Art

CRYSTALS & LASERS : Mural across street from SINCE Gallery in Paris, France to celebrate the opening of the Crystals & Lasers Exhibition, 2010

Matt W. Moore is an American artist and graphic designer based in Portland, Maine. I stumbled upon his colourful work earlier this week when I was researching Dulux’s Let’s Colour Project. Matt worked with Dulux last year on a campaign called Walls are Dancing, which saw him create a series of live painting performances in Marseille, Lyon and Paris; the results of which are shown in a video below.

His amazing work can be found on everything from buildings to skateboards. He describes his signature style as ‘Vectorfunk’ – a vibrant explosion of colour and geometry. Shown in this post is a very small selection of his extensive portfolio of work, which can be found on his website…a visual feast for print and pattern enthusiasts.

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While Jean is off stuffing her face with Turkey and making paper place settings in the shape of pilgrims, I have been stuck in Thanksgiving-less London. So this little film by paint brand Dulux brightened up an otherwise very grey day. Launched last year, the Let’s Colour Project is a corporate initiative that has gone beyond just serving as an attention grabbing PR stunt to actually bring communities together to collectively improve their environment. Armed with paintbrushes, rollers and bucket loads of paint, the Dulux team set off around the world to work with communities in run down, disadvantaged areas where they transform their neighbourhoods into kaleidoscopes of colour. Read the rest of this entry »

This is not the first time that we’ve written about miniature landscapes, but this time its part of a new solo exhibition Surface to Air, by artist Thomas Doyle at Lebasse Projects in Culver City, California. Doyle’s mini-scapes behold painstaking details and convey a juxtaposition of comfort and destruction. The show also features a collection of portrait photography, using tiny figurines smaller than a few centimeters tall, blown up to reveal the attention to detail that went into each piece. Surface to Air runs through December 17, 2011.

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This is an installation I’m sorry I’ll miss. Sound architect Christopher Janney has installed Harmonic Convergence, an interactive sound and light installation, constructed within a pedestrian walkway at the Miami International Airport. Coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami 2011, the work combines light, color and sound with speakers playing singing tropical birds, thunderstorms and other sounds familiar to south Florida. Video sensors track foot traffic, and adjust the volume and density of sound relative to how many people are in the space.

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