culturalboundaries

Lots of amazing presentations jumping off throughout  Social Media Week, however I started my Valentine day off with Digital Voyeurism panel held at the Hearst Magazines Urban Theater.  Much like the early onset of food bloggers revolutionized blogging—now design/lifestyle bloggers are making huge strides blogging about what’s chic and using social media— all has changed the way people decorate there spaces. Speaking on the what’s chic Bryan Batt,  Jeanine Hays, and Christiane Lemieux, each shared stories of about their blogs, shops and products. Now design bloggers are taking the lead with decorating magazines following suit and featuring eclectic colorful home decor photography from a more humanistic perspective rather then sterile sparse decor of the past.

Bryan Batt

More from culturalboundaries

• On Point: A Taste of Japan | culturalboundaries
• Prepping Peking Duck | culturalboundaries
• ART: Check out the Arts in Chinatown | culturalboundaries

culturalboundaries Recommends

• I believe that the Internet is the most powerful tool in human history: Empower Network Review  (verenetta)
• Welcome to the Northern Ky Wine Festival!  (My Wine Education)
• Wine Shop Wednesday: The Most Expensive Wine in the Bar  (My Wine Education)

Ask culturalboundaries To Recommend Your Posts

Food Fight: If you’re riled up over food why not join the conversation surrounding food questions of sustainability, obesity, sovereignty, ethics, culture, science, innovation, diversity and the future. Design Indaba is gathering some designers, artists, chefs, thinkers and food experts and posing some provocative questions. You’ve got food in your face! Join the food fight and have your say too. For more information click Design Indaba Food Fight. 

Above: Photo featuring Martin Hablesreiter one half of Austrian design duo Honey and Bunny, with Sonja Stummerer. Although they work in architecture, product and exhibition design, their primary focus and interest is in food design. Recently they published the book Food Design XL. Below: Clip from the Food Design film  highlighting design themes of  Honey and Bunny’s work. 

More from culturalboundaries

• Got Til it's Gone, by Janet Jackson | culturalboundaries
• SPARE BEATS: Happenings Near You
• Chinese New Year 2010: Year of the Tiger | culturalboundaries

culturalboundaries Recommends

• Repost: CityBeat Best of? Your Vote Counts  (My Wine Education)
• Will Travel for Food  (My Wine Education)
• Adventures at BlogHer Food  (My Wine Education)

Ask culturalboundaries To Recommend Your Posts

Right in step with Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, the Independent Fashion Bloggers  Conference takes place in NYC from 08- 12 February at Milk Studio. Want to know what’s next in fast paced landscape of fashion blogging then join IFB, they’ll bring together some of the best and brightest personalities in the fashion industry to discuss the issues, challenges and exciting future of fashion blogging and social media.

GLIDE’12: Consumed is accepting CFP abstract submissions for virtual conference to be held 07 November 2012. Be part of this major partnership with the GLIDE team and Iridescent, the Icograda Journal of Design Research. Audrey Bennett, will serves as guest editor, she’s the founder of GLIDE, and Associate Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.  For more about GLIDE click: http://glide12.org/

In need of some cultural nourishment, then head over to SVA MFA Design Criticism Spring Lecture series, starting next week February 14, the Spring line-up jumps off with an intimate Q&A with The New York Times’ newly appointed architecture critic Michael Kimmelman.  For more information on D-Crit’s lecture series click D-Crit.

Design Indaba: 29 FEBRUARY 2012 – 4 MARCH 2012 Interact/Design Indaba 2012. This year’s venue includes the Design Indaba Conference and Simulcast from 29 February to 2 March 2012, and Design Indaba Expo from 2 to 4 March 2012.

More from culturalboundaries

• On Point: Wangechi Mutu This You Call Civilization | culturalboundaries
• SPARE BEATS: Happenings Around Town
• SPARE BEATS: What’s Happening in June

culturalboundaries Recommends

• Are you an epicurean? Cincinnati E.A.T.S.  (My Wine Education)
• What are you doing for dinner tonite? How about a Palace Deal?  (My Wine Education)
• Late Night in the Amazon  (My Wine Education)

Ask culturalboundaries To Recommend Your Posts

This is an excerpt featured on the Studio Museum in Harlem blog, it’s my first in a series of design articles.

London is one of the hottest and most creative cities, bristling with a multicultural community. Yet its Black artists and designers have remained largely untapped. That is until now. Just this past September, London was booming with design festivals showcasing innovative furniture, objects and fabulous fashions. Among them was the latest installment of the African and African Caribbean Design Diaspora Festival, a hotbed of new ideas, inspiration and creativity. This year’s theme, “?Choices!,” attracted some 22,000 visitors (2,000 more than in 2010). The AACDD festival took place from September 9 to 25, coinciding with the London Design Festival and constituted AACDD’s second successful year. It was the latest project launched by the British European Design Group’s (BEDG) three-year initiative, which is playing an increasingly important role in diversifying London’s creative community.

The festival director, Karin Phillips, Design Director Clemens Hackl, and Nigerian-born designer and curator, Emamoke Ukeleghe, orchestrated this production. The artists represented included roughly 100 graphic designers, multimedia artists, illustrators, industrial and product designers, and visual artists of African and African-Caribbean descent working in the U.K., Africa, the Caribbean, Japan and the United States. Hackl explained, “These artists and designers made a huge impact on visitors with their innovative works.” And thanks to funding from the London Arts Council, this year the AACDD Festival reached more people through a well-designed festival guide, website and social media platforms.

AACDD’s festival took place in three main locations: BargeHouse in OXO Towers in SouthBack, Hospital Club, and the Re-Loved Lounge at 100% Design. With 1,333 square feet of raw warehouse space, the BargeHouse served as the perfect blank canvas setting for browsing art lovers. It featured four floors of curated work by fine artists, illustrators, graphic designers, fashion designers, multimedia artists, and photographers. On one floor, Below the Surface, a photographic project by young black teenagers from London’s African and African-Caribbean communities, was a whopping success. The teenagers documented the colorful facets of everyday life, and produced an eye grabbing collection shot with disposable cameras given away through AACDD’s tweets and Facebook postings. For more click here>>

More from culturalboundaries

• DESIGN: Paperdolls and The Sunday Times | culturalboundaries
• On Point: Ted Muehling Selects @ the National Design Museum | culturalboundaries
• ART: Check out the Arts in Chinatown | culturalboundaries

culturalboundaries Recommends

• Surviving the Cincinnati Int’l Wine Festival, 2009 Edition  (My Wine Education)
• Welcome to the Northern Ky Wine Festival!  (My Wine Education)
• Happier Hour at the Cricket (and a word of advice)  (My Wine Education)

Ask culturalboundaries To Recommend Your Posts

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk: The first exhibition devoted to the designs of world-renowned French couturier Jean Paul Gaultier will make its U.S. debut at the Dallas Museum of Art in November 2011. This is an unprecedented look at the designer dubbed fashion’s “enfant terrible” from the time of his first runway shows in the 1970s and who has become one of the most important fashion designers of recent decades. Organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Maison Jean Paul Gaultier, the exhibition premiered in Montreal on June 15, 2011, and will be on view at the Dallas Museum of Art from November 13, 2011, through February 12, 2012, before traveling to its final stop in the U.S. at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young, in March 2012. The exhibition will be on view at the Fundación Mapfre – Instituto de Cultura in Madrid, Spain, from September 26 through November 18, 2012, and to Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from February 9, 2013 through May 12, 2013, and then travel to Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm in June 2013.

Check out Jean Paul Gaultier, Fashion’s wild child on CBS Morning News

More from culturalboundaries

• On Point: Wangechi Mutu This You Call Civilization | culturalboundaries
• SPARE BEATS: Happenings Around Town
• SPARE BEATS: What’s Happening in June

culturalboundaries Recommends

• Are you an epicurean? Cincinnati E.A.T.S.  (My Wine Education)
• What are you doing for dinner tonite? How about a Palace Deal?  (My Wine Education)
• Late Night in the Amazon  (My Wine Education)

Ask culturalboundaries To Recommend Your Posts

Live stream videos at Ustream

Sadly, I couldn’t fly off to Australia to attend this year’s Participatory Innovation Conference 2012′s (PIN-C2012), but I’ve been following the pre-speakers events online through Ustream. This is a stellar Keynote presentation all about play, indigenous design, and participatory process. And so far I’ve been very pleased with all that I have heard to date. In the video above Professor Sudarshan Khanna, former Principal Designer-Faculty, and Chairman of Education & Research at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India. www.sudarshankhanna.com

More from culturalboundaries

• Got Til it's Gone, by Janet Jackson | culturalboundaries
• DESIGN: AIGA’s Design Journey Has Arrived
• Roger Tucker’s New Venture Celebrates Visual Artist

culturalboundaries Recommends

• What are you doing for dinner tonite? How about a Palace Deal?  (My Wine Education)
• So tell me about Cleveland  (My Wine Education)
• Featured Cincinnati Wine Events, Feb 20-26  (My Wine Education)

Ask culturalboundaries To Recommend Your Posts

Roger Tucker, educator and former graphic designer is setting his sights high, he’s on a serious mission to make visual artists work more accessible for everyday living. Recently Roger, launched his consultancy Tucker Contemporary Art specializing in the works by painters, ceramicist, photographers, sculptures and mixed media artist are just some of the artist he currently represents.  Listen to art critic Patrick Henry Bass interview with artist Margaret Vendryes as she talk about her latest series of 31 Divas. 

Below is cross section of works by other artists previously on display at Tucker’s private salon held last December.

More from culturalboundaries

• Got Til it's Gone, by Janet Jackson | culturalboundaries
• DESIGN: AIGA’s Design Journey Has Arrived
• 2012 Participatory Conference Keynotes Talk About Indigenous Design

culturalboundaries Recommends

• New Year’s Resolutions 2009  (My Wine Education)
• New Microbrewery in Town … at Vito’s Cafe  (My Wine Education)
• Planning New Year’s Eve in Cincinnati  (My Wine Education)

Ask culturalboundaries To Recommend Your Posts