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SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
In conjunction with the 8th International Shibori Symposium, HKDI presented The Animal Fiber: Art Informs Shibori from 13 December 2011 to 14 January 2012, revealing how an ancient technique has grown into an art form revered by couturiers and a medium of experimentation loved by children of all ages.
Master Strokes
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
A new exhibition at HKDI will reveal how one of China's most famous contemporary artists created a unique synthesis between East and West
Brit Parade
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
This summer saw the first-ever large-scale exhibition of contemporary British art in Hong Kong. The exhibition called at four cities, providing an inspiration for HKDI staff and a challenge for its travelling curators.
Poetry In Motion
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
The Emerging Design Talents 2016 programme has seen a truly spectacular selection of creativity from this year's graduates.
Perpetual Emotion
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Charles Kaisin is a designer who wears his heart and intellect on both sleeves, embracing the world with passionate enthusiasm and challenging ideas. His role as the co-curator of the Dress Code and Design in Motion exhibitions that will be at HKDI through the spring proves that one man can be in several places at once, so long as he has enough imagination.
Rainbow Effect
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Bold and bright hues are an integral part of the Asian landscape. In November the HKDI will host an exhibition called Colours of Asia which, as Lisa Li reports, will offer new insights into the way that colour shapes every aspect of our lives.
Law Library Blog (July 2016): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (July 2016): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
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Art For The People: Wpa Prints And Textiles From The Permanent Collection, Antje K. Gamble, T. Michael Martin
Art For The People: Wpa Prints And Textiles From The Permanent Collection, Antje K. Gamble, T. Michael Martin
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
As the first major, nationalized support system for artistic production in the United States, the New Deal’s Federal Art Project (F.A.P.) strove to create a holistic vision of art for the American people. Debates among art historians and political pundits alike pointed to the perceived-lack of a truly-American modern art. Cultural critic Lewis Mumford articulated that, opposed to European Modernism, “[w]hat American taste recognizes [is] that there is more aesthetic promise in a McAn shoe store front, or in a Blue Kitchen sandwich palace than there is in the most sumptuous showroom of antiques…” In accordance, the F.A.P. supported artists’ …
Maybe The Gate Could Be A Fan, Erin L. Schoenbeck
Maybe The Gate Could Be A Fan, Erin L. Schoenbeck
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
I notice with quiet thrill an individual object or shape such as a railing, an odd pattern in the cement, a handle that does not match the rest, or a surprisingly decorative form intended only for a useful purpose. Choosing a form for its potential function, strange shape or particular color, I filter it through my aesthetic. My mental repetition of the day’s stresses is changed into lighthearted wondering. Maybe that gate I passed could become a beautiful fanned shape, its silhouette in gold and pale green. It could be so tiny its functional life outdoors is transformed into delicate …