Discover Design

If you’re looking for a simple way to introduce young students (elementary to middle school) to design, check out this interactive called Discover Design from the Design Museum in London.  It consists of four sections that explore different aspects that designers have to consider when designing a new product, namely appearance, materials, function or purpose, and . . . → Read More: Discover Design

Web Sightings for October

Color in Motion is an animated and interactive experience that explores color communication and color symbolism. Designed by Claudia Cortes for her MFA Thesis in Computer Graphics Design at RIT.

Here are 10 book artists that will make you and your students look at books in new ways.

If you’re a fan of map art, like I . . . → Read More: Web Sightings for October

Meet Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

Check out this exceptionally rich site from the Columbus Museum of Art on an extraordinary Ohio artist, Aminah Brenda Lynn . . . → Read More: Meet Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

Recent Web Sightings

Here are a half dozen interesting sites I’ve come across in the past few weeks:

What if Rube Goldberg worked for a Web ad agency? He might do something like this.

There’s a new art interactive on the Met site that explores Degas and his dancers.

Taking a lead from Daniel Pink, Bob Sprankle talks about teaching . . . → Read More: Recent Web Sightings

ArtThink from SFMOMA

Here’s a relatively new museum site I came across while reading an article on Edutopia by Douglas Cruickshank (8/1/2007):

ArtThink is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s curriculum gateway to its rich collection of interactive programs covering twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and artists. It provides teachers and students with a variety of theme-based activities . . . → Read More: ArtThink from SFMOMA

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