In the News
The Fighting Temeraire by Turner, wikipedia.org /Artwork: designslinger]
During the past 6 months of blogging, I've come across lots of news items that I find really
interesting, and assume that everyone else sees them in some form or another as well. But I've found out that that's not always the case. One of the wonderful things about blogging is sharing information, and so I'm not going to assume that anyone has read about any of the following items. If you have, just pass over them, if you haven't, please take a few minutes and use the link and have a good read.
We posted a few weeks ago about Google Earth working with the Prado museum in Madrid
to bring art to the masses in a way that even a museum goer could never experience. Well, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian isn't trying anything quite so fancy, but they are putting their 800,000-object collection online. Then yesterday, I read in the Guardian that, "the BBC is going to put every one of the 200,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the UK on the internet." As I said when we posted about the Prado, I don't think you can replace the sensation of seeing an artwork in person, but I have to be honest and admit that I find all of this technology and accessibility very exciting.
In the internet and blogging vein, have you seen The Printed Blog? It's the blog newspaper.
I know, it sounds like an oxymoron, blog and newspaper, but it's another way of getting the word out. If you click here you can download their second issue.
What is good design? A very appropriate question for this blog. Alice Rawsthorn wrote a
piece in the International Herald Tribune about a debate she moderated at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland last week, which asked that question. Click here for Alice's report. The article reminded me of another story she wrote last summer asking the same question, although this time instead of a panel coming up with answers, Alice gives her take on the issue. You can read it here. I really enjoy her column, On Design, and it's easy to find at: iht.com, in the Culture section.
Hope you enjoy the reads, see you tomorrow.
Links make the blogosphere go around. :)
Thanks for sharing.