Cornell Fashion Collective

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About

The Cornell Fashion Collective, formerly the Cornell Design League, is a student-run organization that provides members of the Cornell community with an outlet to express creativity in fashion and fashion management. Each spring, our organization presents a professional runway show featuring the talent of students who both design apparel and manage the operations of the show. Our organization gives students, both undergraduate and graduate, the opportunity to practice design, demonstrate their talents, and learn how to produce a large-scale fashion event.

Creator

President Megan Rodrigues
Vice President Nicole Fitzsimmons
Models and Designers Cameron Giles
Marketing Akilah Chandler
Events Gabrielle Ben-Yaish
Graphics Ellen Pyne
Secretary Dana Lee
Faculty Advisors Anita Racine & Van Dyk Lewis

Rules

The event gives undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to practice design and and learn how to produce a large-scale fashion show.

Comments

The students learn how to produce a fashionshow. This is a good way to learn about organization and working on a team. The experience could be usefull for anything you will achieve in your future carreer.

Links

The Cornell fashion show:
http://www.cornell.edu/video/cornell-fashion-collective-runway-show-2015

Cornel University:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/fsad/fashion/appareldesign.cfm

Cornell Fashion Collective:
http://www.cornellfashioncollective.com/

Shot of the 30th FashionShow

 

 

Print Isn’t Dead™

1) MEDIA

2) ABOUT:
Print Isn’t Dead (http://www.element003.com/ )™ is an ongoing quest to engage in conversation and debate about creativity and independent art, design and print practitioners. As you may have heard, our latest issue deals with the theme of personalisation. We are inviting you to personalise the front cover of your copy that is individually typeset by our award-winning designer James Lunn. After creating a huge collection of fantastic covers for Element 003.

3) CREATOR:
element003.com Launched this collaboration with award winning designer James Lunn a project where each person can made their own “piece of art” as a magazine cover. Each cover is one of as kind and all together it forms a collection.

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You have up to 250 characters to personalise your cover, either for yourself or as a gift
to someone else. HP® Indigo technology allows us to print high quality and unique covers, using the variable data from your submissions.

5) COMMENTS
I was surprised by the variarity of all the covers, It’s a free way to create something what’s really for own use, something to share and to give. As a collector of flyers & papers this is a really nice piece of art what’s just a one in a kind.

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http://www.element003.com/
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VITRUVIAN PAINTING MACHINE

ABOUT

The Vitruavian Paint Machine is a project that’s performed in the Van Abbemuseum. They made a painting on the walls which would by influenced by the visiting people. If visitors passed the painters it was possible to choose a color. Depending on the color and the people, the painters would change their painting.

CREATORS

The creators of this performance were Luna Maurer and Edo Paulus.

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

The creators worked with four different colors. Each color has a ‘rule-made-form’. But the creators weren’t the people who selected the colors, the audience did. So the audience would decide which color they had to use (next), so they decided partially what the painting would look like. The way of drawing would also change depending on how many people where in that room. The specific rules you can find on http://conditionaldesign.org/workshops/vitruvian-paint-machine/

COMMENT

This was a really interesting way of art I heard of in another class. I thought it was very interesting/fun that people could intervene and could decide what would happen next. It was very fun that we got the assignment to make drawings with rules of this kind of our own. It’s an easy example of intervening in someone’s project, but it does get amazing results.

The Red Bull Collective Art Collection

Exhibition Valencia

ABOUT

It is an evolution of the concept of “Cadavre Exquis” in which each collaborator adds to the Collective Art through being allowed to see the end of what the previous artist contributed. Participants are free to choose if they want to paint, draw or scribble their work or just to create it digitally with design software. Anyone was able to participate on the project. You could just sign up on the website:
http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com/nl/how-it-works
Eventually they showcased a 1.3km-long artwork in London that combines graphics, artworks and photography in a giant visual game of Cadavre Exquis. Also they showcased the collection worldwide.

CREATOR

The artists involved come from 85 countries. The full set of artworks can seen on the Red Bull Collective Art website: http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com/

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

The only rule to participate, was to start your artwork at the point where the artist before you ended. It is like the game you used to play when you were younger, you drew a doll with friends, one drew the head, the other drew the belly etc.. and it ended up like a weird doll.

COMMENTS

I think it is a good project, because different artists were able to show their work to the world. Any individual could just sign up and participate.

LINKS

http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com/

Example of the Cadavre Exquis game

MEMORY

ABOUT

‘Memory’ is an interactive installation and consists of merely a tablet equipped with a camera, custom software and a wooden frame. Programmed to recognise human faces, the installation saves the faces of its spectators and then superimposes them endlessly. The displayed result is an ‘average’ face, calculated from all the faces it has seen and thereby a visualisation of the history of all the people that stood still to take a look at it.

CREATOR

The maker and creator of the project is Korean studio SSBKYH, consisting of Shin Seung Back and Kim Yong Hun. Their collaborative practice explores social and cultural impacts of technology.

RULES / RESTRICTIONS

There is only one interactive portrait which captures the results, but everyone is allowed to participate. The only requirement is to look at it with your face. In order to be able to create the ‘average’ face, the ideal approach would be to let people participate only once; however, it is unclear if this is an official rule for the project.

COMMENTS

Intriguing and funny; but I would like to know in which countries the portrait has been exhibited. It would be interesting to understand which regions are responsible for creating the ‘average’ face. What if every continent had its own ‘Memory’ portrait?

Funzige Box

ABOUT

Funzige Box is a project by illustrator Funs Janssen (Funzig). The project tells a story about himself and to tell this story he made a box containing all sorts of tools to make prints. People can participate and use the tools inside the box such as a stamp and silkscreen to create their own Funzig illustrations. The main illustration which is made with the silkscreen is a bear, which is symbolic for himself. In addition to this people can add claws for instance with a rolling stamp and people then take their own customized illustration home with them.

CREATOR

Funzig, a studying illustrator at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam is an illustrator who mostly works analogue because of his fascination with crafts. He mostly uses black and white with sometimes the addition of one other colour. Funzig – which is a derivative for his name – means vulgar and he likes to search for the border of which can and cannot be done.  Vulgarity is often incorporated in his illustrations as small details.

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

People can only use the ready-made tools but can choose between three colours. The silk screen print and the stamps can be made with different levels of pressure, and the rolling stamp can be used in different ways. The stamps can of course be placed anywhere on the paper. The print can also be customized by choosing which colour is stamped/printed first, the paint is partly transparent.

COMMENTS

The nice thing about this project is that people can actually make the print of an illustrator, something that is not common. Normally an illustration or print can only be bought. In this way Funzig enables people to participate in his process and in this way learn more about him.

Pictures belong to: Funzig

THE JOHNNY CASH PROJECT

ABOUT

The ‘Johnny Cash Project’ is music video that is made by open source. The made the video with Johnny Cash and the idea is that someone who signs up for the project gets one frame so they could draw it. In this way they can be part of a music video which will become a living portrait of Johnny Cash.

CREATOR

Everyone is able to submit to the project, of course made the music video but in the end the creator could be you.

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

You don’t have to be a master in illustrator to participate. The only rule is that you get a picture/a frame that forms the basis of your drawing. You just have to use your creativity and imagination.

COMMENTS

I think this is a really fun experiment, and this isn’t the only one out there. Who wouldn’t want to be part of a music video? So many drawings in just a few minutes, I think it’s very interesting to see.

LINKS

http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/#

Designed by Animals

 

ABOUT

Front is a Stockholm based design studio. For the Designed by Animals collection they asked animals for help and they gladly lent a paw, helping to create objects like coat hangers, lamps and vases.

 

CREATOR

The design studio – consisting of three women; Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken and Anna Lindgren – bases designs on common discussions and experiments collaborating with themselves from beginning ‘till the finished product. They often assign external labourers such as animals, computers or explosions, making the products – and in this instance the collection – collective.

 

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

All products are different. The only thing they have in common are that they are made of the same material with the help of animals. Of course the animals have no idea that they are designing and so they just do what they do normally creating different objects every time. The collection keeps its form because the basic things the animals do are the same, just performed a little differently each time. The designers can stop the designing process at any time when they are satisfied and start finishing the product.

 

COMMENTS
I really love this project since I have been wanting to do a similar project myself, using the behaviour of animals as labour as a means of production. Though I think this project could have been made more interesting by making it less simple for themselves. For instance the paws of dogs creating vases is very literal, I think that is just a beginning stage of what it could be if they develop more on this.

Rijksstudio

ABOUT

The Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands is digitalising their collection in high resolution for everyone to download and use in any way without having to ask permission. This is because the copyright of these works have been expired and they feel that everyone should have access to these art pieces.

 

CREATOR

The platform is created by the Rijksmuseum with Bankgiro Loterij and Cultuurloterij as sponsors. The platform is for open use and every day the Rijksstudio adds photographs. The collection of people making things grows as long as they are using the service.

 

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

There are no rules and restrictions. You do not even need to sign in to download the published photographs and no permission is needed to use it even for commercial use. The only thing that is notable is that some are not available for commercial use because the copyright is not completely expired.

 

COMMENTS

I am in love this idea. Art should be for everyone and even though the pictures are made by photographs, they don’t use the copyright which should then actually be on their pictures. They put a lot of effort into it and don’t ask for anything in return. I think this is a beautiful gesture towards open design and the people of the Netherlands. I would really like to use this platform in one of my designs one day and see what possibilities it holds.

 

LINKS

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/rijksstudio/

PostSecret

ABOUT

PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on a homemade postcard. Selected secrets are then posted on the PostSecret website, or used for PostSecret’s books or museum exhibits. The site, which started as an experiment on Blogger, was updated every Sunday with 10 new secrets, all of which share a relatively constant style, giving the artists who participate some guidelines on how their secrets should be represented.

CREATOR

The founder of PostSecret is Frank Warren. Warren hosts events at numerous colleges to speak about the many different secrets of today’s society. An art exhibition also travels the country, showcasing many of the hundreds of thousands of secrets he has received. In his book, My Secret, Warren talks about his experiences with encounters with people all around the world who were inspired by the postcards, and how it got many people addressing things that they would otherwise never discuss.

RULES / RESTRICTIONS

The confessions must be written on postcards. No restrictions are made on the content of the secret; only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. Entries range from admissions of sexual misconduct and criminal activity to confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits, hopes and dreams.

COMMENTS

Whether sharing secrets with an anonymous mass is beneficial to the poster is debatable and depends on the poster itself, of course. But judging by its growth and exhibitions, PostSecret has been succesful in creating relief in some sorts. I don’t know if I would personally ever want to participate in this kind of project, but for those who found benefits in PostSecret: more power to you.