Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog

The Pharmacy prescribes the following links to combat Monday online anemia.

www.i-do-it-yourself.com

Blog: iDiY

‘Design goodies for I Do- it-yourself weddings.’ Seems I’ve got weddings on the brain- only because I have two to attend this month- and here’s a crafty wedding blog that’ll inspire you to get hands-on with your nuptials.

ArtBabble Video: Art Institute Installations: Robert Gober’s Untitled

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Pulling the IMA magazine together is probably one of the most enjoyable aspects of my job, aside from Monday Web team meetings. And with the winter (November-January) issue, we usher in a new era of the magazine. No longer called Previews, but simply known as the IMA magazine, the cover and pages present the Museum’s new graphic identity. With a new look also comes fresh content and ideas that incorporate the intersection of art, design and nature. In this issue, we went out on a limb and decided to do our first retail holiday photo shoot–presenting items for sale in the Museum’s shops–rather than rely on product photography from the design house or manufacturers.

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Einstein is often quoted as saying “Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Last month, I went to a seminar given by Edward Tufte, author of “Beautiful Evidence” and “Envisioning Information” – books that serve as inspiration for many in the field of information visualization. While Einstein advocated for simplicity in describing the universe through mathematics, Tufte argues for allowing data to speak for itself by taking what might be called a minimalist approach to designing visualizations. At the seminar, I learned that Tufte has coined the term sparkline to refer to small yet data-rich line graphs like the following, which take this concept to its limit for one-dimensional time-varying data:

I thought that these sparklines might be an interesting way to represent data on the IMA Dashboard, and so I’m experimenting by bringing this nugget of wisdom to bear on a chart that I haven’t been very pleased with. Read the rest of this entry »

The Pharmacy prescribes the following links to combat Monday online anemia.

kottke.org

Blog: kottke.org (thanks @cmalexander!)

Pronounced “cot”- “key”…I’m still not entirely sure how to describe this blog. I remember looking at it the first time and being, well, underwhelmed by the overly simple design. But as one scrolls down the pages, one is confronted with nugget after nugget of outrageously interesting info. It’s about the content, people. One of the many descriptions on the About page reads: “An attempt to track and make sense of “material that connects the insights of science and culture, rather than using one to dismantle the other” (as Steven Johnson puts it).” I describe it as: clever, clever, clever.

ArtBabble Video: Artist Talk: Nic Hess

For the Hammer’s Lobby Wall, Swiss artist Nic Hess presents Automatic Crash Response, a mixture of images in tape ranging from tombstone- like monuments of several recently failed banks, animals, how-to exercise diagrams, a generic shopping cart, the USPS logo and more to weave a lyrical quasi-narrative left for the viewer to decode. Nic Hess discusses Automatic Crash Response, as well as his other works.

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The Pharmacy prescribes the following links to combat Monday online anemia.

astridandinez.com/blog

Blog: astrid & inez

astrid & inez is really just one person, Jessica, who claims, “I’m no expert on design or web graphics.  I couldn’t even say that I’m a two-bit designer–I may only be a one-bit.  I just love graphic design and handmade things, and sharing them with other people.” Check out her blog for all things design and DIY .

ArtBabble Video: Eleanor Antin: ‘Helen’s Odyssey‘

Art21 presents: Eleanor Antin’s exhibition Helen’s Odyssey (2007) installed at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York. Antin discusses the historical figure Helen of Troy, and how she became the inspiration for photographic works such as Constructing Helen (2007).

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