Diseño y violencia

El día 1 de octubre se celebró el Día Europeo del Diseño, con esta "festividad" el Bureau of European Design Associations (BEDA) llama la atención sobre la importancia del diseño en el contexto de la innovación europea. Según BEDA, invertir en diseño ayuda a las empresas a ser “más innovadoras, generar mayores beneficios y crecer a un ritmo más rápido que las que no lo hacen”. La gestión del diseño es una función estratégica, estrechamente ligada a la propuesta de valor de la empresa...

Mientras tanto la violencia de género no da tregua. La comisaria Ferrero-Waldner ha declarado que combatir la violencia contra la mujeres significa promover la paz... La gestión de la paz es una función estratégica, estrechamente ligada a la propuesta de valor de la persona...

¡Despierta!

Good Morning!
“This isn´t happiness,
or maybe perhaps, it is.”

"Working Girls" by Douglas Clark

Working Girls, workin' it... in one way or another... a Flickr set by Douglas Clark.

"It started because a friend had given me a supertelephoto lens, and I happened to have some time at work one day. The photos are of the people that habit the area around my work, and most end up being crack/heroin users. Many turn to prostitution to support that habit. There are multiple agencies near this location that provide programs and help to anyone that needs it, but I end up seeing the same faces time and time again in the area...."

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Via The Reverse Cowgirl
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La familia #1

Princess Hijab, "advertising hijabist with a cause"

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Princess Hijab es una artista "street art". Durante la noche, y con la ayuda de su guerrilla, cubre con velos a las modelos que figuran en las vallas publicitarias. Parece que estas acciones provocan intensos debates sobre el fundamentalismo religioso, la libertad cultural y los sistemas de opresión.

"Princess Hijab knows that L’Oréal and Dark & Lovely have been killing her little by little. With her spray paint and black marker pen, she is out to hijabize advertising. Even Kate Moss is targeted. By day, she wears a white veil, symbol of purity. By night, her black veil is the expression of her vengeful fight for a cause," states Princess Hijab (princesshijab.org) in her manifesto.

Autorretratos

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Autorretratos de María Leza
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El autorretrato es uno de los ejercicios de análisis más profundos que puede hacer un artista. Implica escrutarse el rostro y conocerse hasta tal punto que la expresión que tenga en ese momento se traduzca en una representación permanente.

Como recurso literario se utilizan la prosopografía y la etopeya. La primera, indica la descripción física de una persona: rasgos físicos, estatura, corpulencias, facciones, etcétera; como tal se opone a la etopeya o descripción psicológica, moral y de las costumbres de una persona. Ambas en conjunto constituyen el retrato o semblanza).

CSPG celebra 20 años

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Poster designed by Lex Drewinsky
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CSPG Celebrates 20 Years of Explosive Graphic

The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) is excited to invite you to celebrate 20 years of reclaiming the power of art to educate and inspire social change. Please join us at the historic Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, Saturday, October 17, 2009 as we honor these outstanding individuals:

June Wayne—artist, lithographer, teacher, writer, and founder of Tamarind Lithography Workshop will receive the Culture of Liberation Award. Culture contains the seed of opposition becoming the flower of liberation. –Amílcar Cabral David

Kunzle—art historian, writer, activist, actor, and poster collector
will receive the Historian of the Lions Award. Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter. –African Proverb

Juan Fuentes—poster artist, cultural activist, printmaker, teacher will receive the Art is a Hammer Award. Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. –Vladimir Mayakovsky

Comedian, writer and performer Sandra Tsing Loh will emcee. There will be a fantastic dinner, entertainment, great company, a dynamic poster presentation, and a unique auction of vintage posters and original artworks.

CSPG is an educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents, and circulates political posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change. With more than 70,000 domestic and international graphics, CSPG has the largest collection of post-World War II political graphics in the country. Through traveling and online exhibitions, presentations, and publications, CSPG is reclaiming the power of art to educate and inspire people to action. Visit our website www.politicalgraphics.org to find digital exhibitions, online shopping, and more.