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Imagine the possibilities of what you can do with legos. Nathan Sawaya creates masterpieces of art ranging from portraits of people to sculpturesque models and even ordinary objects such as strawberries. RED: The Lego Brick Sculpture of Nathan Sawaya exhibition is at the Agora Gallery in Chelesa until December 14, 2010. Agora Gallery’s hours are Tues – Sat 11am-6pm

Why Design Now? is the fourth installation in the National Design Triennial exhibition series launched by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2000. The Triennial provides a sample of contemporary innovation, looking at what progressive designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and citizens are doing in diverse fields and at different scales around the world.

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This exhibit looks great and I look forward to seeing it.

This past weekend I attended the Thinking Creatively Conference at Kean University and heard Jon Kamen and James Spindler of @ radical.media speak. One of their many intriguing projects, The Johnny Cash Project was particularly interesting. It is a website where the user can pick a particular picture and draw over it creating a frame for the music video for one of the tunes. All of these frames are drawn over by different people all over the world and then compile as one and make one music video for which ever song was chosen.  Definitely check it out and be a part of the The Johnny Cash Project. Here is also some background of the project.

December 28th also known as Good Riddance Day was formed by the Times Square Alliance and  has been day for New Yorkers and tourists to shred their bad memories of the prior year.  There is a huge shredder in New York’s Time Square where people come to shred all their bad memories, bills and any other negative in the form of paper in order to have fresh start to the new year!

photo via WPIX

I came across a sort of The Degenerate Craft Fair via Art Bistro. The Degenerate Craft Fair is an anti-art-fair featuring over 20 artists and designers. Just in time for holiday shopping, it will take place in the first three weekends of December at three different locations, and feature works of art generally priced under $50.

Dates and Locations:

December 4th — 8pm – 12am
Silent Barn, Ridgewood

December 13th — 12pm – 10pm
December 14th — 12pm – 8pm
303 Grand Street, Williamsburg

December 18th 12pm – 9pm
December 19th 12pm – 6pm
BravinLee programs, Chelsea

This is something I am definitely going to check out!

AIGA’s 50 Books/50 Covers opens of Thursday, December 10, 2009 and will be
up until February 19, 2010.This exhibition showcases selections from the “AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2008”competition, which aims to identify the best-designed books and book covers published in 2008.

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Tim Burton’s exhibit at MoMA will open on November 22, 2009 and will be up until April 26, 2010. This exhibition will display Burton’s career of a film director, producer, writer and artist through a variety of mediums: drawings, paintings, storyboards, puppets and maquettes, and sketchbooks to name a few.

AIGA is having a typographic game show, “The Type is Right” at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn on November 9, 2009 from 6:30-8:30. Ellen Lupton will be the emcee and the teams consist of  Paula Scher, Charlie Nix and Chester Jenkins just to name a few.

National Design Week began in 2006 and is from October 18- 24th this year. National Design Week is an education initiative offering free admission to all museum visitors. During the this week the 10th National Design Awards take place as well as a series of public programs/speakers. Get involved and spread the importance of design worldwide.