Natural Glue.

Ingredients: water, naturally occurring bio-polymers [adhesives], potassium sorbate [a gentle preservative] and citric acid. As always, no chemicals or other additives and no petroleum products”

“Children’s art is glorious, expressive, and sometimes messy business. When young children do art, they touch, spread, mold (and sometimes even taste!) their materials. Clementine provides parents with a natural alternative to standard, chemical art products. Clementine Art uses non-toxic colors from nature and no chemical additives. We use non-toxic plant and mineral pigments in all of our products. In order to achieve a wide range of colors in our palette, some of our minerals are processed with heat.”

5000 Pantone Color Chips

Notes about the project: Basheer Graphic Books “would like to promote Pantone color guide book to art college students and faculty, and to convince them that Pantone has the most color selection for their printing guidance. To grab their attention, we re-create a rainbow consist of Pantone color chips in the middle of college’s park. With 8 meter in length and height of 4,5 meter, more than 5000 different color chips were used to cover the arch. The rainbow creates a spectacle and students realize that Pantone has real life colors. Inquiries for Pantone books in Basheer Graphic Books also significantly increase.”

Client: Basheer Graphic Books. Agency: Bates141 Jakarta. Creative Director: Hendra Lesmono. Art Director: Andreas Junus and Irawandhani Kamarga. Copywriter: Iyan Susanto. Account Executive: Nitya Priyahita.Photgrapher: HK
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Antiquity, Baroque, Coliseum, Medieval Castle, Roman Arch and Romanic.

Michael K. Stone and Center for Ecoliteracy.

“Throughout the United States, a movement of educators, parents, and students is remaking K-12 education to prepare students for the future environmental challenges. What would a green school or an eco-schooling curriculum look like? Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability offers firsthand accounts and strategies for greening campuses, rethinking school food, and transforming schools into model sustainable communities.
Green and healthy campuses with rooftop gardens and innovative designs are serving as living laboratories in which educators teach energy conservation, resource management, and earth sciences.

Smart by Nature documents this movement through inspiring success stories from public and independent schools across the country. Practical “what you can do” checklists and pages of resources make this a twenty-first-century guide for our educational future.”

for Children: “timeless classics with a good sense of humour”

Click here for full details on the competition and the 500 Colored Pencils project.

Surface Printing Workshop – SEPT 12th, 2009 12 – 4pm

“This is an opportunity to learn and explore simple means and methods for printmaking, while also absorbing Lotta’s organic and intuitive design sense for inspiration. Get inspired to create your own individual & unique projects!

The emphasis will be on printing on already existing items using easy techniques (like stenciling, printing with linocuts and even potato printing!) anyone can use at home without special or expensive equipment. You will come away from the class with a couple of completed projects and much inspiration to print on anything from pillowcases to totes. Print-makers and creatives of all levels and experience are welcome to attend this exciting and intimate workshop.”

If you can’t make it:

Visit Lotta’s online shop for inspiration!

…HUG each other, many more times!

“A song to celebrate the 20 year Anniversary of the Fall Of The Berlin Wall.

This song is performed by the Kidz Of Horst, a group of children, aged 8-15, who have been singing together since May 2008. Horst is a small village on the outskirts of Hannover, Germany. The children first came together to perform a song to mark the villages 750 year anniversary and have since played at various concerts in the Hannover area including, the Marktkirche (Christmas Concert, 1000 people), AWD Hall with The Abba Show (4000 people) and many local Benefit Concerts. As well as performing live, they have been into the Studio to record Break Down The Walls and have since made a video of the song….. The leader of the Choir is Singer/songwriter, Kimberley McLean.

You can find out more about the Kidz Of Horst on their myspace page.

via CNN

Zara Wood aka Woody

“When it was recently revealed to Woody that she has vision superior to 20/20 vision, she put it down to excessive drawing. With a background in Fine Art, Woody’s approach to illustration is dynamic. Deemed as prolific and versatile, she produces work for advertising, editorial, publishing and fashion clients in Europe and Australia. Woody regularly exhibits and has her own range of limited edition art products available from international stockists including the V&A in London and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.”

Zara Wood’s interview in SHIFT