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International Klein Blue
I have a new favorite color today. I want to somehow live in this color! I went to the Walker Art Center and their Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers. Yves Klein’s paintings were solely about color, they’re not abstract depictions of anything, but pure color. The color above is International Klein Blue, a…
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Suface Design Association Confluence sessions announced
The Surface Design Association’s annual conference is going to be held in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, with associated activities June 4-17, 2011. The sessions for Confluence have recently been announced. There’s pre-conference workshops June 4-8, an exhibition on June 9, conference sessions June 9-12, and more workshops after the conference, until the 17th. For…
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Bead-around-the-world start
I’m participating in a project, hosted by Angelica, a beader in Germany, called “Bead-around-the-world.” Its blog is here, and the basic premise is this: each person makes a starting beaded bead, and then the rest of the participants make a bead to complement it. Each beader gives her size and color preferences, and at the…