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Check out the current exhibition by Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G STUFF. Seriously. When someone described this show to me, I thought “yeah, wahtever. It can’t be that great. It sounds like a Photoshop disaster waiting to happen.” Well, I was wrong. It was SEAMLESS.

From the Untitled Artspace website:

The works are from two recent series, the Apollo Prophecies and Eisbergfreistadt.

Kahn and Selesnick, Astronaut and Lunar Rover
© Kahn and Selesnick

The Apollo Prophecies proposes that the first U.S. astronauts to go to the moon discovered that a lost mission of Edwardian-era explorers had already colonized it. The narrative is woven together with large scale panoramic prints illustrating the expedition from beginning to end. Kahn and Selesnick have also created life size props and costumes to further document the story in a fabricated setting that blurs the line between eerily realistic and outlandishly make-believe.

Eisbergfreistadt is a fictional narrative inspired by an actual incident that took place in 1923 when a mommaoth iceburg ran aground in the Baltic port of Lubeck, Germany. As a result, many of the citizens believed the iceberg was a sign of the apocolypse. Kahn and Selesnick have taken this factual event and turned it into a what-if tale of a frozen social utopia that explores currency inflation, global warming, and end-of-world rhetoric. Large-scale panoramic photos, mixed-media drawings and prints, and an assortment of props from both series will be featured in this thought-provoking and entertaining exhibition.

Kahn and Selesnick, Three Musicians
© Kahn and Selesnick

Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, born in New York City and London, respectively, have been collaborating since 1986. They have exhibited internationally, and their work is included in many notable collections including The Smithsonian Insititution, Addison Gallery of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Untitled Artspace is a non-profit contemporary arts center located in downtown Oklahoma City committed to stimulating new ideas and creative thought through contemporary art. Untitled Artspace is dedicated to providing access to quality exhibitions, educational programs, performances, and publications and to involving the community in collaborative outreach efforts. This exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information about Untitled Artspace or this exhibit, visit www.1ne3.org or call 405.815.9995.

For more information about the artists Kahn and Selesnick, visit their website.

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and here’s how to do it yourself:

Set aside about an hour-and-a-half to watch this awesome presentation.

Paul Sahre: A Designer And His Problems from AIGA/NY on Vimeo.

Your assignment is to design a t-shirt for one of the following organizations:

Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Campaign
Amnesty International
PETA
American Civil Liberties Union
The Heritage Foundation

If you have a different organization in mind, please run it by me.

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The shirt is to be 2 colors, with a solid base underprint. That means part of your  image might be red, part might be blue, and all of it should print on top of a solid layer of white so that the color of the shirt doesn’t affect the color of the ink. When you turn this in, I want each color printed out separately. When a t-shirt printer prints out each of the colors for a design, that’s called printing “separations.”

Any verbage on the shirt should come from the organization’s own promotional materials, including their website. Do not make up slogans.

The shirt should feature an illustration that you create.

When we critique, and when you turn this in, I want you to put your image on a t-shirt template image that you create or download, and present the separations as follows: the final shirt design, each of the colors separately, and then the base color. Mount them on 12″x15″ black mat-board like this:

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Critique:Thursday April 23rd
DUE:  THURSDAY MAY 7th AT 9:30am

Go here: Aisle One

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Go read all this stuff and get smarter today!

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YES! Awesome packaging project!!! AND it’s your FINAL project! Can you BELIEVE it!?!!?!~1

• 6 bottles
• Design the bottle labels (neck label optional) and the carrier
• Your choice of beverage
• Your choice of design style, demographics, etc
• Your choice of template, including your own invention

Start: Mon April 6th
Critique: Wed April 22nd
DUE: WED MAY 6th

examples: