The image above is the before. And just wait til you see the after, below – but not yet! Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s installation ‘Look Now, See Forever’ is currently on display at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia. What’s fantastic about her work, is that she provides the canvas, (these white rooms); the [...]
In this Episode: Host Brandi Whytas speaks with Creative Director, Nanistya Martohardjono, graphic design authority and retail packaging aficionada. Martohardjono has long been a fixture in the world of Canadian retail graphics and offers her insight on how colour affects and informs consumer packaging. Then another quirky episode of Haft2Know Live, hosted by Brandi Whytas [...]
In this Episode: An interview with American artist and glassworks visionary, Barbara Galazzo, whose work can be seen in galleries and public installations across the United States and Canada. And then our second edition of Haft2Know Live, hosted by Brandi Whytas and Jason Allen.
Haft2Radio transforms the success of colour and brand strategists Haft2 Inc. into a listening experience. Host Brandi Whytas discusses branding and corporate identities, interviews renowned colour personalities and brings to audio life, Haft2Know – the long-successful Haft2 bi-weekly colour and trend blog. Colour. Business. Culture. Fun. Welcome to Haft2Radio. In this Episode: Features an interview [...]
In case you haven’t heard, there’s going to be a royal wedding. Unlike the last (ill-fated) event however in 1981, we now have more outlets to expose us to its prep and pageantry. There’s a new array of online media, Twitter, 24-hour ‘news’ coverage (a loose term at best), among others. One thing remains the [...]
Google has released their Google Art Project, in which you can virtually stroll through the world’s greatest museums and ponder some of the greatest pieces of art of all time. While you don’t get to experience the physical museum here; you don’t smell its floors or get to sit beneath any of its palace windows, [...]
Ato 1992 & 2010, Buenos Aires Whenever I run into someone I haven’t seen since we were kids, I find they’re never that different from who they were 20 or 30 years ago – for good or for not so good. Argentinian photographer Irina Werning knows this. She gets her subjects to recreate photographs of [...]
Between March and April ever year, 3,000 cherry trees – originally a gift from Japan in 1912 – blossom throughout the Washington basin. Self-professed word lady Katherine Barber tells us the word spring comes to us from the same word that means the source of a river. Spring came to mean the beginning of something. [...]
Move over Christmas. You too, Secretaries’ Day. According to our friends at the National Retail Federation, it turns out St. Patrick’s Day is big business in the United States, and growing every year. 122 million American consumers will in some way, celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year – an interesting statistic given only 36.2 million [...]
Photo credit: Fiat You may think of Gucci as ageless, but the reality is that this chic and stylish Signora turns 90 this year, and when one Italian icon reaches a milestone, others pay homage. Enter the Fiat 500, (that’s “cinquecento”) – on its own, an italian icon. It was a big deal when the [...]
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