The image from our Christmas card designed by Anne. Happy Holidays to everyone and a healthy, exciting, prosperous 2013!
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Ruins in Process
Ruins In Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties is a research archive and educational resource that brings together still and moving images, ephemera, essays and interviews to explore the diverse artistic practices of Vancouver art in the 1960s and early 1970s.
The images on this website are amazing, it’s almost as if they’ve been invented or staged rather than actually dating from the era.
Inspiration from inspiration
The web is full of inspirational resources, they’re everywhere in fact. From the elite and esoteric to the banal and superficial these sites have the power to inspire and infuriate.
What elements make for the best and/or inherently original and exclusive of these repositories? Are these cultural apertures significant or just self-referential?
Here are a few I enjoy and (sometimes) get inspired by, in no particular order (if I think of more I’ll add to the list):
But does it float
It’s Nice That
24 ways
Designspiration
K-Hole
Ministry of Type
The Sixteenth Division
Emigre Ceramics
These pots by Zuzana Licko are a unique combination of beauty and decorative utility. I have an ever-expanding collection of them.
And for those who don’t know, Emigre has been on the vanguard of graphic design in Norcal for two and half decades!