The Yokohama Triennale open its doors for the third time in 2008.

After its deput in 2001, the second triennale in 2005, the third Yokohama Triennale invites visitors from September 13th until November 30th 2008 for 79 days.

About 60-70 international artists will be put on display. Director Mizusawa Tsutomu and curators Daniel Birnbaum, Beatrix Ruf, Hu Fang, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Akiko Miyake have selected newly-released artworks of the cutting-edge contemporary art around the globe. Various events as dance performances, workshops, gallery talks and symposiums will be held during the festival period.

The Triennale will also seek to establish and strengthen ties with art organizations and other international exhibition secretariats in Japan and abroad.

http://yokohamatriennale.jp

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The artworks of Sara Singh, the New York based fashion illustrator has been featured and published internationally. To her client list belong Jill Sander, Elle, Vogue, Givenchy, Tiffany and many more. Sara Singh has collaborated with jewelry designer and creator Arlene Guerra, who  started her accessories brand P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) in 2005 after working for years as a stylist and fashion buyer.   Both are ushering in New York Fashion Week with an extraordinary joint exhibition:

Head Games and Dress Candy shows sculptures and jewelry that plays with the concept of innocence versus grown up personality.
Singh has created organic plywood sculptures of male and female busts, which comments the vanity and secrecy of the surface we present to each other.  Guerra’s new collection of exaggerated, candy-colored jewelry, comments the dress-up games of children and the adult dress-up game called fashion.
From September 3rd due October 7th at
gallery hanahou
611 Broadway, Suite 730, NYC
[7th floor of the Cable Building, NW corner of Broadway + Houston]
www.galleryhanahou.com

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Stefan Sagmeister is one of the most influencing graphic designers in the world today. He has given a speech at the Semipermanent event in Auckland August 15th/16th 2008 to introduce his product and new book Things I have learned in my life so far, published earlier this year by Harry N. Abrams.

Stefan Sagmeister started to make a list of Things that I have learned in my life so far in his diary which included: ” Complaining is silly. Either act or forget”, “Trying to look good limits my life.” ,
“Worrying solves nothing.” or “Everything works out in the end.”

Sagmeisters studio members transformed these sentences into typographic works. The book consists of 15 unbound signatures with 15 different covers. Shuffling the sequence of the signatures will produce a unique set up of the book.

www.sagmeister.com

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The Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo opened its doors September 1st and
will run till September 7th to introduce the Spring/Summer 09 collections of
Japan’s most exciting fashion houses.

9 brands will further show their collections in a joint exhibition at
Rooms at the Yoyogi National Stadium 1st Gymnasium from Septermber 9th-11th.

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The California Academy of Science re-opens September 2008

The California Academy of Sciences at the Golden Gate Park San Francisco is home to Steinhart Aquarium, Morrison Planetarium and the Kimball Natural History Museum. The Academy is in the midst of an extensive rebuilding project. Pritzker prize-winning architect Renzo Piano is designing the new Academy, which is scheduled to open on
September 27, 2008.

The new rooftop of the California Academy will be the ” greenest roof” ever constructed and will be with its 2,5 acres the largest living roof in California.

“Our goal was to choose native plants that were well adapted to the climate in Golden Gate Park and would provide much needed habitat for native birds, butterflies, and other beneficial insects,” explains
Almeda, the Academy botanist “We also needed to select species that would look attractive throughout the year, since a visually appealing roof is a much more powerful educational tool.”

www.calacademy.org

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NYC based English artist David Byrne is well known as the former frontman of the band Talking Heads.In 1981 he started his solo career and released the album  My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts in collaboration
with Brian Eno. In 1988 he received the Oscar for the  sountrack of The Last Emperor in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto.

David Byrne loves to cycle in the city and has now turned his passion into a design project for bicycle racks:

The department of transportation recently asked Byrne to be a judge in a bike rack design competition.
Byrne enthusiastically agreed and also submitted some of his own ideas. The department liked his neighbourhood themed designs so much they began installing them in the city. Although the competition is still running, Byrne’s designs can be now seen throughout New York City. Please see the competition outlines at

http://nycityracks.wordpress.com/

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Art. Fair 21

The Art.Fair 21 is a fair for 21st century art and will be held this year for the 6th time in Cologne, Germany.
Over the last five years, the ART.FAIR 21 has established a firm place for itself in the international art scene. Once a year, in Cologne’s city centre, the ART.FAIR 21 presents promising young positions and selected current artworks from internationally established artists.
As a part of the fair, the audience is asked to select one artwork from 10finalists of the Gesellschafter Art Award.

ART.FAIR 21
Friday, 3rd October until Sunday, 5th October 2008
Friday/Saturday 1 pm - 9 pm, Sunday 11 am - 7 pm
EXPO XXI, Gladbacher Wall 5, Cologne

www.art-fair.de

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This catalogue has been produced for the exhibition Fashion in the Mirror: Self-Reflection in Fashion Photography, 18 July - 14 September 2008, 8 Great Newport Street, London.

It features twenty one leading fashion photographers, all of whose work is self referential featuring the photographer, designer and magazine editor or stripping away the artifice of the photo shoot and showing what goes on behind the scenes.

Featured photographers are Grégoir Alexander, Richard Avedon, Terence Donovan, Steven Klein, William Klein, Nick Knight, Inez van lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Saul Leiter, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson, Harri Peccinotti, Irving Penn, John Rawlings, Bob Richardson, Melvin Sokolsky, Bert Stern, Juegen Teller, Mario Testino, jonathan de Villiers and Tim Walker.

Ed. by Michel Mallard & Raphaël Stoppin

www.photonet.org.uk

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Coca Cola new sales strategy pays much attention on  design. But not only on design as pure decoration, the new Coca Cola bottles shall express: “How to keep the drink cool longer!” or “How to hold the cup easier!” explains David Butler, the vice-president for Design. Compared to the glass bottle, the aluminium bottle feels colder and more modern. Further it’s easier and cheaper to recycle. A set of 8 illustrated bottles has been designed by 5 Chinese artists as part of the Olympic campain. Please read the full article here

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