Showing posts with label colorful. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colorful. Show all posts

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Using art to help refugees in Syria

Racha Haroun, right, writes in Arabic, "You are all in our hearts, from Seattle" on her son's drawing at Jean Bradbury's Studio Syria booth during the Melrose Market Street Fair, in Seattle, on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Jean Bradbury, a Seattle-based Canadian artist who is the founder-director of Studio Syria, is holding an art workshop to create "drawings and colorful messages" to take with her when she goes back to Jordan in September to teach art at Zaatari Refugee Camp. Initially setup as a short-term refuge the population at Zaatari has become Jordan's fourth largest city and the world's second largest refugee camp behind Dadaab in eastern Kenya. 
Using art to help refugees in Syria

Friday, August 16, 2013

Adorn Your Walls With This Dizzyingly Cool Geometric Art

You've seen Andy Gilmore's art before—you might just not know it. Gilmore's colorful kaleidoscopes have adorned everything from magazines to album covers to snowboards. And now, thanks to a collaboration with the Ghostly Store, these hypnotic prints can also deck your walls. 
Adorn Your Walls With This Dizzyingly Cool Geometric Art

Thursday, August 15, 2013

‘Cool Globes’ presents some real world ideas

Huge, colorful orbs line up in a row down the Tremont Street side of Boston Common. It looks like a giant might be marshalling his marbles. Get up close, and you’ll see that the spheres, each 5 feet in diameter, are globes, fancifully decorated and proffering solutions to climate change.
‘Cool Globes’ presents some real world ideas