Hasta La Creative!

Was taken last week at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at La Jolla, California which Kati London and I visited courtesy of Lev Manovich and Jeremy Douglass. The institute was built by architect Louis Kahn as two symmetric concrete buildings with a thin stream of water flowing in the middle of a courtyard that separates the two. Too bad my images don’t do justice to this amazing building.

I find it hard to believe that no one has ever shot a movie there. Elio Petri would have done something amazing with this set.

Anyway, any solemn thought and sense of beauty we might have been filled with vanished half an hour after when we met with Mary Flanagan‘s Giant Joystick which is on view until March 17 in the art gallery in the Calit2 building at UCSD.

Extremely fun and physically exhausting.

Great works.

Advertising Agency: Bartle Bogle & Hegarty Asia Pacific, Singapore
Executive Creative Director / Copywriter: Steve Elrick
Art Director: Hoon Pin Kek
Photographer: Geoff Ang
Production Managers: Asmanic Yang, Owen Lee
Retoucher: Procolor
Account Management: Lesley Anne John
Agency Producers: Michelle Tay, Xenia Tan, Jasmine Quek
Published: February 2008

Great works.

Advertising Agency: Bartle Bogle & Hegarty Asia Pacific, Singapore
Executive Creative Director / Copywriter: Steve Elrick
Art Director: Hoon Pin Kek
Photographer: Geoff Ang
Production Managers: Asmanic Yang, Owen Lee
Retoucher: Procolor
Account Management: Lesley Anne John
Agency Producers: Michelle Tay, Xenia Tan, Jasmine Quek
Published: February 2008

LONDON – Nokia is co-funding a music-based programme on Channel 4, called ‘The Nokia Green Room’.

SINGAPORE – Tiger Airways has awarded its regional media business to Omnicom subsidiary Mediawise, displacing incumbent Starcom.

ASIA-PACIFIC – Northwest Airlines (NWA) has appointed Edelman as its first regional PR agency of record for Asia Pacific after a three-way pitch believed to have included Fleishman Hillard and Burson Marsteller.

“A literary debate over a cup of Tea forté”
Bill: So Bob, been reading anything interesting lately?
Bob: Of course. I just finished The Dynamics of Heat & Gas.
Bill: You mean the manual for your new oven?
Tea forté. Very La tea da

Advertising Agency Team Y&R, Dubai, UAE
Creative Director: Shahir Ahmed
Art Director: Delaures Zaylaa
Copywriter: Mai Serhan
Illustrator: Baiju Natarajan

“A conversation in French over a cup of Tea forté”
Rose: Is it true you speak French, Max?
Maxmillian: Fluently.
Rose: How charming! Tell me something in French…
Maxmillian: Fillet
Tea forté. Very La tea da

Advertising Agency Team Y&R, Dubai, UAE
Creative Director: Shahir Ahmed
Art Director: Delaures Zaylaa
Copywriter: Mai Serhan
Illustrator: Baiju Natarajan

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  just expensive furniture, or very boring design
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  Opening on March 6, David Zwirner is pleased to present a new exhibition by Marcel Dzama. For the last decade, Canadian-born Dzama has shown extensively throughout North America and Europe. Transforming 519 West 19th Street into an odeum of imagination, D
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  The enigmatic imagery of Amy Cutler’s paintings and drawings is transformed into three dimensions in her first major work of sculpture. Alterations consists of 120 cast and painted female figures placed on top of and around a long wooden table.
• Trying to build bridges: the roles of architect and engineer – Building Design
  The history of the respective roles of architect and engineer, often prone to friction if not outright conflict, is explored in this riveting and entertaining book, writes Tony McIntyre
• ArtCal – Hell’s Kitchen – Exit Art – SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics)
• Tracy Emin’s Stupid Project
  “Artist Tracey Emin has spent millions on buying a large part of a historic quarter of East London, in an attempt to halt the tide of commercial and corporate development of the area,
• Mute magazine – When travesty becomes form
  The problem with critiques of curatorship is that they usually end up reinforcing the central importance of the curator. Alberto Duman contemplates a recent addition to the field and suggests ways to break the cycle of self-affirmation
• RitNit » Para los que están en Santiago de Chile
  Cuando en los setenta, el brasileño Cildo Meireles imprimió “Yankees Go Home” en las botellas vacías de Coca Cola, antes de que ingresaran a las embotelladoras para luego reinsertarlas con este nuevo contra-mensaje, encontró una ruta alternativa d

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