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10 Excellent Art and Design Twitter Accounts You Should Follow

Enrique — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:06:46 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I compiled a list of 20 Cool Photoshop, Photography and Design Twitter Accounts You Should Follow for my Photoshop Roadmap Blog.
The post was a big success and I decided to make a more design and art oriented version for this blog. These accounts are very active and are sending tweets every day about illustration, art, industrial design, decor, designer toys, design in general, and even job posts for the design community.
If you are new to Twitter, start building your followers base by following some of these accounts and retweeting their best messages or, better said, tweets.

Development01 Network: @development01

I will start with my own Twitter account. The Development01 Network is a group of sites that I own and manage myself. The most important of those sites are Photoshop Roadmap and Creative Closeup. In my Twitter account I tweet everyday about Photoshop tutorials and design resources. From time to time I engage on certain conversations, but mostly I provide useful and interesting links.

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Dornob Design: @dornobdesign

From Dornob site: Dornob is as much an interactive design archive as it is a collection of the latest innovative architectural, interior, furniture, furnishing and fixture designs. The primary focus of this design publication (read: blog) is on works that take form and function to the next level – that defy particular typologies, wander away from convention and are more than merely consumable objects.

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Paperkraft: @paperkraft

From Paperkraft Blog: My name is Ron Rementilla and I run Paperkraft.net to help guide people find the best free papercrafts on the web and promote the works of prominent and up-and-coming paper modelers, even the obscured ones.

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Toysrevil: @toysrevil

From Toysrevil Bio: Blogging daily about Toys and all-things pop culture. Twittering everything under the sun and moon, bopping up-n-down the subconscious stream of cyberlife.

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Drawn!: @drawn

From Drawn! blog: Drawn! is a multi-author blog devoted to illustration, art, cartooning and drawing. Its purpose is to inspire creativity by sharing links and resources.

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MOMA Museum of Modern Art: @MuseumModernArt

From MOMA site: The Museum of Modern Art is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. With extraordinary exhibitions and the world’s finest collection of modern and contemporary art, MoMA is dedicated to the conversation between the past and the present, the established and the experimental. Our mission is helping you understand and enjoy the art of our time.

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Yanko Design: @yankodesign

From Yanko Design blog: Yanko Design is a web magazine dedicated to introducing the best modern international design, covering from industrial design, concepts, technology, interior design, architecture, exhibition and fashion. It’s about the cutting edge and the classic, the new and the rediscovered. It’s all about the best.

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Retro To Go: @RetroToGo

From Retro To Go site: Home of all that’s hip and cool in the retro world. Every weekday, Retro To Go spoils you with a pile of supercool retro gear we’ve found around the web and indeed around the shops and junk shops of the world.

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The Cool Hunter: @TheCoolHunter

From The Cool Hunter Site: The Cool Hunter is a natural fit for its readers – creative influencers who stay in the know and ahead of the curve. Global in outlook, culturally discerning, The Cool Hunter readers are connected, creatively aware, confident, stylish and sociable. They value architecture, design, style, music, fashion and entertainment. They work, play and travel internationally and bring with them distinguished tastes and a demanding appetite for quality information.

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Core77: @core77

From Core77 site: Since 1995 Core77.com has served a devoted global audience of industrial designers ranging from students through seasoned professionals. Core77 publishes articles, discussion forums, an extensive event calendar, hosts portfolios, job listings, a database of design firms, schools, vendors and services. Core77 provides a gathering point for designers and enthusiasts alike by producing design competitions, lecture series, parties, and exhibits.

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Urban Paper: 26 Designer Toys to Cut Out and Build

Enrique — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:12:02 +0000

Join the Papertoy Revolution!This is a collection of 26 of the coolest designer paper toys in existence, ready to be cut out and built. Each papertoy has step-by-step instructions, complete with easy-to-use diagrams, so even a novice will be able to make amazing papertoys with the help of a pair of scissors and a few dabs of glue.Interviews with contributors such as Shin Tanaka, Ben the Illustrator, NiceBunny, Cubotoy and Kenn Munk are included. You?ll find out more about where their ideas came from?and they might even inspire you to create your own papertoy! In addition, there is a foreword by Andy Heng from www.toysrevil.net. The DVD includes lots of bonus features, such as all 26 toy templates in PDF format…

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The Beat of Urban Art: The Art of Justin Bua

Enrique — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:12:07 +0000

Groundbreaking artist Justin BUA is internationally known for his bestselling collection of fine art posters—The DJ being one of the most popular prints of all time. Staring in the world of commercial art, BUA designed and illustrated myriad projects, from skateboards and CD covers to advertising campaigns. He developed the look and feel of the opening sequence for MTV’s Lyrist Lounge Show, EA sports video games NBA Street and NFL Street, and the world of Slum Village’s award-winning music video, “Tainted,” among others. His line of apparel and his limited edition sneakers sold out completely. His energetic and vocal worldwide fan base ranges from former presidents…

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The Art of Rebellion 2: World of Urban Art Activism

Enrique — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:12:09 +0000

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The Art of Rebellion 2 features an up to the minute international survey of street art, spotlighting dozens of new and unknown protagonists alongside many well known and respected artists who have been at it for years. Since the publication of the first volume, there has been a surge in street art activity and a growing awareness of the art form in the public eye; this volume takes the reader on a lush visual journey through that artistic explosion and features tons of new work with original styles, techniques and intent. The book also presents a selection of the best exhibitions & collaborations between artists and apparel and fashion brands. Featured Artists include: Miss Van, Kid Acne, Faile, Blek le Rat, El Pussycat, Jon Bu

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Trespass: A History Of Uncommissioned Urban Art

Enrique — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:12:14 +0000

Graffiti and unsanctioned art—from local origins to global phenomenon. In recent years street art has grown bolder, more ornate, more sophisticated and—in many cases—more acceptable. Yet unsanctioned public art remains the problem child of cultural expression, the last outlaw of visual disciplines. It has also become a global phenomenon of the 21st century.
Made in collaboration with featured artists, Trespass examines the rise and global reach of graffiti and urban art, tracing key figures, events and movements of self-expression in the city’s social space, and the history of urban reclamation, protest, and illicit performance. The first book to present the full historical sweep, global reach and technical developments of…

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Street Art: The Best Urban Art from Around the World

Enrique — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:03:55 +0000

The incredible follow-up to Graffiti Planet and Graffiti Planet 2, compiled by a legend of the NYC graffiti scene, features the world’s finest street art

Fabulously produced with glossy images and competitive pricing, this gorgeous pictorial to the hottest urban art from around the world covers artists from Banksy to Blek le Rat and JR to BLU. Following the success of Banksy’s 2010 hit film Exit Through the Gift Shop, and with celebrity endorsements from the likes of Brad Pitt and Damon Albarn, the street art phenomenon is sweeping the globe and has captured the imaginations of art lovers everywhere. In this fresh and exciting collection, expert KET brings together another 100 awe-inspiring and extraordinary examples of urban art from various locations around the world—including Berlin, Sao Paulo, New York City, and Miami. A perfect gift for all art fans, Street Art is a great introduction to a captivating medium that is constantly on the rise and the perfect companion for anyone already excited by this imaginative and highly prevalent art form.

Urban Surprises: A Guide to Public Art in Los Angeles

Enrique — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:29:42 +0000

Los Angeles is the home of the largest public art program in the country. The City’s commitment to the arts was affirmed in 1989 by landmark ordinances that defined the meaning of public art and created a mechanism to foster the creation of art throughout the community that is unparalleled in its scope and quality. Urban Surprises invites its readers to explore the hundreds of public works of art in Los Angeles: some awe-inspiring, some poignant, and some controversial. Enhanced with neighborhood maps and beautifully-reproduced color images by photographer Dennis Keeley, the book also contains a list of program sponsors and an index to the artists themselves.

Out of Sight: Urban Art / Abandoned Spaces

Enrique — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:46:37 +0000

Not all art craves attention, some of it hides in the secret places. Some of it is buried treasure, out in the urban wilderness, left scattered in empty rooms of derelict buildings like strange markings left by an unknown tribe. These works are gifts given only to the occasional explorer, found in abandoned factories, warehouses, industrial sites and deconsecrated churches. This is art you have to earn by leaving the designated areas and heading out past the No Entry signs of the urban environment. A diverse range of artists find themselves attracted to these twilight zones and in recent years something of a movement has come to light, huddled around the idea of urban decay and abandonment as the ultimate canvas. This burning curiosity to see what is behind the fence exists to a greater or lesser degree in most people, but for some it is irresistible. Urban ruins are like the woods in the old fairy tales, they are the place where the ordered reality of modern city life gives way to the irrational, the ambient and the surreal. If the estate is the village, then the industrial wasteland is the woods into which the babes go laying crumbs behind them to find their way back. The intervention of street art in these places ranges from walled spaces saturated with layer upon layer of tagging to strange little installations intended to mess with your head. Surreal comments scrawled on windows can be found alongside hidden characters, placed to surprise you as you turn a corner. Is there some universal human urge to say ‘I was here’? So next time you think about placement, why not look a little off the beaten track? Visibility is good for certain projects but the delightful, terrible intimacy available to you in the urban woods is just begging to be explored. Just remember to take some breadcrumbs with you to help find your way home.

Urban Wildscapes

Enrique — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:46:38 +0000

Urban Wildscapes is one of the first edited collection of writings about urban ‘wilderness’ landscapes. Evolved, rather than designed or planned, these derelict, abandoned and marginal spaces are frequently overgrown with vegetation and host to a wide range of human activities. They include former industrial sites, landfill, allotments, cemeteries, woods, infrastructural corridors, vacant lots and a whole array of urban waste lands at a variety of different scales. Frequently maligned in the media these landscapes have recently been re-evaluated and this collection combines these fresh perspectives in one volume.

Combining theory with illustrated examples and case studies the book demonstrates that urban wildscapes have far greater significance, meaning and utility than is commonly thought, and that an appreciation of their particular qualities can inform a far more sustainable approach to the planning, design and management of the wider urban landscape.

The wildscapes under investigation in this book are found in diverse locations throughout the UK, Europe, China and the US. They vary in scale from small sites to entire cities or regions, and from discrete locations to the imaginary wildscapes of children’s literature. Many different themes are addressed including the natural history of wildscapes, their significance as a location for all kinds of playful activity, the wildscape as ‘commons’ and the implications for landscape architectural practice, ranging from planting interventions in wildscapes to the design of the urban public realm on wildscape principles.

Urban Art Photography

Enrique — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:18:19 +0000

Urban centres such as Barcelona, Paris and Berlin are places whose landscapes
are characterised by anonymously created artwork and signatures that
are inventing new visual codes. This street art is much more than mere graffiti.
In addition to using spray paint, today s enterprising urban artists use stencils,
wheat paste and found objects to manifest their ideas. They work in an interdisciplinary
way and are often creative nomads travelling and working their way
through cities around the world.
Berlin is a particularly strong magnet for international street artists, inviting them
to leave their mark. But the impressions that they leave are inevitably fleeting
as their art falls victim to the city s unrelenting development. Luckily, editor and
street artist JÃƒÂ¼rgen Grosse has worked with Michael Bonk for years to track and
archive Berlin s urban art.
Urban Art Photography presents artwork from Berlin that communicates with its
environment in a subversive way. Successfully capturing this interplay, the book
serves as a permanent documentation and time capsule of these constantly
changing images.
The creative process and constant development of the pieces through interventions
by other street artists are vividly depicted in Urban Art Photography. Their
evolution is presented in this large-sized book as authentically as the transience
of an art form that makes the city its canvas.