Wolfmother poster and album art by Keith Burnson
Last week, the second round of Artistik Envy - the online reality show about ten International Academy of Art and Design students competing to be named the best - focused on a 70s revival challenge. Two of the previous contestants Corey Garlow and Jerrodoemie Winters, were eliminated. (That’s [...]

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The artists of Doppleganger?
As always, please let me know if I’ve forgotten your event. Otherwise– Happy Halloween!
Friday
7-9 p.m. – Doppelganger: a USF PhotoClub Exhibition at USF Centre Gallery. Come dressed as a Doppelganger, get photographed in the PhotoShak (who knows what else will happen while you’re in there) and eat candy.
8 p.m.-12 a.m. – [...]

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Madden 09 screenshot
It’s lunchtime on the third and last day of the Sarasota International Design Summit, and some conferees are playing video games (literally). We’ve just listened to Phil Holt, general manager of EA Tiburon, offer insights into some of his company’s recent successes and where gaming as an industry is headed in the [...]

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A lot of what I’m doing – and what I assume other people are doing – during the Sarasota International Design Summit is listening for great ideas and thinking about to adopt and adapt them in my own practice. Two of the summit’s late morning panelists today were great sources for inspiration in regards to [...]

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Courtesy Sarasota Int’l Design Summit/Pininfarina
Today and tomorrow, the Sarasota International Design Summit continues. (Click here to read an earlier overview of the event.)
At this point, the ideas start coming fast and furious, which is why the summit’s “visualization maestro,” Tom Wujec of Autodesk, plans to recap yesterday’s big ideas (memes, if you will) in sketches [...]

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Greetings from the Sarasota International Design Summit, where I’m sitting in the ballroom of the Ritz Carlton Sarasota listening to the summit speakers.

Bruce Damer (pictured) just finished discussing his work, including the development of the iDoublet—a renaissance-inspired garment that holds all of your “wearz” or gadgets, like iPods. (In addition to several music players, Damer [...]

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John Paul Bichard, Sofa 2 from The White Room (Evidência #002), 2004. Digital Print - In-game photoshoot of manipulated gamespace interiors. From Audience and Avatar. Courtesy USFCAM
In an Artsqueeze first, this weekend roundup of visual art happenings is stacked with Friday events but devoid of Saturday and Sunday offerings. I must be missing something… (What [...]

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Obama t-shirt design by Bluelucy
We already knew that Obama is synonymous with good design. (Which gives me hope that when he launches the interactive government documents database we’ve all been waiting for, it might actually be user-friendly.) A pair of local designers– Chad Mize and Phillip Clark of Bluelucy– are offering their own contribution [...]

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From Florida Craftsmen Gallery>>
Title: Rock Your Medium
Dates: January 30- April 3, 2009
Guest Juror: Todd Smith, Executive Director, Tampa Museum of Art
Call to Artists:
Purpose: To showcase Florida’s fine craft artists “rocking” their discipline with new ideas, methods and forms.
Selection Criteria: Leading edge design; Innovative concept; Excellence of craftsmanship

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This post continues an ongoing conversation with local arts leaders about how the economy is impacting their business. (Read the first in this series of posts here or an even earlier post here.)
The national media are starting to pick up the broader story about the effects of the recession on arts organizations and the art [...]

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November will seem a little less eventful this year with the absence of Gala Corina from the visual arts scene. Since 1999, the unconventional art fair - typically staged inside a historic cigar factory or other unfinished structure ripe for architectural or interior design interventions - has been an annual Tampa tradition. In this, what [...]

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Image courtesy TMA.
I wrote about Amy and Charles Haynie’s beautiful, sustianably-produced walnut bench– which appeared in the Tampa Museum of Art exhibit It’s Not Easy Being Green this summer– here in Creative Loafing. This weekend, the Haynies re-launch their retail effort, Tampa Street Market, in Seminole Heights. Yay!
Full press release after the jump.

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