suspended” casart and a reduced version…
iWallflower & Technical Art
Now I’m not sure I’ll participate in this new technological venture, but iWallflower, does propose a new intriguing, artistic, networking opportunity, created by iCloseby. This new app or iPod application allows one to draw in real time and submit for greater viewing and voting. The app provides constant streaming of new drawings that are continuously being submitted. These drawings resemble what one might draw on a steamed mirror in the bathroom or like my previous post on a dirty car windshield. As rudimentary as these can appear, vector art is highly precise and can create photo realistic art that can be digitally manipulated as animation, print or other media. Here…
- Architecture, Celebrations & Events, Creative Process, Culture, Design, Everyday, Exhibitions, New Orleans, Uncategorized, Venice
Mardi Gras, Masks and Typography
In advance of Fat Tuesday! Here’s a combination of Venice and New Orleans. This is Gabriela Coutinho’s Venice Carnavale 2008. The costumes are wonderful: And from Irishaikidoka on YouTube: Hermes Wrestling for Pollens Float 18, just this past Friday night: I’ll have to ask my brother it this was his float. Here’s an interesting story behind a commissioned Sri Lankan Mask. And something we use everyday — not a cover up but maybe a hidden art — of creating typography. There is an interesting lecture tonight at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, called “The Designing Type: The Work of Matthew Carter. He is a founder of the fonts: Verdana, Georgia,…
