Every mass-produced object you own was drawn, argued over and refined by someone before a factory ever touched it. This is the art hiding in plain sight.
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Every mass-produced object you own was drawn, argued over and refined by someone before a factory ever touched it. This is the art hiding in plain sight.
The art you look at more than any other is the one you almost never notice, and that is exactly how its makers want it. Graphic design is the art of arranging image, type and space so that they communicate.
Furniture design is where sculpture agrees to be sat on, the art of the objects we live with and on, and once you learn to read it, no room ever looks quite the same again. Furniture design is the art and discipline of shaping the objects we live with and on: the chairs that hold us, the tables we gather around, the beds we sleep in, the cabinets that keep our lives in order.
Guerilla art is what happens when an artist decides that the city itself is the gallery and nobody needs to be asked. Gardens, statues, posters, knitting, and carnival masks all count.
Forged, cast, raised and chased, metalwork is the art of persuading the most stubborn of materials into beauty. Metalwork is art made from metal, which sounds simple until you remember what metal is like.
Street art borrowed the wall from graffiti and gave it back with pictures on it. Made for everyone who walks past, it is now the most visible art form on earth, and one of the most argued over.