City of Sydney is supporting a wave of new pop-up events, bars, restaurants and live music venues with free how-to classes for enterprising people who have great ideas, but need help with all the paperwork. > more
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Small business arts forum on creatively financing growth in the arts from Toronto, Canada. > more 
MapMuse announced the release of its 2012 Knitting and Quilting Maps, a series of free web maps and review platforms for places of interest to knitters and quilters. > more 
Ninth Annual Dare to Dream Conference held on November 17th in New York City showed of a wide variety of student presentations on Human Rights. > more 
Brooklyn art galleries have put together an exciting program this weekend in New York City, some transport logistics and branding improvements could be made in our view, but an interesting re-branding exercise. > more
Learn about innovaiton potential in Bucharest in Romania! > more
City of beauty. City of water. Check out these inspiring photos & tell us what you think of Venice. > more 
Hotel design from a modern art hotel in Austria. > more
[youtube]6EG1Yi_RdWk[/youtube] VIDEOS. France. — Bordeaux is one of the global homes of wine. Australian vitocultural innovation has brought new world practices to old-world Europe. On the other hand, tradition is important, and Bordeaux is a blend of European tradition & innovation. Have a look, it’s an interesting video. Climate change may also effect wine-growing regions & the massive wine industry.
INSPIRATION – Rembrandt was a great & significant artist, primarily of people. The Dutchman’s main quality was a magnificient play with light & dark. Be inspired by these slides, thanks to DIOGYU on Slideshare.
COMMENTS — Airlines have been decorating their planes for some time now. Below is a slide-show from Reynolds on SlideShare. Well done! The Trends. 2thinknow view. Handmade, hand-painted, decorating mass-objects are key trends of the 21st century. This is a nascent trend of modifying mass-produced objects. Decoration & personalisation by hand, not machine, will be a strong dominant theme of the 21st century. Once we were impressed by the modernist metallic sameness > more
REVIEWS — Shoes are an often underestimated element of design. But the design of such a basic item, is a design challenge. Especially a design that has to be practical (at least for 10 minutes walking!). And also entice women to spend money. What’s the Trend? Shoes, especially hand-crafted, hand-decorated. National Gallery of Victoria had a hand-decorated sneaker exhibition. There’s a ‘scene’ in Melbourne. Handmade/decorated will be important in days of sustainability & local sourcing. We’ll need to transition to > more
REVIEWS, Stuttgart — Traveling to Germany on Eurail had been an exciting adventure. Stuttgart, especially, surprised me, probably having more inspirational potential than text-based research would indicate. The magnificent and exciting Stuttgart StaatsGalerie was holding an extensive Pop Art Exhibition at the time of my visit. It was a well curated exhibition of the Pop Art movement in the USA and UK primarily, in the 1950s & 1960s mainly. Here is my journey > more 
ANALYSIS, Frankfurt — Art (or kunst in Deutsch) is a window into mens souls. German art is a window into the Saxons, Prussians, Bavarians and other Germanic tribes. People forget that the German nation is a modern construct, stitched together by Bismarck as a Greater Prussia. Prior to this, Germany was a collection of largely independent kingdoms.
Accordingly, major German regions and cities with links to art and design throughout European history are hardly surprising. more |
      
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Have we yet entered the Creative Age?
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