• AA: Minneapolis-based gig-poster gurus Aesthetic Apparatus get spotlighted by Coudal Partners: video. Here’s the poster they did for our Christian Marclay concert awhile back (and here’s a Walker TV spot made by Planet Propaganda, former employer of AA’s Dan and Mike, made for our Barry McGee exhibition years ago).
• It’s far from lonely at the top for museum women. So writes Tyler Green for the Los Angeles Times: While only 1.9% of Fortune 1000 companies have female chief executives, 38% of art museum directors are women, including our very own Kathy Halbreich.
• Smackdown: Paris Hilton vs. Grant Wood. [via]
[…] • Scream printing: Bad pun, but that’s exactly what’s illustrated in excruciating duration in this how-to video by Twin Cities designers Aesthetic Apparatus. • Human-powered submarine: Swedish industrial designer Milko Ozlu “has always been intrigued by the concept of the powered exoskeleton and body amplifiers… His ideas followed through and when he was studying for his masters degree at the vehicle design department of the world-renowned Royal College of Art in London, it resulted in… the U-Scull, a new type of human powered sports-submarine that operates in shallow depths.” […]
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