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#ArtsyFartsyFriday!

Here’s a look at one of the miniature artists’ books in our collection! Mermaid is an accordion fold sheet with text about mermaids on one side and an illustration of Lake Wonsapauna on the other. The book, by Holly Bowen, also includes two plates of glass (green and blue) covering the front and back covers. The book is  real treat to open because of the delicate sheer purple bag and tiny purple box that it is stored within. 

-Micaela 

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#ArtsyFartsyFriday!

Today is National Letter Writing Day, so I thought I’d share Karen Hammer’s Letter Home, an artist book inspired by a letter written from 1954 by a military wife to her relatives back home. The binding, by Hedi Kyle, is in an accordion fold format, which showcases reproductions of family photographs when stretched out.  The photograph of the woman on a balcony is the artist’s mother in Florence, Italy. 

I know I haven’t written a letter in about a year or two, so I hope you pick up a pen (or whatever you fancy) and paper to write a letter to someone dear.

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-Micaela 

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Art direction seen as pencil with multiple sides...

all together representing diferent disciplines that meet in a very sharp end! audio, fashion, marketing, graphics, presentation, coherence.

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Green Pedestrian Crossing created by Jody Xiong

The China Environmental Protection Foundation developed an outdoor campaign, displayed on the street, to creatively promote this message. They decided to leverage a busy pedestrian crossing; a place where both pedestrians and drivers meet.

The campaign involved laying a canvas 12.6 metres long by 7 metres wide on the ground, thus covering the pedestrian crossing with a large leafless tree. On either side of the road, beneath the traffic lights, were placed sponge cushions soaked in green, environmentally friendly, washable paint. As pedestrians walked towards the crossing, they stepped on the green sponge, thus leaving green foot imprints on the canvas of the tree. Each ‘green’ footprint on the canvas looked like leaves growing on a bare tree, which made people feel that by walking they could create a greener environment.

The ‘Green Pedestrian Crossing’ was carried out across 7 thoroughfares in Shanghai. The campaign was then extended to 132 roads across 15 cities in China, with a participation exceeding 3,920,000 people.

Watch their video below:

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Brian Eno – Estrategias oblicuas

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Sony MiniDisc advertisement featuring Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” album, from a 1992 issue of Billboard magazine

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