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August 4, 2012 dougrogers

cartoon life: Blue tail shadow

Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: 100 cats

August 3, 2012 dougrogers

cartoon life: Abstract colour field cat

Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: 100 cats

July 29, 2012 dougrogers

cartoon life: Cat mountain landscape

Filed under: art, design, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats

July 18, 2012 Amanda McCuaig

Art Threat: Representing Eisenhower – The ongoing dialogue around the design of the Eisenhower Memorial

I caught wind of a different kind of political art and politics of art this past weekend while reading the latest issue of Vanity Fair. As anyone who’s done any kind of planning in teams can imagine, building a monument can be a mighty task. As it turns out, the

July 17, 2012 dougrogers

cartoon life: Siamese and bamboo

Filed under: art, design, digital, drawing, illustration Tagged: 100 cats

July 17, 2012 dougsamupress

samupress: Siamese and bamboo

April 14, 2012 Rob Maguire

Art Threat: Infographic Weekend: Where does US Food Aid go?

The United States is doing it’s best to feed the world … or at least that’s what they’d like you to believe. US Food Aid may be more effective as a subsidy to domestic producers, agribusiness and shipping companies than it is at alleviating hunger in the poorest parts of

April 6, 2012 David Eaves

eaves.ca: Beautiful Maps – Google Maps in Water Colours

You know, really never know what the web is going to throw at you next. The great people over at Stamen Design (if you’ve never heard of Stamen you are really missing out – they are probably the best data visualization company I know) have created a watercolor version of

March 15, 2012 Adam

Things Are Good: What’s in a Lot?

Here’s a challenge from Eran Ben-Joseph: name a great parking lot. Couldn’t do it, could you? Neither could I, and neither could Ben-Joseph. In a new book ReThinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking he explores the horribleness of all that space that car drivers demand. If you

March 12, 2012 Michael Lithgow

Art Threat: Artists invited to join Occupy Arts Committee – 3rd gathering in Montreal set for March 17

Bryant Park, Manhattan. Photo by Eric Walton Montreal artists are invited to join the growing collaboration of the Occupy Arts Committee, a gathering of artists from all disciplines who want to support Occupy Montreal with creative practice. According to organizers, this meeting will be a creation workshop to start imagining,

February 6, 2012 Michael Lithgow

Art Threat: Crowd sourcing a little curatorial control – National Gallery of Canada invites young artists to submit art & public to judge

"Beat Nation" at Grunt Gallery, Vancouver Calling young (aged 16-19) Canadian political artists. Here’s a chance to get your work noticed, publicized and into the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). The NGC has announced its second annual So You Want to Be an Artist contest. It’s a cheezey title, but

January 27, 2012 Annie Fitzgerald

Art Threat: Reclaiming the Mainstream – Comopolitan magazine gets the alt media treatment

100 Best Sex Tips of the Year. Bigger, Better Pleasure. Shrink Your Inner Thighs! The Smile That Gets You What You Want. The Sexy Confidence Men Can’t Resist. The above are samples of headlines from just the past five issues of Cosmopolitan magazine, a periodical that touts itself as being

January 25, 2012 Rob Maguire

Art Threat: Does girly Lego promote gender stereotypes?

A screenshot from the Lego Friends website. Critics are seething after Lego announced its new line of toys designed for girls. The super slim, anatomically incorrect Lego Friends figures have been accused of promoting damaging gender stereotypes and body dissatisfaction. Lego responded to the controversy by saying they were just

January 23, 2012 Adam

Things Are Good: Board Game Jam 2012

Board Game Jam is happening in Toronto February 25-26! If you’ve ever wanted to make a game then this is a place to start! Here’s a special challenge to Things Are Good readers: make a game that is designed to educate or empower people to make the world a better

January 1, 2012 Rob Maguire

Art Threat: 23 political art stories from 2011

Washed Up by Alejandro Durán The New Year is officially upon us, but we want to take one last opportunity to look in the rear view mirror. Here are 23 of our favourite stories and projects that took place in the world of political art in 2011. Do you have

November 27, 2011 dougrogers

cartoon life: A queue of Qs in London

Some folks have started a media and Twitter campaign to bring the CBC show Q, and radio host Jian Gomeshi to London to do a broadcast. I thought I would make a bunch of Qs on my iPad and post them to the #jianinldnont twitter stream. I had intended that

November 25, 2011 dougrogers

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