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auniakahn: Please pass along! Stealing Art from Artists...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:54:14 -0500

Please pass along!

Stealing Art from Artists (Exp: Lori Earley, Sarah Joncas,Martin Wittfooth, Tom Bagshaw, Jeff Soto, Glenn Barr, Natalia Fabia, Mia Araujo, etc….) and Selling as Prints of their works illegally. Please share widely and lets please get them taken down.

http://munin.co/

His Email: a_munin@hotmail.com

His FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/amunin

Owners Website Information:
Registrant Name: Alex Munin
Registrant Organization: munin.co
Registrant Address1: 172 Vaughn Rd.
Registrant City: Toronto
Registrant State/Province: on
Registrant Postal Code: m6c3a4
Registrant Country: Canada
Registrant Country Code: CA
Registrant Phone Number: +1.6472284753

Posted this and some other new work on my facebook page.

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:29:00 -0500

Posted this and some other new work on my facebook page.

Printing of my 2011 Holiday greeting poster. Different versions...

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:01:00 -0500

Printing of my 2011 Holiday greeting poster. Different versions were printed for the others who helped make this project possible.

Credits:

Design: Genesys

Printing: Somerset

Paper: Unisource

Illustration: Ben Weeks

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:56:42 -0500

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”

- James Whistler (via elclinto)

99percentinvisible: Episode 31- The Feltron Annual...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:49:04 -0500

99percentinvisible:

Episode 31- The Feltron Annual Report

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(Above: A page from the 2009 Feltron Annual Report, by Nicholas Felton.)

Nicholas Felton is an information designer. Since 2005, he has tabulated thousands upon thousands of tiny measurements in his life and designed stunning graphs and maps and created concise infographics that detail that year’s activities. The results were originally intended for his friends and family, but the “personal annual reports” have found an audience with fellow designers and people that really geek out on seeing lots of data, beautifully presented.

In 2010, Nicholas Felton’s father passed away, and Felton decided to turn his annual report into a full biography of his father. He took 4,348 of his father’s personal records and created an intimate portrait of a man, using only the data he left behind.

I produced this story with Nate Berg, who is an awesome freelance journalist and blogger at Planetizen (a site you should add to your daily routine).

(Below: A page from the 2010 Feltron Annual Report- The Paternal Report, by Nicholas Felton.)

feltron: Peter Jellitsch

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:51:50 -0500

feltron:

Peter Jellitsch

Apple's Core Marketing Principles

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:37:00 -0400

Empathy

An intimate connection with the feelings of a customer. We will truly understand their needs better than any company

Focus

in order to do a good job on the things we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

Impute

People form an opinion about a company or a product based on the signals it conveys. People do judge a book by it’s cover. We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software etc; if we present them in a slipshod manner, they will be perceived as slipshod; if we present them in a creative, professional manner, we will impute the desired qualities.

Apple’s three core marketing principles were written down on one page by Mike Markkula, a former early employee at Intel. Mike worked with Jobs to create the initial business plan, and extended a $250,000 line of credit for 1/3 ownership. Mike was employee #3 and said, ”You should never start a company with a goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and a company that will last.”

via colinanawaty & Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs book.

My page from Illustration Now! Vol. 4 by Taschen. Delighted to...

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:10:52 -0400

My page from Illustration Now! Vol. 4 by Taschen. Delighted to be included among such a variety of exciting international artists.

MMMinimal Tumblr theme

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:08:24 -0400

MMMinimal Tumblr theme:

Used by the brilliant Mark Porter Associates.

Photo

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:22:24 -0400

Artists and Rewards

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:54:00 -0400

If an artist strives for excellence in their work, economic rewards proportionate to the value that work delivers should be attached. Artists having stable finances means they can then safely create other forms of value that may not pay well like: helping good causes, spreading joy and making their neighbourhood a nicer place to live.

Sometimes markets exploit artist’s work and offer low fees. While value can be hard to quantify, clients can make an effort to determine the effects and reward artists accordingly. If clients are unwilling to do so, artists need to have self control, negotiate or find better clients. The assumption that subsistence living should be a requirement to do good work actually creates a context for market imbalances which undermine the stability of artists. It’s a powerful myth to many but it’s ultimately counterproductive.

Artists are capable of creating great work even in dire conditions. But living in a constant state of self imposed emergency is not a healthy long term way of being. Taking responsibility for all aspects of our careers, learning to be better that the harder parts and conducting everything with the highest degree of integrity and creativity you can I’ve found helpful. May artists everywhere live in a way that’s conducive to long, happy and productive lives.

I’m in Illustration Now! Vol. 4. by TASCHEN. Yay!

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:30:17 -0400

I’m in Illustration Now! Vol. 4. by TASCHEN. Yay!

walk cycles

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:50:53 -0400

walk cycles

Proud to be an alumni of this great program, been invited to...

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 04:07:46 -0400

Proud to be an alumni of this great program, been invited to teach and now be on their advisory committee. Shine on you crazy diamonds at Sheridan Illustration!

Unadventure as creation

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:40:52 -0400

Unadventure as creation:

bobulate:

Eno on unadventure:

“In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person,” Mr. Eno said. “I take the same walk every day and I eat in the same restaurants, and often eat exactly the same things in the same restaurants. I don’t adventure much except when I’m in the studio, and then I only want to adventure. I cannot bear doing something again, or thinking that I’m doing something again.”

As Jacobs once said, “Differentiation emerg[es] from generality. Differentiations become generalities from which further differentiations occur.” My summer has been only about variation — in location, in people, in process — but slowed down creation here. It’s good to be home.

David Lynch is much the same.

drewbukka: John Jay (W+K) on creativity. via @cwhirsch

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:57:56 -0400

drewbukka:

John Jay (W+K) on creativity. via @cwhirsch

implodr: Brilliant. laughingsquid: Switch Plug by Gonglue...

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:46:32 -0400

implodr:

Brilliant.

laughingsquid:

Switch Plug by Gonglue Jiang

brockdavis: Broccoli House I couldn’t build a tree house for my...

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:27:38 -0400

brockdavis:

Broccoli House

I couldn’t build a tree house for my son, so I built him a broccoli house instead.

Photo

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:21:40 -0400

mthvn: FaceState. The ultimate combination of social media and...

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:04:50 -0400

mthvn:

FaceState. The ultimate combination of social media and government.
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