Nick Garrett

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  • ‘Invisible man’ artist hides in supermarket

    By Gaby Leslie | Yahoo! News – 4 hours ago  Edited Nick Garrett

    An artist best-known as the real-life invisible man has painted himself (or rather has had his brilliant artists paint him… errm, yep that’s right) again for a new photograph collection – this time against a supermarket shelf.Chinese-born Liu Bolin has mastered the art of camouflaging himself against a variety of backdrops and taking photos of the impressive results.
    The much acclaimed 38-year-old has travelled far and wide disguising himself across many surroundings, including a London phone box, a pile of bricks, the Beijing Olympic stadium, a Venetian canal and a graffiti-covered wall.
    Photo:PA

    A supermarket shelf may have been an odd choice of installation for the fine arts graduate, but he appears to blend naturally into the colourful stocked-up shelf of soda bottles and Pepsi cans.

    See Artist of the Month www.Artsight.wordpress.com
    The artwork entitled ‘Plasticizer’ was created to express his speechlessness at use of plasticizer in food additives.
    Photo:PA

    According to the artist, each photograph can take months of planning and the actual paint job can take up to ten hours.

    The new photographs are part of Bolin’s ‘Hiding in the City’ collection and are being exhibited at the Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery in NYC until 28 August.

  • Design thinking a failed experiment?

    I just saw this article about essentially re-branding design ability.  We have been dragged through the whole design thinking bullshit and now have a few celebrity design dudes scrambling to find the next neat box to hang around the process of creativity… like it’s something the academic world finds alluring and viable for some hefty profit.
    What sucks about this is that good design really doesn’t need this jargon and hype. It speaks for itself.
    There’s no formula – no magical quad. Design is based on need and identity. Needs of client and designer – and the identity to be portrayed.