May 08
May 08
May 08
This Week on the mediabistro.com Job Board: Pratt Institute, Runner’s World, Bloomberg
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This week, Pratt Institute is hiring an art director, while Runner’s World is in need of a new design director. Bloomberg is seeking a senior graphic designer, and Austin Monthly magazine is on the hunt for an art director/designer. Get the scoop on these openings below, and find additional new gigs on mediabistro.com.
- Art Director Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY)
- Design Director Runner’s World (Emmaus, PA)
- Senior Graphic Designer Bloomberg (New York, NY)
- Art Director/Designer Austin Monthly Magazine (Austin, TX)
- Art Director Current TV (New York, NY)
For more job listings, go to the Mediabistro job board, and to post a job, visit our employer page. For real-time openings and employment news, follow @MBJobPost.
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May 08
Daily Obsesh: The Glasshouse Tribal Dress
Posted in: Uncategorized  | We fell instantly in love with the adorable, super functional tribal print dress from Madewell. Keep it casual with flats and an oversized bag – or fancy it up with a cute blazer, belt and heels. Either way you’ll have a major fashion win on your hands this summer! Click below to see it in all it’s glory! |
May 08
The Avengers Take Lousy Care of Their Things
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We have to give props to Method Studios, the visual FX house that did the closing credits sequence for The Avengers, seemingly shot in their superhero locker room post-battle. The camera pans across all the various pieces of physical gear used by the Avengers—Captain America’s shield, Iron Man’s armor, Hawkeye’s arrows, et cetera—and shows how completely banged-up, weathered and distressed everything is.
You’ll feel like the hipster wussy you are trying to scrape some “patina” into your leather iPad case when you see the scrapes on Tony Stark’s helmet and realize he got those fighting aliens, son.
We can’t embed the video because, you know, we’d get sued; but you’ve gotta click here and see the footage on Method’s website.
Only part that bugged us is that Thor’s hammer still had blood on it. We understand that after a battle in midtown Manhattan, Cap and Stark don’t want to drive out to a bodyshop in Greenpoint to get their metal re-finished; but Thor has no excuse—blood should come out with some running water and a splash of Simple Green, or maybe like, you could scrape it off on the Hulk’s back. You’re the God of Thunder, man, get it together!
May 08
type tuesday: sign-painting exhibition at Land
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May 08
type tuesday: sign-painting exhibition at The Curiosity Shoppe
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There are still a few weeks left for the current exhibition at San Francisco’s The Curiosity Shoppe, featuring the sign-painting and food-inspired art of Heather Diane Hardison. (You can pick up a copy of UPPERCASE magazine there as well!)
May 08
Designed in Hackney: this week’s focus on classics from design company SCP in the heart of Shoreditch continues with the Balzac armchair by Matthew Hilton.
Created in 1991, it was the first upholstered piece from SCP and went on to be their best-selling chair of all time.
It’s manufactured entirely in their Norfolk factory, which has just been expanded so all chair-making processes can happen under one roof.
All this week our Designed in Hackney series features designs from the archives of SCP, working with some of the best designers in the industry at its Shoreditch headquarters since the mid 1980s. See their first product, Jasper Morrison’s Side Table, in yesterday’s story.
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Here’s what SCP have to say about the Balzac armchair:
In 1991 came our first upholstery piece, the Balzac armchair by Matthew Hilton. The chair has a solid beech frame and is upholstered in multi-density foam with feather cushions and American oak legs. Few were sold in the first two years and it initially received mixed reviews but the chair went on to become the bestselling SCP chair of all time, something of an icon. Conran took it on in 1993 and continue to stock it in all of their stores today. It was included in the well-known Taschen book “1000 Chairs” and has a permanent residency at the Geffrye Museum, the Museum of the English Domestic Interior. Many famous people have been spotted sitting on the Balzac including politicians and rock stars. The Balzac is still in production today. Designed in Hackney, made in Norfolk.
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Designed in Hackney is a Dezeen initiative to showcase world-class architecture and design created in the borough, which is one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices. We’ll publish buildings, interiors and objects that have been designed in Hackney each day until the games this summer.
More information and details of how to get involved can be found at www.designedinhackney.com.
May 08
Core77 Photo Gallery: Art Center Grad Show, Spring 2012
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Photography by Perrin Drumm for Core77
Art Center students are the friendliest, most stressed out bunch I’ve ever met. The demanding curriculum requires a level of commitment and professionalism unheard of in most schools, and the students spend trimester after grueling trimester pulling regular all-nighters and working through weekends to get to this moment: Grad Show. Students in all disciplines create beautiful booths to show off their best work to professors, peers and potential employers.
As you walk the hallways and make your way through classrooms filled with student work, their tension is palpable. Even though their school work is over, no one seems truly relieved. After all, they’ve just dished out obscene amounts of money for an education that’s famous for bridging art, design and creativity with professional practices and some business know-how—but they know the biggest hurdle still awaits: finding a job, or at least some freelance work.
But tonight I want to tell them to relax, unwind and help themselves to a free beer or two (or three or four) at one of the bars that lie around every corner of the winding maze of halls and passageways that is the Art Center campus. At this point, however, they’re too used to working under constant pressure to just “unwind.” Fortunately, their hard work hasn’t been for nothing. Click through the gallery of the best projects from the Spring 2012 class.
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