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Designer Scott Jarvie introduces his  Clutch Light, which uses hundreds of drinking straws to create a dazzling multi-color lamp.

ArtBistro is proud to announce June's Design Gallery Winners! This album represents excellent level of professionalism that ArtBistro members exhibit in their work. Congratulations to all the winners! To submit your work for next month's "Design Gallery show click here.":http://artbistro.monster.com/groups/920-artbistro-design-gallery To leave comments on the work, click on the designer's name and browse their portfolio. *Amy Lyons, graphic designer, Poster* [page] ...

One of the higher-paid leaders of New York City's 10 major park conservancies, Robert Hammond has received $1.2 million over the past 10 years.

An excellent understanding of color is a must for artists and designers. A strong knowledge of color relationships will take you far in your career. See if you can guess which relationships are stronger than others. Lauren Krause is an experienced design blogger for CreativeCurio.com. Read her informative analysis of successful color combinations and color theory. h2. "Find the secrets here.":http://artbistro.monster.com/news/articles/9889-color-secrets-revealed ...

The royal hopes to push out "starchitects" and give the public a greater say when it comes to community projects.

Pittsburgh, PA - The next big thing in green building design might be to turn an existing idea on its side. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. recently installed a green wall the size of two tennis courts on one side of its headquarters in downtown Pittsburgh. Green walls are like green roofs. They're covered in vegetation and provide the benefits of ...

Does it ever make sense to take a step down the career ladder? If you can get past that nagging, inborn sense that "going lower" can only be a sign of downward career mobility, the answer is yes. Taking a lesser position can help move your career forward if the job fits into a larger long-term plan. Read on to find ...

The museum’s new smart-phone gallery tours allow visitors to create personal museum guides on the spot, based on their own artistic tastes.

London, UK - The British capital's cutting-edge art sale kicks off Thursday, but cautious collectors may be cutting back. Although London's annual Frieze Art Fair has all the usual weirdness - works include a ghostly white tree, molten red computer mice and garlands with breast-shaped balloons - exhibitors say the fair has lost much of its former frenzy. "It's a different ...

The fair’s sophomore edition garnered lots of attention from the art world and locals alike, but sales tended to be toward the lower end.

Paris, FRA - Pierre Soulages went back to black before it was the fashion. For a major retrospective of the 89-year-old French painter's work, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris is dressed up with his giant, abstract, all-black canvases. For aficionados of the color, there is shiny black, matte black, black with gashes in it, black with ripples, black with a ...

LONDON—Shortly after the 11 a.m. opening bell for VIP visitors to Frieze, a collector was seen gasping after stumbling over a pair of black athletic socks lying on the floor of Hauser & Wirth’s booth. "Is it art?" he muttered, alarmed. Well, yes, it is. Swiss prankster Christoph Büchel, who back at Art Basel in June made found artworks out of ...

It used to be that to work from home meant that you had a home office and worked for someone else. Maybe someone started a home business that took off and they were able to work from home or be home based. Let’s look at two common ways you can work from home. 1. Telecommute There is no doubt this is ...

London, UK —This year, Frieze’s organizers decided to spruce up the fair with a new section, Frame, featuring solo shows by 29 young galleries. On preview day, the section took a while to start buzzing, but once they made it past Zwirner and Gagosian and the other heavy hitters in the main section, many collectors made it over to the youth ...

Ralph Lauren model Filippa Hamilton has been at the center of a disastrous Photoshop controversy where ad designers appear to have deleted half her midsection. Now, the clothing company has fired her as a result of "her inability to meet the obligations under her contract." In an interview on the Today show, Hamilton, 23, claimed she was fired for being too ...

One of the newest ways in social marketing is Twitter.  It is the newest craze that a lot of people are using now.  Not only is it a way to get to know more people, it can also be used to get traffic.  Getting Twitter traffic can maximize your exposure in ways you may have never imagined. If you don’t have ...

 LEGEND HAS IT that a young L. Ron Hubbard once bragged to his friends that he was going to start a religion and make a million dollars. We all know how that went. Less known is a far smaller rogue offshoot of Scientology that exerted disproportionate influence on late-1960s and early-’70s bohemian culture in London, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and other epicenters ...

EIKONOSTASIS EXHIBITION: Illustrations by Stephanie M.T. Krehbiel A Swiss/English illustrator, photographer and (web/graphic) designer, graduated Magna Cum Laude in May 2009 from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Communication Arts (BFA). Krëhbiëls’ work has been featured in The Anderson Gallery on West Franklin Street in Richmond in a two-year period and three shows in a ...

What do you do with the 24 hours available to you each day? In corporate america the misappropriation of funds is illegal. I think the misappropriation of your time is even worse. Your life will not forgive you the longer you go squandering your hours. You can't get those hours back. Here are four ways to get the most from the ...

It may be summer, but it’s cold out there: Thousands of companies of all sizes have frozen hiring and salaries, putting many workers’ earnings expectations on ice for the time being. But many employers continue to make job offers even as they reduce overall headcount. More than 4 million hires were made in April 2009, according to the Job Openings and ...