Kitsch art: love it or loathe it?

Jonathan Jones: Why is this term for garish or sentimental objects surrounded by such snobbery? Some of the world's greatest artworks are kitsch. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/jan/28/kitsch-art-love-loathe-jonathan-joneshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/jan/28/kitsch-art-love-loathe-jonathan-jones

New York Public Library: Digital Collection

NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfmhttp://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

How to find the true face of Leonardo - Siegfried Woldhek

Mona Lisa is one of the best-known faces on the planet. But would you recognize an image of Leonardo da Vinci? Illustrator Siegfried Woldhek uses some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what he believes is the true face of Leonardo.

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-find-the-true-face-of-leonardo-siegfried-woldhek

Mnet TAG AWARDS

Johan Taljaard (student and The Open Window) with the guidance of Nina Torr and Marinda Botha (lecturers at The Open Window) won the M-Net Tag award for Best Animation! It was also nominated for the 'Best Use Of Humour' award. The PSA ad will be flighted on DSTV for the whole of 2013.

View the short 'behind the scenes' video of the Indigo PSA. http://vimeo.com/54801271

Award-winning newspaper designs

Print and Web are different. Traditional layout techniques from print, particularly an advanced formatting, aren’t applicable to the Web as CSS doesn’t offer sophisticated instruments to design such layouts (e.g. text floating around an embedded image; some “floating” techniques provide such results, however they produce bloated source code just as well).
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/11/award-winning-newspaper-designs/

Art in the digital age: a never-ending converstion video

The second in a two-part series looking at how has art has evolved to take advantage of the new technologies available to us in the internet era. Here Louise Shannon, acting head of contemporary projects at the V&A, says: 'It's not a one-way conversation any more'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2012/nov/21/art-digital-age-video-internet-week

There's still life in the art of photography

Lavish and often a little unsettling, a new exhibition at Bradford's National Media Museum traces the story of still life photography, from a Victorian prototype featuring the contents of an ostrich's stomach to an exploding pomegranate by contemporary photographer Ori Gersht.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/nov/22/bradford-still-life-photography-exhibition?intcmp=ILCMUSTXT9390