Chimera Volume 3’s first award
Cv3 was awarded its first award. It was selected, among 4 other publications, as the Best of Student–Published work in Any Category by the University and College Designers Association for 2006. The category list was pretty extensive, and the winners, along with chimera on pg.25 can be seen in the .pdf file which is linked from UCDA’s website.
Oct 14th 2006 @ 2:11am ET
Fallingwater Trip
Fallingwater is a summer home Frank Lloyd Wright built for a Pittsburgh millionare Edgar Kaufmann from 1936 to 1939. It's located southeast of Pittsburgh, on a road to the town of Mill Run.
Miwa and me took a trip to Falling Water to see this marvel of modern architecture.
The tour itself took an hour, and the tour gropus were packed. The house is brilliant, modernist thinking at it's best with all its beauty and all its shortcomings as well. Although the tour guides were helpful (not tremendously helpful given the rush and pace of the tour), not many stories were told. However, they did mention that Mr. Wright and Mrs. Kauffman seem to have had radically different taste regarding architecture and decoration, for the few pieces of “tribal” furniture chosen by Mrs. Kaufmann stick out like a black sheep among straight angles and long lines of Wright's interior.
The gift shop of the Fallingwater tourist site has some nice book titles. 
Sep 10th 2005 @ 5:14am ET
Chimera 2005 Released
To my satisfaction, Chimera for 2005 looks very much like this website: it's subtle and white (for the most part). This is the second published volume of Chimera, following the outstanding 2004 volume which I wrote about earlier.
What you don't see on this little scan are beautiful varnishes in the book and on the cover. Congrats to all the team members and artists featured.
May 22th 2005 @ 11:20am ET
New Website Completed
Farzad Jalali is a photographer and Edinboro graduate as of this May. During his time in Edinboro, Farzad has compiled an extensive portfolio of images. Before moving to California, Farzad wanted to put some of the photographs online, just for the sake of being able to show his images without carrying a thick book of his.
I designed the website with regard to Farzad’s needs and coded it with valid markup and CSS layout. Farzad’s humble new website, eyefashion, is now online.
May 19th 2005 @ 3:31pm ET
The Great Museum Tour
Last weekend, Edinboro Student Art League took a trip to New York City. Situated in Holiday Inn on the 440 W 57th St., it was very easy to get to all major museums.
Maybe the most anticipated was the MoMA, in it's new home. Since the admission on Friday nights is free, MoMA turned out to be a little too crowded. Notable was the design section (industrial and graphic lumped together) and surprisingly extensive photography section.
Daniel Buren, who did an installation in the back of the Zemaljski Muzej in Sarajevo several years back, had an installation at Guggenheim titled “The eye of the Storm”, transforming the entire museum with his signature stripes and gigantic mirror construction.
Rirkrit Tiravanija’s installation “Untitled 2005 (The Air Between the Chain–Link Fence and the Broken Bicycle Wheel)” for which he has received 2005 Hugo Boss prize, was also on display. Tiravanija built a low–power transmitter and transmitted a TV signal across the room, raising the questions about freedom of speech over the vawes and governmental restrictions embodied in FCC regulations. The installation was intriguing to say the least.
Last but not least, Whitney Museum of American Art had a couple of interesting exhibitions. The most authoritative, and the greatest discovery for me personally, was a retrospective of work by Cy Twombly titled Fifty Years of Works on Paper. Exhibitions as complete as this one make you realize how much injustice it is to see an isolated work by Twombly in the sea of other images such as in the MoMA’s painting section.
Apr 20th 2005 @ 6:45pm ET
Chimera wins awards
Chimera is a little publication produced at Edinboro. It's concieved as a journal of literature and visual art. Students submit poetry and prose, 2D and 3D pieces; students jury the entries; photo students photogrph selected 2D and 3D work and finaly, graphic design students put everything together in a book.
The big news is that 2004 Chimera, after getting into Pittsburgh 100 show sponsored by AIGA Pittsburgh chapter, was featured in latest issue of HOW magazine's student design annual.
Congratulations to everybody who worked on last year's Chimera (which has been the fist one to be published), especially to designers Justin DuBois and Billy Dale for the awards. This year's Chimera is expected to be released sometime during this month.
Mar 6th 2005 @ 6:15pm ET
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